Thursday Links: Al Sharpton to Protest Brooklyn Street Named for General Lee
Brooklyn Startups Pitch Spacesuits, Bitcoin Apps [WSJ] The Center for Fiction Is Moving to the Brooklyn Cultural District [Eagle] Al Sharpton to Protest Brooklyn Street Named for Confederate Army Leader [Biz Insider] Live on Top of a Downtown Brooklyn Hotel From $2,400 [Curbed] Sugar Hill Buys Vacant Williamsburg Rental Building for $37 Million [TRD] New Myrtle Avenue…
Brooklyn Startups Pitch Spacesuits, Bitcoin Apps [WSJ]
The Center for Fiction Is Moving to the Brooklyn Cultural District [Eagle]
Al Sharpton to Protest Brooklyn Street Named for Confederate Army Leader [Biz Insider]
Live on Top of a Downtown Brooklyn Hotel From $2,400 [Curbed]
Sugar Hill Buys Vacant Williamsburg Rental Building for $37 Million [TRD]
New Myrtle Avenue Building May Rise Two Stories Higher Than Expected [DNA]
King Street in Red Hook.
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…and one other thing. Why doesn’t he just shut and pay his taxes.
And here we go again, reacting to Sharpton’s grandstanding and continuous need to create more racial tension than to solve it. People, this man does nothing more than exploit the very folks he claims to advocate for. Instead on marching down this street, why isn’t he demanding better schools, safer communities, helping the black elderly, black youth who can’t find a descent summer job or safe haven to hang out, seeking out positive male role models, working toward affordable/better housing, addressing the hopeless machine of foster care? Because marching down General Lee Ave will generate more press and get him on the front page of the NY Post. This man is a media whore.
Finally agree with you, and the point below by DIBS. The folks of the past had their devils by today’s standards, and not everyone should be expunged from history because of it, many progressed this country for all in spite of it. Building from DIBS’s comment, if we want to erase history, first start by our names. Nobody likely originated as a Garvey, Parks, Owens, Robinson, King, Till….you get the picture.
George Washington was a racist, as a slave owner, but there are many things named after him – even a state that wasn’t in existence when he was alive.