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Residents of the Frederick Douglass Houses and other NYCHA buildings wait for critical improvements, while designated funds benefit luxury housing downtown "...the state let Hudson Yards call itself an 'economically distressed area' and collect $1.2 billion off the struggles of people in NYCHA housing. This is financial gerrymandering." page 2 - Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams.

Boys and Girls High School Civic Engagement with Chancellor Nabs 4 Promises ■■

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Students Kayla Bradford, Armani Torres and Nia Johnson asked will support stay after coming out of receivership?

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our groups of seniors representing each of the schools at the Boys and Girls High School complex exercised their voice in a forum with Chancellor Richard A. Carranza on Thursday, April 11. An audience of students, principals, staff and politicians looked on as student panelists shared their questions and concerns.

Ansel Jones of Pathways to Graduation H.S., a G.E.D. program, wanted more diverse curriculum such as financial literacy and technology courses. Kayla Bradford of Boys and Girls wanted to know, “What can we do to get more A.P. courses?” And then there was Armani Torres, also of Boys and Girls. Now that her school is no longer on the renewal or

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receivership list, she wanted to know, “Will the school’s supports continue?”

“And what about money for branding?

We need to increase our enrollment,” said Nia Johnson of the Nelson Mandela School for Social Justice. At the last high school fair, students were not familiar with her school. But there are great things happening. Her principal has an open-door policy. Students collaborate to solve school-wide issues, and then there’s the personalization factor. On a bad day, her principal lifted her spirits with a talk in his office and the offer of an internship at Urban World Poetry. ➔➔ Continued on page 6

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Financial Gerrymandering in New York

ublic Advocate Jumaane D. Williams held a press conference today in front of Hudson Yards to denounce the development's wealthy-focused business practices, which includes many cashless businesses and the unsavory use of the EB-5 program to claim funds intended for economically distressed areas. Following the press conference, Williams sent a letter to the management

of the project discussing his objections and requesting they be addressed.

Hudson Yards was partially financed through the EB-5 visa program, which allows for the acquisition of visas in exchange for large investment in developing what is deemed an “economically distressed area,” as determined by “targeted employment areas,” or TEAs, with 150% the national rate of unemployment. Hudson Yards was drawn

This map, made using records obtained through FOIA, shows Hudson Yards qualifies as a distressed urban area under the EB-5 program, namely by linking the luxury development to public housing projects in Harlem. (Mark Byrnes/CityLab)

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Hudson Yards call itself an 'economically distressed area' and collect $1.2 billion off the struggles of people in NYCHA housing.

This is financial gerrymandering," said Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams.

"What's more, the same NYCHA residents likely can't even afford to shop at Hudson Yards, and some can't even buy lunch there because it's gone cashless. The state is using low-income people in order to fund a playground for the wealthy. The Council needs to pass Council member Torres' bill to guarantee all businesses in New York City accept cash."

The Public Advocate highlighted that many businesses inside the development, including the grocery store, do not accept cash payments, which creates a barrier for the 12% of New Yorkers who are unbanked and the 25% who are underbanked. These are like the same people, he suggested, whose neighborhoods were being used to allow financing for Hudson Yards but who would not be able to shop or dine there. VISA recently announced a partnership with Hudson Yards, calling itself a "driving force behind the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere."

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Sakeenah Nzingha Kinard and Alade Kinard shared the reading of their father's obituary.

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“Thank you for your never-ending devotion to the youth. You inspired me to be my best self. You created warriors for the struggle and your sun will never set. You were a walker and not a talker. As you transition ty your new role as ancestor, your legacy will continue with us! The spark you lit will continue to burn through me and through my sons, and grandsons.”

A Funeral as a Celebration of a Life Well-Lived

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f a person’s life is measured by the works he or she leaves behind, then the life of Stanley Kinard, founder of the Carter G. Woodson Cultural Literacy Project, was revealed to be one that will ripple through generations in the effect he had on thousands of students and those charged with guiding them in life.

At his funeral at Bethany Baptist Church on Monday, students, friends and community leaders spoke of Stanley and the impact he had on them. Principals at the Boys and Girls High School campus all told of being instructed by Stanley when they arrived.

And it is well to remember that Stan had no Department of Education-derived authority; rather, he carried a moral authority which spoke to the spirit and placed him, in many ways, above the DOE. Principal Tabari Bomani of the Nelson Mandela High School said he had heard about Stan years before he met him. “Brothers always told me about this brother, Stan Kinard.

The first time I met him was my second day as principal. He told me, ‘Don’t come in here trying to break up Boys & Girls High School. Don’t be a tool of the White man.’”

After speaking with Kinard, Bomani said he knew he had been given a charge and a choice.

He was told he wasn’t to be just a principal, he had to be an African principal. “Either I could be a principal, or I can be an African principal…and serve my people.”

Research and Service High School Principal Allison Farrington said when she arrived Stan had pinned her down in the hallway and took her hand and told her, “Sister, you have work to do. You are going to be leading one of the most vulnerable populations of young people. You are going to be leading one of the most marginalized groups of New York City’s children, and you have to understand the house you’re in is the Dr. Frank Mickens home. And you must have Mickens’ commitment to our children, to this community and promote his vision of ‘Communiversity.’”

Grecian Harris-Walker, principal at Boys and Girls said, “You cannot walk into Boys and Girls H. S. without feeling his spirit. You feel Baba Kinard. It is because of him that we have a campus, we have the resources and the schools all work together for the community.

He poured into us the important work we had to do. He sat me down and he not only pointed that finger at me, but he made me promise that I was not trying to change the DBN, I was not going in there to do the DOE’s bidding.

That I was going to ensure that Boys and Girls High School would remain and that we would indeed remain the ‘Pride and Joy of Bed-Stuy.’”

Everyone at “The High” worked with Stan on his mission to bring cultural awareness to young people. Not only the principals, but Stan’s longtime friend Umar

Jordan testified that Stan had sent much love to Donny the custodian, who had used his skills and understanding of the system so that Carter G. Woodson would have a home in the school.

The reason everyone answered Stanley’s call was because it was never about him, always about others.

“Selfless” was the way City Council member Inez Barron described him and that is exactly the word I would use for Stan Kinard. Whenever he called Our Time Press, it was never about what he was doing.

Never anything promoting himself. Always

about the students, enrollment numbers and the word that had to be gotten out about what was happening at the school. It was always about the education of the young people. That was the most important thing to Stan.

A former student of Stan, Asante Amin, spoke for many when she said, “Every time I saw him, he poured life into me. We don’t know what the results of his work will be, but his legacy will extend for generations to come.”

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Principals at the Boys & Girls H. S. Campus are here left to right: Grecian Walker-Harris, Boys & Girls HS; Alison Farington, Research and Service, HS; Tabari Bomani, Nelson Mandela School.

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By Victoria Horsford

THE WEEK IN REVIEW Sports is not my forte. But I love to see Black men as winners like donning the covers of print media. Congratulations to golf legend Tiger Woods on the occasion of winning the Masters, his first major golf tournament championship since 2008. Everyone including the POTUS 45, the corrupt corporations were relegated to the media sidelines. The Wall Street Journal cover story was titled, WOODS’S WIN IS ONE FOR THE AGES. The NY Times cover read, “Tiger Woods in a Stirring Return to the Top, Tiger Woods Captures the Masters at 43.” Tiger has got his mojo back and is at the top of a sport in which he was born to excel and to dominate.

Apropos of sports, Magic

Johnson’s abrupt exit as LA Lakers franchise president was a surprise. Started reading the sports pages to make some sense of his action. Theshadowleague. com, the African-American sports digital magazine, probably nailed the reason for the Johnson departure in Rob Parker’s essay, “Magic Johnson Lost A Power Struggle with the Lakers,” which means franchise owner Jeanie Buss.

No star power performance by LeBron, no playoff outcome.

I hate to watch women in distress, like Somali-born, Black woman, Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, being under siege by the US President and the right-wing media. Representative Omar, from Minnesota, addressed the Council on American Islamic Relations

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last month, lamenting MuslimAmericans’ loss of civil rights since the 9/11/01 World Trade Center tragedy. Trump and company got wind of her CAIR talk, lifted and distorted her remarks, lifted some out of context for a video spliced with visuals which claims that Omar trivialized 9/11, which he published on his Twitter account. Threats to Omar’s life has been nonstop since the Trump Tweet. When will the POTUS 45 nightmare end? The necessity for the Black press is greater than it has been since the 60s. Donations to Ms. Omar’s campaign since the Trump Tweet last weekend have topped $900,000.

NEW YORK BRONX: Bronx City Councilman Ruben Diaz, Sr. announced that he will run for Congress to replace Congressman Jose Serrano, who is leaving for health reasons. Councilman Diaz is also a man of the cloth who is blatantly homophobic. If he wins, the Bronx becomes the “borough of firebrand representatives:” (AOC) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her polar opposite, Diaz, Sr. His son, Ruben Diaz, Jr., would like to become New York’s next mayor.

VOL. 23 NO. 16 HIGHER ED Morehouse College, the nation’s only institution of higher learning for Black men, will accept transgendered students in 2020. However, students who identify as women but were born male cannot enroll. Founded in 1867, Morehouse is not the first HBCU to adopt a transgender policy.

Howard, Spelman, Tuskegee, FAMU and Morgan State have transgendered students.

Geoffrey Eaton was recently named Director of Community Affairs and Diversity at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine and Touro College of Pharmacy in Harlem. Eaton was Congressman Charlie Rangel’s Chief of Staff concurrent with his 10-year tenure as the President of the NAACP Mid-Manhattan Branch.

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OUT OF AFRICA After four months of relentless demonstrations, the Sudanese military ousted autocrat President Omar al-Bashir, ending his 30-year reign of terror of what became oil-rich land. He invited

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the Russians to help support his regime, as is their custom with autocrats and leaders of failed states, advising if they complied that it was to be Russia’s gateway to Africa. The Russians complied, bolstered his regime, got mining rights. The Russians are all over Africa, in the South currying favor with old friends in places like Angola. Russia sends troops to suppress local uprisings.

Unlike the Chinese, they are not investing in infrastructure. Unlike the Americans, they have not spent millions of dollars in humanitarian and foreign aid. In fact, the Trump Administration has cut aid to Russia-friendly African nations.

ARTS/CULTURE/ HISTORY The 2019 Pulitzers: The Pulitzers are annual awards for excellence in American journalism, in newspaper, magazine, digital, literature and music composition.

The following lists 2019 Pulitzer winners who are Black journalists or who wrote exceptional works about African-Americans. They include: Editorial writing, Brent Staples, NY Times; History,

“Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” by David Blight; Biography: “The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke” by Jeffrey C. Stewart; and Drama, “Fairview”

by Jackie Sibblies Drury.

Aretha Franklin wins posthumous Pulitzer Prize, a special citation for her contributions to art and culture. She is the first individual woman named in this category. Others who won special citations are John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Scott Joplin. …….

WHAT’S GOING ON was remiss in not acknowledging the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner for music, Kendrick Lamar, which was a first for a HIP-HOP artist.

THEATER: The Billie Holiday Theatre presents, “A WALK INTO SLAVERY GRAPHICS,” a multimedia mediation about reconnecting with ancestors and with purpose at 1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, from April 30 to May 4. “A Walk into Slavery: An Oral History of the Present” by Hollis King with poetry by Carl Hancock Rux, was conceived and directed by Indira Etwaroo.

Attend “A WALK INTO SLAVERY GRAPHICS” world premiere on May 3.

Everybody’s magazine presents Jamaican actor/comedian Oliver Samuels with his motley crew of Jamaican film and theater actors coming to the northeast coast next month with a new comedy, “56 EAST AVENUE,” which is set in a Kingston tenement yard. Playdates: 5/18 at Wingate Campus, Brooklyn COLLEGE; May 24 at York College, Queens; 5/24, East Orange, NJ; 5/25 and 5/26 at Lehman College, Bronx.

Woodie King’s New Federal Theatre, in association with the BMCC Tribeca PAC, presents HATITUDES 2019, “A Tribute to the Grace and Style of our Mothers,” on Sunday, May 5 at 3 pm, at the BMCC, located at 199 Chambers Street, Manhattan. The HATITUDES is an event in three parts - A Hat Parade featuring the artistry of local milliners; A Tribute to our Mothers by celebrated writers France-Luce Besno, Leah Maddrie, Fern Metcalf, Sandra Daley Sharif, Joyce Sylvester, Judy Tate, Regina Taylor and Cori Thomas; and culminating with an award presentation and raffle.

Women and men are encouraged to come and Regina Taylor strut their millinery stuff at HATITUDES 2019. [Visit: newfederaltheatre. com or tribecapac.org] The Presbyterian Church of St. Albans presents, “AFRICAN MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA: The Door of No Return 1619: The Door of Our Return 2019,” featuring the Africa USA Unity Ensemble on Friday, April 26 at 7:30 pm at 190-04 119th Street, St. Albans., NY. [Call 718.

528.2495] A Harlem-based branding consultant, Victoria Horsford can be reached at Victoria.horsford@ gmail.com.

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NYC Ends Direct Purchase of Single-Use Plastic

ayor de Blasio recently signed an executive order that will end the direct city purchase of unnecessary single-use plastics in favor of compostable or recyclable alternatives. New York City purchases at least 1.1 million pounds of single-use plastic foodware every year, which includes plastic straws, cutlery, plates, bowls, cups and trays. This executive order will reduce New York City’s carbon emissions by approximately 500 tons per year, decrease plastic pollution and reduce risks to wildlife.

The city estimates this EO will reduce the purchase of single-use plastics by city agencies by 95% and will begin implementation by the end of the year.

The administration recognizes that certain single-use plastic items, including plastic straws, are a continued necessity for some people—including New Yorkers with disabilities—who cannot use currently available alternative products and affirms the ability of all individuals to receive single-use plastic items without question or cost upon request. Under this executive order, a sufficient supply of single-use plastic foodware will continue to be made available for anyone who requests such items and maintained for other purposes including emergency preparedness and medical uses.

“Big Oil has been pushing single-use plastics for too long – and it stops here,” said Mayor de Blasio.

“They litter our beaches and parks, jam our recycling machines and contribute to climate change. Our actions today will help us build a fairer city for all New Yorkers.”

As a result of the executive order, no new contracts will be signed for single-use plastic foodware other than to maintain a sufficient supply of certain items to be provided upon request. All relevant agencies are directed to begin reducing their use of single-use plastic immediately and must also prepare a reduction plan within 120 days. Full implementation of these reduction plans is targeted for the end of the year. Sustainability and accessibility are not mutually exclusive, and this executive order is a model for other municipalities that are working to create an environmentally conscious plan that meets the needs of everyone.

Mayor de Blasio also announced today his support for pending City Council legislation to reduce the single-use plastic foodware in private establishments and will work with the Council to ensure the legislation includes appropriate accommodations for individuals who cannot use nonplastic alternatives in a similar manner to this executive order.

Single-use plastic products, which are designed to be used once and then thrown away, are a pervasive threat to our neighborhoods, waterways and climate. Across New York City, approximately 36 million pounds of single-use

plastic foodware is collected from our residential waste stream.

Tens of millions more pounds are collected from commercial establishments. Discarded plastics also get discarded as litter and washed into waterways, impacting water quality and harming plant and animal life in New York City’s ecosystems. Reducing single-use plastic use, while simultaneously maintaining a sufficient supply of certain single-use plastic items, since some people cannot use alternative products, will lessen the city’s reliance on petroleum-based products in a way that takes the needs of all New Yorkers into account.

Reducing the use of petroleum-based products in an inclusive way will help New York City meet its goal of reducing carbon emissions at least 80 percent by 2050. Over 99 percent of plastics derive from fossil fuels and six percent of the global oil market is used to create plastic products.

For each ounce of polyethylene produced – the plastic most common for single-use plastics – one ounce of carbon dioxide is emitted.

Carbon emissions are the leading cause of climate change, which is causing higher temperatures, more frequent and severe/extreme weather events, and sea-level rise, which threatens New York City’s 520 miles of coastline.

This executive order builds on previous progress by the de Blasio Administration to protect New

York City from the damage done by petroleum-based products and the oil industry that is responsible for them. On January 1, 2019, the city implemented a ban on single-use foam products, such as cups, plates, trays, clamshell containers or polystyrene loose-fill packaging—also known as “packing peanuts.”

The city is also divesting its pension funds from fossil fuel reserve owners, has filed a lawsuit seeking damages from five fossil fuel companies for the billions of dollars that will be spent to protect New Yorkers from the effects

of climate change, and has set a goal of doubling its pension fund investments in climate change solutions to $4 billion by 2021.

This increased investment will represent two percent of the city’s $195 billion pension portfolio.

“Let’s call single-use plastic what it is: pollution,” said Mark Chambers, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability. “We need to leave these harmful plastics behind and reducing the city’s use of plastic foodware is a huge step in that direction.” (See Hudson Cleanup on page 8)

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Meet Russell Ladson, Drop Founder/CEO Is His Virtual Reality Browser the Next IPhone?

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ussell Ladson’s company, Drop, is building a VR browser, which could be the future of spatial computing.

In 2035, you’ll start the workday by picking up the e-mail icon with your hands and throwing it against the wall. Your inbox splashes open in front of you. As you open each message with your hands, you reply by typing on a virtual keyboard or dictating your reply out loud as the VR headset types your words. When you need to reference a spreadsheet you say, “Open Project X, Version 5.”

Suddenly, the spreadsheet appears and you can toggle among cells using your hands.

This is how Russell Ladson, co-founder and CEO of Drop, envisions the future.

Ladson believes that within 15 years, virtual reality is going to have its “iPhone moment” — the point of no return when society can no longer live without this technology. The VR market, it is estimated, will be worth $60 billion by 2023 and $101 billion by 2027, according to MarketWatch. But so far, it hasn’t found significant traction outside of gaming, though the entertainment and retail industries are slowly embracing it, too. For broader acceptance, the technology needs to move to a stage where we can navigate VR as easily as we surf the Internet on laptops and smartphones today. Ladson is building the VR web browser to make it possible.

Raised in West Philadelphia, Ladson, 29, grew up working class but always went to private schools. His mother, a nurse, and his father, a small business owner, highly valued academics, which rubbed off on him.

“I was a complete dork,” Ladson says, grinning brightly. “I was really into history and wanted to know how the world came about.”

Well, that and NBA Live 1999, though he was never a “hard-core gamer” because his studies came first.

Ladson majored in economics at Morehouse College, a historically Black school in Atlanta where “I came into my identity as a Black man, and I also realized how important art and culture are to everything you do.” After Morehouse, it was on to New York City to work in investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Ladson was checking all the boxes: a successful career, good money, lots of friends.

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Russell Ladson, Founder of Drop Then in 2013, Ladson was involved in a near-fatal car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. “The doctors said I should’ve been dead,” says Ladson, who suffered lacerations to his face and arms and injured his thighbone. After recovering from the accident for several weeks, he returned to work at Rice Financial but quickly realized he didn’t want to be there. He took some time off to figure out where he did want to be.

“I had always suppressed an obsession with information discovery,” Ladson says.

“I started thinking: What happens when our iPhones are no longer our primary computing device?” There needs to be a more anticipatory artificial intelligence system, he thought.

But what does that look like?

Ladson began researching AI and VR, and the idea for Drop slowly formed. Then, as so many tech founders do, he moved west. Ladson enrolled at Draper University in Silicon Valley, the school for entrepreneurs founded by longtime venture capitalist Tim Draper. There, he met his co-founder,

Geoffrey Griffin, who was immediately drawn to Ladson’s tenacity.

“He’s the embodiment of grit,” says Griffin. It played out during Drop’s fundraising period, a grueling effort that left both founders defeated at times. “Neither of us had fundraised before, but where it started to impact me was seeing our competitors get more money for the same thing with the same background,” Griffin says.

Ladson and Griffin both partially attribute this to venture capital’s notorious lack of people of color. “Raising capital was the most difficult part of starting a company as a Black founder,” Ladson says. “We had exceeded every [metric], and they kept saying no.”

Still, Ladson kept going. The breakthrough came as major tech players such as Facebook’s Oculus Rift and Mozilla jumped into VR browsers. In 2015, Ladson met with HTC in Taipei at a fortuitous time: The firm was launching a VR/AR-specific fund and, after seeing Ladson’s pitch, was eager to invest. “Drop took off after that,” Ladson says.

The company, now in its Series A round, has also received investment from Backstage Capital, started by Arlan Hamilton, who solely invests in underrepresented founders.

Drop is now one of the top downloaded VR titles on the HTC Vive headset, and is also available on Oculus Rift and Microsoft’s HoloLens 2. The interface shows web search results, your e-mail inbox and entertainment options in separate columns, with a controller to toggle and a virtual keyboard, but no voice capability. Ladson concedes that Drop’s resolution and ease of motion needs improvement. The company is working to improve the headset and controller, and superfast 5G data will boost the user experience eventually. “Most of the work being done right now is foundational computing work,” Ladson says, “like when desktops didn’t even have the basics.” Seamless VR browsing isn’t coming next year, he says, and that’s OK. But when is it coming? Ladson exudes confidence, but it’s tough to imagine a world with ubiquitous VR headsets — where we’re even further disconnected from other humans. “Any tech we try to put on our face tends to flop,” says David Ryan Polgar, tech ethicist and founder of think tank All Tech Is Human. “Think Google Glass or Snap Spectacle, and Oculus hasn’t really transitioned outside of gaming.” The problem, Polgar says, is when technologists are so focused on utility, when adoption is “based on social norms and expectations.” If you’ve ever tried a VR headset, you know what he means. Abruptly losing the ability to see your real surroundings is quite disorienting.

Ladson disagrees. He believes Drop is making the iPhone of the post-smartphone world, which will be dominated by spacial computing. “We believe it’s a type of virtual wearable,” Ladson says, “like kimoyo beads from Marvel’s Black Panther.”

Always a nerd at heart, Ladson plays chess at Mechanics’ Institute library in San Francisco in his free time. But like any good Bay Area resident, he’s also passionate about hiking, yoga and meditation — which means unlike many founders, he doesn’t dwell on regrets.

“Because of my Zazen practice, I try not to concern myself with past moments,” he says.

A good call for someone betting his career on an as-yet-unrealized future.

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Her story prompted the chancellor to say, “[The environment] you described is what we want to see replicated around the city” because students “don’t care what you know until they know that you care.” He also informed Kayla about the “AP for All” initiative which provides funds for teacher training and materials for schools which have not been able to offer these courses. The DOE website explains that taking these courses increases the probability that students will succeed in college. Through the program, her school was able to offer a few, but he promised to fund any additional advanced placement courses the students request.

The chancellor’s longest talk, though he wanted to be “as succinct as possible,” was explaining equity in education. Providing schools with the support they need to reach college- and career-readiness goals means they will not receive equal resources. Providing equal resources would not be fair. What’s

fair is determining a school’s needs based on its unique characteristics and challenges.

So, he provides supports using “equity as a lens to determine how to move forward.” Although B &G is no longer on any lists, he acknowledged the school still needs support. “Here’s our commitment,” he said. “We’re not pulling those resources.”

In response to the branding question, he told students that telling their story is the best marketing device for their school.

He added that some school organizations have access to millions of dollars, and they use them not only to promote their charter school, but they name schools students should not attend. The DOE will add a marketing firm to its office to promote public schools and to defend them against negative publicity.

motivated him to do more academic work than he has ever done. The school provides a food pantry twice a month, counselors who care and a principal who provided grief counseling in the “hall office.” He felt better after speaking with her that day and credits the school for turning his life around.

State Senator Velmanette Montgomery, whose office made the forum possible, felt compelled to pause the proceedings after Korief spoke. “I’m feeling overwhelmed with excitement and joy and pride.

Stand up and give these students a standing ovation.”

Chancellor Carranza made quite Photo: Margo McKenzie a few promises at 1700 Fulton Street Chancellor Richard A. Carranza during Civics Week 2019. “He seemed and student Korief Dunning honest and sincere,” said former The only response after Korief Dunning told Senator Al Vann. Students (some of whom his story was a standing ovation. After attending were registering to vote on the upper floors three different schools, he found a caring envi- during the forum), staff and other politicians ronment at Research and Service H.S., which will hold his feet to the fire.

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Toward a Black Education Agenda

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he miseducation of Black children has increasingly become a burning issue in New York City. A community gathering of concerned elected officials, educators, parents, community activists and organizations came together on Saturday. They hammered out a strategy toward mobilization of parents, educators and youth activists across the city pushing for community input into the quality of education.

Nayaba Arinde, journalist and host of the “Back to Basics” podcast / radio show, chaired an open discussion held at Sistas’ Place coffeehouse in BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn. The panel included Assemblyman Charles Barron; Bernard Gassaway, Ed.D.; Omowale Clay, spokesman for the December 12th Movement; and NYC Councilwoman Inez Barron.

It was a lively and intense discussion on a variety of ways our children are being destabilized and under attack in public schools. Their analysis included charter school takeover of resources, police intimidation, teaching to test, lack of truth in the curriculum on history and culture, and the single-test admission criteria for specialized high schools, among other issues..

Assemblyman Barron has a Bill (A10427A) in the Assembly entitled, “An Act to amend the education law, in relation to admission to the specialized high schools in the City of New York,” which was approved in the Education Committee.

“There are 1.1 million children in NYC public schools and nearly 70 percent of them are Black,” Barron declared. “We have to impact the public schools. One of the things we have to change is the specialized high schools. I personally don’t believe in

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Panelists Councilmember Inez Barron, Assemblymember Charles Barron, Dr. Bernard Gassoway, and journalist Nayaba Arinde . elitist specialized high schools. I think all of our children are special and all the schools are special. These specialized schools just have more resources. We should move toward a more egalitarian system. Equal access, equal opportunity, equal resources for everyone. This is why I supported Chancellor Carranza on specialized high schools.”

“We have 5000 applicants every year for these schools and NYC is the only school system that uses a single test as the only criteria for admission. All other schools in the nation have multiple measures for admission into specialized schools. They look at what the student has done all year, their GPA, their development. Not a single test that requires eighth-graders to go to expensive private cram schools because the curriculum doesn’t include any of the material. Our children are less than 10% of the

specialized high school student population while Asians are 51%,” he continued.

Dr. Bernard Gassaway said, “The system is designed to fail our children. There are 17 members of the New York State Board of Regents. It is more diverse now than it’s ever been. But they’re not doing anything demonstrably to change the system. So, you put people who look like us on the Board of Regents, but then they begin to conform to the ways of the people who are perpetuating the demise of our children. It’s clear the policies are what’s destroying our children and you are the policy-making board. You were put on that board to represent us, but yet you’re failing to do that. The problem is that they’re not being called out on that.”

NYC Council Member Inez Barron added, “We have the power to raise our voices, to organize and to reach out to our Assembly members and senators to tell

them what we want them to do. We have to tell them to support the Bill (A10427A) and advocate for it in the Rules Committee and the Senate. The state controls education and the Hecht Calandra Bill (1972) is what said that this one test is what determines which students will get into specialized high schools. We have to be mindful of the fact that just because both Houses in Albany are the same party, there’s not much difference when we look at the budget. It’s a sin and a shame that some think the test should remain.”

A woman with her young son were in the audience: “I homeschool my son because I just don’t want him in public schools. Have we ever considered a class-action lawsuit?

These conditions are affecting all of our children.” ➔➔ Continued on page 9

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Magnolia Tree Earth Center Names Marlon Rice as Executive Director

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rooklynite Marlon Rice, educator, author and business consultant, has been named Executive Director of Magnolia Tree Earth Center (MTEC), Bedford-Stuyvesant’s famed urban ecology nonprofit. To celebrate Earth Month, Rice is coordinating MTEC’s special community and school programming for April and May that includes creating flower window boxes, STEM speaker’s bureau at schools, distribution of tree care brochures and parent workshops on food sustainability.

“Magnolia Tree Earth Center is very significant,” said Rice. “I want to send the message out to the community that we’re here as an urban ecology and environmental education resource for Brooklyn’s children, families and residents.”

For last year’s MTEC Earth Day celebration, Rice assisted Project Green in developing and coordinating the urban ecology project of teaching students in District 16 how to plant trees. MTEC donated tree samplings and Rice conducted workshops and activities with students, teachers and principals on urban greenery. The students even named their planted trees.

“Through this type of urban ecology education, these kids are getting the chance to define their role in the environment,” said Rice.

“I know, without a doubt, that we create smarter minds when we give kids the opportunity to interact with the environment. Give them this blueprint on how to have a relationship with the earth.”

Rice grew up in Clinton Hill and graduated

■■ By Fern E. Gillespie from Brooklyn Tech High School. He is a graduate of Morgan State University in Baltimore, he taught special education to first-graders at Maryland’s Montgomery County School System. For the last four years, Rice has headed the creative writing workshop, “First Voices,” for the New York DOE, which he developed for elementary students.

His novel, Blow One Down: A Tragedy, was featured as the Book of the Month in XXL Magazine.

Rice is the former Communications Chair of the Maryland Writer’s Association’s Montgomery Chapter and a former Culture Editor for Heart and Soul magazine. He is a contributing writer for numerous blogs, including onetrackmine.com.

As an entrepreneur, Rice is the owner of Good People NYC, a production company responsible for overseeing, marketing and promoting events in the New York City area.

For over 15 years, he has consulted with restaurants and lounges on management, marketing and events. He held the popular “Back to Brooklyn” events in BedfordStuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene and Central Brooklyn. In addition, he served as the Director of Operations for Pamoja House Men’s Shelter in Brooklyn.

“Everything in my life has been geared to be a community servant,” said Rice. “At MTEC, I want to create an educational pipeline on STEM and STEAM. I’m meeting with community leaders, elected officials, block associations and community boards and schools like Brooklyn Tech High School and Medgar

STEM advocate Marlon Rice, executive director of Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford Stuyvesant, is developing an MTEC-based Think Tank to create innovative urban ecology and environmental learning programs that serve to empower children and families, and can be replicated nationally.

Evers College.”

“On behalf of the Magnolia Tree Earth Center Board of Directors, I want to welcome Marlon Rice to MTEC,” announced David Greaves, Chairman of MTEC. “We are very excited to have Marlon in this leadership role.

His management, education and creative experience – and his knowledge of Brooklynites -- will be an asset to MTEC. We are looking forward to his guidance in taking MTEC to the next level as an innovative urban ecology and environmental education institution.”

The Magnolia Tree Earth Center was

founded in 1972 by Hattie Carthan, an environmental activist in Bedford-Stuyvesant, fondly known as the “Tree Lady.” She was one of the first African-American, community-based, urban ecology environmental activists in the U.S. MTEC is considered one of America’s oldest nonprofits dedicated to urban ecology and environmental education. It is the site of the famed Magnolia Grandiflora Tree, which was planted in approximately 1885. It is New York City’s only living landmark.

For more information, visit http://www. magnoliatreeearthcenter.com/.

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LEGAL NOTICES SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Index No. 507548/2018 Date Filed: 4/12/2019 HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee, in trust for the registered holders of ACE Securities Corp.

Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 2007-WM1, Asset Backed PassThrough Certificates, Plaintiff,

-against- Maria Miranda, if she be living or dead, her spouse, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff, Juan Rios, if he be living or dead, his spouse, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation;

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PROPERTY ADDRESS: 97 Vermont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11207 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the days of service, or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if the summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York.

The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Noach Dear, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, entered April 9, 2019 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Kings County Clerk’s Office. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $496,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Kings County Office of the City Register on September 18, 2006, in CRFN 2006000523822 covering premises known as 97 Vermont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11207 a/k/a Block 3662, Lot 1. Further, to secure the cancellation and discharge of (2) mortgages recorded in the Kings County Office of the City Register on December 30, 2002 in. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. Plaintiff designates Kings County as the place of trial.

Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER

VOL. 23 NO. 16 INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER w1TH THE COURT. Dated: Jan. 23, 2019 Frank M. Cassara, Esq. Senior Associate Attorney SHAPIRO, DICARO & BARAK, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (585) 247-9000 Fax: (585) 247-7380 Our File No. 11-013180 #96892 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF MORGAN STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. TRUST 2007-HE6 MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-HE6, V. BRIDGETTE STEWART, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated January 28, 2016, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF MORGAN STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. TRUST 2007-HE6 MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-HE6 is the Plaintiff and BRIDGETTE STEWART, ET AL. are the Defendants. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 360 ADAMS STREET ROOM 224, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, on May 23, 2019 at 2:30 PM, premises known as 2276A ATLANTIC AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11233: Block 1435, Lot 17: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, COUNTY OF KINGS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 4882/2008.

ERIC ADAM GOLDBERG, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS, INC. ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-9, Plaintiff – against – SADIQUE MALIK, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on February 27, 2019. I,

the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York on the 16th Day of May, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Premises known as 100 19th Avenue, Brooklyn, (City of New York) NY 11232. (Block: 8284, Lot: 102) Approximate amount of lien $855,815.71 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 504836/2014.

Philip L. Kamaras, Esq., Referee.

Davidson Fink LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 28 East Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, NY 14614-1990 Tel. 585/760-8218 For sale information, please visit Auction. com at www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832 Dated: March 12, 2019 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS JPMorgan Chase Bank, N. A., Plaintiff AGAINST Alexis Camacho; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated March 18, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on May 16, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1019 Sutter Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11208. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block 4035 Lot 30.

Approximate amount of judgment $62,922.15 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 511047/2016. Betty Lugo, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: April 3, 2019 62490 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Kings US Bank National Association, as Trustee for CSMC Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-7, Plaintiff AGAINST Jack Esses, Laurie Esses, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 1/11/19 and entered on 1/23/19, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on May 16, 2019 at 02:30 PM premises known as 504 Avenue N, Brooklyn, NY 11230. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 6587, LOT: 4.

Approximate amount of judgment is $1,345,974.81 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 13335/2009. Philip Kamaras, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & ➔➔ Continued on page 10

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LEGAL NOTICES ➔➔ Continued from page 8 GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff AGAINST Anasha Howard and Samuel Howard, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated November 30, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on May 16, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 432 EAST 48TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11203. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK 4695, LOT 13. Approximate amount of judgment $322,559.41 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 2600/2010. Mark A. Longo, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 62521 SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS WATERFALL VICTORIA MASTER FUND, LTD, Plaintiff against JOSEPH DANTICA; MENDY DANTICA, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on July 26, 2018.

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 16th day of May, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York.

Said premises known as 2012 Ralph Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11234. (Block: 7807, Lot: 52).

Approximate amount of lien $ 848,016.92 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 510397-14. Mark A. Longo, Esq., Referee. Stern & Eisenberg, PC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff Woodbridge Corporate Plaza 485 B Route 1 South – Suite 330 Iselin, NJ 08830 (732) 582-6344 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, DOING BUSINESS AS CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLEY AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR BRONZE CREEK TITLE TRUST 2013-NPL1, Plaintiff, vs. FREDERICK H. TOWNSEND, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on May 8, 2009, a Decision and Order duly filed September 17, 2018, and a Request for Judicial Determination Concerning Dismissal Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. section 521(i) duly filed March 5, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on May 16, 2019 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 662 Georgia Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 4296 and Lot 20. Approximate amount of judgment is $431,660.27 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 33873/07. Helene Blank, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff Cash will not be accepted.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, as Trustee for CWABS, Inc. Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 20035, Plaintiff AGAINST Keith Adrian; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated November 20, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on May 2, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 105-23 Flatlands 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11236. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block 8251 Lot 73. Approximate amount of judgment $487,170.91 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 511293/2015. Dana L. Jenkins, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: March 25, 2019 62262 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Kings PennyMac Corp., Plaintiff AGAINST Ceaser Anthony Jr., a/k/a Caeser Anthony, Ceaser Anthony and Annia Mae Anthony as Trustees of the Living Trust of Ceaser Anthony, Jr. and Annia Anthony, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 2/19/2019 and entered on 2/27/2019, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on May 02, 2019 at 02:30 PM premises known as 531 Van Siclen Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11207. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 4074, LOT: 8. Approximate amount of judgment is $533,909.72 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 501103/2013. Vasilios Angelos, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, NY 11706.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT KINGS COUNTY U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF BEAR STEARNS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES I LLC, ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-AC7, Plaintiff against VISHNU BANDHU, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein, Such & Crane, LLP, 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800, Rochester, NY 14614 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered August 14, 2018, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11201 on May 2, 2019 at 2:30 PM. Premises known as 852 Belmont Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11208.

Block: 4039 Lot: 21 F/K/A Block: 4039 Part of Old Lot: 21 and Block: 4039 Part of Old Lot: 20. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $861,530.09 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 9502/2013. M. Randolph Jackson, Esq., Referee SPSNC486 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS US Bank National Association, as Trustee for Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp., CSMC Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-6, Plaintiff AGAINST Jose Garcia a/k/a Jose R. Garcia; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment

of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated February 14, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on May 2, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1227 East 104th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11236. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block: 8269 Lot: 28. Approximate amount of judgment $607,025.20 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 11103/2013.

Randolph Jackson, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: March 13, 2019 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS– SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF KINGS – GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC, Plaintiff, against Dominic Famulari, Esq., as Guardian ad Litem for the respective heirs-at-law, nextof-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through Mary Brown a/k/a Mary BrownMorris who may be deceased by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in the real property described in the complaint herein, STEVEN BROWN MORRIS Individually and as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Mary Brown a/k/a Mary Brown-Morris, DWAYNE BROWN Individually and as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Mary Brown a/k/a Mary BrownMorris, FREDRICK BROWN as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Mary Brown a/k/a Mary Brown-Morris, CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK (KINGS), NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU, NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (EASTERN DISTRICT), NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU, KINGS SUPREME COURT, PALISADES COLLECTION LLC, MIDLAND FUNDING NCC-2 CORP., CAPITAL ONE BANK, NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, AMERI CREDIT FINANCIAL SERVICES INC., RAB PERFORMANCE RECOVERIES LLC, METRO PORTFOLIOS, INC., MUNICIPAL CREDIT UNION, STATE OF NEW YORK, SLOMINS INC., DefendantsIndex No. 14394/2014. Plaintiff Designates Kings County as the Place of Trial. The Basis of Venue is that the subject action is situated in Kings County. To the above named Defendants–YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff’s Attorney(s) within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); the United States of America may appear or answer within 60 days of service hereof; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

That this Supplemental Summons is being filed pursuant to an order of the court filed January 29, 2019. NOTICE-YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME – If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or

VOL. 23 NO. 16 go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE; New York State law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully.

SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the Summons and Complaint in this Foreclosure Action, you may lose your home. Please read the Summons and Complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney of your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services’ at 1-800-269-0990 or visit the Department’s website at 622 3rd Avenue, NYC 10017, 21st Floorhttp://www.dfs. ny.gov.

FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. We are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Honorable Noach Dear dated January 16, 2019. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage and covering the premises known as 317 Grafton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11212 located at Block 3581 and Lot 15 Dated: March 9, 2019 Berkman, Henoch, Peterson, Peddy and Fenchel, P.C., Attorney for Plaintiff, By: Hillary Prada, Esq., 100 Garden City Plaza, Garden City, NY 11530 (516) 222-6200.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Successor by Merger to Wachovia Mortgage, F.S. B. F/K/A/ World Savings Bank, FSB, Plaintiff AGAINST Carmen Maria Valdez; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated September 26, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on April 25, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 3039 Brighton 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11235-6446. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block 8674 Lot 86. Approximate amount of judgment $735,255.07 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 11853/2011. Leonard C. Aloi, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: February 27, 2019 61814

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Science Events Calendar Friday, April 19th BIONIC ME New York Hall of Sci-

ence 4701 111th St., Corona Queens.

FREE general admission Fridays 2-5 and Sundays 10-11am. (Check the Internet for admission prices at other times.)

With hands-on displays and full-body experiences, this exhibition explores the inventive and ingenious medical and industrial breakthroughs that have helped enhance the human experience. Visitors can move a ball with their mind, manipulate a robot arm, race against a Paralympian, use night vision to see in the dark, and explore how technology can provide camouflage and make you invisible. For info see nysci.org.

Saturday, April 20th EARTH DAY 5K GREEN TOUR Locations in Manhattan to

be announced. $30 Earlybird tickets end today. Get outside on Earth Day and explore some of the great green sites around the city. All new sites this year might include: A river education lab on the Hudson River; a zero-waste office; a state-of-the-art NYC Department of Sanitation facility, and a rooftop farm. (Sites listed are tentative and are subject to change.) Tickets at Eventbrite.

ASCAC Conference in Brooklyn Honors Randy Weston

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he 36th Annual Ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) Studies Conference will convene in Brooklyn this weekend with a tribute to Randy Weston. The Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) presents this conference, titled this year, “African Rhythms for an African Renaissance: Transcending Our Time of Trouble to Build for Eternity.” Members and interested persons from across the nation will gather at Medgar Evers College on Thursday, April 18th through Saturday, April 20th at Academic Building #1, 1638 Bedford Avenue “Our conference theme this year is inspired by long-time Brooklyn resident and great jazz pianist Randy Weston (maa kheru), our new Ancestor whose music and lifework were deeply Pan-African,” said Dr. Mario Beatty, International President, ASCAC. “He stands for our African cultural renaissance in the way that Cheikh Anta Diop, John Henrik Clarke, Yosef ben Jochannan, Jacob Carruthers stand for our history, Marcus Garvey for our unity and Harriet Tubman for our liberation. Traveling the earth like an ambassador for African rhythms, Baba Randy held a mirror to our souls, reminding us who we are as if we had never forgotten.

“As we continue to “build for eternity,” this ASCAC conference will undoubtedly engage the whole community and prompt us to elevated levels of understanding of our mission to recreate a new world where the wisdom of our Ancestors is heard and used for the improvement of ourselves, our future generations, and the whole of humanity. This conference brings together researchers, artists, and activists from all walks of life from across the country to continue the work of our ancestors and sharpen our ideas and strategies to forge our “African Renaissance.”

Visit www.ascac.org for additional information and to see the conference brochure.

Monday, April 22nd KIDS CREATE: TREE HOUSES Bed-

ford Library 496 Franklin Ave. 4-5pm.

FREE. A special Earth Day edition of Kids Create! Children can design and build their own play space, including ladders, ziplines and more. Led by educators from ArchFor Kids.

Tuesday, April 23rd NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTER: OCEAN ODYSSEY 226 West 44th St Times Square. 10am

daily till 9pm Sun-Thurs and 10pm Fri & Sat. Adults $31.50, children, seniors, military $24.50 if ordered online with code GEO8. Academy, Emmy and Grammy-winning artists helped to design this immersive Pacific Ocean walkthrough. Escape from the jaws of a 50-foot humpback whale, navigate a twisting kelp forest maze, play with sea lions, and more – without getting wet! Experience, a luminous coral reef at night, and more of our ocean’s most spectacular and extraordinary moments. You’ll also hear breathtaking stories from National Geographic photographers and explorers, take on gaming challenges, and become a true champion for our seas every day. http://natgeoencounter.com.

Thursday, April 25th WILLA MAE ROCK CAMP AT EARTH ROCKS! Brook-

lyn Children’s Museum 145 Brooklyn Ave.4-4:35pm & 4:45-5:15. Join WMRC and rock out in support of plane Earth.

Write poems, songs and more to tell everyone about our planet.

Other activities, Tues-Fri, 10-5,

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Thurs 10-6, Sat & sun 10-7. FREE Thursdays 2-6pm and Sundays 4-7pm. Admission at other times is $11 per person, children under 12 and members are free.

The museum’s science-related activities include writing a letter to planet Earth, learning how water shapes land, taking a gardening workshop, examining volcanic stones and more.

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