Medgar Evers College is trying to improve graduation and retention rates, but those efforts have divided the school's faculty. Opposition to some of the reforms has become intertwined with fears about a larger demographic change in the neighborhood.
Instructors at the Brooklyn college are divided over how to improve poor graduation numbers—and on whether the faculty on hand are qualified to operate a new science center.
Yaakov “Jack” Fuzailov, a barber, has twice been displaced since the 2004 rezoning—once for development of a building that was never built, and a second time by a landlord seeking higher rent that, apparently, he never obtained.
An advocacy group’s survey says police harassment of methadone patients is common. Statistics suggest methadone-related arrests are rare.
In 2009 a controversy over wages scuttled a plan to build a mall in the long-empty Kingsbridge Armory. Now there’s a plan to host bike races there. Is a renovation project finally getting in gear?
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