Labor Day brings a festive atmosphere to Crown Heights. In preparation for the West Indian American Day Parade, which marches up Eastern Parkway on Labor Day, the sidewalks fill preemptively with smokers. Neighbors share jerk chicken, escovitch fish, corn, and hard dow. In the days before the parade women line the sidewalk in their carnival … Continue reading Remembering Damon S. Allen This Labor Day
New York City's first memorial to 9/11 is The Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance, in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Located on the side of MCU Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones, the wall is comprised of three granite walls with laser-engraved portraits of 346 Firefighters, 37 Port Authority Officers, 23 NYC Police Officers, three NYS Officers, one … Continue reading The Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance
On Sunday, May 10th at 2 p.m.(ish) I left my apartment for a 2.23-mile walk to (and from) Bed-Stuy (formally Bedford-Stuyvestant) to honor Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old man murdered on February 23, in his own neighborhood of Satilla Shores, Georgia. Travis McMichael and his father Gregory McMichael followed (menaced) Arbery; Travis shot (murdered) Arbery after a brief confrontation. It wouldn't be … Continue reading #IRunWithMaud
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