Celebrating Community
The first few “walking with coffee” columns were interviews with Millennials, in which we discussed their views of “boomers.” One common complaint was that the post-war generation refused to let go of jobs, culture, politics, and basically everything. It brought to this boomer’s mind a novel by Aldous Huxley, “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan.” Written in 1939 it […]
Care Forward, a nanny organization that works to guarantee good working conditions for domestic workers, celebrated their annual Care Heros with an award program on July 11 at Emma’s Torch Cafe. Emma’s Torch provides a welcoming space where domestic workers can relax when they are with the kids they are caring for. The Carroll Gardens Association is a member of […]
The question this month was to recall an experience in which they were discriminated against or treated unfairly. James “Papa” Johnson – One time me and my brother and my homeboys were at my uncle’s crib in East New York…and it was time for us to go home. I forgot something upstairs, and when we came back down, the five-oh […]
There’s a proverb about good intensions often leading to doom. Take the Adams Administration’s “City of Yes Housing Opportunity.” I’ll bet the branding consultants got well paid on this one. To support City of Yes is to be for “Housing” and “Opportunity.” To be against it is to be for homelessness and despair. And as for “City”? Why, join the […]
On Prospect Park West, just south of Prospect Avenue sits a small outpost of flavor and coolness Dog Day Afternoon. The shop, opened by Joe Boyle, a Chicago native, and his partner Jay Kerr, serves up a top-shelf version of America’s national food, the hot dog. I started eating hot dogs at Nathan’s in Coney Island when they were 25 […]