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Valerie Jarrett on Racism:

"I'm Worried About Every Black Parent I Know..."

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The View From Here ■■

By David Mark Greaves

Racism It’s said that every cloud has a silver lining. And President Donald Trump, being the darkest cloud seen in that office, has produced a silver lining appropriate to his status as the most racist president in modern history. He has emboldened simmering racists to speak their minds and in doing so, they painfully remind White America of its roots and the silver lining is the conversation on racism that has opened

across the nation, thanks in no small part to the technological age we’re in.

Being the object of high-intensity and low-intensity racism is a constant theme in the lives of African-Americans and has been that way for hundreds of years. Now with Twitter and the smart phone, a glaring light has gone on for White America with the camera exposing the overt behavior and Twitter exposing the deeply-held beliefs and the Internet bringing them ➔➔ Continued on page 15

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By Desiree Murphy‍, www.etonline.com

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fter being the target of a racist tweet, Valerie Jarrett spoke out.

The 61-year-old businesswoman, who served as Barack Obama’s former White House adviser, appeared on MSNBC for a town hall discussing “Everyday Racism in America” on Tuesday night.

"ON RACE/RACISM" See Victoria Horsford's "What's Going On" Page 4

Hosted by Joy Reid and Chris Hayes, the program guests included Former top Obama ➔➔ Continued on page 2

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After 40 Years, is There a Victor in the “War on Drugs?”

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By Akosua K. Albritton

he 40-year War on Drugs was examined during the May 24, 2018 BRIC-TV #BHEARD Town Hall.

Dubbed “Whose War on Drugs?”, Brian Vines moderated a panel consisting of: Eric Gonzalez, Brooklyn District Attorney; Kassandra Frederique, NYS Director for the Drug Policy Alliance; Chino Hardin, Field Director of the Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions; Tom Robbins, Investigative Reporter for the Village Voice and Contributing Writer for The Marshall Project; Dr. Hillary Kunins, an Assistant Commissioner for the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene.

Brian Vines explained that The War on Drugs was so named and initiated by President Richard Nixon’s Administration in the 1970s. Presently, $51 billion is allocated annually to this effort. Vines asked the panel to answer who are the combatants of this war? D.A. Gonzalez stated: “The War on Drugs is a failed effort. I have personal knowledge of people being cycled through the criminal justice system due to drug use.

This is because the justice system gets the conviction but there is no help with the addiction.”

Kassandra Frederique said it is the people of color of lower incomes who lack access to health care and education, and it is “whiteness” that created the war.

Chino Hardin contended “The War on Drugs” is a war on Black, Brown and poor

folks. After 40 years, there are no solutions to the distribution and illegal sale of [these controlled substances].

Tom Robbins turned the tables a bit by asking, “Who is the bad guy?” At this stage of the struggle, new battle lines exist in that it was clear previously that the distributors of the drugs were the bad guys. Now the green light has been given to the pharmaceutical companies; therefore, the lines are blurred.

Robbins is alluding to the fact that pharmaceutical salespeople had promoted opioids as good medicine that was not addictive.

Dr. Kunins said, “There is a need to build whole people and whole communities.

Blocking access to health care, medicine and education exacerbates the problem.”

One portion of the Town Hall focused on the considerations pertaining to legalizing marijuana and another portion examined narcotics. D.A. Gonzalez, who has more than twenty years in developing drug policy, stands behind decriminalizing marijuana sales and usage. People who have been arrested, imprisoned and/or supervised by the NYC Department of Probation would be recompensed for time in jail or prison and their criminal records would be expunged.

Ms. Frederique stated there was a developing legal economy in marijuana--medical marijuana and recreational marijuana.

Frederique’s concern is that people of color will get into this legal industry. Currently, there are nine US states and the District of Columbia that permit adults over the age of 21 years to smoke the plant. There are

Response ➔➔ Continued from page 1 administration advisor, Valerie Jarrett; Rev. Al Sharpton, CEO of Starbucks, Kevin Johnson; Yale student, Lolade [Siyonbola]; President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Starbucks advisor, Sherrilyn Ifill; President of Demos and Starbucks advisor Heather [McGhee].

Early Tuesday, actress Roseanne Barr tweeted, “Muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” referring to Jarrett, who is black and was born in Iran.

“Tone does start at the top, and we like to look up to our president and feel as though he reflects the values of our country,” Jarrett said during the town hall discussion with hosts Joy Reid and Chris Hayes. “But I also think

ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey that every individual citizen has a responsibility too. And it’s up to all of us to push back -- our government is only going to be as good as we make it be.”

“People on the inside have to push hard, and people on the outside have to listen,” she

29 states and the District of Columbia that permit the sale of medical marijuana at designated businesses. However, what persists, according to Frederique, is the belief that marijuana is the “gateway drug” to other mood-altering substances. The “Marijuana Battle” within the “War on Drugs” created a generation of people who were raised by their grandparents or in custody of the NYC Administration for Children’s Services.

Further, adults are having difficulty obtaining legitimate work with livable wages due to being arrested for possessing small amounts of marijuana.

During this portion of the event, a number of people came to the microphones to object to the smoking of marijuana in public spaces.

They objected to the aroma of burning marijuana. Unlike liquid and solid substances, marijuana pervades wide areas. The panel of experts acknowledged that fact.

The #BHEARD Town Hall then transitioned to looking at narcotics. This was done by following a man named Mike who devoted himself to reducing the risks of narcotic usage by operating a needle exchange program. continued. “I think we have to turn it into a teaching moment. I’m fine.”

Jarrett than addressed the racism that isn’t made so public. “I’m worried about all the people out there who don’t have a circle of friends and followers who come right to their defense -- the person who’s walking down the street minding their own business, and they see somebody cling to their purse or run across the street,” she said. “Or every black parent I know who has a boy, who has to sit down and have a conversation, ‘the talk,’ as we call it. And as you say, those ordinary examples of racism that happen every single day.”

According to MSNBC, the hope of the town hall was to “open a national dialogue” by addressing the state of “racial bias in society and what can be done to effect change.” The network encouraged viewers to join in on the discussion on Twitter using

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Mike is a middle-aged African-American man who walks through Washington Heights’ woodlands to detect areas where drug use occurs. He carefully collects used syringes to put them in a storage container. Mike leaves sealed packages of unused syringes in places he believes drug users will detect.

Mike came upon a man in the woods who was under the influence of a drug. He tried to engage the man in a conversation to learn of his circumstances. His tone of voice and word choices was accepting rather than harsh or judgmental. Mike left a few packaged syringes with the man. Mike’s compassion comes from having been an active user of narcotics.

Dr. Kunins and Tom Robbins commented on the slang terminology associated with using addictive substances. Words such as “junkie,” “crackhead” and “shooting gallery” are seen as effacing by Kunins and Robbins.

Dr. Kunins called out health professionals to treat drug users with dignity and follow the treatment model rather than the punishment model. Kunins realized that professionals in the medical and health fields can be as stigmatizing and punishing as criminal justice.

An audience member asked for a strategy for teaching children about drugs. Dr. Kunins suggested rather than discuss pharmacology and watching dramatizations of withdrawal systems, a model that encompassed developing emotional intelligence, negotiating skills, cultivating self-esteem and other human development techniques were affective in keeping children and adolescents far less inclined toward drug experimentation. the hashtag “#EverydayRacism.” As ET previously reported, Barr was slammed for her controversial tweet, which resulted in ABC abruptly pulling the plug on her hit show, Roseanne. The 65-year-old actress was also dropped by her agency, ICM, on Tuesday.

In a statement announcing Roseanne’s cancellation, ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey called Barr’s language “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.”

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Vanguard Calls for Education Evolution

he Vanguard Independent Democratic Association (VIDA) of Brooklyn started a revolution in the New York City public school system 45 years ago. Today, the organization is raising a loud, strong and clear voice again for community empowerment: a call for “an evolution” of the current system to meet 21st century needs of students and schools.

On Monday May 21st, District Leader Annette M. Robinson, VIDA Executive Board Member and other VIDA members held a rally on the steps of City Hall to call on Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza to address School District 16 concerns: the staggering loss of 7, 145 (59%) students to schools outside the district due to low-performing schools; lack of resources based on need and insufficient focus on students’ success. Seventeen percent of the current school population is homeless; 41% are chronically absent; 58% of IEPs and only 45% graduate.

“The Mayor and the Chancellor must realize that their policies are not working and they need to make a change. Our children can’t wait for the adults to get it together,” added District Leader Robinson.

VIDA says the basic solutions include, but are not limited to: additional supportive services; an increase of after-school programming in the district with a high percentage of working families; a cessation of the ongoing practice of co-locating children and adult students in the same building and using elementary schools to house preschool programs; allocation of emergency funding to deal with the crisis of underperforming schools; holding educators accountable for student success; and removing administrators receiving consistently poor performance evaluations BEFORE the 2019 school year begins.

“From Boys and Girls High School to the alternative education programs at Old Boys High School and our transfer schools, our children have proven to us time and time again how they can succeed when given the resources they need,” said state Senator Velmanette Montgomery in a statement. “All schools deserve equal access to the resources they need to help their students thrive, regardless of the communities they serve or the composition of the student population.

Assembly member Tremaine S. Wright agrees: “Schools in our community must be adequately funded in order to provide adequate education. Our schools, our children, our parents and our educators deserve the same investment of resources as their peers.”

Speaking for Bedford-Stuyvesant families, NeQuan McLean, President, Community Education Council 16 said: “After over a decade of being the forgotten district, with declining enrollment and underperforming schools, BedfordStuyvesant families are still here. Our district is on the road to extraordinary.

And we demand equity for the educational excellence of our students.

“We need an educational evolution,” said Stefanie Zinerman, Civic Leader and Vice President of Membership at VIDA. “The BOE has to recognize that we no longer live in a 19th century agrarian society but rather a complex technological one, which requires our schools to respond in ways that they never imagined.

The structure of our families, where and how we work and society at large has advanced. Therefore, it is imperative that we employ 21st century tools and methodology to the districts, like 16, that need them most.”

that is equitable for all of our city’s students, we need to hold government accountable when schools in some of our city’s communities are not receiving enough resources to provide equitable, quality educational opportunities.

Because public schools in BedfordStuyvesant’s Community School District 16 are not being equipped with enough tools to empower Bed-Stuy students, an alarming 59% of CSD 16 students are attending schools in other communities.

The time to step up and support District 16 students and schools is now.”

To a question posed by Our Time Photo: Elizabeth Green Press about the loss of neighborEducators, legislators and supporters gathered on City Hall steps calling on Mayor hood-based students to schools outside the district, Mr. McLean announced, de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza to safeguard District 16 schools.

“This summer, the CEC will conduct City Councilman Robert Cornegy in a to ensure all our children receive a quality a deep-dive analysis of students who are statement said, “We have made important education, and so it is critical we continue eligible to attend district schools but do strides over the past few years in increasing to demand educational equity in our schools not. We will convene a Town Hall, to hear education equity in our schools, particularly and hold those responsible for providing it from these parents, showcase the district by expanding access to Gifted & Talented accountable.” programs that meet our standards and ask for programs in more districts. However, there Council member Mark Treyger, Chair, their support in demanding better resources is much work left to be done to reverse de- City Council Committee on Education says, from the administration.” cades of segregation in our school system “If we are going to have an education system Bernice Elizabeth Green

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WHAT’S GOING ON ■■

By Victoria Horsford

ON RACE/RACISM I’ve considered a race/racism segment for about a month and was indecisive about redundancy. After reading the Roseanne Barr item below, while composing WGO, I can no longer equivocate on a weekly extremist race/ racism commentary.

Roseanne Barr, star of the megahit TV prime time show “Roseanne” got pink slipped (canceled) by ABC because of an egregious Tweet which read. “If the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes had a baby it would be Valerie Jarrett. Roseanne’s success and fat salary must have gone to her head. Jarrett, as you know, is an African American woman, who was special advisor to President Barack Obama for eight years.

Her power and influence was inordinate.

She also grew up in Iran. On the defensive Roseanne said her tweet was a joke and the Muslims were not a race so it was not offensive. Her comment is is interesting and lends insights into what circulates in

Valerie Jarrett

American conservative circles during the Trump administration. They perceive a connection between Jarrett and President Obama’s Iran Deal, which Trump cancelled two weeks ago.

I have been waiting to read about a Jarrett post- Obama-Era book deal. The Jarrett book deal must be in the works with a 7-figure price tag.

NY, NY HARLEM: Argus Community Ltd, bought the building at 730 St Nicholas Avenue, 146 /147Streeet, a predominantly residential corridor with commercial outlets for $4.5 million and plans to erect an outpatient methadone clinic, which will serve 70+ patients daily. Building is scheduled for demolition on June 1. The community is concerned and is fighting back albeit a tight time window. The Sugar Hill Concerned Neighborhood Group, represents diverse community stakeholders prepared to fight the methadone clinic. It has retained Christian Hyton of Phillips Nizer, LLP, as legal counsel. Contact Joy Spears 646.345.4959 or Bgramos3@gmail 917.741.2626 for donations to cover legal fees. Uptown neighborhoods are disproportionately inundated with shelters and rehab facilities Those facilities like the pending Argus Methadone Clinic negatively impact quality of life where they are located. An example is Lenox Avenue on 124 Street, home to Methadone, AIDS, and mental health residence.

NY/NY STUFF: Cynthia Nixon, NYS Gubernatorial candidate understands that she must make inroads into the state’s African American voter. At the Democratic Convention last week where she got zero percent of the Black vote……

Zephyr Teachout, a candidate for the NYS

Norman Seabrook, Attorney General, will be on the campaign trail pregnant……… Rumors are already circulating about Letitia James’ successor once she becomes Attorney General. It is Melissa Mark-Viverito, former NYC Council Speaker……. New Yorkers report to voting polls 3x this year, on June 26, for the federal primary, congress and senate races; September 13, for NYS legislature, governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general; and November 6, election day……….. Norman Seabrook, former powerfully connected NYC President of the Correction Officerss union went to trial last year on corruption charges to the tune of $20 million. Trial ended in a hung jury.

Retrial begins on July 23.

BLACK ENTERPRISE The Harlem Business Alliance will host GREEN REVOLUTION 2018: A Cannabis & Entrepreneurship Summit, on June 21, from 5-9 pm, at the National Black Theatre, located at 2031 Fifth Avenue, at 125 Street, Harlem. The Summit is to alert entrepreneurial people of color to economic and sales potential of Cannabis , (grass, marijuana)as it becomes legal in more state across the USA. Visit HBANY.ORG.

ON ARTS AND CULTURE The Harlem Chamber Players present Harlem Songfest, a gala concert feting operatic arias for voices(s) and orchestra

by Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi, Bizet, Delibes and Offenbach featuring sopranos Janinah Burnett, Brandie Sutton, Lucia Bradford, and Phumzile Sojola tenor and Kenneth Overton baritone, on Friday, June 1 at 7 pm at the Miller Theatre. Columbia University, 2960 Broadway 116 Street. Visit www.

HarlemChamberplayers.org or call 917 744 6948.

VOL. 22 NO. 22 event, a family friendly afternoon, dedicated to drawing, painting, crafting, will be held on June 24, 1-5 pm, at the Amersfort Park, located at East 38 Street between Avenue I and Avenue J, Brooklyn, New York Deborah Singletary Vision Carrier participates will participate with an original art greetings cards workshop. Free art supplies and tools will be provided.

Mia Amor Mottley, 52, will become the next Prime Minister of Barbados making history as the first woman to hold that post in Barbados. She will be the fifth woman prime minister in English speaking Caribbean. Her party won all 30 legislative seats. A veteran politico who has held positions in the legislator and the cabinet, she represents the third generation of Mottley’s in local politics

Mia Amor Mottley

NEWSMAKERS RIP: Herman (Denney) Farrell, Jr 86, died of heart failure, on May 26. A Harlem-based Democrat, who was not a Gang Of Four denizen but he unquestionably a member of its Old Guard politicos.

He served in NYC and NYS politics and could easily have conducted master classes about city/state power politics. During his 51years in NY politics, he ran for NYC mayor against incumbent Koch; he chaired the NYS Assembly’s banking committee for 15 years; and he chaired the Ways and Means committee for 23 years. He was the Chairman of the NYS Democratic Committee, a first for an African American, who served from 2001-2006. Denny Farrell retired from the NYS Assembly last year.

Herman (Denney) Farrell,

WASSUP JUNE

Phumzile Sojola The Apollo Theater hosts is Spring Gala honoring Sirius XM, on Monday, June 4 at 7 pm. Evening begins with the Awards Presentation and concert featuring Tony, Toni Tone; Bell Biv DeVoe and Salt-NPepa, followed by Dinner and Dancing at a gala tent reception, positioned at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. Spring Gala proceeds support the work of the nonprofit Apollo Theater , on and off stage, including its year- round stellar performances, education initiatives, and community programs.

The 4th Annual Arts Around the Park

Dr. Victor Gibbs, MD, will b e honored with the Distinguished Service Award by the Anguilla Progressive Association of New York at its 22nd Annual Dinner Dance and Awards Gala, at Antun’s in Queens Village, NY on June 2, Anguilla Day. Based in St Maarten, Dr. Gibbs is cited for his outstanding voluntary community advocacy in St. Maarten, Guadeloupe and Anguilla.

June is a month associated with special observance. It is the month when Brides; BLACK MUSIC; CARIBBEAN AMERICAN HERITAGE; and Gay Pride are celebrated. Special June days include Father’s Day, June, 17 ; the Summer Solstice, June 21; and Juneteenth, June 19.

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Thinkers Notebook

I Got a Story to Tell

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By Marlon Rice

grew up in the late 70’s and early 80’s, my childhood nestled just ahead of the wave of technology that has come to define society today.

I was a child before the cell phone was accessible to regular folk, before compact disc, before the Internet, before GMO food and legalized weed. Brooklyn wasn’t yet gentrified. There is a luxury highrise on Pacific Street between New York and Nostrand Avenues. The place has beautiful balconies and even a parking lot for the tenants. When I was a kid, that space was an empty lot and an abandoned building. We used to play in that lot, throwing lit M-80’s into the abandoned building, the explosion startling whoever may have been using the building as refuge.

Information was passed differently back then. The newspapers told the world news and the local news. You could read about murders and drugs and prostitution and corruption in the front of the newspaper, and in the back you could read about Rickey Henderson breaking the season base-stealing record. The television news was pretty much the same with headline stories, world peril, political business, sports and weather. If a new song came out, you had to keep the radio on so that when they played it you wouldn’t miss it.

When the Grammys or the Emmy Awards came on, you watched them. You didn’t watch three hours of red-carpet coverage before the actual event, and you didn’t spend half of the next day discussing who

was wearing what. This was before cable networks like E! and CNN and MSNBC mattered.

When I was a kid, I thought the most bigoted man on television was Archie Bunker. Every week on the sitcom “All in The Family,” Archie would sit in his rust-colored lounge chair in his living room as he spews comically prejudiced rhetoric from his living room into mine.

My grandmother would laugh at the jokes and then say something like, “that Archie is such a racist!” It didn’t seem to bother her though when Archie berated Italians, the Polish, Chinese and Black folk either all at once or one at a time. She knew he was joking. She knew that Archie Bunker wasn’t a real person. He was a character, and his character was a racist. It didn’t mean that Carroll O’Connor, the man that played Archie Bunker, was racist. Even though I knew how Archie thought, I couldn’t tell you not one thing about what Carroll O’Connor thought. I don’t know if he was really racist. I don’t know anything about him at all.

On Tuesday, comedienne Roseanne Barr released a tweet that basically said that if you mixed the Muslim Brotherhood with the Planet of the Apes you’d get Valerie Jarrett, former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama. She quickly deleted the tweet, but not before those in the Twitter world caught it, screenshot it and retweeted. We don’t live in the 80’s anymore. Today, information travels at the speed of light and you only need a smart phone in your pocket to be in tune with the thoughts and actions of the entire world.

News is no longer just the crime blotter and the political talk. Now, news includes the thoughts and feelings of society, how thoughts are perceived, implemented and received. And everyone is their own reporter. We’ve learned more about Trump from his tweets than we have from Ernie Anastos or any other reporter.

Roseanne’s tweet was obviously racist. As a result of the tweet, her show Roseanne has been cancelled, she has been dropped from her talent agency and even syndication of her show has been banned on certain networks. All of this transpired in the course of one day, the consequences of an asinine thought are immediate in this Brave New World.

Archie Bunker only played a racist on television. Roseanne played a racist in real life. I used to like her show. The story of a working-class family just trying to make

ends meet and enjoy life rang familiar with me, as I’m sure it did with many American families. Dan Connor wasn’t perfect, but he was a pretty cool dad. Roseanne Connor was the prototypical working-class American mom, juggling work and family with sass and moxie. Had Roseanne the person never opened her mouth to show her true nature, Roseanne the character would still be on television. But this ain’t the good old days. Big Brother is watching and anything you tell him will be used against you in the court of public opinion.

So, rejoice in knowing that we live in a society where such racist talk won’t be tolerated from notable people. And then be concerned because the line between tolerance and thought control is becoming more and more blurred with every tweet and Instagram post.

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UPDATE on 434 LAFAYETTE AVENUE (May 2018) “Offender’s” Violations and Damage to My Property Still Unresolved

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by TICA DAVIS

To date, none of the violations assigned to the respondents listed in the chart below have been resolved.

The Big Picture: As I write, in spite of a “stop work order,” they are at work on the back section of their construction next door at 436 Lafayette with the chain and lock on the gate.

What I Have Done: Notified 311 and the New York Fire Department.

The Situation:

ECB Number 35251101N

35238650J

35109483K

35086294M

35238980M

35247286R

35042352R

35091862H

ECB accepted their certifications without verification of compliance. INSPECTORS LORE, ANNAM AND HIS SUPERVISOR, THOMPSON, plus several others have visited my premises and have taken photographers to prove noncompliance.

35247287Z

Perils:

35246789Y

I am unable to install my new front entry doors due to a shifting problem. The walls must be replaced per 2 engineer’s reports before the kitchen flooring can be replaced.

Premises: 436 LAFAYETTE AVENUE, BROOKLYN

BIN: 3055633 Block: 1949 Lot: 33 CB: 303

35246786Z

35246787K

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Dept. of Buildings Violation Status RESOLVED - CERTIFICATE ACCEPTED

ECB Hearing Status IN VIOLAFAB LAFAYETTE REALTY, LLC TION

Severity: CLASS - 1

Inspect Unit: BROOKLYN PLUMBING

Viol Type: CONSTRUCTION

RESOLVED - CERTIFICATE ACCEPTED

EMMA GROUP MANAGEMENT IN VIOLAINC GC604950 TION

05/15/2017 109, 106 $1,600.00

Severity: CLASS - 1

Inspect Unit: BEST SQUAD

Viol Type: CONSTRUCTION

RESOLVED - CERTIFICATE ACCEPTED

B & M CLEANUP SERVICES IN GC610070

Severity: CLASS - 1

Inspect Unit: BEST SQUAD

RESOLVED - CERTIFICATE ACCEPTED

436 LAFAYETTE DEVELOPERS

Severity: CLASS - 1

Inspect Unit: SPECIAL OPERATIONS

Viol Type: CONSTRUCTION

RESOLVED - CERTIFICATE ACCEPTED

EMMA GROUP MANAGEMENT IN VIOLAINC GC604950 TION

05/15/2017 106

Severity: CLASS - 1

Inspect Unit: BEST SQUAD

Viol Type: CONSTRUCTION

RESOLVED - CERTIFICATE ACCEPTED

EMMA GROUP MANAGEMENT IN VIOLAINC GC604950 TION

05/15/2017 182

Severity: CLASS - 1

Inspect Unit: EXCAVATION UNIT

Viol Type: CONSTRUCTION

RESOLVED - CERTIFICATE ACCEPTED

436 LAFAYETTE DEVELOPERS

Severity: CLASS - 2

Inspect Unit: SPECIAL OPERATIONS

RESOLVED - CERTIFICATE ACCEPTED Severity: CLASS - 1 RESOLVED - CERTIFICATE ACCEPTED

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Severity: CLASS - 1

Inspect Unit: EXCAVATION UNIT

RESOLVED - CERTIFICATE ACCEPTED

YISHAL BARKAI

Severity: CLASS - 1

Inspect Unit: EXCAVATION UNIT

RESOLVED - CERTIFICATE ACCEPTED

EMMA GROUP MANAGEMENT, INC

Severity: CLASS - 1

Inspect Unit: EXCAVATION UNIT

RESOLVED - CERTIFICATE ACCEPTED Severity: CLASS - 2

EMMA GROUP MANAGEIN VIOLAMENT, INC GC604950 TION Inspect Unit: EXCAVATION UNIT

Respondent

Viol Date

Infraction Codes

05/15/2017 102, 202 $500.00

ADMIT/INVIO

11/15/2014

IN VIOLATION

09/13/2014 104

DEFAULT

ECB Penalty Due

106

01/09/2015 263

$0.00

$1,000.00

$1,600.00

$1,000.00

$4,000.00

Viol Type: CONSTRUCTION

Viol Type: CONSTRUCTION IN VIOLATION

06/06/2017 1G5

$10,000.00

IN VIOLATION

06/06/2017 109

$25,000.00

Viol Type: CONSTRUCTION 06/06/2017 206

$800.00

Viol Type: CONSTRUCTION

VOTING MATTERS Cuomo Issues 24,000 Conditional Pardons Restoring Right To Vote To New Yorkers On Parole

Right Restored for Individuals Released from Prison and Living Successfully Under Community Supervision

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overnor Andrew M. Cuomo announced today that he has issued the first set of conditional pardons restoring the right to vote to 24,086 people under community supervision in New York State. Building on the Governor’s sweeping criminal justice reforms, this group of pardons follows the Executive Order signed on April 18 to improve civic engagement and reduce recidivism. New York State Election law provides that a Governor’s pardon restores the right to vote to individuals who lose this right due to being on parole for a felony that resulted in their incarceration.

African Americans and Hispanic New Yorkers comprise 71 percent of the population disenfranchised due to their parole status. The restoration of this basic right is linked to reduced recidivism, and this action will promote access to the democratic process and improve public safety, as individuals who can vote and participate in civil society have a greater stake in living productively in their communities.

The Governor’s pardon review process

examined each person and considered a variety of factors, including if the person is living successfully in the community by maintaining required contact with his or her parole officer and remaining at liberty at the time of the review. The remaining applications are being reviewed and processed. This process will be repeated every month. Conversely, if a pardon recipient is re-incarcerated in New York State prison as a result of a parole violation, or as a result of a conviction for a new felony, their pardon will be revoked.

The pardons issued today exclusively restore the right to vote and they have no other effect on a person’s conviction or status.

Each person who receives a pardon will be given a copy of their pardon by their parole officer, along with a voter registration form.

New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman said, “These pardons will encourage civic ➔➔ Continued on page 15

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A Tribute to Gracie Greene

his Spring the Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford Stuyvesant had donated magnolia saplings to the school as part of its magnolia distribution program for schools in District 16.

Some school dedicated the trees to local leaders, Following is a letter from Principal Cheryl Ault-Barker who dedicated the tree to Gracie Greene, Not only was Gracie a straight shooter when it comes to making her point, but she encouraged parents to come into the school, volunteer and become involved in their children’s education.

She reminded parents and families that they should not only show up when there was a crisis but also become actively involved in the decision-making and governance of the school. As past PTA President, Gracie motivated parents to become “Learning Leaders” and to support their student’s learning.

Gracie also had her son, who is an amputee, come and share key strategies and habits of mind with our scholars to help them to accomplish their goals. Her son also shared how he overcame his disability and is very successful at what he does. What an eye-opener for our scholars! This motivational event was one of the highlights of our

school year. Our Learning Leader population increased under Gracie’s leadership. Gracie was a no-nonsense person and knew exactly when it was time to take action to engage the external school community.

As a result of Gracie’s commitment, enthusiasm and fervor, we continue to have dedicated volunteers at PS 81. In honor of Gracie’s tireless labor of love, we have dedicated and named the magnolia tree after her.

Cheryl Ault-Barker/Principal Thaddeus Stevens PS 81

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EW YORK, May 30 , 2018 — The Brooklyn Alumni Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., is giving several deserving students in the community $10,000 toward their education at its 90th Anniversary Scholarship Gala, June 16, 2018.

The Hutson L. Lovell Scholarship is awarded to young people living in Brooklyn who strive toward higher learning and have met the organization’s scholarship criteria. Over the past several years, the Brooklyn Sigmas have given tens of thousands of dollars in scholarship money in partnership with the KBS Foundation, a non-profit organization formed by members of the chapter to provide educational opportunities for collegiate aspirants.

Phi Beta Sigma is an international fraternity founded in 1914 on the campus of Howard University. The Brooklyn Alumni chapter was founded in 1928 and has a host of programs that have uplifted the community and provided needed services.

The Hutson L. Lovell Scholarship is given in honor of the civil rights attorney who also served as Phi Beta Sigma’s International President from 1958-1959.

The awards will be given June 16, 2018 at Russo’s on the Bay, 162-45 Cross Bay

Boulevard, Queens. The black tie event begins at 7 p.m. For more information,

contact Juan Perez at 917-716-4785 or Skeestylus@gmail.com.

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Community Calendar

Thursday, May 31st Drop-In Legal Assistance

VIDA Ofc 6-8PM 399 Tompkins Ave. FREE Assistance with how to navigate your case in court, understanding your legal documents & finding direct legal representation for Housing, Criminal, Gen. 347-365-9332

Friday, June 1st

Art Exhibit Openings “In Pursuit of Freedom Now!” & “Forward Ever!

Sacred Ground & Sovereign Space” Weeksville Heritage Center 6-9PM 158 Buffalo Ave. FREE: RSVP at Eventbrite Weeksville celebrates its 50th Anniversary with two blockbuster exhibitions. “In Pursuit of Freedom Now!” – its traveling history exhibit and “Forward Ever! Sacred Ground & Sovereign Space,” a contemporary art exhibit. Enjoy a night of free art, music, food and community!

Saturday, June 2nd

Gregory Porter & Victory (opens) Summerstage 7-10PM Gates @ 6 Central Park E. 72nd/ 5TH FREE The Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Is a velvety master of jazz, soul & gospel.

He’s joined here by Victory, a bright new talent with her own brand of soul and folk. www.cityparksfoundation.org

Community Bike Rides Host: Kweli Campbell Restoration Plaza 10:30-Noon 1368 Fulton St. FREE Ride with Me! Restoration is gearing up for our Community Bike Rides. Join your neighbors in exploring Brooklyn by bike.

This year offering 35 rides, Apr – October. www.restorationplaza.org

Monday, June 4th BPL Instrument Lending Library

Central Library 10 Grand Army Plaza The first musical instrument lending library in NYC just in Bklyn! Borrow a violin, drum pad, keyboard, guitar, music stand, etc. musicloan@bklynlibrary.org

Tuesday, June 5th Common Celebrate Brooklyn Prospect Park W @ 9th St. FREE Gates @ 6:30 (come early) Conscious Grammy-award winning artist, composer, Hip Hop star www.celebratebrooklyn.org

Othello directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson Shakespeare in the Park Delacort Theater @ 8PM FREE tix @ Central Park, The Public Theater, online & in the Boroughs Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson Set amid war and palace intrigue, this classic drama about a noble Black Venetian general whose marriage is sabotaged by theater’s most infamous villain Iago,

Wednesday, June 6th

Photography Exhibition “Where I Seek, I Find Myself” MoCADA 12 – 6,7 or 8PM 80 Hanson Place Adm. $4-$8 Exploring the concept of home through the lenses of photographers delving into the notion of home as a concept.

718-230-0492 www.mocada.org 40th Celebrate Brooklyn! Fest 6/7-8/11

MARK YOUR CALENDARS Common Grounds Community Day Weeksville Heritage Center Sat. June 9th 12-8PM 158 Buffalo Ave. FREE Join us for our third annual Common Grounds community celebration! Tours, self-care sessions, live perfs & more! www.weeksvillesociety.org

Sisters, Mothers and Queens Art by Jimmy James Greene Calabar Imports 6/23 4PM 2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd Join the beloved community artist for a one-man show honoring Black women from his “People of Color” series.

646-964-5062 www.calabar-imports.com

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n Memorial Day Saturday, May 26, P.S. 5/The Ronald E. McNair School showcased its unique on-going youth empowerment programs to neighborhood leaders and residents for an intergenerational event that attracted some 200 people over the course of six hours.

The activities included: tours of the student-developed and run bookstore; presentations by budding P.S. 5 entrepreneur visionaries; plantings along the school’s exterior perimeters and inside the building’s inner circular court – perhaps the only garden sanctuary of its kind in the District; and a special honors presentation and dedication to a community leader.

While the purpose of PS 5’s gardening program is to encourage student involvement with nature, it’s apparent Principal Lena Gates is helping students and their parents make the connection between what can be described as “the inner gardener spirit” and the force of self-empowerment, motivation and development.

Photo: Elizabeth Green

Community leader Al Vann, third from left, joins principal Lena Gate, members of the Lions Club and PS 81 family at the Spring beautification project. David Greaves accepted an award for Our Time Press and Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford Stuyvesant.

The bookstore project has come as a

Photo: Keith Forest

Principal Lena Gates speaks with News 12 about the student bookstore.

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ur Time Press feels the need to weigh in on an issue that we see as crystal clear: low-income New Yorkers must be granted half-fare MetroCards. This is not, in our view, a nuanced issue requiring a great deal of debate. The money is there, it’s the right thing to do, and it’s past time we did it. This is a civil rights issue.

Ask the demoralized mother who has to ask someone to swipe her through when taking her child to school. Or the senior who fell and injured himself trying to step over the turnstile and had to head to the hospital rather than to his appointment. Or the father and daughter who share an unlimited MetroCard and take turns being late to work or school, depending on who has to wait the 20 minutes lapse time.

David Jones, founder of The Community Service Society (CSS), a longstanding antipoverty nonprofit, first introduced Fair Fares,

the half-fare proposal, in 2016. CSS uses a succinct statement as its call to arms for this campaign: “The turnstile should be the entry point, not the barrier, to upward mobility.”

The Riders Alliance, an advocacy organization, Public Advocate Letitia James and Comptroller Scott Stringer were on board right away, as were a majority of council members. But two years later, the mayor has not moved it forward. Two more years of financial struggle for the poor, resulting in the kind of stress that shortens life expectancies. The federal poverty line is $24, 339 for a family of four; 22 percent of New Yorkers and 41 percent of our single mothers live in poverty.

Fair Fares would cut the fare for 800,000 of these New Yorkers. This year’s updated proposal was approved for $212 million by the City Council, with 44 of the 55 members voting for it. It would save each adult $726 annually. Although there was $89 billion to spend ➔➔ Continued on page 15

result of the school’s Entrepreneurship Program. The youngsters are learning, at an early age, financial literacy and the importance of staying in the black. Among the supporters of this program are at least two local banks, Greenlight Books and the NYC Public Library!

On that day, students Serenity Dixon, Charmaine Jones, and Zachary Abdul-Zahir were walking testimonies of the program’s success: Dixon has started her own business making slime, Jones sells gently used and transformed-to-nearly-new clothing online; Abdul-Zahir has created his own strawberry company.

The color of the future is green on many levels, affirms Ms. Gates, who is committed to encouraging student involvement with nature at every chance she gets. Saturday was no exception. With the help of several school staff, the students planted beautiful rose bushes and other plants donated by The Home Depot. Their faces lit up with excitement as they got down into the soil … not just for play, but for a purpose.

First grader Alvin joyously exclaimed to Our Time Press, “Today was awesome!

Alvin at work.

I really liked helping others.” Destiny, 9, mentioned that the school has inspired her “interest” in nature, so much so that she has been helping with the community garden located across Hancock Street from the school.

For some youngsters, this was a firsttime endeavor. “I was really excited about digging holes!” said Dimitri, 10, whose excitement was shared by classmate, Jada, 9.

Jayden, 8, said that gardening is something everyone should do. “It builds strength,” he told us.

A highlight of the day was the visit of the honorable Al Vann, a former educator, and champion for Central Brooklyn whose work in politics and civil rights throughout Kings County and beyond cleared a way for ➔➔ Continued on page 15

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ome of the best movies I enjoyed as a kid was the “Rocky” saga movies that goes back to the very first one back in 1976. We all know how better and better the movies got throughout the years. This year in the NBA Finals we will be treated to a Rocky-like saga with the fourth consecutive year, as the Golden State Warriors will meet up with the Cleveland Cavaliers in a bestof-seven series. Both teams are coming off nail-biting Game 7s in their respective conferences. (Cleveland defeated the Boston Celtics in the East Finals and the Warriors defeated the Houston Rockets in the West Finals.)

In the three meetings these two powerhouse teams have had, the Warriors hold a 2-2 lead, winning the NBA title in 2015 and in last year’s Finals as well.

For the Cavaliers, the one person the Warriors know they have to at least “try” to contain is LeBron James. This will mark James’ eigth straight trip to the Finals and he will be seeking his fourth championship ring. However, as much as James has single-handedly dominated this postseason putting up historic numbers, he has also logged in a lot of minutes in the three previous playoff series. Against the Warriors, who can beat a team in many ways, James knows he will need a full supporting cast to go against players such as Steph Curry, Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson. The Warriors will seek back-to-back championship titles for the first time.

This series will be highly watched, I can guarantee it. You have some of the top players in the world going head-to-head, two teams that have a good idea of what one and other is capable of. Whomever is there hoisting the trophy at the end will, without a doubt, put themselves one step closer to not only making more history, but solidifying themselves as one of the greatest teams ever established.

LeBron looks to make more history in what has been a memorable postseason that may have locked him up to win this year’s Most Valuable Player Award. The Warriors have been giving many viewers some first-half scares just to come alive and head to the next round with their game-changing second-half play. Who will win Round 4 of this NBA Finals? It all starts tonight. Get your popcorn ready!

Sports Notes: With a win or loss what does it do for LeBron James’ legacy? E-mail me at Castroeddie714@ gmail.com and let’s have the conversation.

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By Marlon Rice

Depth before Height It’s a golden rule. In architecture, when an architect wishes to erect a skyscraper, he must first design a deep and solid foundation in the ground, for if he does not, there is no way that such a tall building would be able to withstand the pressure of its own height. In cliff-diving, those who perform the daring feat understands that ten feet of cliff calls for at least eight feet of water below, adding on another two feet of water for every additional ten feet of height. The depth of the water below dictates from how high you should jump. It’s always depth before height.

Dakari Johnson just recently finished his first full season as an NBA professional basketball player. And while the 6’-11” center for the Oklahoma City Thunder is used to working around other men his size, outside of work Dakari is almost always the tallest guy in the room. His height may be most noticeable, but it is his depth that has allowed him to withstand the pressure of his journey to the NBA. Dakari’s foundation is cemented in community and in family. Growing up on Lefferts Place, Dakari grew up a product of the intersectionality between community and family. “Growing up in this community, there was always an atmosphere of family, a togetherness. We grew up together, we took care of each other and I always felt like I had people to look up to, people that would take care of me and push me, whether it was my uncles or my cousins. I feel like I learned something valuable every day living here, not just about basketball but about life.” Dakari’s growth and development is a product of his environment - strong family roots, loving community and the legendary basketball courts of Brooklyn. Claver Park, PS 44, 258 Park, these were some of the workshops of Dakari’s youth, where he sharpened his skills and learned the game. “Playing ball in Brooklyn you have to earn your stripes, especially in the parks. I always played against people that were older than me,

Dakari Johnson more mature. And that’s how I got better.

You learn not to back down. Brooklyn has a unique brand of basketball.”

In an effort to continue the cycle of mentorship and education, Dakari and his uncle Kojo are producing The Pride Family Science of Basketball Camp, in collaboration with the Brooklyn Waldorf School.

The camp will accept children 10-14 years of age and will work to develop student’s basketball skills and broaden their technical knowledge of the game by introducing the mathematical and scientific concepts behind nutrition, skills training and basic plays of the game. Dakari says, “We want to give the children in the community the platform to learn the game, but we also want them to be educated on the scientific concepts associated with the game, and hopefully these kids will begin to see where education

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is important regarding sports in general, and basketball in particular.”

Whether he is just working out in Claver Park or teaching at his basketball camp, Dakari wants to instill in his community the link between sports and education. Learning the skills and the craft of basketball requires more than just having a good jump shot or being able to jump high. Dakari says that he advanced his skill set because he was willing to learn. “Growing up, I was always a listener, a learner, curious. I’ve always wanted to learn ways to get better and I want to share some of those practices with the kids in my community.”

No matter to what heights Dakari Johnson’s career takes him, he will be successful at it because of his foundation, his family and community. Depth before height.

It’s a golden rule.

Jack Johnson

By Maitefa Angaza

puttering apoplexy nationwide, boiling of blood and gnashing of teeth, talk of lynching. This isn’t a scene from a Shakespeare or Soyinka play, or the real-life scenario the night Barack Obama was first elected president. Instead, history takes us to a night in 1910, when many white people were outraged about Jack Johnson and wanted to put the uppity heavyweight champion in his place.

What had he done? He’d successfully defended the title he’d won in 1908, beating Jim Jeffries, who had been dubbed “The Great White Hope.” When that hope was dashed, white mobs descended on Black neighborhoods. But slyer heads conspired to punish and banish Johnson.

In a White House ceremony on May 24th Donald Trump granted a posthumous pardon to Black Jack Johnson. Trump was flanked by the chiseled and impeccably suited champion boxers Lennox Lewis and Deontay Wilder. Also there were Johnson’s great-great niece Linda Haywood and actor and boxing fan Sylvester Stallone, who’d campaigned for this for some time.

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NEW BUSINESS FORMATIONS Three Dog Design & Build, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/07/2018.

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 The LLC, c/o Eric Ruggieron, 23 Marconi Place Brooklyn, NY 11233 Best Buddys Dog Training, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/26/2018.

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 Best Buddys Dog Training, LLC, 176 S. 4th St. #5B, Brooklyn, NY 11211 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Express Databases LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/30/2018. 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 the LLC, 1035 Washington Avenue, Apt GR 9, Brooklyn, NY 11225. Purpose: Any lawful purpose HUMBOLDT 123 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/09/18. 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 the LLC, 619 Humboldt Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Avant Collaborations LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/20/2018. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process

LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS Wells Fargo Bank, NA, Plaintiff AGAINST Samuel Salzberg; Mindy Salzberg; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated December 13, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on June 28, 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1435 53rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11219. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block 5664 Lot 60. Approximate amount of judgment $336,777.74 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 16128/2013.

Randolph Jackson, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: April 6, 2018 53496 SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO NATIONAL CITY REAL ESTATE SERVICES, LLC, SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY MORTGAGE, INC., FORMERLY KNOWN AS NATIONAL CITY MORTGAGE CO. DOING BUSINESS AS COMMONWEALTH UNITED MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff against MALKY KATZ, KATZ RAIZY KATZ, YOSEF KATZ, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on April 23, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 5th day of July, 2018 at 2:30 p.m. premises described as follows: All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Said premises known as 150 South 8th Street a/k/a 150 S. 8th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11211. (Block: 2138, Lot: 16). Approximate amount of lien $ 804,897.64 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 501441-13. Honorable M. Randolph Jackson, Esq., Referee. McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, P.C. Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street – Suite 210, New Rochelle, New York 10801 (914) 636-8900 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff

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AGAINST Hugh Smith a/k/a Hugh C. Smith; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated November 20, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on June 21, 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known as 2264 Linden Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY 11208. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block 4360 Lot 8. Approximate amount of judgment $491,759.17 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 509165/2014. Stephen Barbaro, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: May 1, 2018 For sale information, please visit www.

Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832 54155 SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE C-BASS MORTGAGE LOAN ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-MX1, Plaintiff -against- EDWIN SANTIAGO, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein and dated April 19, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Courthouse 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY on June 28, 2018 at 2:30p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the southerly side of Halsey Street, distant 40.00 feet easterly from the southeasterly corner of Halsey Street and Lewis Avenue, being a plot 60.00 feet by 20.00 feet by 60.00 feet by 20.00 feet. Section: 6 Block: 1665 Lot: 12 Said premises known as 482 HALSEY STREET, BROOKLYN, NY Approximate amount of lien $562,628.19 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. Index Number 515574/2015.

GREGORY T. CERCHIONE, ESQ., Referee Dorf & Nelson LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 555 Theodore Fremd Avenue, Rye, NY 10580 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Kings PennyMac Corp., Plaintiff AGAINST Jamal Porter, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 7/28/2017 and entered on 8/21/2017, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn,

against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, United States Corporation of Agents, Inc. 7014 13th avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11222.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ADVANCE IMAGING TRAINING LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/03/2018 Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Hamlet Jaquez, 832 Ocean Avenue, 3D Brooklyn, NY 11226. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of A’COURT LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/12/18. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o NY on June 21, 2018 at 02:30 PM premises known as 1328 Jefferson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 3391, LOT: 13. Approximate amount of judgment is $850,910.57 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 14695-13. Betty Lugo, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE C-BASS MORTGAGE LOAN ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-MX1, Plaintiff -against- EDWIN SANTIAGO, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein and dated April 19, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Courthouse 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY on June 28, 2018 at 2:30p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the southerly side of Halsey Street, distant 40.00 feet easterly from the southeasterly corner of Halsey Street and Lewis Avenue, being a plot 60.00 feet by 20.00 feet by 60.00 feet by 20.00 feet. Section: 6 Block: 1665 Lot: 12 Said premises known as 482 HALSEY STREET, BROOKLYN, NY Approximate amount of lien $562,628.19 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. Index Number 515574/2015.

GREGORY T. CERCHIONE, ESQ., Referee Dorf & Nelson LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff, 555 Theodore Fremd Avenue, Rye, NY 10580 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB DOING BUSINESS AS CHRISTIANA TRUST NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR BCAT 201513ATT, Plaintiff, vs. DIANA VILLARREAL A/K/A DIANA C. VILLARREAL A/K/A DIANA GUEVARA A/K/A DIANA C. GUEVARA, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on August 17, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on June 28, 2018 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 166 Glen 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

Levine Plotkin & Menin, LLP, 888 Seventh Ave., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10106. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of MC BERNSTEIN LLC Articles of Organization. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/10/2018.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC c/o Legal Inc. Corporate Service Inc. 1967 Wehrle Drive, Suite 1 # 086, Buffalo NY 14221 Notice of Formation of Jalifola LLC Articles of Organization. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/06/2018. .

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC c/o Lumumba Ansah 520 Eastern Parkway, Apt. 2R, Brooklyn, NY 11225 of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 4168 and Lot 22. Approximate amount of judgment is $398,425.96 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 503328/2013. Shmuel D. Taub, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Ste. 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff AGAINST Phyllis Johnson, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated March 12, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on June 14, 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known as 276 HALSEY STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11216. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK 1846, LOT 19. Approximate amount of judgment $361,266.36 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 511333/2015. JOEL ELIOT ABRAMSON, ESQ., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 53687 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT KINGS COUNTY FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff against PATSY QUOW, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein, Such & Crane, LLP 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800, Rochester, NY 14614 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Entered October 17, 2017 I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 261, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on June 14, 2018 at 2:30 PM. Premises known as 299 East 39th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11203.

Block 4893 Lot 43. 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 and County of Kings, City and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $580,499.92 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 508955/2015. Gregory T. Cerchione, Esq., Referee FSLNC086 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, as Trustee for CWABS, ➔➔ Continued on page 13

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LEGAL NOTICES

OUR TIME PRESS May 31 – June 6, 2018

HOME. IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ➔➔ Continued from page 11 ON THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED Inc. Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2003- THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING 5, Plaintiff AGAINST Keith Adrian; et al., AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A Foreclosure and Sale duly dated November DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE 20, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR sell at public auction at the Kings County HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on June 14, CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER 2018 at 2:30PM, premises known as 105-23 INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER Flatlands 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11236. THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT with the buildings and improvements erect- TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY ed, situate, lying and being in the Borough of WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY of NY, Block 8251 Lot 73. Approximate SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON amount of judgment $487,170.91 plus inter- THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF est and costs. Premises will be sold subject (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING to provisions of filed Judgment Index# THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU 511293/2015. Bartholomew Verdimare, ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, the Complaint in this action and to serve a LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York not served with this Summons, to serve a 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: April 13, 2018 notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attor53577 ney within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME within 30 days after the service is complete COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, MTGLQ if this Summons is not personally delivered INVESTORS, L.P., Plaintiff, vs. BARUCH to you within the State of New York); The KUPFERSTEIN A/K/A BARUCH M. United States of America, if designated as a KUPFERSTEIN, ET AL., Defendant(s). Defendant in this action, may appear within Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and (60) days of service thereof and in case of Sale, Order to Amend Caption and Request your failure to appear or answer, judgment for Other Relief duly filed on December 06, will be taken against you by default for the 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE public auction at the Kings County Supreme OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of the above capBrooklyn, NY on June 21, 2018 at 2:30 tioned action is to foreclose on a mortgage in p.m., premises known as 1128 41st Street, the sum of $51,000.00 dated September 22, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain plot, piece 2004, executed by Defendant(s) RODNEY or parcel of land, with the buildings and CHARLES, GENA GARDNER to WELLS improvements thereon erected, situate, lying FARGO BANK, NA recorded on October and being in the Borough of Kings, County 12, 2004 in CRFN 2004000629698, in the of Kings, City and State of New York, Office of the Clerk of the County of KINGS, Block 05592 and Lot 01902. Approximate covering premises known as 2869 W 36th St, amount of judgment is $211,614.65 plus Brooklyn, NY 11224 (Block 7005 and Lot interest and costs. Premises will be sold 53). The relief sought within action is a final subject to provisions of filed Judgment judgment directing the sale of the premises Index # 8820/2013. Philip L. Kamaras, Esq., described above to satisfy the debt described Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, above. To the above-named Defendants: The LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Ste. 590, Elmsford, foregoing Summons is served upon you by NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff, Cash will publication pursuant to an amended order of not be accepted. the Hon. Noach Dear, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and filed SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE along with the supporting papers in the OF NEW YORK – COUNTY OF KINGS Office of the Clerk of the County of Kings INDEX # 513997/2015 FILED: 04/18/2018 on 04/12/2018. This is an action to foreclose SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND on a mortgage. ALL that certain plot, piece NOTICE Plaintiff designates Kings County or parcel of land, situate, lying and being as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of County in which the mortgaged premises Kings, City and State of New York, Block are situated. WELLS FARGO BANK NA, 7005 and Lot 53, said premises known as Plaintiff, against GENA GARDNER, if she 2869 W 36th St, Brooklyn, NY 11224. YOU be living and if she be dead, the respective ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, ex- WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT ecutors, administrators, trustees, devisees, A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT successors in interest and generally all PURPOSE. By reason of the default in persons having or claiming under, by or the payment of the monthly installment of through said Defendant(s) who may be principal and interest, among other things, deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or as hereinafter set forth, Plaintiff, the holder inheritance, any right, title or interest in or to and owner of the aforementioned note the real property described in the Complaint, and mortgage, or their agents have elected RODNEY CHARLES, NYC TRANSIT and hereby accelerate the mortgage and ADJUDICATION BUREAU, NYC declare the entire mortgage indebtedness ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, immediately due and payable. By reason NYC PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU, of the aforesaid, there is due and owing to NYS DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION Plaintiff the sum of $51,356.87, with interest AND FINANCE, and “JOHN DOE” and thereon at 6.62500% per annum from August “JANE DOE”, the last two names being 20, 2014. UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE fictitious, said parties intended being tenants VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY or occupants, if any, having or claiming an PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY interest in, or lien upon the premises de- (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT scribed in the complaint, UNITED STATES HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY OF AMERICA INTERNAL REVENUE PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE SERVICE, Defendant(s). TO THE ABOVE- DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU NAMED DEFENDANTS: NOTICE YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED

TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State 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, 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 New York State Department of Financial Services’ at 1-800269-0990 or visit the Department’s website at http://www.dfs.ny.gov FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress.

You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving the 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 may 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 AN ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Aldridge Pite, LLP. Attorneys for the Plaintiff, 40 Marcus Drive, Suite 200 Melville, NY 11747 Our File 26398 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, Plaintiff, Against Index No.: 502082/2015 KOWSILLIAH BEHARRY, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 4/4/2018, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, on 6/7/2018 at 2:30 pm, premises

13 known as 5321 Avenue L, Brooklyn, NY 11234, and described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, and designated on the tax maps of the Kings County Treasurer as Block 7833 Lot 2 The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $463,042.35 plus interest and costs. The premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 502082/2015. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid.

The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. James Caffrey, Esq., Referee. Leopold & Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110, Armonk, NY 10504 Dated: 5/1/2018 GNS SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS GMAT LEGAL TITLE TRUST 2014-1, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE, Plaintiff -against- DELYS HALLEY, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated June 23, 2017 and entered on July 17, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Courthouse 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY on June 14, 2018 at 2:30 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the westerly side of East 53rd Street, distant 376 feet southerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the westerly side of East 53rd Street, with the southerly side of Clarendon Road; being a plot 100 feet by 24 feet by 100 feet by 24 feet. Block: 4773 Lot: 25. Said premises known as 654 EAST 53RD STREET, BROOKLYN, NY Approximate amount of lien $811,056.00 plus interest & costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale.

Index Number 8699/2013.

JOHN M. BRICKMAN, ESQ., Referee Jeffrey A. Kosterich, LLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 68 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Tuckahoe, NY 10707 S TAT E OF NEW YO R K SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF KINGS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO WACHOVIA MORTGAGE, FSB, FORMERLY KNOWN AS WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB, Plaintiff, vs.

LEONARD A BOWE, et al., Defendants NOTICE OF LEGAL POSTPONEMENT OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT In pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the office of the County Clerk of Kings County on August 10, 2017, I, Zvi Aryeh Storch, Esq., the Referee named in said Judgment, will sell in one parcel at public auction on May 17, 2018 at Room 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, County of Kings, State of New York, at 2:30 P.M., the premises described as follows: 515 Crescent Street Brooklyn, NY 11208 SBL No.: 4235-15 ALL THAT TRACT OF PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York The premises are sold subject to the provisions of the filed judgment, Index No. 18085/12 in the amount of $603,421.25 plus interest and costs. This sale was originally scheduled for April 19, 2018, at 2:30 P.M., and has been postponed to May 17, 2018, at 2:30 P.M. Brittany J Maxon, Esq. Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Plaintiff’s Attorney 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St. Rochester, New York 14614 Tel.: 855-227-5072

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Sideline the NFL’s Manufactured Idea of Patriotism ■■ By: Assemblymember Walter T. Mosley

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ast week, the National Football League issued a un-American policy that will prohibit players from protesting the National Anthem by kneeling on the field. This new policy is a manufactured and forced form of patriotism that specifically targets people of color, and it should not be tolerated.

In 1791, members of Congress guaranteed Americans freedom of speech under the First Amendment. With the publication of their new policy, the NFL violated their players right to a peaceful right to protest that is afforded to them under the First Amendment.

This violation undoubtedly targets players of color. Black athletes make up 70 percent of the NFL, while 94 percent of the League’s franchise owners and 74 percent of head coaches are white. The attempt to silence the

majority of players for bringing attention to an important societal issue must not be taken lightly.

Fans, viewers, and Americans can see that this sad attempt to “compromise” only serves as a distraction from a much-needed and broader conversation about racial injustice and police brutality.

As a son and grandson of former members of the NYPD and of our armed services, my respect for our first-responders and military is without question or debate.

However, people of color across our country have time and time again been subject to violence and inequality. The injustices committed against people of color range from being followed around in a store, to being murdered at the hands of law enforcement.

It is this brutality that motivated San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to take a knee.

The truth is uncomfortable and ugly, but it is a reality we must face head-on in order to correct society’s wrongs.

Throughout last season, NFL players followed Kaepernick’s lead. Dozens of players from clubs across the country chose to exercise their right to peaceful protest, and many of us decided to throw our support behind them, acknowledging their fight and the reasons they offered by also taking a knee as the stars and stripes waved above. Not because we hate our country, but because we know our country can do better.

In the words of American novelist James Baldwin, “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for that reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

Injustices against people of color continue every day, in every town, and in every city across our great nation. It doesn’t matter if you’re a professional athlete, a student, waitress, teacher, advocate or a civil servant. If you feel an injustice, you have a right to show the world you want to see a change. Take a knee against the NFL.

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Remembering Emmanuel Babatunde Kolajo

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mmanuel Kolajo, Sr. was born on May 10th, 1947 in Lagos, Nigeria. He left Lagos at the age of 21 to go to Berlin, Germany to study. He later came to the U.S. in the early 1970's.

Mr. Kolajo served as Hattie Carthan Community Garden President from 2000-2015, helping to transform the garden into a vibrant ecosystem where people of all ages can commune together in the outdoors.

Emmanuel is survived by his wife of over 36 years Mrs. Ernestine WootenKolajo, daughter Tiffany Kolajo, son Emmanuel Kolajo, Jr.; stepsons Tydess Keith Bess, Curtis James Bess; daughter-in-law

Terri Blackmon-Bess; grandchildren Dequan Lowe, Kyara Harrison and ration Bess; Mary Adenyl, affectionately known as “Ma;” his garden family consisted of Albert, Lewis, Ms. Yonnette Fleming, Greg, Earl, Ms. Lula, Melvin and James Murchison.

We Matter, Get Counted!

Skipping The 2020 Census Citizenship Question? You’ll Still Be Counted ■■

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By Hansi Lo Wang

ncomplete questionnaires for the 2020 census, including those that leave the controversial citizenship question unanswered, will still be included in the upcoming U.S. headcount, the Census Bureau’s top official confirmed Wednesday to lawmakers.

“We process many surveys with incomplete responses. The census [was] certainly one of those [surveys] in the past. It will be in the future,” the bureau’s acting director, Ron Jarmin, testified on Capitol Hill during a House Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science Subcommittee hearing on the 2020 census.

Asked by Democratic Rep. Grace Meng of New York whether people who don’t fill out the citizenship question on the census form would be counted, Jarmin replied, “Yes, but we would definitely encourage people to fill it out as completely as possible.”

Calls to boycott the census have been circulating on social media since the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census form was announced in late March, despite warnings from lawmakers and civil rights groups about the long-term consequences of a census boycott on public policy, federal funding and health research. There have also been suggestions to just ignore the inquiry about U.S. citizenship status while answering the other census questions.

Skipping a census question Refusing to answer any census question, or intentionally giving a false answer to one, can result in a fine, according to federal law. And returning an incomplete census questionnaire may lead to a phone call or an in-person visit to your home by workers from the Census Bureau, which hired more than 600,000 door-knockers to follow up with households that did not respond to the 2010 census.

That’s because the U.S. Constitution

requires the government to count every person living in the country once a decade. The data the census collects are used to reapportion seats in the House of Representatives, draw legislative districts and distribute an estimated $800 billion in federal funds every year.

The Census Bureau has not asked all U.S. households about citizenship since 1950. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, approved adding the question to the 2020 census last month after reviewing a last-minute request from the Justice Department, which says it needs a better count of voting-age citizens to enforce the Voting Rights Act’s provisions against voting discrimination of racial and language minority groups.

Critics of the question say the estimates of U.S. citizens the DOJ currently uses are sufficient, and they cite the bureau’s own research suggesting that asking about citizenship on the census could lower the response rate among immigrants and communities of color.

To fill in the blanks on 2020 census forms, the bureau is planning to use, for the first time, personal information from federal and state records, such as tax returns and Medicaid applications, as well as public utility records. The Census Bureau is discussing whether to use administrative records to answer the citizenship question on incomplete questionnaires and has not made a decision yet, the Census Bureau’s head of the 2020 census, Albert Fontenot, told NPR

after speaking at the Population Association of America’s annual meeting.

Discouraging noncitizens?

During Wednesday’s two-hour hearing on Capitol Hill, Meng and other Democratic lawmakers — including Reps. José Serrano and Nita Lowey, both of New York, and Rep. Derek Kilmer of Washington state — repeatedly raised concerns that the citizenship question would discourage noncitizens, especially immigrants without legal status, from filling out the census at all.

Jarmin acknowledged “there could be

some” impact on response rates among noncitizens and other immigrant groups.

Federal law prohibits the Census Bureau from releasing information identifying an individual to other federal agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But the bureau can share data at the neighborhood level about specific population groups, as it did during World War II when the government targeted U.S. citizens of Japanese descent and forced them from their homes and into incarceration camps.

“Many communities want assurances and deserve assurances that something like that, which happened to American citizens, would not ever happen again,” Meng told Jarmin during the hearing.

The bureau has previously apologized for its role in the incarceration of JapaneseAmericans and increased protections for people’s personal information after the war.

Jarmin noted, however, that there remains a tension between “data users who want more accurate data at a more granular level and trying to protect the confidentiality of individual households.”

With less than two years before the headcount begins, it’s not clear if the citizenship question will stay on the final 2020 census questionnaire. The question has launched a legal fight involving multiple lawsuits trying to get it removed.

In Congress, Democratic lawmakers are working on bills that would block the question.

Jarmin told lawmakers that he hopes the questionnaire will be finalized by this fall. Any changes to the questions introduced next year, he warned, are “going to cost money.”

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Bed-Stuy Trees Continue to Grow Strong ➔➔ Continued from page 9 many who are now leaders in the community. His presence and the entire day were testaments to the latest take on an old metaphorical adage, Brooklyn grows big trees.

In addition to the community day project, the school recognized Our Time Press and the Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford Stuyvesant with a plaque. Both entities have been partnering with Brooklyn elementary and middle schools since April to ensure student involvement across the board in community stability and urban ecology. Mr. Greaves is publisher of Our Time Press and chair of the Center.

Mr. Vann, who commented on the importance of the work of Mr. Greaves and Ms. Gates, who like him, are native-born to Bedford-Stuyvesant, was especially pleased with the positive energy in all he saw and experienced at P.S. 5 that day.

“As soon as I stepped through the doors of this school, I thought to myself, ‘Something good is happening here at Dr. Ronald E. McNair School. Something very good.’ ” Yaasantewa Mensah

Rent or Rides? Poor New Yorkers Shouldn’t Have to Choose ➔➔ Continued from page 9 in the 2019 Fiscal Year budget, Mayor Bill de Blasio, the “Tale of Two Cities Mayor,” is still holding out.

Earlier this month, TRA and CSS were at 125th St. and St. Nicholas Ave. in Harlem to kick off a weeklong “Call the Mayor” campaign, offering phones for riders to use on the spot. They were asking people to voice their demand for Fair Fares after Mayor de Blasio's dismissal.

The MTA is under state control, so de Blasio wants Governor Cuomo to come up with the money for halffare cards. But upon experiencing public pushback from Cuomo and criticism from straphanger advocates and newspaper editorial boards (they say he has the money), de Blasio came up with his own plan. His Fair Fix plan would raise income tax 0.534 percent on individuals making more than $500,000 and couples making $1 million or more. This amounts to less than one percent of New Yorkers, says the mayor, but would allow for badly needed transit repairs and pay for the half-price fare cut. This tax increase was projected to raise $700 million in 2018 and $800 million by 2022. The problem is that the state legislature has to sign off on his plan and lawmakers don’t see Albany doing that this year.

Rebecca Bailin, campaign manager for TRA says, “New Yorkers can’t wait for a tax from Albany that may or may not come through.” She made the point that students, seniors and people with disabilities already receive discounted fares and that the same should apply for those who live at or below the poverty line.

On Racism ➔➔ Continued from page 1 instantly to millions. Of course, White America is shocked and appalled that this kind of thing is going on minute by minute across the country. But now it is brought to both the descendants of those who worked the slave trade or profited from it, and the descendants of the Abolitionist community and those sympathetic to the slave, and the descendants of the succeeding European immigrants, surprised at this streak of evil that runs through the American consciousness.

In the same way that after a mass shooting there are prayers offered and calls made for gun control that never happens, expressed racist sentiments are regularly and vehemently decried as “disgusting,” and “repugnant,” and yet things remain the same. What action will be taken to address the effects?

Will the Area Median Income for Bedford-Stuyvesant be changed so that affordable housing means something to people just getting by?

Will MWBE programs stop using “minority,” putting African-Americans in the same category as

New Yorkers living in poverty rarely purchase monthly MetroCards. They can’t afford them. So they pay $7 more per month purchasing weekly cards at $32 each – those who can, that is. For many New Yorkers in financial need even a weekly MetroCard is unaffordable when feeding a family and paying rent on minimum wages. People save cards with small amounts and have them combined on one card by token booth clerks to make a few full fares. And MTA Chairman Joe Lhota says that fares are almost certain to rise again in 2019.

When Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced earlier this year that the borough will cease prosecuting most fare-evasion arrests, Brooklyn DA Gonzalez followed by saying he was considering the same. The mayor and MTA Chairman Joe Lhota were vehemently opposed to Vance’s decision, though they have no power to change it.

“A lot of people who commit fare evasion and [whom] the police encounter, have a lot of money on them,” said the mayor.

David Jones strongly disagrees, saying, “If they really want to test this out, they should try it out on the Second Avenue subway.”

And Jones said elsewhere, “New York City spends upwards of $50 million dollars every year to arrest, prosecute or fine low-income New Yorkers… Why not use these city resources to help economically disadvantaged New Yorkers access transit, instead of punishing them for being poor?”

This is a civil rights issue. others? History and current evidence demonstrate that Black people are in a category of their own, even unto the loss of native language and religion, and they should be in a category of their own for the rebuilding of a people.

Racism isn’t just an assault on the body or a hurting of feelings, it is an assault on the pocketbook and wallet and it has successfully kept Black and Brown people at the bottom of all economic indicators.

Racism is most obviously recognized as a common denominator throughout the criminal justice system at every stage, from the lawmaker, to the street, to the prison. What about those losing the most productive years of their lives, grabbed, tried, convicted and caged - guilty of being Black at the wrong time? Are those just the breaks?

Roseanne Barr is not an anomaly, she is someone an African-American is liable to meet on any day and not just in passing. Because often the Barr-type, or Barr-type-lite, is in a position to determine the course of a Black person’s life and that of their children.

This is where the rubber hits the road with the micro-aggressions, and there is little to be done about them. What can be changed are laws and institutions, what is needed is the will.

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Cuomo Issues 24,000 Conditional Pardons Restoring Right To Vote To New Yorkers On Parole ➔➔ Continued from page 6 participation, make our political process more inclusive, and affirm the fundamental rights of all New Yorkers. This progressive action will strengthen New York’s democracy. The work now falls to communities across the state to ensure parolees are registered, engaged and heard.”

Reverend Al Sharpton, President & Founder of the National Action Network said, “I applaud Governor Cuomo for taking action to ensure members of our community are afforded the opportunity to have their voices heard. By delivering this basic right of citizenship,

individuals who are acclimating back into society will be empowered to contribute to New York’s democratic process and in turn, help support a better, stronger state for generations to come.”

VOCAL-NY Co-Executive Director Alyssa Aguilera said, “Voting restrictions such as those addressed by the Governor today developed out of specific intentions to disenfranchise people of color and Black people specifically following emancipation. New York has finally taken this crucial step forward to restore voting rights to people on parole who never should have been disenfranchised to begin with.”

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Kingsbrook Emergency Department: Fast Door-to-Doctor Times, Advanced Technologies, and Specialized Care Optimize Patient Outcomes

round mid-morning, 64-year old retired truck driver Jack T. felt something very strange was happening to him: “My brain was telling my right arm to move, but it just wouldn’t work.” As Jack described his symptom to his wife, Betty, he suggested they wait and see if the symptoms subsided. But Betty was having none of it.

“C’mon, Jack,” she announced.“We’re going to the ER!”* One in five Americans will need to visit an Emergency Room this year -- whether for that weekend or middle-of-the-night injury or illness, or the extreme or worrisome symptom that demands immediate attention. Thankfully, residents of Central Brooklyn have an advanced ER facility nearby, with staff ready and able to handle whatever comes their way.

In 2015, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center completed a major renovation of its emergency and urgent care facilities -- increasing the number of patient beds, improving its patient-flow processes, and implementing state-of-the-art technologies and services. That investment has allowed the Kingsbrook ED, a full-service ambulance-receiving 911 facility, to handle an additional 6000 patient cases each year. The number of ED visits for the hospital totaled more than 40,000 in 2017. Most importantly, the updates have improved the ED’s ability to deliver fast and accurate diagnoses -- and life-saving treatment -- to the many patients who come through its doors. Because of the quality of Kingsbrook’s ED, it has been

designated as a FDNY Cardiac Arrest Center, and a New York State stroke center.

Fast Door-to-Doctor Times. Reports Dr. Vijay Akkapeddi, Chairman of KJMC’s Emergency Department, “Patients are seen in our Emergency Room within 10 minutes of their arrival, with Fast-Track patients -- those with minor injuries and uncomplicated conditions -- within 15 minutes.” The shorter the wait time, the more quickly doctors can diagnose and treat life-threatening conditions such as heart attack or stroke, and the less likely any patient will leave the ED without receiving needed medical treatment. Those Kingsbrook wait-time statistics are impressive: According to the Centers for Disease Control, less than a third of all patient visits to U.S. hospital emergency rooms will result in the patient being seen by a doctor in fewer than 15 minutes, with an average ER wait time of 24 minutes.

TeleStroke Center. Kingsbrook’s Emergency Department is a member of the TeleStroke System, which allows its staff to communicate in real time with off-site stroke specialists. The ED team can instantly share patient test results with their TeleStroke partner physicians, who can then participate in a real-time bedside assessment of the Kingsbrook patient -- via live video conference – to evaluate the patient’s physical and mental acuity. And every minute counts. “In the care of a stroke patient,” explains Akkapeddi, “the mantra is ‘Time is brain.’ It is estimated that millions of brain cells die in every 15 minutes they

are deprived of blood, so it is critical to begin treatment within a few hours of the start of the stroke.” Informed by the TeleStroke diagnosis, the Kingsbrook medical team can administer appropriate life-saving drug therapies, or transfer the patient to its onsite neurosurgical team for emergency surgical procedures.

Observation Bed Unit. In 2017, a $3.0 million renovation project within the Kingsbrook Emergency Department created seven private observation rooms. These observation beds provide medically-appropriate patients with short-term treatment, assessment, and reassessment to determine whether they can be safely discharged from the hospital, thus avoiding a hospital inpatient stay. “The observation care model has shown benefits for both the hospital and the patient by reducing avoidable hospital admissions,” says Akkapeddi. “It also avoids premature release of ED patients who would benefit from further treatment and monitoring.” Observation-stay patients who have been discharged home receive follow-up phone calls within 24 hours to assure all is well.

Patient Care Navigators. All patients treated in the Kingsbrook Emergency Department receive the services of a Care Navigator, who links the discharged ER patient with their primary care physician (PCP) to schedule a follow-up visit with the PCP. If the patient does not have a PCP, the Navigator will suggest one to them, and with the patient’s consent, will call that physician to make the

appointment. The use of Care Navigators have been shown to significantly reduce the re-admissions of ER patients and to increases patient satisfaction.

Within 10 minutes of Betty and Jack’s arrival at Kingsbrook’s Emergency Department, Jack was examined by Dr. Vijay Akkapeddi.

Suspecting that Jack was experiencing a stroke, Akkapeddi quickly sent him for a CT Scan, and requested a consult with the TeleStroke team.

Within moments of completion, Jack’s brain images were shared with the off-site specialists, who then joined a bedside assessment via a video conferencing link. They quickly confirmed with the Kingsbrook ED team that Jack was having an ischemic stroke, an event in which a blood clot blocks a blood vessel in the brain. Dr. Akkapeddi’s team immediately administered thrombolytic “clot-busting” drugs, which cleared the blockage and restored blood flow to Jack’s brain. Jack was admitted to Kingsbrook inpatient care, and within five days was released from the hospital with all his neurological symptoms reversed. * Reflects actual patient case, though patient and family names have been changed.

Emergency Department at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center NYS DOH Stroke Center FDNY-designated 911 Cardiac Arrest Center A member of Tele-Stroke network 585 Schenectady Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203