Advice for Tenant and Homeowner Housing Problems @ Thursday, March 24 Albemarle Neighborhood Ass’n (ANA) Meeting
At its Thursday, March 24 meeting, the Albemarle Neighborhood Association (ANA) will host speakers from Brooklyn Housing & Family Services.This organization has a 38–year history of protecting and preserving Brooklyn’s rent stabilized, low-income and immigrant tenants and assisting home owners in retaining their homes. The speakers will offer remedies for renters’ and homeowners’ housing problems, including advice on preventing mortgage foreclosure..
The ANA meeting will take place from 7-8 p.m. at the Flatbush & Shaare Torah Jewish Center, 327 E. 5th Street, corner of Church Avenue. (Please use wheelchair-accessible entrance on the ground floor.) The meeting is free and open to all, including nonmembers. Foodtown and ANA will provide refreshments.
“The music thing is an aberration. That was never ever a concern of any of our neighbors,” said Steve Ettlinger. “It’s a complete distraction. It’s a free-for-all and an indictment of the web.” Two things: One, the legacy of Flatbush Avenue as a home for businesses catering to African American shoppers—from its hair salons to Afrocentric children’s clothing stores to Christie’s Jamaican Patties, two blocks down the avenue at Park Place, that is so popular, double-decker tour buses are known to stop there, has been slipping away recently as new businesses catering to the yuppies just north and south of the strip proliferate: from Franny’s, the high-end pizzeria located in a former pet store, to American Apparel with its glitzy outpost in the former Plaza Twin movie theater at Flatbush and Seventh Avenue, to Flatbush Farm, the hipster bar and eatery with attached high-end grocery-boutique, the avenue is changing.
And in Park Slope, that had bred suspicion and wariness—of the sort documented by Fucked in Park Slope, and echoed by locals who say they find they are defending themselves against accusations of racism more and more.
A horrific car crash on Ocean Avenue late Monday evening has R”L claimed the life of a Moshe Berkowitz Z”L, a 25-year-old Yeshiva Bochur. The accident occurred on Ocean Avenue at the corner of Avenue N – just opposite the Flatbush Hatzolah Garage. Hatzolah members were at the garage when the crash happened, and were tending to the victims in under 30 seconds.
Although an investigation is underway, highly credible sources tell FlatbushScoop.com that the Bochur was driving Eastbound on Avenue N, when the drivers side of his vehicle was struck by a vehicle travelling Southbound on Ocean Avenue at a high rate of speed. His vehicle was literally crushed from the tremendous impact, and he was in traumatic arrest instantly. Hatzolah Paramedics extricated him from the vehicle, and were doing everything to save his life while transporting him to the hospital. Tragically, he was pronounced dead upon arrival at Maimonides Hospital.
The other vehicle had two occupants. A female passenger was transported to Lutheran Trauma Center with a fractured femur, and the driver was transported to Kings County Hospital in stable condition.
According to sources, the vehicle allegedly smelled from alcohol, as did the drivers breath. He was reportedly arrested at Kings County Hospital.
Misaskim units were dispatched to the scene to perform their Avodas Hakodesh.
He is a Talmud at Yeshiva Ohr Yitzchok in Flatbush.
They filmed this in a park around the corner from me (92 Park on Winthrop between Bedford nd Rogers in Flatbush).
I love my Brooklyn Heritage. Appreciate your hood or where ever your from. Suburb, Boondock, City, Hood, Desert or anywhere else. Embrace the place that raises you, good or bad, you still have to acknowledge where you came from.
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11AM, Mar 17 2011
