| From the Village of Brooklyn | OOURUR TTIMEIME PPRESSRESS THE LOCAL PAPER WITH THE GLOBAL VIEW | VOL. 22 NO. 26 Since 1996 June 28 – July 4, 2018 | This City of Neighbors Fights For Human Rights “When you take a baby out of this and remove them from their mother or their father, you’re destroying the foundation of America and that cannot happen.” Other leaders joining parents and children at the rally included Public Advocate Letitia James, Rep. Nydia Velazquez, State Senators Velmanette Montgomery, Jesse Hamilton and Kevin Parker, and Brooklyn Council members Brad Lander and Laurie Cumbo. “I am a mother,” said a tearful Cumbo who attended with her ten-month-old son Prince Noah Oluwafemi. “We carry our children in our wombs. We go through extensive labor. We try our best to do our best for our babies, to bring them into this world so they can be the best they can be. We are here today to show that you cannot destroy the critical bond a mother has to her child, that this cannot happen. “The administration has crossed a line in a way that there is no coming back. We are continuing to mobilize because they cannot tear apart families and strip their children away. I am a mother, and I am angry. And when you anger a mother, you anger the most powerful woman in the world. I am a mother.” The march started at D’Emic (Photo: Eugene Resnick/Brooklyn BP's Office) Playground on Third Avenue, wending through the Sunset Park neighborhood n Sunday, hundreds partici- throughout the United States since oldest is implicit in every issue that hurts to the Metropolitan Detention Center – pated in Brooklyn Borough May). neighborhoods, towns and cities across the just one mile of the nationwide “Families President Eric Adams’ “Stroll- Could the stroller – the world’s most nation. Belong Together – Not in Cages” rallies Oer March” in a collective cry of outrage recognizable vehicle of child transport – be Sunday’s marchers shouted, "Love planned for Saturday, June 30 in oppo- against family separation at the United the symbol that carries America to justice? Not Hate." Responding to the call, Adams sition to the president’s “zero tolerance” States-Mexican border, and in support We are encouraged by leaders’ recognition held a stroller above his head and roared, immigration policies. Last Sunday, pro- of the more than 2300 immigrant chil- that paying attention to those with the “This carriage is a symbol of protection… testors amplified a conviction, “What dren separated from their parents (now least power is the path to take in pursuit of a symbol of nurturing … a symbol of what Makes America Great? Love, Not Hate." reportedly detained in various locations justice. Caring about our youngest and our children represent in America. (B. Green) Stunning Results Supreme Mess in Grassroots Places

Adem Bunkedekko came within Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez inches of an upset victory in a run for Congresswoman Yvette Going the Distance: This strategic, progressive Latina Clarke’s seat, garnering 48.1% of Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, challenger shocked the Queens Democratic machine the total vote, with 13,729 votes Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, and more by pushing 10-term Congressman Joseph Crowley to Clarke’s 51.9% with 14,804 respond to Supreme Court seven-country travel ban out of the running for primary victory! Page 6 total votes. decision in support of the President. Page 3 2 OUR TIME PRESS June 28 – July 4, 2018 VOL. 22 NO. 26 Shadow Studies in Crown Heights ■■ By Ellis Jordan Lewis

rown Heights is a well-known neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, and is a host to many citizens in CBrooklyn’s famous Bedford-Stuyvesant area. It could also potentially be a host for a new building from Cornell Realty, a property management company based in Brooklyn. However, there has been some concern and even backlash against this proj- ect from MTOPP (Movement To Protect People). The MTOPP is also not alone in this movement--there are members of the public who have concerns when it comes to their neighborhood. As a result, a public hearing was held at the school MS 61. During the hearing, MTOPP handed out printed statements: “The Department of City Planning(DCP) has certified and approved the Cornell Realty application … This is viewed as a continuation of the racist policies of DCP to allow negative environ- mental consequences to occur in low- to moderate-income communities of color, whereas the more affluent white mid- Alicia Boyd, who is a prominent dle-class communities are afforded activist in the community said, “On the opportunity to be kept informed EAS, Cornell decided they were and to mitigate(decrease) negative going to lie on their EAS and then environmental impacts in their neigh- they were going to fabricate on borhoods. The statement also said that the EAS… This gives us ground Cornell Realty lied on their EAS and to challenge the EAS.” Boyd then did not perform an analysis on waste continued her statement that fol- and sewage. This all comes from a lowed with, “What are we asking printout provided by MTOPP at the with this challenge? We’re asking hearing. For context, shadow studies for Cornell Realty to go back to help developers become more aware the table and come back and do an of the city area/grid.” EAS...in Black communities, the However, Cornell Realty provided city planning does not think Black me with a statement of their own. “The Carlos Torres, Scalar Architecture; Andrea Johnson, communities are worthy of environ- need for mixed-income housing in research director, TerreForm. mental impact statements but it con- Crown Heights is urgent, compelling stantly allows developers to come and growing, and the plan to reactivate the with Warren P. Berke of Community to our communities, then the development underutilized Franklin Avenue properties will Board No. 9 who. has been on the board goes through… Now, when they go to white Alicia Boyd help meet it with nearly 150 income-targeted for five years. Berke stated that this was communities that’s something different; they apartments. We appreciate the feedback we a “Public hearing directed by the City say there is a negative impact so how are we figure out what will be happening within this have received from the community so far and Charter to hear from the public.” No going to mitigate that?” community in Brooklyn. look forward to continuing this dialogue as further comments were given due to this Speaking with Ms. Boyd (one on one) Ellis Jordan Lewis is a summer intern at the public review process unfolds.” This being a public meeting. I asked what's the end game and she told Our Time Press. statement is from Tom Corsillo of Cornell During the meeting statement assess- me, “Stopping the project is the end game Realty Management and was provided to ments were provided. Andrea Johnson, a with the hope to do an EAS properly and DBG MEDIA Publishers of me by representative Mike Johnston on the research director at TerreFrom, and Carlos lawfully. This will be done through political Our Time Press, Inc. record. Johnston also stated that, “Experts Torres from Scalar Architecture, provided pressure. However, if worse comes to worse, 358 Classon Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11238 have studied the environmental factors with their own. “This shadow assessment has a lawsuit is prepared called TRO (temporary (718) 599-6828 shadows included and no significant factor primarily been focused on open spaces… restraining order). The goal is also to prove Web site: www.ourtimepress.com was found.” According to Johnston, these It is recommended that once the proposed that [the developer] lied.” e-mail: [email protected] experts were “purely objective and worked development building form and envelope At the adjourning of the meeting, no Publisher with city guidelines.” have been finalized, there can be an EAS… official statement was given. However, DBG MEDIA I also had the opportunity to speak such as this one.” hopefully, the wait won’t be too long to Editor-in-Chief David Mark Greaves

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Consultant Bernice Elizabeth Green Kings County Surrogates Judge © 2015, DBG MEDIA Publishers of Our Time Press, Inc., printed in New York City. All rights reserved. Democratic Primary No part of the publication may be reproduced without prior permission of the publishers. Thursday, September 13th, 2018 Publishers are not responsible for any ad claims. MBE Certified in NYC, NYS Polls Open 6:00am - 9:00pm and the Port Authority of NY & NJ Member: New York State Press Association VOL. 22 NO. 26 OUR TIME PRESS June 28 – July 4, 2018 3 STATEMENTS ON THE SUPREME COURT’S DECISION ON MONDAY, JUNE 25th TO UPHOLD THE PRESIDENT’S MUSLIM TRAVEL BAN he following statements were enables institutionalized bigotry, codified released following the U.S. Su- racism. The Muslim ban, or so-called travel preme Court’s 5-4 decision by a ban, is unconscionable, a denial of rights Tconservative majority to allow the Trump and of humanity on the basis of a person’s Administration to enforce its Muslim ban faith. The policy is as vicious, illogical, which restricts entry to America from seven racist and inexcusable today as when it was countries in varying degrees: Iran, North first enacted and protestors flooded airports Korea, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and across the country. Venezuela. The decision allows the gov- Just two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ernment to continue enforcement against found a “hostility” towards religion in the anyone from those places without a recog- Masterpiece Cakeshop case. Now, given nized relationship with another person or the president’s past hate speech and hateful an institution in the United States. Excerpts policies, they found none, and it seems clear from Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissenting that this depends on the religion in question. opinion follow the statements. The conservative takeover of this court is disastrous and dangerous. I suspect that Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough today’s court would have ruled against President discrimination. This decision joins Shelby and communities throughout New York. Oliver Brown in 1954, Homer Plessy in “The Supreme Court upheld the racist, County, Korematsu and Dred Scott on the Despite today’s ruling, New York will 1896, or Dred Scott in 1857, when it was xenophobic and dangerous travel ban con- list of Supreme Court rulings our nation will continue to serve as a beacon to the world, argued that Scott had “No rights which the cocted by President Trump, but the struggle look on with a sense of shame. welcoming people of all faiths, races, nation- white man was bound to respect,” enabling for justice is far from over. Families in "Furthermore this decision puts the reli- alities and backgrounds. injustice against vulnerable populations as Brooklyn and across America are counting gious liberty of millions of Americans at risk. I’m proud of our work to successfully they have today. on us to keep fighting. We must continue to It says that even when an administration is beat back President Trump’s first two dis- Trump and his Republican cronies are fight against any Muslim travel ban, ever.” clearly anti-Muslim, advertises and relishes criminatory bans. My office won’t hesitate to determined to ostracize certain populations in its attacks on Muslims, and puts a policy act to protect New York’s families and ensure and create a scapegoat out of vulnerable Yvette D. Clarke, Congresswoman in place that specifically hurts Muslims – that we live up to the values on which this communities, a transparent tactic used (NY-09) that this Supreme Court will let it stand. If state and this nation were built. throughout history to justify atrocities. But “Donald Trump introduced the Muslim this can happen to Muslims, ... it can happen The New York Attorney General filed suit as long as there have been bigots and the ban to discriminate based upon the religion to anyone. and led coalitions of state Attorneys General injustices they perpetuate, there have also of people entering the United States as he in filing multiple briefs on all three travel been people pushing back and defending has stated on many occasions during and Barbara D. Underwood, Acting Attorney bans, detailing the numerous serious and those under attack. I am committed to con- after his campaign for the presidency. That General, State of New York irreparable harms the states have faced.” tinuing this fight in New York and across the fact, by itself, should have rendered the “President Trump’s travel bans are a country.” Muslim ban unconstitutional. History will stain on American history that were rooted Jumaane D. Williams, Council member, look back on this decision as one where the in deep anti-Muslim animus and unleashed 45th District (For Excerpts of Sotomayor's Supreme Court clearly endorsed religious chaos on families, businesses, institutions “The Supreme Court’s ruling today dissent, see page 6) 4 OUR TIME PRESS June 28 – July 4, 2018 VOL. 22 NO. 26

University; Leslie Laurie, George Washington people. Professor Alexander joins the NY WHAT’S GOING ON University; Tiffany Peart, Spelman College; Times as an op-ed columnist in September. Davendra Sasenarine, SUNY-Binghamton; Read the 6/19 New York Times item, ■■ By Victoria Horsford and Daniel Zheng, SUNY-Buffalo. “Photographing Ordinary Life in Passing,” Congratulations are in order for all NY a photo essay about the works of LeRoy THE YEAR IN POLITICS graduates outside the Wadleigh Scholars Henderson, Jr., a Brooklyn- based fine arts According to the Democratic Senatorial orbit. They include: Ms. Dyllan McKenzie photographer. Henderson’s works are part Campaign Committee, recent polls have been who graduated from the Cathedral Lower of a current group exhibit, “SERENADING encouraging. In Florida, Democrat Bill Nelson School; Lawrenceville HS senior Elijah SUMMER, Paintings and Photography,” at is trailing archconservative Governor Rick Kaul-Emit Thiam graduated and will attend the June Kelly Gallery, located at 166 Mercer Scott by two points. In Texas, Democrat US Middlebury College in Vermont as a physics Street, Manhattan, through July 31. [Visit Senatorial hopeful Beto O’Rourke is within a major; Celestial Wills-Jackson earned a Ph.D. margin of error to defeat incumbent Senator in education from the University of Central Ted Cruz, a recipient of the Koch Brothers Florida; Shellie R. Simon earned a BS in crim- support and ducats. In Arizona, Democrat US inal justice at John Jay College; and Elmont Senate hopeful Kyrsten Senema is ahead of Memorial HS senior Jaylin Miller graduated her GOP rivals. and will attend Utica College. There is a new sheriff in town and it’s a Barack Obama Black woman! London Breed is the newly ARTS & HISTORY elected mayor of San Francisco, a first for a his own party is complicated.” Three Obama According to a Harvard magazine story, Black woman in that city. She served as friends are considering a 2020 presidential run: Khalil Muhammad started working on his acting mayor after the SF mayor died last year, former VP Joe Biden, former Massachusetts second book, tentatively titled “ERASURE, but she was later ousted, some say because of Governor Duval Patrick and former US The Decriminalization of White America,” racism. San Francisco is the largest American Attorney General Eric Holder. However, the which is a sequel to his seminal work, “The city with a female mayor. Blacks represent National Redistricting Committee, an Eric Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime less than 5% of the SF population. Holder creation, is one avenue of Obama’s and the Making of Modern Urban America.” Former Nevada Democratic Congressman engagement with Democrats. Former Schomburg Center Director, Dr. Muhammad is a History, Race and Public THE CLASS OF Policy Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School. 2018--CONGRATS! “CONDEMNATION OF BLACKNESS” The Wadleigh Scholars Program, founded was published in 2010, three months after by educator Edouard E. Plummer in 1964, publication of “THE NEW JIM CROW: Mass Anika Noni Rose is a Harlem-based after-school enrichment Incarceration in the Age of Color-blindness,” program which prepares middle school stu- a book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights junekellygallery.com] dents in NYC public schools for admission litigator and Ohio State University Law Anika Noni Rose stars in the title role with scholarships to the nation’s top boarding Professor. “The New Jim Crow,” according of “Carmen Jones” at the Classic Stage schools and special entrance high schools. to Fortune and Forbes, is a must-read tome Company, 136 East 13th Street, Manhattan, The WSP boasts more than 550 African- for many Corporate America CEOs. Book for a limited engagement from June 30 to American and Latino alumni. The following argues that Jim Crow was replaced by mass July 29. Using the score by George Bizet’s lists the WSP 2018 middle school grads and incarceration of American Black and Brown opera “CARMEN,” this Oscar Hammerstein their HS destinations: Deyancy Gaston, St. adaptation resets the story about a free-spirited Jean Baptiste, NY; Miranda McGeary, Miss woman and her tempestuous love life, with an London Breed Hall’s School, MA; Jayden Neptune, Nazareth entire African-American cast directed by John H.S., Brooklyn; Jalynn Perkins, Westtown Doyle and choreographed by Bill T. Jones. Steven Horsford (2013-2015) is back into School, PA; and Isaiah Schetelick, Brooklyn This is the play’s first NY revival since its electoral politics, running for his old seat. He Friends. debut on Broadway 75 years ago. For more promised to “stand up to the reckless agenda The Wadleigh Scholars who graduated info, call 917.334.6492. of Donald Trump.” from Prep School include Dallis Alvarez, For those interested in keeping their finger Westminster School to UNC/Chapel Hill; SUMMER PLEASURES on the pulse of Democratic Party politics, I Arianel Cazeau, Deerfield Academy to The Essence Magazine Festival in New recommend reading the 6/25 New York mag- Cornell University; Malay Doris, Christ Orleans runs for four days from July 5-8. The azine cover story, Church School to Rutgers University; Kaliyah “Show of Shows” is a marathon celebration “Barack Obama, WHERE ARE YOU?” Mitchell, Grier School to St. Francis College; of music, culture, empowerment and enter- by Gabriel DeBenedetti, which begs as many Britney Peart, Christ Church School to tainment. Muckity mucks from the entire questions as it answers. While not engaged George Washington University; Asher Wen, African Diaspora will be among the festival in midterm elections yet, Obama is interested Stuyvesant HS to SUNY-Stony Brook; Juwel participants like Janet Jackson, Jill Scott, in one battle, saving Obamacare. Obama William, Ethel Walker School to Thomas Erykah Badu, Mary J. Blige, Queen Latifah, maintains an uncomfortable distance from the Jefferson University. Xscape, Idris Elba, Lester Holt, Dapper Dan, Democratic Party, unlike Clinton when he left The WSP alum who graduated from Rev. Al Sharpton, Congresswoman Maxine the White House. These are different times. college are Kenmar Darlington, Emory Waters, Michael Eric Dyson, Snoop Dogg, Essay concludes, “Obama’s relationship with University; Carlos Espinal, Oneonta Kahlil Muhammad Cheryl Wills and more.

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The Jazzmobile Summerfest 2018 tenta- cles are far-reaching, and it arrives in Brooklyn on July 14: A BROOKLYN BLOCK PARTY on July 14 at 4 pm with Antoinette Montague on MacDonough Street between Ralph and Patchen Avenues; A Bronx date on July 24 at 7 pm at CO-OP CITY, 140 Benchley Place, featuring the Bobby Sanabria Multi-Verse Big Band. For the 2018 JAZZMOBILE NYC calendar, visit jazzmobile.org.

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art presentation and a book-signing Thinker’s Notebook with award-winning illustrator Bryan Collier. The event was to take place from 5pm-7pm. At 4:45, Beavers received a phone call from Collier The Drama in District 16 explaining that due to traffic, he ■■ By Marlon Rice determined to offer the best possible would be approximately ten minutes education for the children of this late. When Mr. Beavers explained the Brighter Choice Community School community. situation to Superintendent Amon- sits at the corner of Hart Street and Marcus Back in 2008, Brighter Choice Harris, she began berating Beavers, Garvey Boulevard, at the northeastern end of replaced a failing school. In a matter yelling at him in front of children, Bedford-Stuyvesant. This part of Bed-Stuy of a few short years, the school was staff, parents and his own son. Mr. isn’t known for sprawling blocks of brown- regularly posting the best language Beavers remained calm and expressed stones or for Spike Lee movies. Tenements arts state exam scores in District 16. his displeasure at being humiliated, anchor each block here, houses peppered It became the first school in the district Fabayo McIntosh-Gordon to which Amon-Harris replied, “You sporadically between the large buildings to provide dual Spanish and English work for me!” She then demanded making them easy to miss as you drive language programs. The school’s motto is guidelines, the parents requested a meeting that the auditorium be cleared, moving the through. Roosevelt Houses, Sumner Houses, a resounding one: Every Child, Every Day, with Superintendent Amon-Harris to discuss children into the cafeteria in an aggressive the projects make it difficult for gentrification College-Bound. The teachers buy in. The the very pivotal transition of leadership at tone and manner. Other parents who were in to get a stronghold here, and yet fitting in parents buy in. The students buy in. The Brighter Choice. The meeting was to be held attendance verify the story as such. Although perfectly like the right piece to the puzzle is parent community at Brighter Choice is on June 21st, over a calendar month after Collier arrived at 5:10pm and he and Beavers Brighter Choice. tight-knit, constantly sharing their time and Fabayo submitted her letter of resignation. were eventually able to do the presentation in Fabayo McIntosh-Gordon launched the resources to help aid in the vision of the Superintendent Amon-Harris agreed to meet. the cafeteria, Amon-Harris chose not to pay school in 2008. She had a goal to inspire the school. One such parent is Earl Silas. Earl has On the 21st, over sixty parents convened in the agreed-upon amount. children of this community, her community. two daughters attending Brighter Choice. For the auditorium to meet with the superin- Earl’s letter speaks to an even bigger con- She wanted to start with love. Aside from nine weeks, Earl facilitated an anti-bullying tendent. The superintendent, without prior cern: that being the stability of the progress building an institution that would enrich our and mentoring program in partnership with warning, arrived and notified the school that which has defined District 16 for the last de- children and challenge them to be their very the 79th Precinct. The program was for the she was not prepared to meet with the parents, cade. The already-challenged district has now best, she simply wanted to build an environ- 25 graduating 5th-grade boys. I know Earl. virtually leaving the parents hanging, not able lost three of its top principals over the last two ment of love, upliftment, the kind of inspira- His goal for the children of Brighter Choice to express themselves and not able to be more years. PS 25, another elementary school in tion that causes those affected by it to jump is similar to Fabayo’s. Starting from the per- educated on the process. the district, currently has a court injunction in higher, to reach further. When she first opened spective of love, investing time and resources This past Monday, Earl penned a letter place to prevent Amon-Harris from closing it. the school, she offered me the chance to run in our community’s children so that they may to Superintendent Amon-Harris and the The parents at Brighter Choice are concerned an after-school program. My partner and I be prepared in every way to succeed. And, as School Chancellor, calling the decision to about the overall instability of District 16, and created the EGOS program, which stood for far as the parents of the student body go, he nix the meeting after having more than a whether or not the superintendent is capable Education, Growth, Opportunity and Success. isn’t the exception. He is the rule. month to prepare for it “not acceptable.” The of guiding the transition of Brighter Choice in We worked with the 1st- and 2nd-graders. It Recently, Fabayo submitted her letter of letter went on to point out several incidents a manner indicative of the vision that Fabayo was an amazing experience of being able to resignation, transitioning into another role over the past year where the superintendent McIntosh-Gordon has set in place. He states open the eyes of our community’s children within the DOE. The DOE has a guideline exhibited “unprofessional” and “embarrass- in his letter: “Bed-Stuy is my home, my kids’ to new things. Our end-of-semester project for leadership transitions that District ing” behavior. One such incident occurred home. They deserve the best opportunity to was an exchange project with the children of Superintendents are to follow, it’s called in May of 2017 at The Brownstone School. excel​ academically, ​but (Superintendent Masca City, Honduras. We designed T-shirts the C-30 Process. Step Five of the Process Richard Beavers, owner of The House of Art Amon-Harris’) actions​ on several occasions to send to them. They created small drums to is to create a Level 1 Interview Committee. Gallery, who coincidentally also has a child are contrary to that sentiment and run counter send to us. From the very beginning, Fabayo’s That Committee is to include between attending Brighter Choice, was contracted to the dreams we have for our children and vision for the school was boundless. She was 4-7 parents of the school. In following the by The Brownstone School to facilitate an our community.” BEAT THE HEAT “I drink lots of water to keep my body hydrated, even if I’m not thirsty.” Ed, Brooklyn

Visit NYC.gov/beattheheat or call 311 In partnership with: to find out what to do to prepare for NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene NYC Department for the Aging extreme heat. #beattheheat 6 OUR TIME PRESS June 28 – July 4, 2018 VOL. 22 NO. 26 A.G. Underwood Files Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration Family Separation Policy 18 Attorneys General File Multistate Suit Against Unconstitutional Policy EW YORK – Attorney General interests in protecting their health, safety, states also argue that this policy once again baby, in addition to multiple not-yet-verbal Barbara D. Underwood filed a and wellbeing. This is not who we are as a violates the Administrative Procedure Act, toddlers. lawsuit today challenging the country, and we won’t stand by as the Trump because it is arbitrary and capricious, and The children whom the Trump admin- NTrump Administration’s policy of forced administration undermines the Constitution that the Administration has been violating istration have separated from their parents family separation on the U.S. southern and our rights.” U.S. asylum laws by turning people away and sent to New York are suffering extreme border. The multistate lawsuit was filed by The lawsuit filed by the Attorneys General at ports of entry without allowing them to trauma. For example, a South American boy a coalition of 18 Attorneys General in the argues that the Trump Administration has request asylum. who was separated from his father at the U.S. District Court for the Western District violated the constitutional due process rights New York has confirmed that at least 321 Mexican border was rushed to the hospital of Washington. of the parents and children by separating them children who have been separated from their because he was about to jump out of the sec- “Keeping children separated from their as a matter of course and without any finding parents at the southwestern border are cur- ond-story window of the group home where parents is inhumane, unconscionable, and that the parent poses a threat to the children. rently residing in New York State, in the care he was sent in early June after being forcibly illegal – and we’re filing suit to stop it,” The policy is also irrationally discriminatory, of 11 different provider agencies. Staff at one separated from his family; the distraught child said Attorney General Underwood. “By in violation of the constitutional guarantee of voluntary agency have informed local govern- verbalized that he wanted to jump because tearing children away from their parents and equal protection, because it targets only peo- ment officials that the ages of most children he missed his parents. Twelve other young sending them hundreds of miles away, the ple crossing our southwestern border, the ma- newly placed at their agency, many of whom immigrant children who were separated from Trump administration has already caused jority of whom are from Latin America, and were separated from family at the border, are their parents at the border have been treated unfathomable trauma to these children, not anyone crossing the northern border or between the ages of four and twelve. The for physical and mental illnesses at New York while undermining New York’s fundamental entering the United States elsewhere. The youngest child so far was a nine-month-old Hospitals.

And we can safely assume that overt gentrification and corrupt development in The View From Here voter suppression is only the visible part of our neighborhoods. the agenda. The other and potentially more Ethically, Governor Andrew Cuomo ■■ By David Mark Greaves Any claim we had to be the shining city deadly, is the hidden assault through social and President Donald Trump both have on the hill has been lost, as the ruling elite, media and the internet. Based on public the same aspirations, to control any in- Good News / Bad News in tacit collusion with Russian oligarchs, testimony by all of the U.S. intelligences vestigation of them and their associates. The retirement of U.S. Supreme Court work to control and use the citizenry of the agencies saying that the Russians worked The difference is that Trump only wishes Justice Anthony Kennedy means President United States, each to their own ends. The to subvert our elections and will be back he could halt Special Counsel Robert Trump has another opportunity to solidify Russians want Trump, their useful idiot, at it, we should expect they may already Muller’s investigation as easily as Cuomo a conservative/corporate elite/white su- to remain exactly where he is, effectively have in place a campaign, or series of cam- disbanded the Moreland Commission when premacist agenda while the historic win disrupting alliances and weakening the paigns, ready to be responsive in a divisive investigators began to come too close to his of 28-year-old Latina Alexandria Ocasio- U.S. long term. Anything they can do to way to a crisis in the community, or just office. Ethics reform is not coming from Cortez over 10-term NY congressman Joe assist him and those who are with him in a general campaign to make the viewer this governor. Crowley, shows why the Republicans are the midterm elections, they will do. less likely to vote. The only defense is to One can imagine a second litmus test fighting so hard to cement their ideology For the White supremacists, Trump is flood the digital space with positives vibes being education: Cynthia Nixon’s bold, into the system with lifetime appointments their Great White Hope come alive and and actions, as a counterpoint to negative aggressive and wholistic plan for education to the federal bench. giving them what may be their last taste of messaging. Stay alert out there and watch is not pie in the sky as the governor would And while the nation is transfixed by absolute power. Nothing will sway them those hot buttons. portray it, but rather what must be done Trump’s three-times-a-day assault on the from his side. And as for the rich, well, for Black children to achieve an equal shot constitution, the citizenry, their children and with the masses preoccupied with just sur- Cuomo / Cynthia Nixon at life, from birth to college. To call that their children’s children, are being robbed viving, the rich and their minion are able I remember growing up and my mother wishful thinking, is to say our dreams are and their way of life degraded. to romp through the tax laws and pillage saying that when something political was impossible and that is unacceptable. Commenting on the 2018 Long-Term like deed thieves, “all nice and legal-like,” happening, a Jewish person always asks, Like former actors-turned-Califor- Budget Outlook by the non-partisan and then retire to their estates to wallow in “What does this mean for the Jews?” And in nia-governors Ronald Reagan and Arnold Congressional Budget Office (CBO), our money. looking at the contest for governor between Schwarzenegger, Cynthia Nixon is no Michael Peterson, Chairman of the Peter The interesting thing is that as big and incumbent Andrew Cuomo and challenger lightweight and she is not beholden to good- G. Peterson Foundation had this to say: bad as they are, the African American Cynthia Nixon, the question is, “What does old-boy political and financial relationships “Today’s report confirms that our nation’s community has proven we can stop them, it mean for African-Americans?” and understandings. She’s free to fight the fiscal outlook is on a dangerous and unsus- and stop them all coming at the same time. One litmus test item would be ethics. progressive fight and she has nothing to tainable path. With substantial imbalances Did it before and can do it again. That is Being anti-corruption is very pro-Black, lose, except probably some sleep. between spending and revenues projected why they are so afraid of us and make us the because the corruption usually involves There’s about 75 days between this well into the future, we are on course to targets of voter suppression tactic all across taking something away from Black people. week and the September primaries and there burden America’s children with trillions the country. Serious voter suppression tac- Not only from the loss of tax revenue are things that can change in the blink of more in debt and hurt their economic tics aided and abetted by a Republicanized which hurts all, but from the real estate an eye. Cuomo can ask soon-to-be former opportunities.” Supreme Court. considerations and illicit deals that foster Congressman Joe Crowley about that.

Sonia Maria Sotomayor, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States Excerpts from her dissent (joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) he United States of America is by anti-Muslim animus. That alone suffices a nation built upon the prom- to show that plaintiffs are likely to succeed ise of religious liberty. Our on the merits of their Establishment Clause FoundersT honored that core promise by em- claim. The majority holds otherwise by bedding the principle of religious neutrality ignoring the facts, misconstruing our legal in the First Amendment. The Court’s deci- precedent and turning a blind eye to the pain sion today fails to safeguard that fundamen- and suffering the Proclamation inflicts upon tal principle. It leaves undisturbed a policy countless families and individuals, many of first advertised openly and unequivocally as whom are United States citizens … a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims …The First Amendment stands as a Associate Justices Ruth Bader Ginzburg and Sonia Maria Sotomayor entering the United States” because the bulwark against official religious prejudice policy now masquerades behind a façade and embodies our nation’s deep commit- Instead of vindicating those principles, to- fundamental right of religious liberty. of national security concerns. But this re- ment to religious plurality and tolerance. day’s decision tosses them aside. In holding Our Constitution demands, and our packaging does little to cleanse Presidential That constitutional promise is why, ‘[F] that the First Amendment gives way to an country deserves, a judiciary willing to hold Proclamation No. 9645 of the appearance or centuries now, people have come to this executive policy that a reasonable observer the coordinate branches to account when of discrimination that the president’s words country from every corner of the world to would view as motivated by animus against they defy our most sacred legal commitments. have created. Based on the evidence in the share in the blessing of religious freedom.’ Muslims, the majority opinion upends this Because the Court’s decision today has record, a reasonable observer would con- Town of Greece v. Galloway, 572 U. S., at Court’s precedent, repeats tragic mistakes of failed in that respect, with profound regret, clude that the Proclamation was motivated ___ (KAGAN, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1). the past and denies countless individuals the I dissent.” VOL. 22 NO. 26 OUR TIME PRESS June 28 – July 4, 2018 7 Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center Receives American Heart Association Award for Quality Stroke Care ingsbrook Jewish Medical KCenter has received the American Heart Association/Ameri- can Stroke Associa- tion’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s com- mitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recog- nized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence. Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center earned the award by meeting average, someone in the U.S. specific quality achievement measures suffers a stroke every 40 seconds for the diagnosis and treatment of and nearly 795,000 people suffer a stroke patients at a set level for a new or recurrent stroke each year. designated period. These measures ### include evaluation of the proper use of medications and other stroke About Kingsbrook Jewish treatments aligned with the most up- Medical Center: to-date, evidence-based guidelines Kingsbrook Jewish Medical with the goal of speeding recovery and Center is a 769-bed teaching reducing death and disability for stroke Medical. Centers of Excellence patients. Before discharge, patients Include: the Neurosciences should also receive education on Institute providing care in managing their health; get a follow-up General Neurology, Rehab and visit scheduled, as well as other care Stroke Care and featuring the transition interventions. Neck & Back Center, Kingsbrook “Kingsbrook is dedicated to Rehabilitation Institute offer- improving the quality of care for ing Physical & Rehabilitative our stroke patients by implementing Medicine, including Brooklyn’s the American Heart Association’s only New York State approved Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Traumatic Brain Injury & initiative,” said Enid Dillard, Director Coma Recovery Unit, the • Arthritis of the Spine • Fractures of Marketing & Public Affairs. “The Comprehensive Behavioral Health tools and resources provided help Center comprised of Inpatient • Cervical Myelopathy • Herniated Disc us track and measure our success in Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry meeting evidenced-based clinical and Outpatient Psychiatry and the • Cervicogenic & • Ligament or Muscle guidelines developed to improve pa- Bone & Joint Center providing tient outcomes.” care in Joint Replacement and Occipital Headache Injury Kingsbrook additionally received Sports Medicine. Other special- the association’s Target: StrokeSM ty areas include: Emergency Honor Roll award. To qualify for Services, Ambulatory Surgery and • Degenerative Disc • Myofascial Pain this recognition, hospitals must meet a Certified Non-Invasive Vascular quality measures developed to reduce Laboratory, as well as a 466-bed Disease Syndrome the time between the patient’s arrival Adult and Pediatric long term at the hospital and treatment with the care facility, Rutland Nursing clot-buster tissue plasminogen activa- Home. Kingsbrook and Rutland tor, or tPA, the only drug approved by Nursing Home are JCAHO cer- the U.S. Food and Drug Administration tified and not-for-profit members to treat ischemic stroke. of the Greater New York Hospital “We are pleased to recognize Association and the Healthcare Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center Association of New York State. for their commitment to stroke KINGSBROOK care,” said Eric E. Smith, M.D., na- About Get With The JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER tional chairman of the Get With The Guidelines® Guidelines Steering Committee and Get With The Guidelines® is an associate professor of neurology at the American Heart Association/ the University of Calgary in Alberta, American Stroke Association’s Neurosciences Institutes Canada. “Research has shown that hospital-based quality improve- 585 Schenectady Avenue, between Winthrop Street & Rutland Road hospitals adhering to clinical measures ment program that provides through the Get With The Guidelines hospitals with tools and resources quality improvement initiative can of- to increase adherence to the ten see fewer readmissions and lower latest research-based guidelines. mortality rates.” Developed with the goal of saving Call us at: 718-604-5700 According to the American lives and hastening recovery, Get Heart Association/American Stroke With The Guidelines has touched www.kingsbrook.org Association, stroke is the No. 5 cause the lives of more than 6 million of death and a leading cause of adult patients since 2001. For more disability in the United States. On information, visit heart.org. 8 OUR TIME PRESS June 28 – July 4, 2018 VOL. 22 NO. 26 BPL’s FREE MUSICAL Meet the Musically Inclined Kanneh-Mason Family INSTRUMENT LENDING PROGRAM IS BOOKED! ast month, the Brooklyn cause the average student to lose up Public Library announced to one month of instruction per year, the establishment of the first with students from low-income fami- Lpublic musical instrument lending lies disproportionately affected. library in New York City. Children of all ages can enter a The Central Library is offering Brooklyn Public Library drawing for adult library patrons, at no cost, violins, a grand prize: a set of books specially guitars, ukuleles, keyboard, drum ads curated for 13 lucky winners. Eligible and music stands for a period of two activities include posting a book months. Only requirements: a current review, checking out a library book BPL library card and less than $15 in or attending one of approximately library fines. 13,000 library programs offered over Now, just a few short weeks later, the summer. due to high demand, every last one of Children and families will be able the library’s musical instruments are to track their summer reading using currently unavailable. Beanstack, an online mobile-first BPL’s Musical Instrument program. Writing a review qualifies Lending Library was designed in kids to enter a random drawing for a ritish cellist Sheku partnership with The Brooklyn pair of Bluetooth headphones (or a set Kanneh-Mason, 19, Conservatory of Music. So, to find of picture books for young children). started playing cello at out whether an instrument is available Last year, the Summer Reading Bage six and came into the global to borrow, and get on the waiting list, Program provided 142,000 partici- spotlight last May when he e-mail [email protected] pants with book lists, literacy-build- performed at the Royal Wedding with your request. ing activities, engaging games and of Meghan Markle and Prince The American Library competitive reading challenges. Over Harry. But the offstage story of Association’s 2014 Public Library 232,000 people attended Summer this young musician who counts Data Service Statistical Report ranked Reading Programs in 2017. Bob Marley as an idol, is one to BPL third in the nation among public “Reading is the foundation for be spotlighted, too. His parents, libraries for public programs offered learning and academic success,” said Dr. Kadia Kanneh-Mason and and program attendance. National Grid Foundation Board Stuart Mason, spent “every penny member Reverend Gary V. Simpson, of (their) money on music for the Books & Beats Program pastor of Historic Concord Baptist seven children,” according to Ms. Sheku Kanneh-Mason Aims to Combat Summer Church of Christ. Kanneh-Mason in 2016. They Daily Mail writer, noting that one that worry moving forward. For Slide and Encourage To sign up and learn more about used borrowed instruments until a of Sheku’s strings could cost as more information, visit Sheku’s Students to Read summer reading, visit: https://www. wealthy donor stepped in. “What much as $110. It appears the Kan- official website: shekukannehma- It is estimated that summer breaks bklynlibrary.org/summer-reading. do other families do?” she asked a neh-Mason family will not have son.com.

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The New York Chapter of the National Association of Kawaida Organizations (NAKO), in conjunction with the International African Arts Festival (IAAFestival),

Presents The 29th Annual Symposium on Culture, Community and Struggle Dekawowo (Solidarity) From the Ewe & Mina People of Ghana & Togo, West Africa Registration 9am-9:45am Libation Dr. Shadidi B. Kinsey, Dir. of the Peace Health Ctr., and Vice Chair of NY NAKO Opening Remarks from Dr. Segun Shabaka, Chair of NY NAKO and IAAFestival

Winnie-The Documentary 9:45am-11:15am Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, this documentary focuses on her rise, sacrifice and challenges as an activist-warrior-politician against the primitive South African apartheid system

11:15am-12pm HAITI Slide Presentation and Discussion Presenter: MPINDUZI KHUTHAZA CHAIR, Organization & Alliance Committee, Executive Circle Member (The Organization Us), LA NAKO, Freelance Photographer

Panel 12:15pm-1:15pm Reflections on the African-American Student Association (ASA): Model for Current Student Activists ADEYEMI BANDELE, IFE HIBBLER, RAPHAEL JACKSON, MALIKI OLUWAMBI, LAURA AYESHA SOARIES

Invited 1:15pm-1:45pm Dr. DEBBIE ALMONTASER International African Arts Educator & Activist The Crisis in the Middle East Festival Arrives June 30th Media & Politics Panel 1:45pm-2:45pm with BERNARD WHITE Radio Personality & Commentator 47th Annual Offers New Features Dr. JOHN FLATEAU Senior Policy Advisor & VP @ Medgar Evers College--Speaking on Census 2020 and Familiar Pleasures ■ by Maitefa Angaza with a DJ, a traditional African worship ceremo- LLOYD WEAVER ■ Great-Great-Grandson of Frederick Douglass, Journalist & Filmmaker ny, fashion and natural hair shows, childrens’ ekawowo!” (Solidarity!) is the events, a symposium, and more. Not to mention Education Panel @ 2:45pm-3:45pm call to gather as the 47th Annu- the merchants from across the globe selling al International African Arts paintings and sculpture, musical instruments, MAISHA ONGOZA Festival (IAAF) claims Saturday, June 30th – crafts, jewelry, culturally-inspired clothing, food, D th Social Worker / Philadelphia NAKO Wednesday, July 4 at beautiful Commodore and more. See more information in this issue of Barry Park in Fort Greene as the place and dates OTP and visit The Festival’s website for schedule AKIL PARKER during which it will once again steal hearts and details. (www.iaafestival.org, or call 718-638- lift spirits. From 10am till 9pm each day, rain or 6700). The Festival is open 10am to 9pm each Dr. IYA ADJUA HETHERU shine, those fortunate enough to make their way day, rain or shine, with a $5 suggested donation Educator, Researcher, Author to the IAAF will take part in a cultural gather- for adults and $2 for children. KEYNOTE ADDRESS ing that’s been at the forefront of summer fun As always, community support is critical 3:45pm-4:30pm since 1971, when it started out as a block party for The Festival. Some people have assumed that Prof. GLORIA BROWNE-MARSHALL to commemorate the end of the school year for the IAAF must have had deep funding to keep ATTORNEY & AUTHOR Uhuru Sasa Shule (Freedom Now School). things going all these years. They see a continu- The event, then named the African Street ing success in terms of attendance, programming SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 2018 Carnival, was held on Claver Place, which just and beautiful energy and assume that there is a 9am- 4:30pm earlier this week was co-named “Jitu Weusi Way,” secret pot of money somewhere. PS 287 @ 50 Navy St. after the founder/leader of The EAST, a Black But that was not the case. The community’s cultural nationalist organization that created the financial support during the Boys and Girls High Brooklyn, NY 11205 (near the Manhattan Bridge) school for the children of its members and for years allowed for high-profile entertainment Registration begins at 9:00am and the film will start at 9:45am families in the community. One might be tempted in the eighties and nineties. Gil Scott-Heron, to call this first one a “humble little block party,” Eddie Palmieri, Sun Ra, Lauryn Hill, Hezekiah The price of admission to the symposium before June 25, 2018 will be $15 for but it was never that. It was an inaugural event Walker’s Love Fellowship Choir, Roy Ayers, adults and $10 for senior citizens and students. emerging brash and beautiful, with stellar live Black Star and India Arie were among the many After June 25, the price will be $20 for adults and $15 for seniors and students. jazz, electrifying African dance, wildly creative who performed for The Festival crowd. And Payments can be made at www.iaafestival.org African style, beautiful faces, delicious food and Fela, Burning Spear, The Mighty Sparrow, Third Click on the Paypal option. In addition, payments can be made at the IAAFestival joyful people. It almost immediately outgrew its World and others were flown in from across the Office, located at 1360 Fulton Street, Suite 401, location, moving to Boys and Girls High School world to captivate audiences. Brooklyn, NY 11216. Information can be obtained at: nakoinfogroup@yahoo. for decades, and eventually to its current location. Although The Festival still has fabulous com, [email protected], This 47th year offers a great lineup, as always, entertainment, it can no longer afford the more www.iaafestival.org or this time with the inclusion of the First Annual expensive bookings it could at Boys and Girls 718-789-3284, 718-638-6700. African Documentary Film Festival, of which High, when there was a low, but set, entrance Weusi would surely be proud. Festivalgoers will fee. Each person who entered contributed to This program is not sponsored or endorsed by the New York Dept. of Education enjoy a fantastic schedule of music and dance or the City of New York performances and workshops, an outdoor party ➔➔ Continued on page 15 10 OUR TIME PRESS June 28 – July 4, 2018 VOL. 22 NO. 26 Classifieds Attorney/ Legal try to patent and submit their ideas to Medical Supplies Lung Cancer? And Age 60+? You companies! Call InventHelp®, FREE OXYGEN- Anytime. Anywhere. And Your Family May Be Entitled INFORMATION! 888-487-7074 No tanks to refill. No deliveries. The To Significant Cash Award. Call 866- All-New Inogen One G4 is only 2.8 Health 951-9073 for Information. No Risk. No pounds! FAA approved! FREE info Money Out Of Pocket. 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Brooklyn Going Young Achievers International Senator Montgomery Applauds international and selected Latvia’s Rodinas Kurcus. The 20-year-old Kurcus is already making headlines with his words when Youthbuild Graduates’ Renovation he was asked about competing against his ■■ By Eddie Castro fellow countryman New York Knicks player Of Antioch’s Neighborhood House Kristaps Porzingis. Let’s just say his com- ast week, Senator Montgomery con- this program, we need to talk about it and he 2018 NBA Draft has passed ments indicated he is ready for the challenge. gratulated DREAMS YouthBuild support it and expand it. This is why I intro- and after this past year, the Nets do There have been rumors that both Musa and at their 10th anniversary and com- duced the New York State YouthBuild Act.” not have to worry about giving up Kurcus would either head to the team’s D Lmencement ceremony at Antioch Baptist After addressing YouthBuild graduates, Tcrucial first round draft picks as they have League further to develop and prepare for the Church. Senator Montgomery joined Reverend Robert done the past couple of years. The team’s NBA, however, it seems that Nets General YouthBuild is a comprehensive program M. Waterman, Pastor of Antioch Baptist general manager at the time (Billy King) Manager Sean Marks is quite high on the for unemployed, out-of-school youth ages Church, for a walkthrough of the landmarked struck a trade that brought the Nets Kevin two players the team was able to select in 17-24, to obtain high school equivalency adjoining brownstone owned by the church. Garnett, Paul Pierce and Jason Terry. All the draft and I would be surprised if they diplomas, job and leadership skills, secure Under the supervision of Construction three players were well past their prime. In are not wearing the black and white come employment, and go on to college or vo- Supervisor Dathan Freeman, YouthBuild fact, here’s a list of what the Nets could have November. cational school. It is also one of the most students honed their skills by renovating had had they not traded away their top pick Although the Nets are very well in the effective and successful youth diversion the aging brownstone from the ground floor the past few years. Damian Lillard (original midst of rebuilding, the team is hoping it will programs in New York State. Additionally, up. This included deep fixes such as the gut Nets pick), Collin Sexton (original Nets be a 2-3-year window rather than a 4-5-year Youthbuild students deliver hundreds of renovation of bathrooms, the relocation of pick from this year, traded to Cleveland), window. Before the draft, the team traded hours of community service while producing pipes and water lines, electrical upgrades and Jaylen Brown (Nets pick that was traded big man Timofey Mozgov to the Charlotte and preserving affordable housing in their building cabinetry. They also skim coated and to Boston), Kyle Kuzma and 3-time NBA Hornets in exchange for former All-Star communities. Since 1994, 41,000 units of repainted the walls, retiled floors, installed Champion Draymond Green. I think it’s Dwight Howard. Howard will most likely not affordable housing have been produced or hard wood floors and installed new windows. safe to say that that starting five lineup could be suiting up for the Nets as he and the team upgraded by 150,000 YouthBuild students “During the beginning not knowing how have made quite the impact in Brooklyn. For are in talks of a buyout so Howard can pursue across the US. Over 5,000 of those students to do many things at first was extremely now, let’s focus on this year’s draft picks. a championship opportunity. With the team have been New Yorkers. challenging, but the process and experience The Nets had a late first round pick and trading Mozgov, the team will save roughly “Raise the Age is more than a slogan, of learning the different trades became one they decided to select 19-year-old Dzanan $17 million dollars, leaving them in a great it’s about creating pathways for all of our of my biggest accomplishments” expressed Musa from Bosnia with the 29th overall pick. situation where they will have enough cap young people to succeed. YouthBuild is Cailan Lee Riviears, a YouthBuild student Dzanan has great upside and has a great space to sign two max-contract players in the a major part of that opportunity pipeline. who worked on the project. scorer’s confidence. He has already been summer of 2019. Not to steal the infamous Young men and women who are out of “This project was instrumental in drawing comparisons to Denver Nuggets quotes of Joel Embiid, but for my fellow school and out of work are particularly introducing YouthBuild students to the star player Nikola Jokic. He displayed just OTP Brooklyn fans, it’s all about trusting susceptible to getting caught up in the crim- history of brownstones and the intricacies that when he was introduced to the media the process in hopes of building a winning inal justice system, even though they have of renovation and restoration. As they restore last Friday. The team decided to keep it culture here in Brooklyn. all the potential in the world,” said Senator this brownstone and give it a second chance, Velmanette Montgomery. “We don’t do their lives are also being restored through the nearly enough in our state for young people. YouthBuild program,” said Reverend Robert Mayor Announces Registration However, YouthBuild does it right. We need ➔➔ Continued from page 12 of over 10,000 New Student Voters EW YORK––Mayor de Blasio Day was launched to make that connection yesterday announced that the and to take voter registration, the critical first City has registered over 10,000 step in democratic participation, directly to Nfirst-time student voters as part of the youth. The 10,000 students who registered Administration’s student voter registration to vote on this single day of action, demon- drive. The over 10,000 students attend 294 strate just how excited the next generation of schools across the five boroughs. The stu- voters is to participate in civic life and their dent registration effort is part of Mayor de democracy. We thank the community based Blasio’s 10-point democracy agenda known organizations who committed volunteers to as DemocracyNYC, which aims to increase registering students on SVRD and starting Rev. Robert Waterman, State Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Dathan civic engagement and strengthen democra- thousands of young people on a path of Freeman cy locally and nationally. lifelong engagement.” said Onida Coward “Our students are the future leaders of Mayers, Director of Voter Assistance at our country, and they should, at an early the NYC Campaign Finance Board, which age, realize the power their voices hold in supported the SVRD effort through its Around Town reshaping America,” said Mayor Bill de voter engagement initiative, NYC Votes. Blasio. “These 10,000 new student voters Other aspects of DemocracyNYC include Contributor Elizabeth Rankin-Fulcher attended the opening will help strengthen our democratic process increasing cybersecurity, reforming election of a photo exhibit at JOLOFF's restaurant and sent this note. for years to come. I encourage all students to laws at the State level, registering new vot- t was an amazing evening at Jol- (99 years young) and Laura Pegram. continue registering to vote and show up at ers and ensuring an accurate census count, off’s -- very well attended and the Laura and Ms. Rogers were both accom- the polls – because this is your country and among other initiatives. photographs are oh, so wonder- panied by their “walkers” and both travelled your voice matters.” “Young people have the greatest stake in Iful. We loved the one of us, of course from Manhattan to share the evening with “Where young people lead, change the decisions government makes because the -- blown up and in black white, me. follows,” said Deputy Mayor for Strategic consequences will shape their world. That’s In this photo, standing: Ermine Thomas, Joloff's Restaurant 1168 Bedford Ave, Policy Initiatives Phil Thompson. “Our fu- why I feel so strongly about including young Elaine Lewis, Arlene Bascom (she is in my Brooklyn, NY 11216 ture depends on engaging more young people people in the work of government through book club); seated, Elizabeth, Ms. Rogers Phone: (718) 230-0523 in the democratic process. Registering 10,000 our Community Boards, and that’s why I students to vote is an important step forward. believe efforts to register students to vote Now more than ever, we need to work to- are so important,” said Manhattan Borough gether to make it easier for all New Yorkers President Gale A. Brewer. “I thank the to vote, become civically engaged and lead mayor, the chancellor, and the many agencies change in their communities and the nation.” and advocacy organizations that helped us “I registered to vote because my voice reach this milestone.” matters,” said Chantelle Perez, first-time “Voter turnout in New York is a national voter and student at the High School of embarrassment, and it’s the role of govern- Health Professions and Human Services. ment to ensure that all New Yorkers have the “Voting is one of the many ways I know I opportunity to exercise their constitutionally can address the issues that matter to me. I guaranteed right to vote. Student registration hope that all my classmates and all students is a pragmatic measure that helps, not only in New York City realize this and become with voter turn-out, but a lifetime of civic en- active in our democracy.” gagement. I applaud Mayor Bill de Blasio for “Young people are making their voices registering over 10,000 new student voters,” heard like never before and it’s up to us to said State Senator Brad Hoylman. help them connect the issues they care about most to voting. Student Voter Registration 12 OUR TIME PRESS June 28 – July 4, 2018 VOL. 22 NO. 26

filed with the SSNY on 04/09/18. Office: Senator Montgomery Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of NEW BUSINESS FORMATIONS the LLC upon whom process against it may Applauds Youthbuild BLACK MAGIC STUDIO LLC. agent of the LLC upon whom process against be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process Graduates’ Renovation Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on May it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of to the LLC, 619 Humboldt Street, Brooklyn, 24, 2018. Office: Kings County. SSNY process to The LLC, c/o Eric Ruggieron, 23 NY 11222. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Of Antioch’s designated as agent of the LLC upon whom Marconi Place Brooklyn, NY 11233 Neighborhood House process against it may be served. SSNY shall Avant Collaborations LLC. Arts. of Org. ➔➔ Continued from page 11 mail copy of process to BLACK MAGIC Best Buddys Dog Training, LLC. Arts. filed with the SSNY on 02/20/2018. Office: STUDIO LLC., c/o Bergstein Flynn & of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/26/2018. Kings County. SSNY designated as M. Waterman. “I was more than happy to turn Knowlton PLLC, 142 W 57th Street, Suite Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of the LLC upon whom process over Antioch Baptist Church’s Neighborhood 4A, New York, NY 10019. Purpose: To as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail House to give them the opportunity they need- engage in any and all business activities. against it may be served. SSNY shall copy of process to the LLC, United States ed to be successful.” mail copy of process to Best Buddys Dog Corporation of Agents, Inc. 7014 13th “Rehabbing the Neighborhood House 22 ROUTE 6 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Training, LLC, 176 S. 4th St. #5B, Brooklyn, avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11222. at the historic landmarked 100-year old with the SSNY on 5/29/2018. Office: Kings NY 11211 Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Antioch Baptist Church of Brooklyn instills County. SSNY designated as agent of the a sense of pride and accomplishment to the LLC upon whom process against it may be Express Databases LLC. Arts. of Org. Notice of Publication. Notice is hereby DREAMS YouthBuild students who reside in served. SSNY shall mail copy of process filed with the SSNY on 03/30/2018. Office: given that a license, number “Pending” the Bedford Stuyvesant community,” shared to 22 ROUTE 6 LLC., 47 N. Main Street Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of for beer and wine has been applied for by Ditashiah Kohn, Director of YouthBuild - P.O. Box 186 Elenville, New York 12428. the LLC upon whom process against it may Cheri’s Bedstuy LLC at retail in a restau- Programs. Purpose: To engage in any and all business be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process rant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Nonprofit organizations who are interested activities. to the LLC, 1035 Washington Avenue, Apt Law at 216 Malcolm x Blvd, Brooklyn, NY in having DREAMS students take on a project GR 9, Brooklyn, NY 11225. Purpose: Any 11221 in Kings County for on premises in the community may contact the Director, Three Dog Design & Build, LLC. Arts. lawful purpose consumption. Dated June 25, 2018 Torri Ditashiah Kohn at 718-455-4308 or dkohn@ of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/07/2018. Clayton Business Name: Cheri’s Bedstuy shfinc.org. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as HUMBOLDT 123 LLC. Arts. of Org. LLC. 216 Malcolm X Blvd BK NY 11221 -Submitted by Shakti Robbins-Cubas

will sell at public auction at the Kings County $541,680.61 plus interest and costs. Premises LEGAL NOTICES Supreme Courthouse located at 360 Adams will be sold subject to provisions of filed Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on Judgment for Index# 510518/2014. Philip NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME McLean, Paulette McLean, et al, Defendant July 19, 2018, at 2:30 p.m., the Units known Kamaras, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS Index Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and as 3149 Emmons Avenue, Brooklyn, New Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, No.: 45556/2007 GOSHEN MORTGAGE Sale duly dated 10/8/2014 and entered on York 11235, in the Borough of Brooklyn, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 55022 LLC, AS SEPARATE TRUSTEE FOR 10/14/2014, I, the undersigned Referee, will County of Kings, City and State of New York GDBT I TRUST 2011-1, Plaintiff, Against sell at public auction at the Kings County (Block 8804, and Lot 1301, 1302, 1303). SUPREME COURT – COUNTY CARLTON EXILE A/K/A C. EXILE, ET Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed OF KINGS FEDERAL NATIONAL AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment NY on July 26, 2018 at 02:30 PM premises Judgment and Terms of Sale. Building sold MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered known as 3110 Snyder Avenue, Brooklyn, as one unit. Joel Abramson, Esq., Referee. against JYH WANG A/K/A JYH S. WANG 5/9/2014, I, the undersigned Referee, will NY 11226. All that certain plot piece or Roberts & Fidler, P.C, attorney for Plaintiff, A/K/A JS WONG, et al Defendant(s). sell at public auction in Room 224 of the parcel of land, with the buildings and im- 26 Court Street, 11th Floor, Brooklyn, New Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams provements erected, situate, lying and being York. 347-721-9022. Sale entered on February 5, 2018. I, the Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, on 8/2/2018 at in the County of Kings, City and State of New undersigned Referee will sell at public 2:30 pm, premises known as 123 Montauk York, BLOCK: 4902, LOT: 4. Approximate SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11208, and described as amount of judgment is $771,210.52 plus KINGS VALLEY NATIONAL BANK, Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel interests and costs. Premises will be sold Plaintiff -against- IZIBO IZYAGUYEV, N.Y. on the 26th day of July, 2018 at 2:30 of land, with the buildings and improvements subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment p.m. premises described as follows: All that thereon erected, situate, lying and being in # 8391/2008. Domenick Napoletano, Referee of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN and dated May 7, 2018, I, the undersigned lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, City and State of New York; Block 3,992 and & GORDON LLP Referee will sell at public auction at the County of Kings, City and State of New Lot 5. The approximate amount of the current 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 Kings County Courthouse 360 Adams Street, York. Said premises known as 385 Legion Judgment lien is $966,297.14 plus interest Room 224, Brooklyn, NY on July 26, 2018 Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11212. (Block: and costs. The premises will be sold subject NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT at 2:30 p.m. premises situate, lying and be- 3595, Lot: 18). Approximate amount of to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of - COUNTY OF KINGS Santander Bank, ing in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of lien $ 576,084.01 plus interest and costs. Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 45556/2007. N.A. f/k/a Sovereign Bank, N.A. f/k/a Kings, City and State of New York, known Premises will be sold subject to provisions Nancy Schacher, Esq., Referee. SHELDON Sovereign Bank, Plaintiff -against- Paulette as Unit No. 101 in the building known as of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index MAY & ASSOCIATES Attorneys at Law, Wellington a/k/a Paula Wellington a/k/a “Tara Condominium” together with an No. 502407-15. Helene E. Blank, Esq., 255 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, NY Paula R. Wellington, First Federal Savings & undivided 10.2752% interest as to Unit 101 Referee. McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, 11570 Dated: 06/14/2018 File Number: Loan Association of Rochester, City of New in the common elements. Block: 5853 Lot: P.C. Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot 25672 AA York Department of Transportation Parking 1001. Said premises known as 231 68TH Street – Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York Violations Bureau Defendant(s) Pursuant to STREET, UNIT 101, BROOKLYN, NY 10801 (914) 636-8900 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court a judgment of foreclosure and sale entered Approximate amount of lien $229,373.43 County Of Kings Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., on November 29, 2017 I, the undersigned plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT as Trustee, on behalf of SASCO 2007-MLN1 Referee will sell at public auction to the high- subject to provisions of filed Judgment and - COUNTY OF KINGS Wells Fargo Bank, Trust Fund, Plaintiff AGAINST Neville est bidder at ROOM 224 F/K/A ROOM 274 Terms of Sale. Index Number 519769/2016. N.A., d/b/a America’s Servicing Company, Romain a/k/a Neville Roman, David Cohan, OF KINGS COUNTY SUPREME COURT, SHMUEL TAUB, ESQ., Referee KRISS & Plaintiff -against-Giselle Solomon, Mortgage et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of 360 ADAMS STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW FEUERSTEIN LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nom- Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 5/7/2018 YORK 11201 on July 19, 2018 at 2:30 PM 360 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1200, New inee for Credit Suisse Financial Corporation, and entered on 5/24/2018, I, the undersigned premises known as 930 East 101st, Brooklyn, York, NY 10017 City of New York, Environmental Control Referee, will sell at public auction at the NY 11236 ALL that certain plot, piece or Board, Andrea Faraday, Dashawn Cummings Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams parcel of land, with the buildings and im- NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of fore- Street, Brooklyn, NY on July 26, 2018 at provements thereon erected, situate, lying and COUNTY OF KINGS HSBC BANK USA, closure and sale entered on February 2, 2018 02:30 PM premises known as 2049 Atlantic being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11233. All that of KINGS, City and State of New York. FOR NAAC MORTGAGE PASS- auction to the highest bidder at ROOM 224 certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the Block: 8208 Lot: 51 Approximate amount THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES F/K/A ROOM 274 OF KINGS COUNTY buildings and improvements erected, situate, of lien $608,011.60 plus interest and costs. 2007-1, Plaintiff AGAINST SANDRA SUPREME COURT, 360 ADAMS STREET, lying and being in the County of Kings, Premises will be sold subject to provisions of M. NEILS, DOREEN R. RIVERA, et al., BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11201 on July City and State of New York, BLOCK: 1565, filed judgment Index # 502496/2015 Helene Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of 19, 2018 at 2:30 PM premises known as LOT: 44. Approximate amount of judgment Blank, Esq., REFEREE STEIN, WIENER Foreclosure and Sale duly dated May 08, 1518 Ryder Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234. is $817,845.11 plus interests and costs. AND ROTH, L.L.P., ATTORNEYS FOR 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of Premises will be sold subject to provisions of THE PLAINTIFF ONE OLD COUNTRY at public auction at the Room 224 of Kings land, with the buildings and improvements filed Judgment Index # 506073/2014. Doron ROAD, SUITE 113 CARLE PLACE, NY County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, thereon erected, situate, lying and being in A. Leiby, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT 11514 DATED June 14, 2018 FILE #: Brooklyn, New York 11201, on July 19, the Borough of Brooklyn, County of KINGS, WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 SANTANDER 67255 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known as 533 City and State of New York. Block:7700 Lot: Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 CHESTER STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 49 Approximate amount of lien $931,744.88 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court 11212. All that certain plot piece or parcel plus interest and costs. Premises will be NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court Kings County BH EMMENS LLC of land, with the buildings and improve- sold subject to provisions of filed judgment County Of Kings Deutsche Bank National (Plaintiff) v. IRINA SHELIKHOVA et. ments erected, situate, lying and being in Index # 6319/2013 Jageshwar Sharma, Esq., Trust Company, as Trustee for HASCO 2007- al. (Defendants) Index No.: 7491/2013. the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, REFEREE STEIN, WIENER AND ROTH, WF1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and City and State of New York, BLOCK 3614, Series 2007-WF1, Plaintiff AGAINST Corine Sale dated October 2, 2017, as amended, I LOT 19. Approximate amount of judgment ➔➔ Continued on page 13 VOL. 22 NO. 26 OUR TIME PRESS June 28 – July 4, 2018 13

PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; and improvements thereon erected, situate, State of New York). In case of your failure LEGAL NOTICES LEXIET DUMAS, SR.; PEOPLE OF THE lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, to appear or answer, judgment will be taken STATE OF NEW YORK, UNITED STATES County of Kings, City and State of New against you by default for the relief demanded ➔➔ Continued from page 12 OF AMERICA;TIFFANY BRYANT, APRIL York, Block 4170 and Lot 25. Approximate in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff MORALES, JASON GIBSON; APRIL amount of judgment is $465,190.34 plus has an office for business in the County of L.L.P., ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF “DOE” (REFUSED NAME) ‘’JOHN DOE interest and costs. Premises will be sold Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Kings. ONE OLD COUNTRY ROAD, SUITE 113 #11’’ through ‘’JOHN DOE #12,’’ the last ten subject to provisions of filed Judgment The basis of the venue designated above CARLE PLACE, NY 11514 DATED: names being fictitious and unknown to plain- Index # 512372/2015. Helene Blank, Esq., is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. June 14, 2018 FILE #: FWELLS 60927 tiff, the persons or parties intended being the Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, TO: KEILA HAMILTON Defendant In tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Ste. 590, Elmsford, this Action. The foregoing Supplemental SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF if any, having or claiming an interest in or NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff Cash will Summons is served upon you by publication, NEW YORK - COUNTY OF KINGS CIT lien upon the premises, described Defendants. not be accepted. pursuant to an order of HON. Noach Dear BANK, N.A. F/K/A ONEWEST BANK, To the above named Defendants YOU ARE of the Supreme Court Of The State Of New FSB, V. JEAN HULL, ET. AL. NOTICE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT York, dated the Eleventh day of May, 2018 OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN complaint in this action and to serve a copy COUNTY OF KINGS Wells Fargo Bank, and filed with the Complaint in the Office pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure of your answer, or, if the complaint is not N.A., as Trustee for the Certificateholders of the Clerk of the County of Kings, in the dated March 12, 2018, and entered in served with this summons, to serve a notice of of Banc of America Mortgage 2007-4 City of Brooklyn. The object of this action the Office of the Clerk of the County of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises Kings, wherein CIT BANK, N.A. F/K/A 20 days after the service of this summons, Series 2007-4,, Plaintiff AGAINST Reynold described below, dated November 16, 2007, ONEWEST BANK, FSB is the Plaintiff and exclusive of the day of service (or within Lavache; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a executed by Keila Hamilton to secure the sum JEAN HULL, ET. AL. are the Defendant(s). 30 days after the service is complete if this Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated of $532,800.00. The Mortgage was recorded I, the undersigned Referee will sell at summons is not personally delivered to you March 21, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee at CRFN 2007000609960 in the Office of public auction at the KINGS COUNTY within the State of New York) in the event will sell at public auction at the Kings County the City Register of the City of New York, COURTHOUSE, 360 ADAMS STREET, the United States of America is made a party Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room Kings County on December 12, 2007. The ROOM 224, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, on defendant, the time to answer for the said 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on July 12, 2018 mortgage was subsequently assigned by July 19, 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known as United States of America shall not expire at 2:30PM, premises known as 1162 E 99TH an assignment executed July 12, 2011 and 1485 EAST 55TH STREET, BROOKLYN, until (60) days after service of the Summons; Street, Brooklyn, NY 11236. All that certain recorded on August 1, 2011, in the Office of NY 11234: Block 7880, Lot 26: ALL and in case of your failure to appear or an- plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings the City Register of the City of New York, THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR swer, judgment will be taken against you by and improvements erected, situate, lying and Kings County at CRFN 2011000270392. PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING default for the relief demanded in the com- being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County The mortgage was subsequently modi- AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH OF plaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION of Kings, City and State of NY, Block 8244 fied on August 23, 2014; The property in BROOKLYN, COUNTY OF KINGS, AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT Lot 74. Approximate amount of judgment question is described as follows: 100-02 CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK of the above caption action is to foreclose a $912,416.49 plus interest and costs. Premises FLATLANDS AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY Premises will be sold subject to provisions Mortgage to secure the sum of $420,000.00 will be sold subject to provisions of filed 11236 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER of filed Judgment Index # 12275/2012. Philip and interest, recorded on March 16, 2007, at Judgment Index# 13593/08. Julie Clark, OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not Kamaras, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, Instrument number 2007000142203, of the Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, respond to this summons and complaint by LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Public Records of KINGS County, New York, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile serving a copy of the answer on the attorney Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for covering premises known as 2194 DEAN Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York for the mortgage company who filed this Plaintiff. For sale information, please visit STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11233. The 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: May 24, 2018 foreclosure proceeding against you and filing www.auction.com or call (800) 280-2832. relief sought in the within action is a final 54708 the answer with the court, a default judgment judgment directing the sale of the premises may be entered and you can lose your home. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF described above to satisfy the debt secured Supplemental Summons and Notice of Speak to an attorney or go to the court where NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS INDEX by the Mortgage described above. KINGS Object of Action Supreme Court Of The State your case is pending for further information NO. 506312/2015 Plaintiff designates County is designated as the place of trial be- Of New York County Of Kings Action to on how to answer the summons and protect KINGS as the place of trial situs of the real cause the real property affected by this action Foreclose a Mortgage Index #: 521420/2017 your property. Sending a payment to your property. SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE Nationstar Mortgage LLC D/B/A Mr. mortgage company will not stop this fore- Mortgaged Premises: 2194 DEAN STREET IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME Cooper, Plaintiff, vs Keila Hamilton If closure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY BROOKLYN, NY 11233 District: Section: If you do not respond to this summons and Living, And If He/She Be Dead, Any And SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON Block: 1447 Lot: 27KENRICK PINNOCK, complaint by serving a copy of the answer All Persons Unknown To Plaintiff, Claiming, THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF on the attorney for the mortgage company Or Who May Claim To Have An Interest In, (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ESTATE OF HUGH PINNOCK, who filed this foreclosure proceeding against Or General Or Specific Lien Upon The Real THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. HUGH PINNOCK JR., AS HEIR AND you and filing the answer with the court, a Property Described In This Action; Such DATED: May 29, 2018 Gross Polowy, LLC DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF default judgment may be entered and you Unknown Persons Being Herein Generally Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle HUGH PINNOCK, JULIE PINNOCK, can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or Described And Intended To Be Included In Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE go to the court where your case is pending Wife, Widow, Husband, Widower, Heirs At The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the ESTATE OF HUGH PINNOCK, WAYNE for further information on how to answer the Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors PINNOCK, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE summons and protect your property. Sending Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, who are attempting to collect a debt. Any OF THE ESTATE OF HUGH PINNOCK, a payment to the mortgage company will not Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, information obtained by them will be used LESHAWN TAYLOR, AS HEIR AND stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST And Assignees Of Such Deceased, Any for that purpose. 54855-2 DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE And All Persons Deriving Interest In Or HUGH PINNOCK, AARON TAYLOR, ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE Lien Upon, Or Title To Said Real Property NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) By, Through Or Under Them, Or Either Of KINGS COUNTY FEDERAL NATIONAL ESTATE OF HUGH PINNOCK, STEVEN AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE Them, And Their Respective Wives, Widows, MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE PINNOCK, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE COURT. Dated: January 31, 2018 RAS Husbands, Widowers, Heirs At Law, Next Of MAE”), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED OF THE ESTATE OF HUGH PINNOCK, BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF NICHOLAS PINNOCK, AS HEIR AND Matthew Rothstein, ESQ. 900 Merchants Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 Committees, Lienors, And Assigns, All Plaintiff against FRANK CASSATA, et HUGH PINNOCK,; UNKNOWN HEIRS 516-280-7675 Of Whom And Whose Names, Except As al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE Stated,Are Unknown To Plaintiff, New Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP 565 OF HUGH PINNOCK any and all persons SUPREME COURT – COUNTY York City Parking Violations Bureau, New Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523 unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may OF KINGS PNC BANK, NATIONAL York City Environmental Control Board, Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a claim to have an interest in, or general or ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR IN People Of The State Of New York, United Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Entered specific lien upon the real property described INTEREST TO NATIONAL CITY REAL States Of America Acting Through The May 9, 2018 I will sell at Public Auction in this action; such unknown persons being ESTATE SERVICES, LLC, SUCCESSOR IRS, John Doe (Those unknown tenants, to the highest bidder at the Kings County herein generally described and intended to be BY MERGER TO occupants, persons or corporations or their Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room included in the following designation, name- NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT heirs, distributees, executors, administrators, 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on July 12, 2018 ly: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs COUNTY OF KINGS, WILMINGTON trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or at 2:30 PM. remises known as 1406 Dahill at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A successors claiming an interest in the mort- Road, Brooklyn, NY 11204. Block 6556 Lot administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDU- gaged premises.), Defendant(s). Mortgaged 37. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of ALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR PRETIUM Premises: 100-02 Flatlands Avenue land, with the buildings and improvements such deceased, any and all persons deriving MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST, Brooklyn, NY 11236 BL #: 8208-36 To the thereon erected, situate, lying and being in interest in or lien upon, or title to said real Plaintiff, vs. DOROTHY ALEXANDER, Above named Defendant: You are hereby the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, property by, through or under them, or either NICHOLE ALEXANDER, ET AL., summoned to answer the Complaint in this City and State of New York. Approximate of them, and their respective wives, widows, Defendant(s).Pursuant to a Judgment of action, and to serve a copy of your answer, Amount of Judgment is $393,409.00 plus husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on May or, if the Complaint is not served with this interest and costs. Premises will be sold descendants, executors, administrators, devi- 24, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index sees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, sell at public auction at the Kings County of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) No 513272/2016. Cash will not be accepted lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams within twenty days after the service of this at the sale. Steven J. Baker, Esq., Referee names, except as stated, are unknown to Street, Brooklyn, NY on July 19, 2018 at Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day 2296-002853 plaintiff; ROLAND CUNNINGHAM;NEW 2:30 p.m., premises known as 420 Autumn of service (or within 30 days after the service YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain plot, is complete if this Supplemental Summons CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY piece or parcel of land, with the buildings is not personally delivered to you within the 14 OUR TIME PRESS June 28 – July 4, 2018 VOL. 22 NO. 26

Ensemble (jazz legend). Also, African Repair grants, preserving your home, ten- Marketplace, Annual Symposium, Chil- ants’ rights, etc. Learn about: First-time dren’s activities, chess tournament and Homebuying Grants, Keeping Your Home more! [www.iaafestival.org] in the Family, Financial Management, Foreclosure Prevention, NYC Housing ALSO, IAAF DEBUTS 1ST AFRICAN Connect & How it Works and Do-It-Your- WORLD DOCUMENTARY FILM self Repair. For info: 718-636-7596, Ext. FESTIVAL 214. Presentations include: The Life Thursday, July 5th & Times of Eliza- beth Keckly-Free BOOK TALK WITH DR. MARY Black seamstress FRANCES BERRY: HISTORY from Petersburg, TEACHES US TO RESIST: HOW VA finds opportu- PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENTS HAVE nities w/DC elite in 1860. (42mins., SUCCEEDED IN CHALLENGING directed by T. TIMES @ Reid, USA) Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierre- Showtime: 4PM, pont Street. Doors open at 6PM, Event Discussion: is 6:30-8PM, $5. Throughout American 4:45PM; The history, eras of political turmoil have pre- African Who Wanted to Fly - sented obstacles to progressive ideologies. Central African boy dreams of flying, But even during the trying times, move- becomes a major actor in Chinese film ments gain traction. Dr. Berry, Professor industry. (1hr. 10mins., directed by S. Bif- of History at the University of Pennsyl- fot; Gabon, China) Showtime: 5:00PM, vania, presents a history of mobilization Discussion: 6:15PM; The Honest Strug- against imbalanced power, from antiracist gle - Documentation of a middle-aged actions during WWII to protests against ex-Chicago gang chief who strives for the Vietnam War, to recent demonstra- successful readjustment “in the free” tions focusing on environmental justice, after spending most of his life behind LGBTQ+ rights and more. Resistance is bars. (58mins., directed by J. Mashouf, not new, and it is not going away. For info: USA) Showtime: 6:30PM, Discussion: 718-222-4111, Ext. 250. 7:30PM; Land of Dance - Dance practices in Guinea, West Africa and the meaning of “traditional” as it stands in terms of Sat., July 21st Western culture. (17mins., directed by I. TH Camara; Guinea, UK) Showtime: 7:45PM, 8 ANNUAL TAMA Discussion: 8:10PM. SUMMERFEST at Tompkins Ave. bet. Gates Ave. MOVIES UNDER THE STARS: and Halsey St. Music, food and fun BLACK PANTHER @ PARKSIDE for all ages! Afrobeat Fitness Class, PLAYGROUND, Rock-climbing wall, STEM Tent, Chil- dren’s Play Corner, dance party, Enter- 8:30-10:30PM- Winthrop St./Parkside Ave./ tainment. For information:718-636-7596, Rogers Ave., Join NYC Parks and the May- Ext. 218. Community Calendar or’s Office of Media and Entertainment for this free family film! Arrive early for a spot for your picnic blanket or chair. Food is th TH Sunday, August 5 Saturday, June 30th 47 ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL OK. No alcohol or smoking permitted. AFRICAN ARTS FESTIVAL-TODAY BOROUGH HALL’S 5TH ANNUAL MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID FREE THRU 7/4 FRESH START HOME RESOURCE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CERTIFICATION @ Commodore Barry Playground EXPO @ BOYS & GIRLS H.S., FRIENDSHIP BROOKLYN QUEENS LAND TRUST 10AM -9PM, Rain or Shine, Sugg. Dona- 10:30AM-3:00PM - 1700 Fulton St. near Afternoon fest celebrates the borough’s SUMMER JAZZ tion: $5, Children $2 Utica Ave. This FREE event is open to diversity with an array of cultural perfor- 1pm-3pm: Summer Jazz Performance Commodore Barry Park at Navy St. (bet. both homeowners and renters and will mances, tastes of international cuisine, Series: Sharp Radway, in Greene Gar- Flushing & Park) Annual Opening Day feature nonprofits, government agencies and more. In Brooklyn: 47 percent of den (corner of DeKalb/S. Portland Aves) Community Parade with Vocalist Elida and housing resource professionals ready households speak a language other than www.cbjcjazz.org Almeida of Cape Verde, Muntu Dance to provide attendees with information and English at home; and more than one-third NYC Council 2019 Budget Theater of Chicago, The Reggie Workman opportunities to register for free services. of residents were born overseas. Announcement of the Celebration of the Life of Ethlyn Fletcher-Coley Ethlyn, our dear Mom, Grandmother, Great-grandmother, Sister, Aunt and Friend, was born in Dry Hill on the beautiful Isle of Jamaica, West Indies to Mary and William Fletcher. She passed this month in the borough of Brooklyn, New York with family near her. She is survived by her 8 children, 12 grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren, one sister, many nieces, nephews and a host of friends and relatives. Sunrise: May 31, 1932 Saturday, June 30, 2018

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Repast: 7:30-9:00pm The Coley/Fletcher Family of Ethlyn Fletcher Coley VOL. 22 NO. 26 OUR TIME PRESS June 28 – July 4, 2018 15 Is NYPD's Gang Database a More Invasive Stop-and-Frisk? ■■ By Maitefa Angaza come up automatically when they reach was at a particular place or conversed with fit into one of those potential gangs,” said the ages of 23 and 28 or if they have had someone he may or may not have known is Mamie Lenox, an assistant counsel with the proprietary stance toward the lives no police contact (arrests) in three years. believed to be gang-affiliated. NAACP Legal Defense Fund. According to and liberty of Black and brown "Individuals can also be removed at any “I tell kids that gangs are now catego- the NYPD, the colors black, gold, yellow, people is one of the many criti- time if an investigation reveals they did rized as domestic terrorists,” he said. “Once red, purple, green, blue, white, brown, cismsA aimed at the NYPD in the operation not belong in the criminal group during an you get on that list, you may never get off.” khaki, gray, orange, and lime green, are all of its secret and controversial Criminal investigation," the spokesperson said. Weatherspoon says the NYPD finds affiliated with major gangs. Group Database, referred to commonly as According to the NYPD, close to 66 ways to avoid upholding the rights of Sometimes it’s not about color at all (at “the gang database.” percent of those added to the database be- citizens, oftentimes because people don’t least not clothing color). Lenox told those As one example, people – largely young tween December 2013 and February 2018 know about those rights. For example, present about Patrick Littlejohn, wrongfully men committing no crime – have been add- were Black, 33 percent Hispanic and 0.8 he says, if you are charged with a crime arrested along with 119 others during a ed to the database as if they were: standing percent white. Mayor de Blasio, the father and later cleared of those charges, you drug sweep at the Eastchester Gardens on a corner; sitting in a park; wearing a col- of a Black son, has not commented on the are legally authorized to go to the local housing project in the Bronx. He lost his or; arrested at random in a sweep at a public extreme racial characteristic of the database. and federal law enforcement and request jobs as a tutor and basketball coach and event; conversing in a chat room, unaware The list includes hundreds of young people to have your mug-shots and fingerprints has not been able to find work two years that a “gang member” is participating, etc. aged 13-16 and their parents are not noti- returned to you. later. Community members testified to Following a scathing report by CUNY fied. California law does require parents be Some in NYC call the gang database other instances of abuse of civil liberties criminal law professor K. Babe Howell notified and have the opportunity to contest push “Stop-and-Frisk 2.0 ” They believe and basic human rights. Advocacy group published recently in The Intercept, City the decision. Then again, a 2016 audit found its use mushroomed at the end of 2013 representatives asked why agents from Council Member Donovan Richards, head that California’s database included children because that’s the year stop-and-frisk was Customs and Immigration Enforcement of the Committee on Public Safety, called who were a year old when their names were ruled unconstitutional. The mayor, a strident have been arresting and deporting people a hearing on the NYPD’s “gang database” added! One piece of good news is that critic of stop-and-frisk, cried victory and on the database although the mayor has and cyber surveillance tactics. Portland, Oregon shut its gang database also took credit for declining crime rates, declared New York a Sanctuary City. “Over the last decade the use of social down in order to rebuild trust in the local although nationwide numbers have fallen Protests were held outside One Police media by crews has exploded,” says NYPD police department. for 25 years, most sharply since the early Plaza last fall and the Legal Aid Society was Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea about In New York City, where policing has 1990s. among the organizations encouraging citi- the database – which he defines as a new long been seen to be tinged with racial The mayor has been silent, however, zens to file FOIL (Freedom of Information “patrol,” with the cop on the beat sitting be- bias, there are white gangs – particularly as the number of names added to the gang Law) requests to find out if they are on the fore a computer monitor. “Criminal groups white supremacist gangs—on Long Island, database increased 70 percent since he database. Although close to 300 people have routinely turn to computers and the Internet and retired NYPD detective Graham took office, while crime statistics fell to since filed, 95 percent of them were told to coordinate and recruit new members. So Weatherspoon, in a phone interview with new lows. The stats on poor people going that their information was “exempt from public social media platforms are patrolled, Our Time Press, pointed out that there is to prison have risen as well, and the impact disclosure.” Some followed up an appeal in a sense.” little mention of them. is even more devastating, because of the and about 40 were told their names were And, as a result, according to Howell’s “You hear nothing of white organized regular use of RICO statutes to prosecute not in the database. report, numbers can be jacked up or down, crime now such as the Russian gangs minor offenses such as the selling of Back in February, activists encouraged easily. She stated that although gang-mo- in Brighton Beach and Coney Island,” marijuana. The 1970 federal Racketeer Richards to hold the City Council hearing, tivated incidents account for less than one Detective Weatherspoon emphasized. Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act to no avail, but hurried to hold it 48 hours percent of the city’s crime, there were “Everything is Black and Latino. That’s permits the prosecution of individuals based after Prof. Howell’s report was published. 42,334 names in the database in February. because they don’t identify white people as on their participation in an organized crime Meanwhile, an assessment from a However, Shea initially declined to say gang members.” enterprise. Its use in these instances equates woman who works as an assistant at one whether there had previously been numbers As recently as last year, however, the the teenager selling weed on the corner of the City’s D’s offices, reveals the not-so- approaching that height, then (??) he said Joint Eurasion Organized Crime Task Force, with a well-connected member of a crime startling assessment that law enforcement the list had been reduced from 34,000 an FBI investigative team, arrested mem- syndicate. might not have been strongly motivated names to close to 17,441 over a period of bers of Shulaya Enterprise for a massive Adding to the ruination of lives as a to address the ills of the database system four years of reviewing each person listed. chocolate-smuggling scheme. result of this draconian criminalization is before the lawsuits and report. She attends Howell stood by her numbers and countered Although the gang is not as active as the separation of families in public housing. the annual Middle Atlantic/Great Lakes that it was possible the list was scrubbed it once was – in number or in criminal One community advocate who spoke at the Organized Crime Network gathering, but before the hearing. activity– it keeps close ties to Thieves in hearing put it plainly. had never heard of the existence of the At the hearing, Shea read a litany of Law, an Eastern European crime syndicate. “Just because someone is falsely ac- database. supposed justifications for the database And Shulaya members have been charged in cused of gang allegations they can lose their ( Reporter’s Note: Professor K. Babe and used oddly possessive language to recent years, with murder-for-hire, narcotics housing,” said Karess Taylor-Hughes of the Howell’s scholarship focuses on the inter- refer to those listed. “Our gang members trafficking, extortion, credit-card fraud, Black Youth Project 100. “Their families section of the criminal justice system and are responsible for the murders of over 500 etc. But neither they, nor their children, are can lose their housing.” race. She is particularly interested in the people,” he said. targeted or monitored as Black and brown The touted “precision policing” was effects of policing of minor offenses and But despite Shea’s claims of compe- people are in other parts of New York City. called into question when Richards, asked alleged gang affiliations and the impact tence, the NYPD does not notify people Weatherspoon says he warns young Shea if he might be entered into a gang such policing has on the legitimacy of the when they are placed in the Our Time Press people of the extent to which guilt by database, himself, if he stood on a corner criminal justice system and communities of asked the NYPD's press office if, and how, association can endanger them, though he wearing a red t-shirt, to which Shea replied, color. Before joining academia, Professor names are removed from the database. A is, of course, aware of the injustices. He “It is possible.” Howell was a practicing trial lawyer in the spokesperson said that individuals are either maintains that a young man should not have “I don’t think there’s a single color that area of criminal defense in New York City reactivated or deactivated when their names his name placed in a database because he exists on the color spectrum that would not for eight years.)

th at the festival. We knew we needed the social, Bro. Kahamu is a longtime volunteer at IAAF Arrives on June 30 cultural and economic support that festival The Festival and once vended there, sell- offered. It’s an incubator for all the things we ing books and Mama Abimbola’s famous ➔➔ Continued from page 9 endeavors. It’s hoped that we can once again need to grow our community. It provides safe- carrot cakes. safeguard what’s important by being respon- ty for our ideas, nurtures our intergenerational “This is an example of the great work keeping it thriving. But when the school sible cultural consumers. relationships and continuity for our economy.” Jitu Weusi did for the community and I grounds were no longer available, the financial The IAAF remains one of the safest places Shukuru Sanders was an early member of The try to do whatever I can to help keep it picture changed dramatically. to go for entertainment. Children can freely EAST and remembers the early events. She’s going,” he said. “I work at the gate, greet Because the IAAF is now held at a public play on the grounds and there has never been lived in California for decades now, but comes the people when they come in and ask park, it cannot charge admission, but ask people running from gunfire or the threat of back to enjoy The Festival whenever she can. them for their donations. I’ve worked var- only for a suggested donation. Although that stampeding crowds in response to other forms And for her, The Festival is, first and foremost, ious volunteer positions there for about 40 amount hasn’t changed in decades, many of violence. Instead, The Festival is known the people. years, I also attend various events around people still decline to contribute. Some will for the great happenings, like a child being “I just love the Festival!” Sanders said. the city leading up to The Festival where put a single dollar in the box. Many walk by born there, a wedding taking place and Stevie “I love coming to see family and friends,” I think large crowds of Black people are without contributing at all, although the sug- Wonder touring the event. It’s occasions like Sanders said. “One of the smartest moves likely to be, and I distribute flyers to help gested donation allows access to the grounds these, along with the everyday goodness of Jitu ever made, was when it came time to publicize.” for almost 12 hours. Meanwhile, if someone the vibes that keep Mark Scott and his family characterize our group, he said it was gonna Those who know and love the IAAF sees a show at the Blue Note, he or she may be returning each year. be a family. To me, that was so important, can help to spread the word as well and charged $65 and asked to leave when the first “My wife and I have been coming for because it changed the dynamic of how we perhaps bring someone who’s never been. set is over. The Black consciousness move- about 18 years,” said Scott. “Our son was all related to each other. Even though orga- Commodore Barry Park is located on Navy ments at the time of The Festival’s inception probably a little older than one year when we nization is very important, as a family it was Street, downtown Brooklyn between Park were committed to supporting community first started vending our business KhemitKids even stronger.” and Flushing Avenues. 16 OUR TIME PRESS June 28 – July 4, 2018 VOL. 22 NO. 26