This reminds me of some of the post and habits of the Ditmas Park blog. Watch the video. It's an eye opener.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNu-WZdHzaA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIVgMvuCM_k
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Undercover cops being profiled by their own
From NY 1.
A new survey finds that one out of six undercover police officers have been in confrontations with other police officers who thought they were suspects, which provides insight into preventing mistaken identity in the NYPD.
A new survey finds that one out of six undercover police officers have been in confrontations with other police officers who thought they were suspects, which provides insight into preventing mistaken identity in the NYPD.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said in Manhattan today that he sent Governor David Paterson a letter containing the results of the survey of about 200 undercover police officers and the NYPD's other efforts to prevent so-called "friendly fire" shootings. Read more
Skating at Prospect Park
ICE SKATING AT BROOKLYN’S PROSPECT PARK
Skating Season Starts November 26
Admission is:
• Adults: $5 (ages 15 and up)
• Children (14 and under) and Seniors: $3
Skate Rental: $6.50 (tax included)
Keep checking www.prospectpark.org for updates on special free admission days, theme music events and other great promotions, including:
· Every Friday: half-price admission! (does not include skate rental charge, holidays excluded).
· New York Rangers merchandise give-a-way, Saturday, December 4, from 4 – 7 p.m.
· Improve your skills at a Skating Clinic offered by the Prospect Park Skating Center. Free (with Rink admission) on Saturday December 5 and Sunday December 6 at noon (space limited).
· Disco music skate , Saturday, December 18, 7 – 9 p.m
While at the Rink, enjoy warm food, lite bites, hot chocolate and other refreshments from the Kate’s Corner snack bar.
The rink is open the following hours:
November 26 - March 14, 2010
Mondays 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Tuesdays 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Wednesdays 8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Thursdays 8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Fridays 8:30 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Saturdays 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 2 – 6 p.m.; 7 – 10 p.m.
Sundays 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 2 – 6 p.m.
Thanksgiving Holiday Hours
Thursday, Nov. 26: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 2 – 6 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 27: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 2 – 6 p.m.; 7 – 9 p.m.
See www.prospectpark.org for other holiday hours.
Wollman Rink is a great place for winter fun all season long. Take lessons, throw a skating party, take a leisurely spin around the ice, and enjoy a snack and a hot chocolate.
For info on skating conditions, call (718) 287-6431 • Skating Parties (718) 287-6215 • Group Reservations (718) 287-5252
Find out about lessons and group sports offered by the Skate School, Figure Skating Club and Brooklyn Blades Ice Hockey at http://www.prospectpark.org/
Plus checkout the hottest thing on ice: Broomball, offered by the NYC Social Sports Club.
Directions:
Wollman Rink is located near the Parkside and Ocean Avenue entrance to Prospect Park. Free parking is available. Interactive map.
Enter the Park at Lincoln Road & Ocean Ave., Parkside & Ocean Aves., or Flatbush Ave. & Empire Blvd. (Willink entrance) and follow the directional signs. By train: Q, S, or B to Prospect Park Station. By bus: B-16, B-41, B-43 and B-48 will bring you close to the Park’s Willink entrance.
For holiday skating hours, as well as more information on Prospect Park events, programs, membership and volunteering at the Park, call the Park Hotline at (718) 965-8999
or visit www.prospectpark.org
Dial 311 for all Parks & Recreation information
In partnership with the City of New York and the community, the Prospect Park Alliance restores, develops, and operates Prospect Park for the enjoyment of all by caring for the natural environment, preserving historic design, and serving the public through facilities and programs. Prospect Park’s 585 acres of meadows, waterfalls, forest, lakes, and athletic facilities comprise a masterwork of urban green space.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Head Grabbing Line
I have not posted much in the past few months unless there is grave news or other interesting happenings. This case is one. There have been a number of disturbing post and racially tinge post over at the Ditmas Park blog. Enough so that it warrants a reaction. Giving the history of racial tensions and crimes throughout the history of this country and this neighborhood in particular, one would think that the Ditmas Park blog would be more responsible with what they write. This has not been the case. From its inception they have made a number of insensitive and racially tinge posts. There have been a number of incidences in Ditmas Park, much of which does not warrant the scrutiny giving to it by the Ditmas Park blog. Thus it did not surprise me that when dug a little deeper into the author of the blog, I’ve found an interesting tidbit. Ben Smith is also a blogger for Polico. During the presidential elections he was called out for his posting insinuating that Barack Obama was somehow channeling Malcolm X. See it here. These are not the only instances that this blogger as well as the Ditmas Park blog has been called out for their questionable postings. I’ve been getting death threats, hate mail and all sorts of garbage ever since this blog has been in existence. A couple of post from the ditmas park blog to illustrate this form of race baiting.
1. Black guy who could have been anyone between the ages of 18-35 ties up a young vulnerable white girl in her Victorian house and mugs her. A picture accompanying this post shows a composite of a dark skin man with a mask. So how is it possible to recognize the perpetrator? This could have been anyone. I suspect giving the history of the NYPD and the 70th precinct in particular, this was a poor excuse for racial profiling of black youth in the community. This story has never been substantiated. For all we know this could have been a hoax, but the damage has already been done. Let’s suspect all black youth in the neighborhood as potential criminals.
2. Lesbian feels threaten by cat calls. That’s breaking news. I don’t know of any lesbians who are particular glad men are cat calling them. I suspect what happen in this case was that a bunch of idiots tried to talk to these women. The women more than likely brush them of. One of the guys probably said something stupid. Now it’s all over the Ditmas Park blog as a Hate Crime, with the insinuation that it’s those troubled young black youth again making these white women feel so uncomfortable with their cat calls. Let’s have a meeting and self-defense classes. (gotta love capitalism huh). My two cents is that this was probably a stupid comment made by some stupid kid. But the Ditmas Park blog wants to race bait this as some kind of hate crime. Giving the history and violence throughout the history of this country’s involvement in incidences of young black being kill, lynch, falsely accused of rape and having their lives turn upside down. Shouldn’t the Ditmas Park blog be more sensitive to what they post? What is the ultimate purpose of all this. Are we learning anything from these incidences? Or is this just a ploy to get people riled up, just for the sake of riling them up. These posts on the Ditmas Park will only serve to create more distrust, hatred, racism, people going back to their respective corners, marginalization and could ultimately have more detrimental effects on the heart and soul of an individual who continue to read this type of race baiting, sub-conscious racist blog. I say Sub-conscience racist blog, because as vice-president Jo Biden said once. You can never know what’s in the heart and mind of an individual. After they post their stories they can always fall back on plausible deniability. At the same time, the pattern remains that they will usually be at least one blatant racist comment in the comments section. With one of the moderator Ben Smith or Lina chiming in that such comments will not be tolerated. Well if you don’t want such comments and the pattern has continued throughout your blog. WHY CONTINUE TO POST THESE RACIALLY CHARGED postings on your blog? You can’t question someone’s motives. There is no way to know what’s truly in someone’s heart or mind. We all to some extinct have had bad thoughts or ill will towards people who may have not look, talk or be in the same socio-economic background as us. But within us we also have that great capacity to see the beauty and goodness in our fellow human beings. That capacity to learned and enriched ourselves from different cultures. That needs to be nurtured more and be front-centered. It’s that other-nism that seems to plague this country. As this country, city and neighborhood becomes more diversify, it’s a dangerous idea and it serves no person. These are demons that should be fought in our own thoughts, mind, habits and heart, not nurtured and coddled by a blog looking to grab the next headline. To have a blog that keeps us in this perpetual other-nism. That reminds us of this kind of “they’re not like us” attitude. “Watch out for them.” I may not question the motive behind a blog like that. What I can question is their judgment and lack of sensitivity to those issues.
1. Black guy who could have been anyone between the ages of 18-35 ties up a young vulnerable white girl in her Victorian house and mugs her. A picture accompanying this post shows a composite of a dark skin man with a mask. So how is it possible to recognize the perpetrator? This could have been anyone. I suspect giving the history of the NYPD and the 70th precinct in particular, this was a poor excuse for racial profiling of black youth in the community. This story has never been substantiated. For all we know this could have been a hoax, but the damage has already been done. Let’s suspect all black youth in the neighborhood as potential criminals.
2. Lesbian feels threaten by cat calls. That’s breaking news. I don’t know of any lesbians who are particular glad men are cat calling them. I suspect what happen in this case was that a bunch of idiots tried to talk to these women. The women more than likely brush them of. One of the guys probably said something stupid. Now it’s all over the Ditmas Park blog as a Hate Crime, with the insinuation that it’s those troubled young black youth again making these white women feel so uncomfortable with their cat calls. Let’s have a meeting and self-defense classes. (gotta love capitalism huh). My two cents is that this was probably a stupid comment made by some stupid kid. But the Ditmas Park blog wants to race bait this as some kind of hate crime. Giving the history and violence throughout the history of this country’s involvement in incidences of young black being kill, lynch, falsely accused of rape and having their lives turn upside down. Shouldn’t the Ditmas Park blog be more sensitive to what they post? What is the ultimate purpose of all this. Are we learning anything from these incidences? Or is this just a ploy to get people riled up, just for the sake of riling them up. These posts on the Ditmas Park will only serve to create more distrust, hatred, racism, people going back to their respective corners, marginalization and could ultimately have more detrimental effects on the heart and soul of an individual who continue to read this type of race baiting, sub-conscious racist blog. I say Sub-conscience racist blog, because as vice-president Jo Biden said once. You can never know what’s in the heart and mind of an individual. After they post their stories they can always fall back on plausible deniability. At the same time, the pattern remains that they will usually be at least one blatant racist comment in the comments section. With one of the moderator Ben Smith or Lina chiming in that such comments will not be tolerated. Well if you don’t want such comments and the pattern has continued throughout your blog. WHY CONTINUE TO POST THESE RACIALLY CHARGED postings on your blog? You can’t question someone’s motives. There is no way to know what’s truly in someone’s heart or mind. We all to some extinct have had bad thoughts or ill will towards people who may have not look, talk or be in the same socio-economic background as us. But within us we also have that great capacity to see the beauty and goodness in our fellow human beings. That capacity to learned and enriched ourselves from different cultures. That needs to be nurtured more and be front-centered. It’s that other-nism that seems to plague this country. As this country, city and neighborhood becomes more diversify, it’s a dangerous idea and it serves no person. These are demons that should be fought in our own thoughts, mind, habits and heart, not nurtured and coddled by a blog looking to grab the next headline. To have a blog that keeps us in this perpetual other-nism. That reminds us of this kind of “they’re not like us” attitude. “Watch out for them.” I may not question the motive behind a blog like that. What I can question is their judgment and lack of sensitivity to those issues.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Prospect Park
Saturday, May 16
Hundreds of Volunteers will help care for Brooklyn’s great, landmark Park
Take ownership of your Park! Join a citywide effort to tidy up and support our urban greenspaces, including Prospect Park. On It’s My Park! Day, our volunteers will be all geared up with brooms, shovels, rakes, and trash grabbers. Come down and receive a free T-shirt and other goodies. Bring a friend!
10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Meet at the Wollman Rink in Prospect Park. The Wollman Rink is best accessed through the Parkside/Ocean Avenues entrance or the Lincoln Road/Ocean Avenue entrance to the Park. Q, S, or B Train to Prospect Park station
Call (718) 965-8960 for more information or visit http://www.prospectpark.org/
For information on It’s My Park! Day events at other NYC Parks, visit http://www.
Volunteer at Prospect Park year-Round!
Anyone can join the Prospect Park Volunteer Corps: individuals and families, students and retirees, friends and neighbors. Community and corporate groups are also encouraged to help the Park by joining the Volunteer Corps. Upcoming Volunteer information sessions will be held in the Litchfield Villa conference room, 95 Prospect Park West, between 4th & 5th Streets:
May 13 Volunteer info session @ 4 p.m.
http://www.prospectpark.org/
May 27 Volunteer info session @ 6:30 p.m.
Cash For Trash
Volunteering to clean up the Park just got more rewarding! The Independence Community Foundation, a long-time Prospect Park supporter, has agreed to donate $10 for every bag of trash or plant debris collected by Volunteers before June 30th. Sign up to be a volunteer now, and help keep Prospect Park beautiful for years to come: http://www.prospectpark.org/
For more information on Prospect Park events, programs, membership, and volunteering, call the Park Hotline at (718) 965-8999 or visit www.prospectpark.org
Dial 311 for all Parks & Recreation information
In partnership with the City of New York and the community, the Prospect Park Alliance
restores, develops, and operates Prospect Park for the enjoyment of all by caring for the
natural environment, preserving historic design, and serving the public through facilities
and programs. Prospect Park’s 585 acres of meadows, waterfalls, forest, lakes,
and athletic facilities comprise a masterwork of urban green space.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Dollar Van Demos
I got a message from this great new youtube channel called Dollar Van Demos. It's a novel idea. Basically artist who rap and sing while riding a dollar van with real passengers. You gotta love the reaction of some of the passengers. I'll have to admit I thoroughly enjoyed some of the videos. My favorite video is probably this one.
check it out.
Hello The Real Flatbush,
Enjoy reading your stuff-- keep it up.
Please check out Dollar Van Demos, a new music video showcase for performers inside a dollar van with real passengers on the streets of Brooklyn. It's unpredictable fun and a great promotion for underground artists. The artists Isaiah, Crosby and Leeia Music deserve a little bit of your time and consideration.
Thank you most kindly and we welcome any feedback you may have. We're shooting additional videos next week so look for more videos soon!
Best regards,
JR
--
JOE REVITTE
DOLLAR VAN DEMOS
DOLLARVANDEMOS@GMAIL.COM
check it out.
Hello The Real Flatbush,
Enjoy reading your stuff-- keep it up.
Please check out Dollar Van Demos, a new music video showcase for performers inside a dollar van with real passengers on the streets of Brooklyn. It's unpredictable fun and a great promotion for underground artists. The artists Isaiah, Crosby and Leeia Music deserve a little bit of your time and consideration.
Thank you most kindly and we welcome any feedback you may have. We're shooting additional videos next week so look for more videos soon!
Best regards,
JR
--
JOE REVITTE
DOLLAR VAN DEMOS
DOLLARVANDEMOS@GMAIL.COM
Saturday, March 21, 2009
A post worth posting
Getting Home Safely Just Got Easier!
A public service announcement from RightRides for Women’s Safety
RightRides offers women, transgender and gender queer individuals a free, safe, late night ride home on Saturday nights from 11:59 PM - 3 AM, early Sunday morning in 35 NYC neighborhoods. To get a ride simply call 1-888-215-SAFE(7233) during the hours of operation.
On October 25, 2008, RightRides is expanding its service area to include five additional neighborhoods, increasing the count of neighborhoods served to 40.
New neighborhoods include:
· Flatbush/Borough Park/Kensington, Brooklyn
· Astoria, Queens
· Woodside/Sunnyside, Queens
· Greater Harlem area, Manhattan
· Midtown (for pick-ups only), Manhattan
For more information or to view a service area map, visit: www.rightrides.org
RightRides is 100% volunteer run and operates a fleet of up to 6 cars every weekend. To get more information about volunteering or how to get involved e-mail Erin Armstrong, Program Manager for RightRides, at Erin@RightRides.org
RightRides was founded in 2004 in direct response to an increase in assaults on women walking home by themselves. Our motto is, "Because Getting Home Safely Shouldn't Be A Luxury " and we recognize that many women and trans people do not have the extra funds to take a taxi and walking home from public transportation late at night can increase one's risk of sexual harassment and assault.
Since 2004, RightRides has driven over 1,500 riders safely home. If you think getting home safely shouldn’t be a luxury, pass this information along to your friends and family!
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