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(Page 6) Memorials Actress Novella Nelson, Community Leader Earl Johnson, passed Dick Gregory Services Announced (Page 10) Appreciation Herb Boyd's "Black Detroit" Praised (Page 8) …and more inside.

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CONGRATULATIONS, PUBLIC SCHOOL 25 THE EUBIE BLAKE SCHOOL!

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ongratulations! Congratulations! With the recent release of the New York State standardized exams we are proud to announce that P.S. 25 - The Eubie Blake School (787 Lafayette Avenue) has become a top school in District 16, BedStuy. The school made a whopping increase of twenty one percent (21%) in ELA and the same twenty one percent (21%) increase in Mathematics. Resulting in, fifty percent (50%) of their students scoring on or above state expectations on the recently implemented Common Core English Language Arts Exam and fifty three percent (53%) of their students scoring on or above state expectations on the recently implemented Common Core Math exam. This year, this school out-performed the City, the State and the district in both ELA and Mathematics.

Under the great and focused leadership of Principal, Anita M. Coley and Assistant Principal, Esther Wilson, P.S. 25 has shown ongoing growth in student performance over the last few years.

The school provides a warm and welcoming

learning environment for their students. Students are encouraged to always strive for excellence and do their best. At any function in the school you will hear students and staff chanting their school’s motto; “Yes We Can and Yes We Will!”

With this great achievement, they can now say, “Yes We Did! And Yes We Will Continue to Excel!” Technology and the Arts are big on the school’s agenda, which provide students with opportunities for success and prospects that they might not otherwise have, as they get ready for college and career. We say Kudos! And give a big shout-out to the leadership, teachers and staff of P.S. 25, The Eubie Blake School. They are indeed educators at heart. To the students we say, “Good Job! Good job! Keep aiming for the stars and beyond.” To the parents and all the great community based organizations that partner with the school to support students’ social, emotional and academic growth. Job well done!

It takes a Village. The school has ongoing open enrollment. Parents are encouraged to register their children here.

mmigration can be a controversial topic.

We all want safe, secure borders and a dynamic economy, and people of goodwill can have legitimate disagreements about how to fix our immigration system so that everybody plays by the rules.

But that’s not what the action that the White House took today is about. This is about young people who grew up in America – kids who study in our schools, young adults who are starting careers, patriots who pledge allegiance to our flag. These Dreamers are Americans in their hearts, in their minds, in every single way but one: on paper. They were brought to this country by their parents, sometimes even as infants. They may not know a country besides ours. They may not even know a language besides English. They often have no idea they’re undocumented until they apply for a job, or college, or a driver’s license.

Over the years, politicians of both parties have worked together to write legislation that would have told these young people – our young people – that if your parents brought you here as a child, if you’ve been here a certain number of years, and if you’re willing to go to college or serve in our military, then you’ll get a chance to stay and earn your citizenship.

And for years while I was president, I asked Congress to send me such a bill.

That bill never came. And because it made no sense to expel talented, driven, patriotic young people from the only country they know solely because of the actions of their parents, my administration acted to lift the shadow of deportation from these young people, so that they could continue to contribute to our communities and our country. We did so based on the well-established legal principle of prosecutorial discretion, deployed by Democratic and Republican presidents alike, because our immigration enforcement agencies have limited resources, and it makes sense to focus those resources on those who come illegally to this country to do us harm. Deportations of criminals went up. Some 800,000 young people stepped forward, met rigorous requirements and went through background checks. And America grew stronger as a result. ➔➔ Continued on page 11

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Hurricane Irma is Now Larger Than Ohio, & Here’s Why Climate Change is to Blame ■■

By Annamarya Scaccia

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n Wednesday, Hurricane Irma slammed into the Caribbean islands, destroying property, flooding streets, and cutting off communication to Barbuda, according to Vox. Scientists say the Category 5 storm is among the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded, with sustained winds of 185 mph. The record-breaking storm also clocked in at 364 miles wide as of Wednesday, meaning Hurricane Irma is now larger than Ohio, which is 220 miles wide, according to Cincinnati.com. Irma is a sizable — and potentially catastrophic — hurricane, but, sure, let’s continue to deny that climate change has had an impact on the weather.

Climate change may not cause hurricanes, but this hurricane season proves how much of an effect man-made global warming has had on the earth.

According to Bloomberg, scientists believe that climate change has made Hurricane Irma much worse because Irma is receiving a boost of energy and moisture from the higher-than-average sea-surface temperatures.

Climate scientist Anders Levermann told Bloomberg, Unfortunately, the physicality is very clear: Hurricanes get their destructive energy from the warmth of the ocean, and the region’s water temperatures are super elevated. ... Burning coal, oil and gas warms our planet and that way supplies energy for the build-up of ever more powerful tropical storms.

But climate change is not just impacting Hurricane Irma’s size and wind speed; it’s also affecting the frequency of high-powered storms.

According to the Boston Globe, scientists say it’s unusual to have a powerful storm like Hurricane Irma form so quickly after another catastrophic

VOL. 21 NO. 36 storm — in this case, Hurricane Harvey. In late August, Hurricane Harvey barreled into the Texas Gulf Coast, displacing more than 32,000 residents and killing as many as 60 people, ABC News reported.

And expect to see hurricanes like Irma and Harvey happen more often. According to scientists, the earth will become warmer as carbon dioxide caused by human activity increases, and that means storms will be stronger and more intense, Boston Globe reported. There will be more rainfall, higher wind speeds, and greater storm surges from rising seas, according to Lifehacker, because warm waters power hurricanes.

Not entirely convinced? Then consider hurricane history. Of the 222 hurricanes that formed in the Atlantic Ocean since 1982, only 13 have been labelled Category 5 storms. According to the Boston Globe, many of those storms happened during a period when the ocean’s water temperature was warm. This includes the hurricane season of 2005, when Hurricane Katrina made landfall (Hurricane Rita and two other Category 5 hurricanes also caused destruction that year).

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By Steve George, CNN

(CNN)In rural areas across northern Bangladesh, families are preparing to mark Eid al-Adha, one of the holiest dates on the Muslim calendar.

The holiday, which translates literally as the “sacrifice feast”, is intended to be a time of great celebration. In small villages and towns such as Beraberi, some 134 kilometers northwest of Dhaka, residents spent much of the last year hand-rearing goats and cows in anticipation of the annual festivities.

Then the rains began to fall As the world’s media trains its sights on the tragic events in Texas and Louisiana, another water-driven catastrophe is unfolding in villages like Beraberi throughout Bangladesh and parts of Nepal

and India.

There, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) estimates that at least 1,200 have died and more than 41 million people have been affected by monsoon rains and severe flooding as of June this year. The rains are now moving northwest towards Pakistan, where more devastation is expected.

At its peak on August 11, the equivalent to almost a week’s worth of average rainfall during the summer monsoon season was dumped across parts of Bangladesh in the space of a few hours, according to the country’s Meteorological Department, forcing villagers in low-lying northern areas to grab what few possessions they could carry and flee their homes in search of higher ground.

And still the rains keep coming. In Bangladesh

alone, floods have so far claimed the lives of 142 people, and impacted over 8.5 million.

In Beraberi, one of numerous island villages known as “chars” dotted along the Jamuna River, entire homes have been washed away and crops and food supplies -- including livestock -- all but wiped out. When aid workers carrying relief parcels from the IFRC arrived by helicopter earlier this week, villagers described the rains as the “worst in living memory”.

“People were fearful they would soon begin to starve,” says Corinne Ambler, who was among the IFRC team who visited the village. “They are used to seasonal flooding but nothing to this degree, this is a different level -- for miles around all you can see is water, the flooding has transformed the countryside.” ➔➔ Continued on page 8

Death toll climbs to over 400 in Sierra Leone floods Al-Jazeera “Today, we are counting more than 400 people dead,” Elhadj As Sy, secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross

and Red Crescent Societies, said in Geneva on August 19.

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ore than 100,000 people have fled their homes because of major flooding in the central state of Benue in Nigeria, according to President Muhammadu Buhari.

“I have received with great concern reports of the flooding in Benue state, displacing, from early estimates, more than 100,000 people,” Buhari wrote on Twitter late on Thursday.

He said his government “will make available all assistance” to those affected.

“We will surmount this disaster and, working with the state govt., bring succor and relief to all affected persons and communities.”

Helen Teghtegh, head of local NGO Community Links and Human Empowerment Initiative, said the region had been battered by heavy rains over the past two weeks with the level of the Benue River steadily rising.

Many residents in the state capital of Makurdi have fled their homes since Wednesday, she added, launching an appeal

for donations. “We are still trying to get accurate data, we don’t know the number of casualties but we are having a meeting tomorrow with local groups and emergency services so we should know better,” said Teghtegh.

Photographs of inundated Makurdi began spreading on social media on Thursday, showing cars and thousands of homes completely submerged. Others showed men and women carrying mattresses, bags and other belongings as they fled on foot.

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Get screened for breast cancer.

Many women who develop breast cancer have no known risk factors.

In fact, African American women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with aggressive forms of breast cancer that are harder to treat.

That’s why it’s important to get screened for breast cancer if you’re 40 or older, regardless of your current health, family history, income, or insurance status.

The Communities Partnering in Navigation in New York City Program can help connect you with affordable cancer screening services and resources. To learn more, contact 844.90B.WELL and BeWell@nyumc.org, or visit nyulangone.org/cancerscreeningnavigation

This project was funded by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene through a contract with Public Health Solutions.

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By Victoria Horsford

RIP: NOVELLA NELSON Artist extraordinaire Novella Christine Nelson, 77, transitioned on August 31. A Brooklyn, New Yorker, she attended NYC public schools(K-12) and earned a degree at Brooklyn College in theater. A vocalist and a film and TV actress with a long filmography, Novella had memorable roles in Hollywood feature films like Denzel Wa s h i n g t o n ’s Novella Nelson “Antwone Fisher Story”, Chris Rock’s “Head of State”, Spike Lee’s “Clockers” and Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club”. In theater, she played off-Broadway productions of “Horseman” and “Pass By”. She performed in a revival of the Truman Capote/Harold Arlen musical “House of Flowers”, which led to a role as Pearl Bailey’s standby in “Hello Dolly” at the St. James Theater.

Her Broadway credits include the original production of “Purlie”, the musical “Caesar and Cleopatra” with Rex Harrison and Elizabeth Ashley, and Hellman’s “Little Foxes”.

Novella, the vocalist, was a fixture in the New York 70s nightclub scene. She packed clubs like the Village Vanguard, Reno Sweeney’s and Upstairs at the Downstairs, to overflow with fans and aficionados. Novella, the director, began at the NY Shakespeare Festival. She directed “La Femme Noire” by Edgar White and “Bailey’s Café” by Gloria Naylor. She worked as a director with NEC and Woodie King’s New Federal Theater.

She worked as a vocalist, spoken word actor with arts and culture czar Ellis Haizlip on a number of his productions, including his TV show SOUL! However, all of the above credits pale by comparison with her greatest production, her beloved daughter Alesa Blanchard-Nelson, who was born in 1977.

Services will be held on Friday, September 8 at 10 am at the Ninth Tabernacle, located at 85-87 Fountain Avenue, Brooklyn.

Interment follows at Pinelawn Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York.

NY, NY 9/12 PRIMARY BROOKLYN: The District Attorney

race is media-centric, attracting a NY1 TV debate. The Democratic Primary will determine who succeeds Brooklyn’s first elected African-American District Attorney Kenneth Thompson, who died last year.

Governor Cuomo named Eric Gonzalez, Thompson’s deputy, to complete his term.

Gonzalez faces five competitors, most of them assistant district attorneys: Anne Swern, Vincent Gentile, Patricia Gatling, Marc Fliedner and Ama Patricia Gatling Dwimoh; the NY Times endorsed Gonzalez.

Laurie Cumbo, City Council Democratic incumbent in the 35th District, has both strong support in her councilmanic, and strong competition from Ede Fox, who comes to the race with endorsements from the Trans­porta­tion Workers Union and the United Auto Workers.

Last week, the two women debated on NY1 Cable Ede Fox News with Errol Louis as moderator. The Council District includes Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and parts of Central Brooklyn.

BUSINESS AFFAIRS Congratulations to five Harlem liquor store owners - on Lenox and Seventh below 125th Street - in a display of unity who successfully blocked a new liquor store license application for a space on Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard at 118th Street. Liquor store licenses fall within the jurisdiction of the NYS Liquor Authority, which often ignores its guideline regarding spatial relations between liquor stores and churches/schools. That exemplifies power to the entrepreneurs, most of them Black, Latino and Asian.

Brooklynites looking for affordable housing, please note that 74 new rental units will be available with monthly rates as follows: Studios/$947; 1 bedroom /$1017; 2 bedrooms /$1230. There are income caps in each category. Apartments are housed at 210

A.G. Schneiderman Files Lawsuit to Protect Dreamers and Preserve DACA

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oday, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman led a coalition of 16 Attorneys General in filing suit to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) grantees. The lawsuit, which was filed this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, details how the Trump administration has violated the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution by discriminating

against DREAMers of Mexican origin, who make up 78 percent of DACA recipients; violated Due Process rights; and harmed States’ residents, institutions, and economies.

“Immigration is the lifeblood of New York State. The Trump administration’s decision to end DACA is cruel, inhumane, and devastating to the 42,000 New Yorkers who have been able to come out of the shadows and live a full life as a result of the program,”

Livingston Street, corner of Hoyt, a building under construction. Visit NYC Housing Connect website. Applications accepted through October 31.

ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT HARLEM: Fashion Week NY runs from September 7 to 13 when designers will present their 2018 spring/summer collections. Traditionally, FWNY venues are midtown, downtown, anywhere but uptown …. until Harlem Fashion Week made its auspicious appearance a few years ago. Produced by fashion dignitaries Tandra Birkett and Yvonne Jewnell, Harlem Fashion Week runs from September 8 to 10, at spaces like the Hamilton Landmark Galleries on opening night and the Museum of the City of New York, where a catwalk show threatens to mesmerize all viewers.

The 9/10 Harlem Fashion Week catwalk show proceedings will be followed by a salute to local cultural professionals, including Jonathan Bodrick, the “Godfather of Fashion” in Harlem, Actor B.O.R.N. To Style; Alanna M c C a t t y , F o u n d e r / CEO, McCatty Scholars; Ejhadju Johnathan Bodrick Cisse aka Cisse, the Senegalese Ponty Bistro owner; Victoria Horsford, Harlem-based journalist and OTP columnist and real estate entrepreneur; and Tai Abrams, co-founder/CEO Admission Squad, author of the book, WHO AM I. [Visit harlemfw. com] The 48th Annual African-American Day Parade is set for September 17 from 1-6 pm along Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard in Harlem. This year’s parade is “A Salute to Better Health” and honors African-American health care professionals, many of whom will be grand marshals such as Dr. Jeff Gardere, “America’s Psychologist”; Queen Afua, Holistic Wellness Center; Robert Gore, MD, Kings County Hospital; Carole Brown, MD, Memorial Hospital; Aletha Maybank, MD, NYC Dept. of Health; Camille Clare, MD, Metropolitan Hospital; and Venis Wilder, MD, The Ryan Center.

[Visit africanamericandayparade.org]

VOL. 21 NO. 36 political feathers last week when it invalidated the results of the August 8 election, which projected a reelection victory for President Uhura Kenyatta.

A new election Uhuru Kenyatta will be held within 60 days of a court review. Protests and restlessness ensued after last month’s election.

President Kenyatta took office in 2013.

He has to do battle again at the polls with opposition leader Raila Odinga, who refused to accept an election loss and appealed to the judicial system.

SEPTEMBER CALENDAR The Imagenation Cinema Foundation and Injoy Enterprises present “BLACK GIRL MAGIC, Celebrating the Flyness of Black Women and Girls”, a multimedia event on Saturday, September 9, 6-10 pm in the Marcus Garvey Park Amphitheater, located off 122nd Street at Mt. Morris Park in West Harlem. The celebration includes a screening of THE FITS, which follows an 11-year-old tomboy who tries to fit in with her peers after joining an all-girls dance team; performances by a female band and by the Uptown Dance Academy.

The MCI (Marketplace Calling International) presents the GLOBAL Marketplace Summit and Expo 2017, which convenes in Johannesburg, South Africa on September 20 to September 29. MCI is a Christian-based networking and empowering platform for business people and professionals from diverse churches and organizations.

Keynote speakers include an ecumenical lot like Rev. Dennis Dillon, USA clergyman, and business leaders from Ghana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. [Visit marketplacecalling.com] A Harlem-based entrepreneur, Victoria Horsford can be reached at Victoria.horsford@gmail.com.

KENYA ELECTIONS The Kenya Supreme Court ruffled some said Attorney General Schneiderman.

“These DREAMers play by the rules. They work hard and pay taxes. America is the only home they have ever known – and they deserve to stay here and keep contributing to our state and our nation.

“That’s why we’re taking the Trump administration to court to protect DREAMers and the New York employers who rely on them. It’s clear that President Trump’s DACA repeal would cause huge economic harm to New York – and that it’s driven by President Trump’s personal anti-Mexican bias. Attorneys General have not hesitated to act to protect those we serve, and I’m committed to continuing to use every tool to protect New Yorkers,” Attorney General Schneiderman concluded.

The lawsuit was led by New York Attorney General Schneiderman, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, and Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, and filed by a total of 16 Attorneys General: New York, Massachusetts, Washington, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia. ➔➔ Continued on page 11

Ellen Edwards

Judicial Candidate Ellen Edwards In our listing of Candidate for Civil Court Judge in our last issue, we omitted attorney Ellen Edwards, although we had profiled Ms. Edwards in a previous issue.

Ellen Edwards Counselor and Attorney-at-Law, Edwards & Associates: “They (people) need someone who understand their issues, who understands what a certain amount of bail will mean for them, a person who understands how different types of arrests are made and what the basis of those arrests are.”

Education: Emory University School of Law, University of Richmond School of Law, City University of New York City College (Magna Cum Laude).

Volunteer Experience: Board Member, Legal Advisor, Bridge Street Child Development Center, Brooklyn Community Church.

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The 41st Council District: What do the Top Four Candidates Have to Say?

By Margo McKenzie

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n Tuesday, September 12, in addition to voting for Mayor, Public Advocate, District Attorney and three referendums, voters in term-limited Darlene Mealy’s district (Brownsville, East Flatbush, Crown Heights) will also vote for City Council (District 41).

Four candidates lead the race. Who are they? What are their qualifications? How do they compare? Read what the candidates have to say about critical issues facing the 41st gathered mostly from phone interviews with minor details culled from their websites. They are listed in alphabetical order.

Background Alicka Amprey-Samuel: Wife to Kalonji and mother to a 10-year-old, Ms. AmpreySamuel was born and raised in Brownsville

and was bused to Mill Basin in District 22 for public school. After eighth grade, with the help of her benefactor Dhiren Shah, she attended St. Michael Academy, an all-female private Roman Catholic high school in Manhattan. Mr. Shah remains a mentor today.

After graduating from North Carolina A&T, Amprey-Samuel returned to NYC to work under the leadership of Frank Boyland as a case manager for the homeless mentally-ill chemical abusers. She served as a District Leader for the 55th Assembly District. She also attended CUNY School of Law and served as Chief of Staff for Latrice Walker.

In her service, as Human Rights Officer in Ghana, Amprey-Samuel wrote two critical reports on trafficking and human rights.

Henry Butler: Currently employed as the District Manager for Community Board 3, Butler has been married fifteen years to Lalena, and is raising two boys: Kevin, 12 and

Leaders and organizations across our community are lining up behind

Alicka Samuel for City Council.

Miles 9. Mr. Butler grew up in the Tompkins Houses and attended Hunter College where he received a Bachelor’s in Political Science.

After graduation, he served as a community service case worker, a train conductor for the MTA and later as delegate to Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention.

Locally, he supported funding for Utica Avenue Elevator and fought to save Interfaith Hospital, the B25 bus and the Franklin Avenue Shuttle. He is a member of the NAACP and Vanguard Independent Democrats.

Deidra Olivera: The proud mother of one son who is a biology major currently attending Penn State University in the Shreyers Honor College for Research. Ms. Olivera served as administrator for the Amboy Neighborhood Center, the largest family shelter in Brooklyn.

Her additional leadership experience includes serving as a business consultant and PTA president and vice president in two schools.

She holds the distinction of being the first woman to enter the heavy-duty cement and concrete trade union. She also served as a Community Board member on the legislative, youth, parks and women’s committees.

Cory Provost: Nurtured by Jamaican women going back three generations and educated in the public schools of New York City, Mr. Provost rose to attain a Bachelor’s in Philosophy and a Master’s in Urban Policy and Administration, both from Brooklyn College. Working with state Senator Kevin Parker, he conducted several community outreach and empowerment events. He also served as Brooklyn Field Officer for Secretary Clinton. As liaison for New York City Comptroller’s Office, he brought many services to the community he hopes to lead.

One of the youngest delegates from New York State, Mr. Provost’s leadership extended to the national level at the Democratic National Convention nominating Barack Obama for President. He is the proud father of an infant daughter and currently serves as District Leader for the 58th Assembly District.

What qualifies you to be the City Council Representative?

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Alicka Amprey-Samuel: I served as a District Leader, attended CUNY Law School and worked for Administration for Child Services as a discharge planner. I also served as a human rights officer for the State Department at the embassy in Ghana investigating how the country treated its citizens. In that capacity, I wrote two reports: trafficking and human rights, which served as policy papers. As senior advisor to NYC Housing Authority, I drafted policy on how HUD funds should be allocated to residents. I was the drafter, author and architect of the commercial card process which resident councils use for micropurchases, so I rose from a resident of public housing to a drafter of policies for public housing.

Henry Butler: Because of my years of experience, I know how government works. I established relationships and obtained capital funding for various projects such as parks and one elevator. Councilmen deal with quality of life issues and write legislation. I am prepared to do that.

Deidra Olivera: My experience in management, business and the trades and educational system qualifies me. I also served as community board member on several committees: legislative, youth and parks. I have a strong history of addressing women’s issues in the workplace and economic development and empowerment.

Cory Provost: The work that I have done and doing--my organizational credentials qualify me. I must also mention my experience in the Comptroller’s Office addressing constituent issues in Central Brooklyn/East

New York. I am the District Leader for the 58th Assembly District in tune with the needs of my community.

What are the top three issues you hope to tackle if elected?

Alicka Amprey-Samuel: 1. The housing crisis. We need a seat at the table to represent what’s needed in the district. The present NYCHA housing stock needs to be made available to residents. We need an affordable housing development policy that makes sense for the district. What’s good for Harlem may not be appropriate for Brownsville. I want to create incentives for landlords to renovate and develop first-time homebuying opportunities similar to the Nehemiah Plan. City workers want to own in the city, and any effective housing plan also needs a job development component using locals in the developing process. 2. Health. Our community needs access to quality food and meals. I opened the first youth market with the Brownsville Partnership. This community needs to be part of the dialogue. I want to ensure that funding allocated to address health issues like obesity, diabetes, cholesterol and asthma are used for that purpose. 3. Education. We need more quality schools. Parents look to charter schools as the alternative, but many are not better.

Henry Butler: 1. Affordable Housing.

We have over 100 vacant lots that should be developed through the use of land-trusts by not-for-profits such as Habitat for Humanity as one method for keeping housing affordable costs down. I will explore the implementation of tenant/landlord compromises in rental agreements. Landlords can charge whatever the market will bear, but through dialogue they may be willing to compromise. 2.

Education. I will advocate for an increase in the number of Beacon Centers which will keep schools open until 10pm for a variety of extracurricular activities. I will also work to reduce the number of suspensions since we know they increase dropout rates and raise the prison population for children of color. I will advocate for decreased funding for police officers and increased spending for nurses, doctors and leaders in our community. 3. Job creation. As an incentive for business development, I will advocate providing tax breaks to new businesses and to those hiring locals or the formerly incarcerated. More businesses mean more jobs. Toward that end, I will work toward creating more Minority, Women and Business Enterprises (MWBEs) and establish satellite offices for Small Business Services so that owners of businesses have local access for the support needed to complete required paperwork. Finally, I would also promote job training programs linked with private industry so potential employees are trained for positions that exist in the current job market.

Adding more job centers in my district will ensure that the appropriate connections are made between industry and employee.

Deidra Olivera. 1. Housing. First of all, we need a mandatory inclusionary component when deciding who is qualified to live in the new housing being developed. What we have right now is unaffordable housing with no oversight by Housing Preservation and Development. I intend on filling this void in leadership so that everyone knows the qualifications needed to work as a laborer in housing or to live as a resident. 2. Economic Investment. I intend on creating jobs and establishing community benefit agreements by ensuring that building development is mutually beneficial to the community. I will push for developers to include hiring from a local pool of qualified candidates to build and ➔➔ Continued on page 15

VOL. 21 NO. 36 Dozens of current and former members of the New York Police Department and others rallied Saturday, August 19 at the Brooklyn Bridge pier in support of Colin Kaepernick. Councilman Jumaane Williams, community activist and justice-seeker, spoke in support of them and their mission.

Councilman Jumaane Williams (45th District) I, too, am sad that we have to be here.

First, I want to make sure that we’re clear that what happened in Charlottesville no one should be shocked about, shouldn’t be surprised.

That type of stuff is in the DNA of this country.

It has happened time and time again, and most people who have been feeling the brunt of oppression have been feeling it even before Charlottesville and before Trump.

We have to make sure that is clear. What has changed now is we haven’t had a sitting president just take away the coded language That conservatives have been using in a way that Trump has for a very long time to help incite this.

The most hate mail I’ve ever gotten is when I sat for the Pledge of Allegiance in the City Council chambers.

I sat quietly, did not disrupt the proceedings.

I say that because people have a tendency to pretend that this is somehow about patriotism.

This is about and what Kaepernick is pushing back on a structure of oppression and supremacy.

And I want people to understand the connection between the venom that’s being tossed Kaepernick’s way and the Nazis and white supremacists that we saw in Charlottesville.

They are deeply connected and in order for that supremacy, that bigotry, to be sustained, often, people push patriotism as the line to try to cover these things.

So we shouldn’t be surprised that the people who most push hard on behalf of the ultrapatriotic to the point of fascism, to the point of Nazism are the same people who have the Tiki torches in Charlottesville.

There’s a reason that the young man in that vice interview leading the charge ran for Congress as a Republican conservative, not as a liberal.

We’ve been saying that conservatives and the policies they support are tantamount to bigotry, to racism, to the ultrapatriot fascism and Nazism.

And the world is being taken over and we still have people not admitting it.

As was mentioned, there are rapists in the NFL, there are people who have murdered in the NFL, there are people who have abused animals.

Then you have Colin Kaepernick, who has done none of that.

All he did was kneel during the national

anthem -Probably an act that is the most patriotic that many of us have seen in a very long time.

Patriotism has been pushing back on the supremacy, structure that this country was built on.

We’re not allowing people to misuse the word patriot.

I want to be very clear. Because many people will say, “You are against law enforcement, you are against the country”.

All of these people here are from law enforcement.

So, what do you say now?

We have to tear down and be honest about this discussion.

All of the people behind me risk their lives to protect folks.

They are standing with Kaepernick because they understand how important it is to push back on this structure.

We are at a time in the history where, as the President of the U.S. put it, you’re EITHER on the many sides, you are either with the white supremacists and Nazis or you are with those WHO ARE PUSHING BACK. We must make sure Kaepernick stays uplifted.

With history repeating itself -Muhammad Ali was mentioned, he’s mentioned NOW as one of the greatest athletes of all time.

When I bring his name up, people look at me like I’m crazy.

They forget how he was ostracized at that time, they forget that they took his title away from him, they forget that they didn’t allow him to fight, they forget what they called him at that time.

And now he’s one of the greatest athletes of all time.

Well, we want Kaepernick to smell his roses now Not to wait 20 years, 30 years.

We want him to know we understand what he’s doing right now, and that we stand with him and we are going to encourage right now, and how hard it is to push back on a structure.

But here we are: we’re going to push.

We’re part of the America that has always pushed back on these ills.

We have tried to help America to hold up to these ideals, even when she doesn’t.

So, I’m With Kap. And I’m with these officers.

Jumaane Williams to the New York Times following the rally: “People use the terms ‘antipolice’, ‘unpatriotic’, to scare people from stepping forward. It takes courage to say, ‘I’m going to do it anyway, because it’s what’s right’.”

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because of the threat of ending the DACA immigration program, fearing deportation to ancestral countries they don’t know.

This is a stressful time in the country with so much incoming and all of it marked urgent. North Korea with the H-bomb and an ICBM to put it on. A delusional president who believes anything he says is true, although others, looking at objective facts see the lies. Climate catastrophes around the world, in places where there are not resources to protect or recover that the U.S. has. All of

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this goes along with the war in Afghanistan, which has itself receded to background noise, except when someone local is killed.

And while all of this is going on, there is a category five hurricane implicit in the reading and math scores recently released by the State. the percentage of black students who meet reading standards in the city is 28.9% a 2.3% increase over last year. At this rate of increase, it will be decades before scores are at a competitive level. In this really the best the city can do? According to international tests, the United States itself has traditionally had dozens of countries ahead of it in math, reading and science.

Our public schools are ranked among the worst in the state in a country that is ranked among the worst in the world. How can we expect our young people to compete when the best of those from abroad, want to live in Brooklyn?

The state of education for AfricanAmericans in the city is a catastrophe of the first magnitude as hundreds of thousands of lives and futures are misdirected and lost just as surely by poor education as by a storm surge. And as with Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, emergency funds have to be allocated and the same passion and intensity of effort as storm recovery is needed by all of us.

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In Praise of Herb Boyd’s “Detroit” Acclaimed Journalist Creates Vivid Portrait of an American City

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Herb Boyd, the award-winning author of 23 books, journalist and historian, second from right, at his alma mater Wayne State University in 1977. His daughter, center, is reading to Alex Haley, far right, as Detroit notables, including Rosa Parks, second from left, look on.

During the late 1960s, Boyd helped establish the first black studies classes at Wayne Studies and went on to teach there for 12 years.

Boyd, who currently teaches history at City College of New York and The College of New Rochelle, discusses his latest work, “Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination,” with Craig Steven Wilder (author, “Liberty” and professor of American History at M.I.T.), Saturday, September 16 (4pm-7pm), Fulton Street in Brooklyn. Boyd will sign copies of his highly praised work following the conversation.

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n Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination, Herb Boyd does a captivating job of writing, compression, and interpretation.

The personal spine of his narrative makes it special. Readers will appreciate Boyd’s comprehensive grasp of one of America’s most important cities. It’s a superb read with vital lessons on a people’s struggle for self-determination.” — Dr. David Levering Lewis, University Professor, Emeritus, NYU, and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography “With extraordinary passion, and with truly beautiful prose, Herb Boyd captures all that is the Motor City. Through the pages of this book readers actually feel Detroitthey not only experience a city that has always been at the very epicenter of this nation’s most important freedom struggles, but they also come to know a city that has always, always been anchored by a most powerful and determined black community.

As Boyd reminds us all: Black Detroit is the place where dreams of justice never, ever, die.” — Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood in the Water: the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy

“As a lifelong resident of Detroit, from a young age, my father’s activism in the UAW exposed me to the city’s political and social history. It imbued me with a deep awareness of and love for its black culture, history, and resilience. Herb Boyd’s exhaustive research is compelling and extensive, it quickened my knowledge of the city’s Black History. Beginning in 1701, Boyd guides his readers through the long journey of Black Detroiters as they struggle for their place in the city. The depth and breadth of this magnum opus is profoundly informative in narrating the rich history of the city. Every Detroiter should read this book.” — John Conyers, Jr., Congressman “Herb Boyd has done it again. Black Detroit is a powerful, timely, and important history of an iconic city whose hopes and dreams, triumphs and tragedies, continue to both challenge and shape the African American experience and American democracy. This brilliant history is a must read for students, scholars, and all those interested in the history of the civil rights movement and black freedom struggle.” — Peniel E. Joseph, Author of Stokely: A Life

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The UN humanitarian agency said it still hopes to find survivors “but the chances are getting smaller every day”.

Large-scale burials have begun as an estimated 600 people remain missing.

People continue to search through tons of mud and debris amid the remains of mangled buildings.

Sobbing and covering their noses from the stench, relatives stepped around corpses lying on the ground outside the morgue, which was overwhelmed as the sheets covering them were lifted.

“I came to identify my uncle, in particular, but I couldn’t find him,” said 30-year-old Hawanatu Sesay, after her turn came to look through the morgue.

“Let his soul rest in peace,” she said through tears.

Al-Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris, reporting from Freetown, said some people had lost hope in finding the bodies of their relatives.

“There is that sense of hope among people that some of the bodies can be found and will be given a decent burial, but there are also people who have lost hope that their relatives have been buried without a proper procedure,” he said.

“We are talking about hundreds of people who are missing, so the operation now will be focused on the areas that were destroyed by the mudslides.”

or a vivid portrait of Detroit, Michigan, Our Time Press publishers urge you to read journalist Herb Boyd’s “Black Detroit: In Praise of the Black Men and Women Who Built Detroit”, sink your soul into Thomas J. Sugrue’s passionate review of Boyd’s work in this Sunday’s New York Times and experience Boyd in conversation with scholar Craig Steven Wilder Saturday, September 16 at Restoration.

Boyd’s work outdistances the current movie incorrectly titled, “Detroit”, in capturing the spirit of a place and its times. And Boyd, himself, is probably the most qualified in bringing this landmark place’s Black history to life.

The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics and spiritual life of Detroit—a blend of memoir, love letter, history and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city’s past, present and future and its significance to the African-American legacy and the nation’s fabric.

Herb Boyd moved to Detroit in 1943 as race riots were engulfing the city. Though he did not grasp their full significance at the time, this critical moment would be one of many he witnessed that would mold his political activism and exposed a city restless for change. In Black Detroit, he reflects on his life and this landmark place, in search of understanding why Detroit is a special place for Black people.

Boyd reveals how Black Detroiters were prominent in the city’s historic, groundbreaking union movement and—when given an opportunity—were among the tireless workers who made the automobile industry the center of American industry. Following is a Q&A with Boyd conducted yesterday via e-mail.

Bernice Green: Why should we pay attention to Detroit?

In terms of African-American genius and ingenuity, Detroit is just one city’s example of these attributes. Each city, county, municipality where there’s a considerable concentration of Black people can probably, with a modicum of research, find its unique contribution to the American experience.

Take Brooklyn, for example, from Weeksville, to JWC Pennington, to Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm, who published the first Black newspaper in this country. And while I highlight Detroit’s bountiful musical heritage, Brooklyn can make a similar claim with the mere mention of Max Roach and Randy Weston.

In short, Detroit has a special place because of certain geographical and historical developments, particularly as a terminus for the Underground Railroad and its central role in the rise of industrialization and the automobile industry.

Later, with the emergence of Black Nationalism, Detroit again was pivotal in the founding of the Nation of Islam, the Republic of New Afrika, the Shrine of the Black Madonna and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, all of which ultimately had

national and international implications.

Of course, when you say Detroit, it’s often followed in discussion by Motown and Berry Gordy and the Big Three automotive giants, but in Black Detroit I show that over the course of 300 years there’s so much more to talk about. Obviously, the book is just a trace of the cultural and political baggage that I tote, and will tote, for the rest of my days.

BG: Can’t get around it: Detroit birthed Berry Gordy’s Motown. Why could this only have happened in Detroit?

In a certain way, this musical explosion did happen in other places, including Philadelphia, Memphis, Muscle Shoals, etc.

What was unique about Detroit and Motown was the timing and consistency.

All the size of the city and crop of talent needed was someone with the entrepreneurial vision to harness and harvest it. Gordy took his production ideas from the methods used at the Ford Motor Company and that was the singularly special process he brought to the recording industry.

Motown, the music company, benefitted from an endless supply of talented arrangers, composers, performers and venue to popularize a music that became the soundtrack of a generation.

BG: What can we learn from the Detroit riots of 1943?

There is much to learn in terms of race relations. Most race riots are sparked by an incident that ignites long-simmering discord.

The insurrection that occurred in 1967 or rebellion, we militants like to call it, was the result of many years of police hostility, the kind of indifference to Black lives we are still enduring. One lesson that can be useful throughout the nation when it comes to race relations is to curtail an often-brutal police force. The law enforcement agencies often supply the spark and a racist media fuels the flames of conflict.

BG: I’ve always felt that Detroit is an example of gentrification reduced to its lowest common denominator. I traveled to Detroit in the 1980’s to cover the making of a movie about a football legend. It looked like miles of wasteland. Decades later, I was trying to figure a way to purchase cheap real estate, there.

Detroit, like so many metropolitans in the U.S., is a tale of two cities. On the one hand, there’s a bustling downtown, a resurgence of business and other activities. On the other hand, the outlying parts of the city where the Black population is denser, the blight, dilapidation, and lack of attention is endless. Gentrification here is a whole other discussion and there’s no way I can give it justice in this short space. Let me say for the sake of brevity that the city’s infrastructure may be in terrible disrepair, but the spirit of the people, in so many interesting ways, remains as it always has, relentless and optimistic.

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in the floods. The IFRC has described the flooding in Bangladesh as the most serious in 40 years. The organization estimates that 700,000 homes have been partially or totally destroyed and up to a third of its terrain -- much of it farmland -- left submerged, raising fears of a coming food shortage as the country grapples to deal with a shortfall in staple produce.

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he Billie Holiday Theatre (The Billie) is launching its 46th Season in the newly-renovated theater with a production of The Old Settler, written by Brooklyn-born playwright John Henry Redwood and directed by Tony Award-nominee Michele Shay. The first full production in the newly renovated theatre, The Old Settler will run from October 20 - November 19, 2017.

The Old Settler will feature The Billie veterans Pauletta Pearson Washington (Two Trains Running, Autumn), Denise Burse (Brownsville Song: b side for Trey, House of Payne), and Warner Miller (Luke Cage), and, also, recent Juilliard graduate Maechi Aharanwa (An Octoroon).

Set in 1943 Harlem, The Old Settler focuses on two sisters’ struggle to afford their rising

rent. Faced with a choice between giving up their apartment and renting out their extra room to a stranger, they decide to take a chance on a boarder, newly arrived from the South. In equal measures funny and poignant, The Old Settler is a glimpse into the heart of an American City.

“The vitality and beauty of this work moves me every time I see it,” said Michele Shay. “The characters’ struggles are our struggles; their desires, ours. It is a timeless story.”

Carolyn Reich is stage manager. David Moodey designed the lighting; Kevin Novinsky, the sound; Niiamar Felder, costumes; and Frank Oliva, scenic design and props.

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ick Gregory will always be remembered for his impact on entertainment, civil rights and Black health.

But while the world got a chance to witness the impact of Gregory’s greatness, his family knew him as a man who balanced his fight for justice with the love he gave to his family.

Gregory’s son, Yohance Maqubela, recently spoke with Rolling Out to share the lessons he learned from his father and why he will be remembered for generations to come.

A.R. Shaw/Rolling Out: Being an observer of Dick Gregory’s work, I know how his words have impacted us all. But what did you learn most from him, being that he was your father?

It’s hard to pinpoint, because obviously as dynamic as my father was to the world, he was ten times that in the home. Because everything that he did in and for the world, he made sure it was front and center in the house. It wasn’t just an act or opinion. This was how he lived his life and raised his children, but then on top of that, he was a dad. He was on the road an excessive amount to stand up for those causes that he believed in, but when he was home he was a dad. I would say that the thing that I learned the most is how the universe operates.

That God is real. One of the things I talk about with my dad is that as much as he was battling on the front lines for human rights, his spiritual intelligence was through the roof. He wasn’t about any particular religion. He clear religion

was man-made, but understanding how the one universal God operated and that we knew that was critical. So when he would get off the road he would come home and we would all get together in my parents’ room and we would pray and meditate for hours. Every day on his birthday, almost without fail, he would fast for at least the entirety of his birthday. Oftentimes, not only would he not eat or drink, he wouldn’t speak either because he was in deep meditation [or] spiritual reflection.

A.R. Shaw/Rolling Out: How did your father change how Black comedians were perceived?

It was his fame as a celebrity which had those in the Civil Rights Movement to reach out to him to come on board for the rallies.

When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers and Malcolm X reached out, he was one of the premier Black entertainers. When he started off as a comedian, he always included racially charged and politically astute comedy within his routines. He was the first Black comedian to work in a club [filled with] white audiences and not be afraid of talking about segregation and the KKK. He used comedy as a way to open people up and then when you were wide open, he would go in there and target your mind with incredible knowledge about the advancement of not just our folks, but of humanity.

A.R. Shaw/Rolling Out: What should the future generation know about Dick Gregory’s legacy?

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Novella Christine Nelson (December 17, 1938 – August 31, 2017)

Initially intending to major in biochemistry, during her sophomore year she signed up for “Speech I”, only to discover it was a theater class. The professor cast her as Bernice in “The Member of the Wedding”.

After spending the summer working on the play, she returned her junior year and changed her major to theater. Novella went on to study at the American Academy of the Dramatic Arts.

In 1961, she booked her first professional acting job in the Broadway musical Kwamina. ervices in Brooklyn tomorrow, Friday, Her other early stage roles, included the September 8 For Bedford-Stuyve- off-Broadway production of Horseman, Pass sant-born actress/director/singer who By and the revival of the Truman Capote/ rose to international stardom Harold Arlen musical House of Flowers, Novella Nelson, a major American artist of which led in 1967 to a role as Pearl Bailey’s theater, film and music, having worked on and standby in Hello Dolly at the St. James off-Broadway, and in major Hollywood films Theater. as well as independent works for fifty years, On Broadway, Nelson created the role of passed on Thursday, August 31.

Missy in the original Broadway production The native of Bedford-Stuyvesant, of the musical Purlie (1970), and appeared Brooklyn is known to American audiences in Caesar and Cleopatra with Rex Harrison perhaps best for work in Denzel Washington’s and Elizabeth Ashley (1977), and Lillian “Antwone Fisher Story”, Chris Rock’s “Head Helman’s The Little Foxes with Elizabeth of State”, Spike Lee’s “Clockers” and Francis Taylor (1981). Other New York performances Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club”. In theater, include Simon McBurney’s production of she is known for performances in the Capote/ Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at Arlen musical “House of Flowers”, Horton the National Actors’ Theater with Al Pacino Foote’s “The Old Friends”, August Wilson’s (2002) and Horton Foote’s The Old Friends at “Gem of the Ocean” and Athol Fugard’s the Signature Theatre (2013).

“Boesman and Lena”, among others.

Novella performed at regional theaters She was born on December 17, 1938, throughout the United States. She is closely the third child of Evelyn Hines Nelson and associated with productions at Hartford Stage, James Alexander Nelson. Her mother was an American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, executive secretary at Women’s Wear Daily, Yale Rep, Seattle Repertory Theater, Actors and her father, a taxi driver and a pastor, and Theatre of Louisville, Alliance Theater elder in their Hebrew Israelite congregation. in Atlanta, Houston’s Alley Stage and Novella had two older brothers, Nathaniel Baltimore’s Center Stage.

“Sonny” and James “Deepy”. She attended P. From the beginning of her career she S. 25 and Eastern District High School. She at- worked not only as an actor but as a singer tended Brooklyn College, graduating in 1959 and director. In New York, she performed at as the first in her family to complete college. Hilly’s in 1967, Upstairs at the Downstairs,

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Dick Gregory ➔➔ Continued from page 9 community because he realized that you can’t help somebody else until you are whole and healthy yourself. So that’s where it began, but it didn’t end there. My father was the first person to be arrested for demonstrating in front of the South African Embassy against apartheid. He was also present during the 1980s when there was horrible famine in Ethiopia. He took his time, energy and resources and spent months in Ethiopia working directly in release camps and also with the top medical directors in that country to take his nutritional knowledge and

nutritional products to help in hunger relief. He also protested and spent a year fasting in Iran.

Literally dropped to below 98 pounds in Iran in the late 1970s/early ’80s protesting. He was the person that was responsible for getting those hostages released. In the 80s, he also spent time in Northern Ireland at the request of those members fighting for the end of colonial rule of British Imperialism. He also did incredible work fighting against the Vietnam War and standing up against imperial oppression around the world. So the important thing that young people should know today is that you should stand up for your beliefs. If you’ve ever been

Village Vanguard, Reno Sweeney’s and with Bill Withers at Town Hall.

Nelson is closely associated with the dynamic impresario Ellis Haizlip, the producer of Soul! for WNET in New York and nationally for PBS (1967-73). Soul! was a televised manifestation of the Black Arts Movement and Novella was the iconographic face of Soul! She performed on the pioneering series as an actor, a musician and a spoken word artist. Haizlip also featured her as a headliner in a Lincoln Center concert with Patti LaBelle and Donny Hathaway.

When offered an opportunity for a major recording contract, she made the decision that she could not sign if she had no control about the music and the message. She released her self-titled, and only, album herself in 1970.

Her directing work, which made her one of the very few Black women directors hired consistently in New York, began at the New York Shakespeare Festival, working with the Public Theater’s founder/ producer Joe Papp from 1971 to 1976. There she directed, produced and brought Black theater artists to the stage. Her work included a production of Sonia Sanchez’s Sister Son/Ji with Gloria Foster, La Femme Noire by Edgar White, Dash by John Thorburn Hall, Bailey’s Café by Gloria Naylor and resurrecting the long-lost Langston Hughes/Zora Neale Hurston script Mule Bone on Broadway. She also directed at the Negro Ensemble Company, Lincoln Center Theater and had long ties with Woodie King’s New Federal Theater.

Nelson’s long career in film began in 1978 with Paul Mazursky’s An Unmarried Woman. Some of her proudest accomplishments on the screen were working with Lars Von Trier on Dear Wendy, Denzel Washington on Antwone Fisher, and on Chris Rock’s Head of State, Spike Lee’s Clockers, Francis Ford Coppola’s The

Cotton Club, Peter Weir’s Green Card, Taylor Hackford’s The Devil’s Advocate, Jonathan Glazer’s Birth and Emily Hubley’s The Toe Tactic.

Some of her most important independent projects include St. Clair Bourne’s Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper and her performance as Oney Judge in The President’s House, a five-channel video installation by Louis Massiah, Yvonne Rainer’s “Privilege” and Noa Ain’s chamber opera, “Trio”. She also has had a rich career on series television, with recurring roles on One Life to Live, As the World Turns and The Starter Wife; and guest star roles on numerous episodic series.

In recent years, she was honored by the N.A.A.C.P. with an Image Award (1993), the National Black Theater Festival (Living Legend Award 2003) and the New Federal Theater (2016). Even though Novella was in declining health, she continued to work. In August 2016, Novella performed a featured role in Lynne Ramsey’s yet-tobe-released film, You Were Never Really Here. Earlier this month, Novella reflected that in many ways the role of Aunt Esther in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, a role that now most resonated with her spirit, “I think I had just begun to fully understand the character, this woman tasked with protecting her people in exile”.

In 1977, she became a mother with the birth of her daughter Alessa. No matter the demands of work or the lure of celebrity acclaim, Novella’s focus remained caring for the elders in her family and maintaining an active relationship with her faith community.

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Ninth Tabernacle 85-87 Fountain Avenue Brooklyn, NY -Submitted by Alessa Blanchard-Nelson

moved, touched or motivated by the words of Dick Gregory, by the writing of Dick Gregory, by the albums of Dick Gregory, by the videos of Dick Gregory and you want to honor him, please take action. Please go forward in the areas that my father stood for and represented.

Whether it’s being a part of the national Black Lives Matter Movement or volunteering your time at a local school or soup kitchen, just be involved. Continue that legacy which is lifting the human spirit and the human condition, and that’s how you honor my father.

A.R. Shaw is an author and journalist who documents music, politics and entertainment. He has covered the Obama White House, the Summer Olympics in London, and currently serves as Lifestyle Editor for Rolling Out magazine. Follow his journey on Twitter @arshaw and Instagram @arshaw23.

Dick Gregory’s funeral update

By Yvette Caslin | Rolling Out Celebrated comedian and human rights activist Dick Gregory, 84, died Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Gregory, who is survived by his wife Lillian and 10 children, will be laid to rest in less than two weeks.

Here’s the proposed home-going schedule that will celebrate Gregory’s life and honor his contributions to civil rights, according to the Chicago Crusader: -Thursday, Sept. 14, a limited, private viewing of Gregory will be held on the Howard University campus in Washington, D.C. The time of the event has not been determined.

-Friday, Sept. 15, Gregory will lie in repose at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial that sits on the Tidal Basin just off the National Mall from 8 p.m. to midnight. Surviving members of King’s family and Gregory’s family will lead a wreath-laying ceremony. During his lifetime, Gregory was a close friend of the

slain Civil Rights leader.

-Saturday, Sept. 16, a New Orleans-style funeral march will head down the U Street Corridor/Black Broadway.

- Saturday, September 16th at 4pm: Celebration of Life for Dick Gregory; City of Praise Family Ministries, 8501 Jericho City Drive, Landover, MD. -Gregory’s funeral will be held at 3 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 17 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall in the nation’s capital. After the funeral, a reception will follow at 5:30 p.m. on the rooftop terrace.

IMPORTANT: Please visit www.dickgregorytribute.com for details and updates.

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his Sunday for both the Jets and the Giants, the 2017-18 NFL season kicks off and both New York squads are looking to make some noise this year. Although the two local teams appeared to be heading in different directions, this year brings a lot of excitement to both crowds cheering for “Gang Green” or “Big Blue”.

For the New York Giants, it’s all about redemption. Last season, the Giants made the playoffs for the first time since winning it all in the 2011-12 season. Although it was a roller coaster-like year for quarterback Eli Manning and company, he and the Giants got into the playoffs as a Wild Card team, only to fall to a 38-13 loss to the Green Bay Packers.

In that same game, Manning and Giants star

wide receiver Odell Beckham, Jr. arguably picked a bad time to have their worst game of the year. Part of that was Manning could not move the chains and apply pressure to Green Bay’s defense. Manning could not spread the ball around to the other receivers and the offense became one-dimensional with Manning time after time connecting with Beckham. This year, the offensive line is healthier and Manning has more options to throw to, taking pressure off Beckham.

Former Jet receiver Brandon Marshall signed a 2-year deal with the Giants this off-season.

Marshall provides veteran leadership and led the league with red zone touchdowns, a trait Manning and the Giants struggled all year with. The team also drafted talented tight end Evan Engram out of Mississippi, providing yet another target for Manning.

As for the New York Jets, it has been well-documented that the team is in rebuilding mode. The team did some off-season cleaning by releasing players such as Eric Decker, David Harris, Darrelle Revis and Calvin Pryor. The team also traded one of their top defensive players in Sheldon Richardson to the Seahawks last week. The off-season cleanup has been replaced with younger players. Former Jet quarterback Geno Smith is now the backup quarterback to Eli Manning, ironically. The new QB for the Jets is the veteran journeyman Josh McCown. Although it seems like a longshot for the team to make the playoffs considering their lack of experience and Tom Brady is still in that division, it is still an exciting time to see what this Jets team is really made of.

It is sure to be an exciting season.

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ongresswoman Yvette D. Clarke issued the following statement after Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III announced the decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

“This reckless and cruel decision constitutes a vicious attack on hundreds of thousands of young women and men who want to attend college, find jobs and participate in our civil society. Their contributions - and the contributions of all immigrants - to this nation are enormous, and will only increase in the coming years. Donald Trump has chosen,

however, to punish them in a misguided effort to undermine the proud legacy of President Obama and to satisfy anti-immigrant white supremacists who are afraid of our modern, diverse nation. Throughout the history of the United States, there are decisions we have come to regret. I am certain that future generations will deeply regret this terrible decision as well. We, therefore, have a shared responsibility to resist this policy. I urge my colleagues in Congress to enact legislation restoring the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in a manner consistent with the best of our history and values.”

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ook, this is a day of heartbreak for so many,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “It is a terrifying moment for so many people who wonder if they’ll be allowed to stay in the only country they’ve known. The actions today by President Trump undermine a bond that has developed in this country between hundreds of thousands of people and all of the rest of us. These good, young men and women who we’ve all gotten to know – even the president at times talked about his understanding, the compassion people feel for the DREAMers, but his actions unfortunately have gone in the opposite direction. Imagine if you had done things the right way and then just saw your rights taken away with the stroke of a pen. We are going to stand up to this. And New Yorkers do not take kindly to anything that affronts our fellow New Yorkers. We don’t take kindly to people being separated out because of who they are.

“So, I have a message for President Trump – don’t mess with your fellow New Yorkers.

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These are our neighbors. They’re just as much New Yorkers as anybody else.

They contribute just as much as anybody else. They’re human beings and they need to be treated with dignity and respect. The American people really do understand this.

They yearn for a positive solution here, so now it’s time for all of us to get to work. We will, of course, with cities and states around the country, prepare to use every legal avenue to defend the rights of our DREAMers. We will also get to work immediately – now, I intend to work with mayors all over the country – by the way, Democrats and Republicans alike – who believe that Congress must act and must act quickly. The DREAM Act now is more pertinent than ever, it’s as simple as that. It’s not something to just talk about anymore. Now, we need it. And it’s time for people all over this country to make their views known – say it’s not acceptable for a Congress to act like they can look away.

They’ve got to pass the DREAM Act and they’ve got to pass it now for the good of all of these good, young, people.”

Barack Obama on Ending DACA

➔➔ Continued from page 1 But today, that shadow has been cast over some of our best and brightest young people once again. To target these young people is wrong – because they have done nothing wrong. It is self-defeating – because they want to start new businesses, staff our labs, serve in our military and otherwise contribute to the country we love. And it is cruel. What if our kid’s science teacher, or our friendly neighbor turns out to be a Dreamer? Where are we supposed to send her?

To a country she doesn’t know or remember, with a language she may not even speak?

Let’s be clear: the action taken today isn’t required legally. It’s a political decision and a moral question. Whatever concerns or complaints Americans may have about immigration in general, we shouldn’t threaten the future of this group of young people who are here through no fault of their own, who pose no threat, who are not taking away anything from the rest of us. They are that pitcher on our kid’s softball team, that first responder who helps out his community after a disaster, that cadet in ROTC who wants nothing more than to wear the uniform of the country that gave him a chance. Kicking them out won’t lower the unemployment rate, or lighten anyone’s taxes or raise anybody’s wages.

It is precisely because this action is contrary

to our spirit, and to common sense, that business leaders, faith leaders, economists and Americans of all political stripes called on the administration not to do what it did today. And now that the White House has shifted its responsibility for these young people to Congress, it’s up to members of Congress to protect these young people and our future. I’m heartened by those who’ve suggested that they should. And I join my voice with the majority of Americans who hope they step up and do it with a sense of moral urgency that matches the urgency these young people feel.

Ultimately, this is about basic decency. This is about whether we are a people who kick hopeful young strivers out of America, or whether we treat them the way we’d want our own kids to be treated. It’s about who we are as a people – and who we want to be.

What makes us American is not a question of what we look like, or where our names come from, or the way we pray. What makes us American is our fidelity to a set of ideals – that all of us are created equal; that all of us deserve the chance to make of our lives what we will; that all of us share an obligation to stand up, speak out and secure our most cherished values for the next generation. That’s how America has traveled this far. That’s how, if we keep at it, we will ultimately reach that more perfect union.

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Bernice Elizabeth Green

ory Nelson’s Food Court in Troy, New York is something Brooklyn does not have and should.

But Nelson tells us when he returned to his East, New York home after graduating at Howard University, the neighborhood had changed and there was no room for him, nor his entrepreneurial aspiration.

But Cory’s dream of opening an establishment with a dual Brooklyn native Cory Nelson at his "Troy purpose--to provide diners with Kitchen Food Court" a choice of good foods, and the people who create the food a site to incu- of East New York. Surviving and thriving bate – is fully alive and well in New York there – that’s real toughness”.

State’s capital region, some 300 miles from He also commented in an interview with Ms. Spellen about his childhood: “I ran track his native BK. Nelson’s highly successful “Troy five days a week. We went to the Intrepid Kitchen: A Gourmet Food Court” is an and places like that, but there was no context inviting high-scale boutique of cultural food made. Kids need a connection, it has to be choices with permanent food vendors, a more organic and relate to them somehow, wine, beer and coffee bar in the center of or it just doesn’t mean much.”

Troy, New York downtown, currently enjoy“If I could do anything again in East New ing a revival.

York, I would have realized that I wasn’t conNelson’s emporium is ideally situated strained by borders. The Financial District, between two colleges -- Russell Sage any part of the city that you’re interested College and RPI Institute – plus area courts in – it’s only a subway ride away. But we and professional business offices. It’s a are stopped by these artificial borders. We short walking distance from the area courts, think those places are not for us – a mental professional business offices and the Hudson blockade.”

“I never went to the Museum of Modern River.

Nelson, 28, studied computer science Art until I was an adult. It was there the and chemistry at Howard. He first opened whole time. I wish I could have explored all the businesses with some other ambitious of New York City when I was younger and Brooklyn-based colleagues. Now a resident been more exposed much earlier and aware of Troy, he’s on his own and doing just fine of what’s out there. Small things – small opportunities that could have opened up from what we observed last Saturday.

It’s up in the air as to whether he will the doors to the world earlier.” But at 28, duplicate the same success in his hometown. Nelson, with two years of entrepreneurship After all, it’s getting more and more expen- success, is opening doors for businesses that sive to open a business here. But one thing’s will eventually branch out from his spot to for sure, Cory Nelson knows which side his a whole new world of their own. He also bread is buttered when it comes to who or has established himself as a dynamic young what to create for his success. role model for thousands of dreamers in Nelson told Troy-based former Brooklyn Brooklyn and beyond. For more information resident Suzanne Spellen, a Brownstoner on Cory Nelson and the Troy Kitchen, visit writer, “Whenever I have an issue, I think FACEBOOK.

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NEW BUSINESS FORMATIONS Notice of Qualification of EVINCO TERMINALS, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 8/17/17.

Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/1/16. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of SPICY PEOPLE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/25/2017. Office location, County of Kings. SSNY has been

LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME C O U RT: KINGS COUNTY WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST; Plaintiff(s) vs.

IOLANTA TYUTIN A/K/A IOLANTA TYUTINA; ALFRED TYUTIN; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein on or about July 26, 2017, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder in Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. On October 12, 2017 at 2:30 pm. Premises known as 2041 ROYCE STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 112346220 Block: 8416 Lot: 19 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, City and State of New York. As more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale. Approximate amount of judgment $583,008.68 plus interest and costs. INDEX NO. 503382/2014 Gregory T. Cerchione, Esq., Referee NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P., Plaintiff, vs. CORNEL COUSINS; TAMICA HOLLIMAN, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, Order to Amend Caption and Request Other Relief duly filed on August 14, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on October 12, 2017 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 986 Cleveland Street, 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 4381 and Lot 20. Approximate amount of judgment is $349,518.28 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 511185/2014.

Bartholomew M. Verdirame, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Ste. 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC AUCTION Supreme Court of New York, Kings County.

SRMOF II 2012-1 TRUST, U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, -against- CLEO CHARLESPHILLIPS; ROBERT PHILLIPS; CITY

designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 358 Macon St., Apt 1, Brooklyn NY 11233. Purpose: any lawful act.

MY PIELOW LLC Art. Of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 08/01/2017. Office in kings Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to My PIELOW LLC 1353 Bay Ridge Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11219.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Application for Certificate of Authority for Perry’s Prestigious Protection LLC was filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/08/2014. Office location: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Perry’s OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; CITY OF NEW YORK TRANSIT AUTHORITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE; SOPHIA JOHNSON, Index No. 2713/2013. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated, February 21, 2017 and entered with the Kings County Clerk on April 6, 2017, Gregory Laspina, Esq., the Appointed Referee, will sell the premises known as 553 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, New York 11203 at public auction at Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on October 12, 2017 at 2:30 P.M. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings and State of New York known as Block: 4845; Lot: 28 will be sold subject to the provisions of filed Judgment, Index No. 2713/2013. The approximate amount of judgment is $1,047,226.32 plus interest and costs. FRIEDMAN VARTOLO, LLP 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS INDEX NO. 0954/2017------X CREIGHTON R. BARBER, et al., Plaintiffs, - against - RED 4-1-4 FITNESS BUILDINGS SYSTEMS INC., et al., Defendants. ----X TO DEFENDANT CLARENCE LONDON BARBER a/k/a CLARENCE L. BARBER, JR.: 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 the summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiffs’ Attorney within 20 days after 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); 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. This action concerns the ownership of real property known as 1079 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, and designated as Block 1599 Lot 56 on the tax maps of the City of New York.

Through this action, Plaintiffs seek to quiet title to the subject Premises by having declared as void the fraudulent Deed dated December 23, 2016 and the fraudulent Correction Deed dated February 1, 2017 to Defendant Red 4-14 Fitness Building Systems Inc., and any and all subsequent deed transfers or mortgages other interests given in the Premises. LAW OFFICE OF MARK E. TULIP Attorneys for Plaintiffs 26 Court Street - Suite 400, Brooklyn, New York 11242. 718-624 5521 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: KINGS COUNTY. THE BANK OF NEW

Prestigious Protection, LLC, 472 Harvick Circle Stockbridge, GA 30281. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Liturgy Pilates LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 7/19/2017 Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Debora Sandiford, 25 South Oxford Street, Apt 5, Brooklyn NY 11217. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

SOCIAL IMPACT CONSULTING LLC Art. Of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 06/21/2017. Office in Kings Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1714 13th Avenue, Suite 202, BROOKLYN, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of TSI YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 200513CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-13CB, Pltf. vs. JEFFREY LARSEN A/K/A JEFFERY LARSEN, et al, Defts. Index #502021/15.

Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale dated July 24, 2017, I will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams St., Brooklyn, NY on October 12, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. prem. k/a 582 Throop Avenue, Unit 1A, Brooklyn, NY a/k/a Block 1840, Lot 1001. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being a party of 582 Throop Avenue Condominium in the County of Kings, City and State of New York known and designated therein as Unit 1A, together with an undivided 8.31% interest in the common elements of the said Condominium hereinafter described, as the same is defined in the Declaration of Condominium entitled “582 Throop Avenue Condominium by 582 Throop Condominiums, Inc.” under Article 9-B of the New York Real Property Law dated June 20, 1991, and recorded the 20th day of June, 1991, in Reel 2709 at Page 1699, covering the property therein described. The real property above described is a Unit shown on the plans of 582 Throop Avenue Condominium, filed in the Office of the Register of the City of New York, County of Kings, on the 20th day of June 1991 as Condominium Plan No. 376.

Approx. amt. of judgment is $197,132.19 plus costs and interest. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. GREGORY LASPINA, Referee.

DRUCKMAN LAW GROUP, PLLC, Attys.

For Pltf., 242 Drexel Ave., Westbury, NY. File No. 35011 - #92711 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, CITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff, vs. FABRICE ARMAND, IRENE EDMOND, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale and the Addendum duly filed on August 12, 2016, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on October 12, 2017 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 662 Riverdale 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 3842 and Lot 16. Approximate amount of judgment is $547,117.46 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 507303/13. Janet Brown, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Ste. 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff

VOL. 21 NO. 36 - LUCILLE RALPH AVENUE, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/31/17. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 5/31/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

GO GREEN BIKES LLC Art. Of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 06/02/2017.

Office in kings Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to GO GREEN BIKES LLC United States Agents, 1510 OCEAN PKWY APT F2, BROOKLYN, NY 11230. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS US BANK, N.A., V. SYED AHMED A/K/A A. SYED A/K/A AHMED SYED, et al. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated September 29, 2015, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of KINGS, wherein US BANK, N.A. is the Plaintiff and SYED AHMED, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, ROOM 224, 360 ADAMS STREET, BROOKLYN NY 11201, on September 28, 2017 at 2:30 pm, premises known as 2298 ATLANTIC AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11233: Block 1435 Lot 29 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 # 21876/2012. Lee M. Huttner, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County of Kings MIDFIRST BANK, Plaintiff AGAINST TANYA T. BROWN, DELORES BROWN, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 7/3/2014and entered on 7/14/2014, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on September 28, 2017 at 02:30 PM premises known as 849 Madison Street, Brooklyn, NY 11221. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 1481, LOT: 52. Approximate amount of judgment is $399,821.50 plus interests and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 24545/08. Jeffrey R. Miller, Referee, FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP, 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, NY 11706 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS MTGLQ Investors, LP, Plaintiff AGAINST Jason Dupree; Makida Tomlinson a/k/a Makida S. Tomlinson; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated March 4, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on September 28, 2017 at 2:30PM, premises known as 592 Powell Street, Brooklyn, NY 11212. All ➔➔ Continued on page 13

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LEGAL NOTICES ➔➔ Continued from page 12 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: 3847 Lot: 140. Approximate amount of judgment $358,898.41 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 10075/2013. Calvin J. Simons, Jr., Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: August 9, 2017 47976 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: KINGS COUNTY GREENTREE SERVICING LLC; Plaintiff(s) vs. DAVID ZOIMEN; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein on or about May 17, 2017, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder in Room 224 at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

On September 28, 2017 at 2:30 pm.

Premises known as 9 W 9TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11231 Block: 534 Lot: 46 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York.

As more particularly described in the

OUR TIME PRESS September 7 – 13, 2017 NEXT OF KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, LEGATEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, JUDGMENT RECEIVERS, judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold CREDITORS, subject to all of the terms and conditions TRUSTEES IN BANKRUPTCY, contained in said judgment and terms of TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, sale. Approximate amount of judgment LIENORS AND SUCCESSORS $852,493.88 plus interest and costs. IN INTEREST, IF ANY, AND INDEX NO. 7136/10 M. Randolph ALL PERSONS CLAIMING BY, Jackson, Esq., Referee THROUGH AND UNDER ANY OF THEM, ALL OF WHOM AND SUMMONS, NOTICE AND WHOSE NAMES ARE UNKNOWN BRIEF STATEMENT OF NATURE TO PLAINTIFF; et al., Defendants.

OF ACTION CONSUMER TO THE DEFENDANT(S): ALL CREDIT T R A N S AC T I O N UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES AND SUPREME COURT OF THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF LUKE BOYKIN AND ANY OF OF KINGS Index No. 3477/16 HIS OR HER SUCCESSORS IN STATE OF NEW YORK MORTGAGE RIGHT, TITLE AND INTEREST AGENCY, Plaintiff, -against- JEROME and PERCIVAL V. WILLIAMS, BOYKIN; TIFFANY HUNTER; DE IF HE BE LIVING, AND IF HE JUAN HUNTER; MICHELLE J. BE DEAD, HIS EXECUTORS, WILLIAMS; NEW YORK STATE ADMINISTRATORS, HEIRS AT LAW, DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION NEXT OF KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, AND FINANCE; ALL UNKNOWN LEGATEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, HEIRS; DEVISEES AND PERSONAL A S S I G N E E S , JUDGMENT REPRESENTATIVES OF LUKE CREDITORS, RECEIVERS, BOYKIN AND ANY OF HIS OR HER TRUSTEES IN BANKRUPTCY, SUCCESSORS IN RIGHT; TITLE TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, AND INTEREST; PERCIVAL V. LIENORS AND SUCCESSORS IN WILLIAMS, IF HE BE LIVING, AND INTEREST AND THEIR HUSBANDS, IF HE BE DEAD, HIS EXECUTORS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, HEIRS AT LAW, ADMINISTRATORS, HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, NEXT OF KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, LEGATEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, LEGATEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, JUDGMENT ASSIGNEES, JUDGMENT CREDITORS, RECEIVERS, CREDITORS, RECEIVERS, TRUSTEES IN BANKRUPTCY, TRUSTEES IN BANKRUPTCY, TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, LIENORS AND SUCCESSORS IN LIENORS AND SUCCESSORS INTEREST AND THEIR HUSBANDS, IN INTEREST, IF ANY, AND ALL WIVES OR WIDOWS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, HEIRS AT LAW, ➔➔ Continued on page 14

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LEGAL NOTICES ➔➔ Continued from page 13 PERSONS CLAIMING BY, THROUGH AND UNDER ANY OF THEM, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to serve upon plaintiff’s attorneys an answer to the complaint in this action within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day 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 answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. Trial is desired in the County of KINGS. The basis of venue designated above is that the real property, which is the subject matter of this action, is located in the County of KINGS, New York. 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 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 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 or 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 1-800-342-3736 or visit the Department’s website at www.dfs. ny.gov. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AT THIS TIME. You have the right to stay in your home during the foreclosure process. You are not required to leave your home unless and until your property is sold at auction pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale. Regardless of whether you choose to remain in your home, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROPERTY and pay property taxes in accordance with state and local law. 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

OUR TIME PRESS September 7 – 13, 2017 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. The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of Hon. Noach Dear, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on the 25th day of July, 2017 in Brooklyn, New York and to be duly entered in the KINGS County Clerk’s Office, in Brooklyn, New York. The Nature of this action pertains to a note and mortgage held by Plaintiff on real property owned by the above named defendants as specified in the complaint filed in this action. The above named defendants have failed to comply with the terms and provisions of the said mortgage and said instruments secured by said mortgage, by failing and omitting to pay the balance due and owing and the Plaintiff has commenced a foreclosure action. Plaintiff is seeking a judgment foreclosing its mortgage against the real property and premises which situates in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York and is commonly known as 84 Amboy Street, Brooklyn, New York 11212 and all other relief as to the Court may seem just and equitable. DATED: August 18, 2017 SCHILLER, KNAPP, LEFKOWITZ & HERTZEL, LLP BY: WILLIAM B. SCHILLER, ESQ. Attorneys for Plaintiff 950 New Loudon Road Latham, New York 12110 Telephone: (518) 786-9069 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: KINGS COUNTY WELLS FARGO BANK N.A.; Plaintiff(s) vs.

ELEANOR L. BROWNE; IVOR A. CLARKE; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein on or about March 17, 2016, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder in Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. On September 28, 2017 at 2:30 pm.

Premises known as 1458 E 87TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11236-5138 Block: 8083 Lot: 32 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. As more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale. Approximate amount of judgment $699,184.36 plus interest and costs. INDEX NO. 5383-13 Steven H. Richman, Esq., Referee NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK — COUNTY OF KINGS —Pursuant to an Order of the Court of the State of New York, County of Kings, signed and dated on December 29, 2016, and entered on December 29, 2016 (the “Order”), in the action entitled Rodeo of New York, Inc. v. Elliot Shelby, et al – Index No. 21412/2007 – I, the undersigned Referee, duly appointed in this action for such purpose, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, at the Kings County Supreme Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, Room 224, on September 14, 2017, at 2:30 p.m., the property described and directed to be sold in such Order, which is briefly described as all that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the State of New York, County of Kings, with address of: 811 Avenue S, Brooklyn, New York 11223 (SBL # Block 6684, Lot 48); (the “Premises”). Such Premises will be sold subject to the terms of the filed Order and the Terms of Sale. LISA BREIER URBAN, ESQ., Referee. ALL

INQUIRIES TO: Law Offices of Kishner & Miller, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 420 Lexington Ave. Suite 300, New York, NY 10170, Attn: Ryan O. Miller, Esq., tel. no. 212-297-6268.

Dated: New York, New York August 14, 2017 LISA BREIER URBAN, ESQ., ESQ., Referee Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Supreme Court Of The State Of New York County Of Kings Action to Foreclose a Mortgage Index #: 521070/2016 U.S. Bank National Association, Not In Its Individual Capacity, But Solely As Trustee For The RMAC Trust, Series 2013-1T Plaintiff vs Leonard Gibson, Yona Gelernter Gibson If Living, And If He/She Be Dead, Any And All Persons Unknown To Plaintiff, Claiming, Or Who May Claim To Have An Interest In, Or General Or Specific Lien Upon The Real Property Described In This Action; Such Unknown Persons Being Herein Generally Described And Intended To Be Included In Wife, Widow, Husband, Widower, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assignees Of Such Deceased, Any And All Persons Deriving Interest In Or Lien Upon, Or Title To Said Real Property By, Through Or Under Them, Or Either Of Them, And Their Respective Wives, Widows, Husbands, Widowers, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assigns, All Of Whom And Whose Names, Except As Stated, Are Unknown To Plaintiff, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. Successor By Merger To Mortgageit, Inc., Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Leocadia A. Duncan, Marina District Development Co Llc, New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau, New York City Parking Violations Bureau, New York City Environmental Control Board, United States Of America Acting Through The IRS, People Of The State Of New York, John Doe (being fictitious, the names unknown to Plaintiff intended to be tenants, occupants, persons or corporations having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the property described in the complaint or their heirs at law, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors.)

Defendant(s) Mortgaged Premises: 1305 Park Place Brooklyn, NY 11213 BL #: 1365-65 To the Above named Defendant: 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 Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Kings.

The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. TO Yona Gelernter Defendant In this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Noach Dear of the Supreme Court Of The State Of New York, dated the TwentyEighth day of July, 2017 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, in the City of Brooklyn.

The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage dated December 22, 2006, executed

by Leonard Gibson by the attorney in fact to secure the sum of $600,000.00. The Mortgage was recorded at CRFN 2007000164201 in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Kings County on March 30, 2007. The maximum aggregate principal balance secured by this mortgage is $660,000.00 which is

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Said Mortgage was recorded as follows and mortgage tax paid on the total maximum obligation of $660,000.00. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed November 14, 2007 and recorded on February 27, 2008, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Kings County at CRFN 2008000079630. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed January 28, 2008 and recorded on February 27, 2008, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Kings County at CRFN 2008000079631. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed June 10, 2009 and recorded on September 10, 2009, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Kings County at CRFN 2009000292235. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed July 14, 2010 and recorded on September 17, 2010, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Kings County at CRFN 2010000315018. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed December 27, 2012 and recorded on July 24, 2013, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Kings County at CRFN 2013000290934. The property in question is described as follows: 1305 PARK PLACE, BROOKLYN, NY 11213 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 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 WITH THE COURT. DATED: August 11, 2017 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. “The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed January 28, 2008 and recorded on February 27, 2008, in the Office of the City Register of the City.”

NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Kings U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust, 2006-3, Plaintiff AGAINST Cecilia Boodhoo, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 11/7/2014and entered on 1/12/2014, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on September 14, 2017 at 02:30 PM premises known as 293 Schenck 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 Borough and County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 3996, LOT: 104. Approximate amount of judgment is $793,304.94 plus interests and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 4390/08. Steve Cohen, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP, 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, NY 11706 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 38 E 91ST STREET ➔➔ Continued on page 15

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The 41st Council District: What do the Top Four Candidates Have to Say? ➔➔ Continued from page 6 we’ll not waver on that. Builders must hire the local workforce and the city should offer tax credits for seniors so they can afford these new developments. 3. Youth. I will promote increased investment in education, STEM programs and career training of skills and trade needed in today’s economy so graduates of these programs are qualified for careers which exist.

Cory Provost: 1. Constituent Services.

I will continue to address community constituent services to make lives easier and affordable by better utilizing city resources and repurposing real estate. I will work to increase the number of parks and summer camps since a vast number of children and youth reside in my district. 2. Education.

I will support providing 100% free school lunch regardless of income and create more gifted and talented programs in our schools.

I also want to ensure the arts programs I helped to fund earlier don’t get diminished.

3. Housing. The biggest missing piece in the discussion is infrastructure. Infrastructure challenges occur because of large-scale development. A fourteen-story building could add 1,000 people to a district adding stress to trains, schools, roads, etc. The 41st cannot absorb higher density without addressing these issues.

Deidra Olivera: Private sales on public land required a level of transparency regarding which land is available and the cost. I will support providing assistance for local investors. I want to broaden input from the general community regarding what land should be used for.

Cory Provost: Again, this is tied to infrastructure. Some development I can support, but we have to make sure there is community buy-in for new development as was done with the Brownsville Plan.

What is your prospective on affordable housing in your district?

What is Your Position on Land Use?

Alicka Amprey-Samuel: Everything that we do should not happen to the community, but with the community. Developers should be not-for-profits, not the same big players.

Henry Butler: Affordable housing should be affordable for this community.

Deidra Olivera: Right now, it’s a sham.

There should be a halt to the unaffordable housing plan now in effect. How can we repeat failure? The current housing lottery needs to be scrapped. The set-asides are criminal and that seniors cannot qualify is embarrassing.

Cory Provost: Make sure it’s income-sensitive to current residents who have the highest poverty levels in the city. We have to make the income level make sense for this community.

Alicka Amprey-Samuel: This area has lots of open space potential and the community should have input about how it is used. Too many of the same big players obtain contracts because they know people. We must increase the use of nonprofits for developers who build using a community land trust policy, and we should require that all units be affordable.

Henry Butler: I believe we should not overbuild, overdevelop or force out local residents. We should allow not-for-profits to develop and charge rents based on income.

Alicka Amprey-Samuel: We may not need to rezone. Let’s optimize what we have and give landlords incentives to renovate.

Henry Butler: Don’t overbuild or overdevelop and force out local residents. I support downzoning and contextual zoning.

Deidra Olivera: Right now, it’s more to the benefit for others and businesses than the residents. This must change. People need to understand zoning and how it affects us.

What is your position on zoning?

Cory Provost: Educating the community about zoning laws is critical. I will conduct forums on Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), the application process businesses and individuals use to share with the community how they plan to use the land.

I want residents to understand the process and the impact of these plans. If they understand how a community is zoned, they can assess the plan and rally support for their position on a proposed development.

What are your thoughts about eradicating state certification for charter school teachers?

Alicka Amprey-Samuel: Many teachers have been through a rigorous process to become certified. It’s absurd to start removing certification from the process. What are you saying about our children? It’s a smack in the face. Charter schools are making millions and want to downgrade teachers. There should be a standard process for all.

Henry Butler: Teachers should be certified. How will we know they are qualified?

Everyone should have the same system.

Public education is not a private enterprise.

Deidra Olivera: I don’t agree. No organization should become its own checks and balances. It should be external, when it’s internal it doesn’t work, especially since our youth are put at-risk.

Cory Provost: I cannot support eliminating state certification. Rather than lessening requirements, we should make sure teachers are fully capable.

What are the biggest challenges you expect to encounter once in office?

Alicka Amprey-Samuel: Getting people to believe in the system again. In my district, a lot of people have let us down.

Henry Butler: Creating truly affordable housing and preventing the city from assigning more homeless shelters in our community.

Deidra Olivera: The pushback from the

previous political establishment will be a challenge because change is hard for a lot of people, but we cannot continue to do things the way we have been doing them. Before might have been good, we need a fresh start.

I cannot let the select few benefit while the majority suffers.

Cory Provost: The way this district is laid out means I will deal with a wide variety of people. The 41st is comprised of five community boards and five police precincts, so servicing the entire district at full capacity will be my challenge.

Last Words Alicka Amprey-Samuel: My passion for this community is in my blood. I love it, and it deserves the best. We have no time for mediocrity. I am the most qualified.

Campaign Website: http://votealickasamuel. nationbuilder.com/ Henry Butler: My long track record of accomplishments separates me from the rest. My experience in government as a community organizer on various boards have provided me with an understanding about how government works. Campaign Website: http://henrybutler41stcouncil.com/ Deidra Olivera: It’s time for a fresh start. I am ready and able to move this district forward to bring about the economic development and change necessary for our district. I care. I listen and will work for the people I represent. Campaign Website: http:// olivera2017.com/meet-olivera/ Cory Provost: This district is comprised of many immigrants. I would provide guidance for navigating the immigration process and other legal issues they may encounter.

Campaign Website: https://www.coryprovost. com/about-cory-provost/ 41st Council District Campaign Finance Summary (New York City Campaign Finance Board)

Miami gears up for Irma, plans evacuations, shelters, closings

■■ By Eric Levenson, Paul P. Murphy and Joe Sterling, CNN

(CNN) Several South Florida counties switched into emergency mode on Tuesday, planning evacuations, school closings and setting up shelters as Hurricane Irma, a powerful Category 5 storm, churned toward the Caribbean.

With maximum sustained winds reaching

LEGAL NOTICES ➔➔ Continued from page 14 BROOKLYN, NY 11212 Block: 4593 Lot: 18 Plaintiff designates KINGS as the place of trial situs of the real property INDEX NO. 500682/2017 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, vs. HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE GRIFFITH; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either

180 miles per hour, Irma is on track to hit the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico in the coming days. After that, the storm is expected to continue west and possibly slam South Florida or another part of the Continental United States. “There is an increasing chance of seeing some impacts from Irma in the Florida Peninsula and the Florida Keys later this week and this weekend,” the National Hurricane Center said on Tuesday morning.

Authorities are preparing for Irma with Hurricane Harvey’s devastation fresh in their minds.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez signed a “declaration of emergency” to cope with the threat. He said evacuations of special-needs residents will begin Wednesday, and others might be ordered to head out of town.

Gimenez ordered all county offices to be

closed on Thursday and Friday. Schools will be closed on Thursday and Friday and all school activities have been cancelled from Wednesday night through Friday.

Neighboring Broward County was coordinating plans for 43 shelters that can accommodate up to 33,000 people, County Mayor Barbara Sharief told reporters.

Sheltering operations were expected to begin on Thursday, she said.

of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; MURIEL GRIFFITH, HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE GRIFFITH; PETER GRIFFITH, HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE GRIFFITH; MELLISA GRIFFITH, HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE GRIFFITH; SHILAH GRIFFITH, HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF WAYNE GRIFFITH, NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; SARAH GRIFFITH; “JOHN DOE” (REFUSED NAME); “JOHN DOE” (REFUSED NAME), “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants,

persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

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 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) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; 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. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $145,900.00 and interest, recorded on February 23, 2004, at CRFN 2004000106580 of the Public Records of KINGS County, New York, covering premises known as 38 E 91ST STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11212.

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. KINGS County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. 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 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. Dated: April 6, 2017 RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY: HEDVA D. HAVIV, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675

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