By Stephen Witt After 34 years, the wait in Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Community Board 3 to get its own sanitation garage is finally over. That, after Department of Sanitation sources confirmed to KCP that the city-owned property at 56 Nostrand Avenue between Park and Flushing Avenues that have long been slated to house a sanitation garage […]Read More
Purelements and Brown Bike Girl are Changing the Narrative about East Brooklyn with a Yearly Bike Ride that Brings Neighbors Together to Explore Bike Destinations in the Neighborhood Purelements: An Evolution in Dance announces the 6th Annual Bike East, August 17, 2019, kicking off from Linden Park in Brooklyn at 8:00 a.m. The 20-mile […]Read More
By Michael Lambert Between 1890 and 1920, after the passing of the 13th Amendment, African American Reformers, including social workers, journalists, educators and politicians, founded the Progressive Movement, based on the belief that great change was needed to protect everyday people. Injustices that impacted African Americans included racism, segregation, political disenfranchisement, lack of access to quality health care, […]Read More
BSMAA’s Fifth Annual Mandela Humanitarian Award Will Honor Former Mayor David Dinkins at the Brooklyn Museum The Bedford Stuyvesant Museum of African Art (BSMAA) will honor former Mayor David Dinkins during its Fifth Annual Nelson Mandela Humanitarian Award Event at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, October 19, 2019. BSMAA’s Awards Selection Committee felt the 92-year […]Read More
By Victoria Horsford WEEK IN REVIEW At the end of its annual convention, the NAACP called for the impeachment of POTUS 45. Perhaps it was that pronouncement combined with the Mueller Congressional Hearings that touched his unhinged button. Having set aside his invective about “The Squad,” Trump turned his acid tongue towards Congressman […]Read More
A new city pilot program doing away with parking on a residential street in Clinton Hill has residents already getting tow boots put on their cars and getting $185 tickets. Sharon Holliday, who lives in a brownstone on Greene Avenue between Cambridge Place and Grand Avenue, said she first became aware of the parking change […]Read More
Interview by Maitefa Angaza As the new head of BRIC Arts Media, Kristina Newman-Scott valued listening and watching as useful tools during her first months there, allowing her natural curiosity to define her leadership style at the outset. Almost a year later, Newman-Scott is still observing while leading the team at BRIC in […]Read More
By Victoria Horsford THE WEEK IN REVIEW Are things falling apart the world over or are these really the final days? Iran is playing a scary game of brinksmanship, titillating the US, and seizing a British tanker in the Persian Gulf. Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hinting at peace talks and détente with […]Read More
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