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Traitor Among Us

Posted in POLITRICKS, tagged , , on Tuesday, November10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Traitor Among Us | Room Eight
Traitor Among Usposted by Mary Alice MillerMon, 11/09/2009 – 2:56pm
All weekend, I have been mulling over whether I should post this. As someone who tries not to allow myself to be easily manipulated, I had to make sure I was not being goaded into reacting instead of responding. I [...]

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Paule Marshall’s ‘Triangular Road’ Begins in Bedford-Stuyvesant

Posted in BOOKS-SIGNINGS, COMMUNITY, tagged , on Thursday, March12, 2009 | Comments Off

Voyage of a Girl Moored in Brooklyn
By FELICIA R. LEE
Paule Marshall’s coming-of-age novel, “Brown Girl, Brownstones,” put her on the map 50 years ago with a new kind of coming-of-age story, that of a second-generation West Indian girl in Brooklyn.
 Now, at 79, she is on tour for her latest book, “Triangular Road” (Basic Civitas Books), [...]

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A Grocery Guy’s Lament – Please Remember to Tip the Bagger

Posted in GENERAL, tagged on Monday, March9, 2009 | Comments Off

The Grocery Guy
By CAROLINE H. DWORIN
ALBERT HILL is not an employee of Key Food in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, but customers there recognize him. Slightly built at 65, and good-humored, with a wreath of salt-and-pepper stubble, he is sometimes called “the old man.”
Mr. Hill lives with his grown daughter, who does union work with the Metropolitan Transportation [...]

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In Brooklyn, Working to Help Their School in Haiti and Its City

Posted in COMMUNITY, EDUCATION, tagged on Tuesday, February17, 2009 | Comments Off

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In Brooklyn, Working to Help Their School in Haiti and Its City
By PETER DUFFY
For two decades and more, Haiti, a land of grinding poverty, has endured coups, riots, a repressive military regime and hurricanes, travails that have often been overlooked beyond its borders.
But one group of 60 Haitians, most of whom live in Brooklyn, has [...]

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The Virtual Bodega (and They Deliver)

Posted in GENERAL, SHOPPING, tagged on Monday, December22, 2008 | Comments Off

Brooklyn Up Close – In Brooklyn, the Virtual Bodega (And They Deliver) – NYTimes.com
The Virtual Bodega (and They Deliver)
By NIKO KOPPEL
WITH its corrugated steel awning, a yellow and red exterior with stickers and assorted merchandise lined up behind scratched plexiglass, the bodega is a fixture of the city. And now this New York institution is [...]

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