Kelly Anderson’s acclaimed documentary examines the gentrification of downtown Brooklyn centering on the Fulton Mall. Anderson “strikes a fine balance between personal journal and political exposé” (Variety) as she seeks to understand the forces shaping her borough along race and class lines - See more at: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Public-Programming/Calendar/Detail?id=20734#sthash.EiOU5OqB.dpuf

Battle for Brooklyn
We created an outdoor set at Cumberland and Dekalb in Fort Greene, and talked with a bunch of Brooklynites — old and new — about the changes they see happening to the borough, how they feel about them and what they hope for the future. My Brooklyn is definitely Our Brooklyn, let’s work together to keep it real, diverse, affordable and great!

Questions Lead Way in One School's Teacher Training

Tiferes Bnos is an all-girls school located on the first floor of an apartment building near the border of the Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant sections of Brooklyn. It would be unsurprising if the school had a poor academic track record. None of the teachers went to college. All the students speak Yiddish as their first language. The vast majority of the schools 430 students are extremely poor. So are the teachers: the base teacher salary at the Orthodox Jewish school is just $6,000 dollars a year. The students spend less than half of the week studying math, reading, science and social studies; most of their class time is spent on religious instruction.

The principal started off the meeting, as she always does, with a critique of her own performance. Then, she spent most of the rest of the meeting listening. Teachers went around the circle, sharing obstacles they were facing and asking one another for advice about how to better monitor small-group work and manage their classrooms. More experienced teachers, a couple with several years on the job, shared ideas with the newcomers and offered to lead workshops about the topics that came up. Amsel suggested some books.




“They don’t feel forced to grow, but they would feel out of place if they didn’t,” she said.

'My Brooklyn: The Battle For The Soul Of A City' Documents Brooklyn Gentrification (VIDEO)

'My Brooklyn: The Battle For The Soul Of A City' Documents Brooklyn Gentrification (VIDEO)

Trailer

"My Brooklyn: The Battle For The Soul Of A City", a new documentary from Kelly Anderson and Allison Lirish Dean, tells the story of Brooklyn gentrification in an effort to show that the drastic changes the borough's undergone in the past decade are "not natural, but fueled by public policy."

My Brooklyn

A short walk from Fulton Mall is the ongoing project at Atlantic Yards, the focus of another recent documentary "Battle For Brooklyn", which chronicles a community's fight against the construction of the Bloomberg-supported future home of the Brooklyn Nets, Barclay's Center.

JEREMIAH'S VANISHING NEW YORK

'Battle For Brooklyn' Follows Daniel Goldstein's Fight Against Atlantic Yards Project (VIDEO)

BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN  is the epic and universal tale of one man under pressure, and how far he will go to save his community and his home from the private developers who want to build a basketball arena on top of it "Battle For Brooklyn" website  When completed, Atlantic Yards will include Barclay's Center, future home of the Brooklyn Nets, and  16 skyscrapers.

MB trailer 2012 from Kelly Anderson on Vimeo.

Brooklyn Museum Pins Its Digitized Photos to Historypin's Map

Brooklyn Museum Pins Its Digitized Photos to Historypin's Map - NYTimes.com

Using New Tools, Mapping Old Brooklyn

When the digital team at the Brooklyn Museum first looked at the New York images included on Historypin, a social sharing site for old images, something seemed to be missing.

“They had nothing in Brooklyn,” said Shelley Bernstein, the museum’s chief of technology.

The museum, meanwhile, has a lot in Brooklyn. Its collections include more than 3,500 images from the late 19th century, showing a city and borough long since passed; one whose citizens shared their avenues and parks withgeese, sheep and a buffalo named Mike.

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Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival 2011

Brooklyn Bodega and The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival always strive to unite people through Hip-Hop culture and the BEI emphasizes that mission furthermore by opening up the dialogue to a wide range of topics concerning the Hip-Hop community.

Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival 2011

Festival Calendar

Pratt Institute200 Willoughby Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11205

Bodega Education Initiative

The Bodega Education Initiative is a series of talks and discussions designed to create a space of dialogue between the diverse members of the Hip-Hop community. Attendees of BEI will learn about the history and content of Hip-Hop as seen through the pioneers and most intimate members of the culture. BEI will ultimately serve as a meeting point for all the different voices and perspectives within the Hip-Hop community: fans, artists, scholars, and practitioners in order to honor the history as well as add momentum to the culture.

This year’s BEI is "Beyond The Mic" a day of panel discussions and seminars designed to explore intellectual and academic issues facing the Hip-Hop community.

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