Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez and Assembly member Jo Anne Simon spoke to a frustrated crowd of people in the Whole Foods parking lot next to the Gowanus Canal. They both voiced their concerns about the city’s Gowanus rezoning plan which was approved by Mayor Bill de Blasio. The rezoning plan would allow real estate developers to build new condos in the […]
Day: October 13, 2021
Changes are happening at PS 676, by Nathan Weiser
There are a number of new additions and upgrades at PS 676 for this school year. The school is transforming into a maritime themed middle school. As was written last May in Chalkbeat, “P.S. 676 Principal Priscilla Figueroa admits it was a hard decision. “But I, like everyone else in the community who is advocating for 676, have to be […]
The Dukes of Snyder, Part 2, by Joe Enright
When we last left the Dukes, patriarch John Jacob Snyder straddled a hardware empire in a once sleepy Flatbush that was now busting its britches. All thanks to technology. Since 1878 the Brighton railroad, created by Flatbush Dutch potentates to feed northern Brooklyn vacationers from Prospect Park southward to the Dutch Masters’ hotel in Brighton Beach, had been chugging into […]
Vaccine Wars- and those of us on the sidelines, by Roderick Thomas
Covid Politics The politics surrounding Covid-19 are bewildering to say the least. 2020 revealed so many things about our society, and some of the insights are increasingly worrisome –– dystopian as hell. From masks to vaccines, just how far are we willing to take our politics? Covid-19 is a virus that doesn’t care what your political beliefs are, it […]
The Billion Oyster Project (BOP) Rocked Red Hook’s Liberty Warehouse on September 23 and Raised $300,000
The Seventh Annual Billion Oyster Party drew legions of supporters to achieve BOP’s goal of planting one billion oysters across one hundred reefs by 2035 to heal New York Harbor. Is it also creating a novel blue economy? By Richard Dodd Guest Contributor, Freelance Writer, and Environmentalist The Billion Oyster Project (BOP) threw a shucking good party on September 23 […]
Storm Lake: A Call to Arms for the Future of American Journalism, by Dante A. Ciampaglia
American journalism is on the ropes. The nation has lost one in four newspapers — 2,100 publications — since 2019. (That number has surely grown during the pandemic.) Half of what’s left is owned by vulture capitalists, private equity firms and hedge funds that have perverted local media ownership into cynical resource extraction. Newsrooms are gutted, and what’s left is […]