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Behind These Prison Walls: One Man's Fight Against Youth Incarceration

Lorenzo Steele, at the Bed-Stuy Boxing Gym where he volunteers regularly For the past ten years, Long Island resident Lorenzo Steele has been speaking to middle school children in Central Brooklyn about the perils of prison life through a program ent

Register Now For PACC's Rolling Up the Gates Storefront Stroll!

Brooklyn storefronts Are you an aspiring business owner? Are you a property owner with vacant space? Are you an existing business owner and want to expand? Are you an organization with resources for effectively running a business? Join PACC for anoth

Media is Theater

I was looking for a topic to write about for this week's column and I stumbled upon a paper I wrote when I was studying at Pratt Institute some eight years ago.

MTA Subway Cameras Planned for 2015

Photo: NY Daily News As part of its upcoming capital plan, the MTA announced on Wednesday it will buy 940 new subway cars for its lettered lines and install cameras beginning in 2015, the Post reports.
Real-Talk: Community Divided Over Possible Rezoning of Crown Heights

Real-Talk: Community Divided Over Possible Rezoning of Crown Heights

Emotions ran high and tempers flared at the Community Board 9 meeting in Crown Heights last Tuesday over a resolution to request a review of the neighborhood's current zoning, reported DNAinfo .

Cumbe Dance Studio Looking for New Home, Building to be Replaced by High-Rise Condos

Jimena Martinez, co-director of Cumbe Center for African and Disapora Dance Cumbe Center for African and Diaspora Dance is scrambling to find a new home. Cumbe, located at 558 Fulton Street in Fort Greene, opened in January 2012.

Two People Shot During Attempted Armed Robbery of Bed-Stuy Fly Clothing Store

Bed-Stuy Fly clothing store, located at 287 Ralph Avenue Police in the 81st Precinct are looking for two men who attempted an armed robbery of a store last Friday on Ralph Avenue in Bed-Stuy.

BAMcinématek presents Queer Pagan Punk: The Films of Derek Jarman

BAMcinématek presents Queer Pagan Punk: The Films of Derek Jarman, A complete retrospective of Jarman's feature films, the most comprehensive New York series in nearly two decades Beginning Thursday, October 30, through Tuesday, November 11, BAMciném

Ray Kelly: People 'Will Suffer' for Mayor's Handling of NYPD

On WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show, former Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly shared a warning to the mayor and the city against the use of NYPD body cameras and the elimination of stop-and-frisk, reported The Wall Street Journal reports.

Solomon Debates Team from Boys and Girls High School on its Way to South Africa

Gold medalist winners from Boys and Girls High School at a competition in Irvington, NJ (l to r): Coach Thomas Paisley; studenet debater Mr.