Why New York Our Segregated Schools Epidemic
WNYC Education Reporter Beth Fertig moderates a discussion on New York State's segregated schools epidemic. Panelists include Norm Fruchter of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times Magazine, Clara Hemphill, founder of insideschools.org, and Craig Gurian, Executive Director of the Anti-Discrimination Center.
This public program took place on Wednesday, September 16, 2015, at Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn, NY. Visit our website to learn more:
Why New York? Our Segregated Schools Epidemic Part 2: Tales from the Frontlines
In September 2015, Brooklyn Historical Society hosted a lively discussion about New York State's segregated schools epidemic with a panel of esteemed experts, academics, and advocates (watch here: But what's really happening on the ground? In Part 2, acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones moderates a discussion with people on the frontlines of this debate: Jill Bloomberg, Principal of Park Slope Collegiate; Takiema Bunche-Smith, PS 146 parent; Michelle Baptiste, PS 261 teacher and PS 92 teacher; Miriam Nurnberg, District 15 Parents for Middle School Equity; Faraji Hannah-Jones, PTA president in District 13; and Nate Okoroji, Brooklyn Tech student.
New York #2
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world—the New York metropolitan area. The city is referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. A global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.
The most interesting attractions in New York City:
Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Battery Park, Broadway, 5th Avenue, Ground Zero, Grand Central Terminal, Chrysler Building, Museum of Modern Art, Rockfeller Center, Carnegie Hall, United Nations, Times Square, Madame Tussauds, Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greenwich Village, East Village, Flatiron Building, Empire State Building, New York Central Park, Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Bridge, Williamsburg, Coney Island, Brighton Beach, New York Aquarium, Bronx Zoo, New York Botanical Garden, Yankee Stadium, City Hall, The Frick Collection, National Academy of Design, Museum of the City of New York, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, American Museum of Natural History, New York Historical Society, South Street Seaport, Gramercy Park, New York Public Library, St.Patrick’s Cathedral, Национальный музей американских индейцев
New York #1
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world—the New York metropolitan area. The city is referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. A global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.
The most interesting attractions in New York City:
Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Battery Park, Broadway, 5th Avenue, Ground Zero, Grand Central Terminal, Chrysler Building, Museum of Modern Art, Rockfeller Center, Carnegie Hall, United Nations, Times Square, Madame Tussauds, Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greenwich Village, East Village, Flatiron Building, Empire State Building, New York Central Park, Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Bridge, Williamsburg, Coney Island, Brighton Beach, New York Aquarium, Bronx Zoo, New York Botanical Garden, Yankee Stadium, City Hall, The Frick Collection, National Academy of Design, Museum of the City of New York, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, American Museum of Natural History, New York Historical Society, South Street Seaport, Gramercy Park, New York Public Library, St.Patrick’s Cathedral, Национальный музей американских индейцев
New York Now and Then: 1870s & 1880s vs 2010s
New York Now and Then shows before and after photos from New York City shot 1872-1887 compared to my photos shot 2013 and 2014. New York Now and Then includes photographs of New York from between 1872 and 1887, and then and now part is in regard to the fact that I shot the images in present day in the same locations.
This short film New York Now and Then pays tribute to a forgotten 19th century photographer. Be sure to also watch the behind the scenes video New York Now and Then: The Documentary.
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Music in New York Now and Then
Composed by Claude Debussy
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Music in The Creation of Video
30 Minute Meditative State
Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
End Credits Music in The Creation of Video
Sidewalks of New York
Composed by Charles B. Lawlor
Performed by Jordan Liles
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New York Rising at the New-York Historical Society
Out of the ashes of the British occupation of New York and Evacuation Day in November 1783 at the American Revolution's end, New York emerged as the first capital of the United States. It was where George Washington was inaugurated the first president; where the Northwest Ordinance, mandating westward expansion, was debated and signed in 1787; where the essays comprising the Federalist Papers advocating the ratification of the U.S. Constitution were written (by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay); where the First Congress sat in 1789; and where the Bill of Rights was introduced. As the place where Hamilton conceived of an American financial system, New York also became the American business capital of the country. Against the philosophical and intellectual framework of the Enlightenment, the New Yorkers who participated in the country's founding were immersed in an often-fractious atmosphere of debate, intellectual discourse, and political experimentation. In 1804, as this historical moment was passing, the New-York Historical Society was founded, motivated by an expressed need to collect items pertaining to the history of the state and of the nation, as well as the mission to capture and interpret not only the revolutionary and Federal eras, but the years to come. In so doing, New-York Historical deliberately participated in the creation of a self-consciously American culture. Find out more about visiting the New-York Historical Society Museum at
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A Secret New York Island That You Can Never Visit
NYC has about 40 islands. And among those, there’s one that’s so confidential that you can't even visit it! Mystery worth solving, don't you think? We’re about to take a trip to the hush-hush New York island known as U Thant. You’ll definitely be surprised by its interesting history...
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The history of U Thant Island 1:06
What U Thant Island is now 3:33
Another closed-off island in New York that's oozing with mystery 4:02
Snake Island in Brasil 5:20
Heard Island in the middle of the ocean between Australia and Antarctica 6:23
Surtsey Island in Iceland 7:14
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- U Thant Island is a teeny-tiny 100-by-200-foot artificial island located off the coast of Manhattan. Its history goes way back to the 1890s. The island remained undisturbed and out of the spotlight until 1977 when it was adopted by the Peace Meditation at the United Nations.
- It’s now turned into a protected sanctuary for migrating birds, including a small colony of beautiful double-crested cormorants.
- North Brother Island is currently designated as a bird sanctuary, but its history is a lot darker. The island was abandoned up until 1885 when it became the new location for Riverside Hospital. Riverside was at first an isolated hospital for smallpox patients but over time expanded and started accepting sufferers of other types of highly contagious and deadly diseases, like tuberculosis and typhoid fever.
- If we venture out across the globe, we’ll find even more places that are, for one reason or another, off-limits for visitors. One prime example is Snake Island, which is located about 90 miles off the coast of Sao Paulo. As to why this place is forbidden for travel, the name says it all! Snake Island houses from 2,000 to 4,000 venomous snakes.
- There are other even more mysterious places out there, like Heard Island. You can find it in the middle of the ocean between Australia and Antarctica. Heard Island is home to animals that are totally unique to this area, and the Australian government wants them to live in peace without human intervention.
- Surtsey Island was formed from a huge volcanic eruption that took place back in 1963. The eruption lasted for 4 whole years, allowing the island to grow to a size of one square mile. Since then, it’s continued to be a place of interest for volcanologists, botanists, and biologists alike.
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What Is The County Of Brooklyn NY?
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9 Of New York's Most INSANE Unsolved Mysteries
9 Of New York's Most INSANE Unsolved Mysteries.
1. The Murder of Arnold Rothstein at the Park Central Hotel.
Known by many names – A. R., Mr. Big, The Fixer, The Big Bankroll, The Man Uptown, and The Brain - Arnold Rothstein seemed more myth than man....
2. The Wall Street Bombing.
At the stroke of noon on Sept. 16, 1920, a bomb exploded along Wall Street, killing 38 people and maiming hundreds more. It was the worst terrorist bombing in the United States until the Oklahoma City attack in 1995, the worst in New York until the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center....
3. The 1964 World’s Fair's Buried Underground Home
It's a spacious, secure home that could probably fetch a pretty penny on today's NYC real estate market - the only problem is that no one knows if it still exists. The mystery centers around The Underground World Home....
4. The American Museum of Natural History Jewel Heist
On the night of October 29, 1964, three young Americans from Miami, Florida, made the national headlines in what America called the 'jewel heist of the century'. The target was a jewel collection taken from the American Museum of Natural History in New York...
5. The Lost Eagles of Pennsylvania Station.
The obliteration of the McKim, Mead & White-designed Pennsylvania Station in 1963, just a half-century after its completion, helped galvanize grassroots preservation efforts that eventually led to New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner signing the Landmarks Law on April 19, 1965....
6. The Lost Locomotive in the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel.
With continued silence from the DOT, we are dead in the water, with the potential of a major historical find right under our feet in Brooklyn.
Earlier this month, Bob Diamond....
7. The Cow Tunnels of New York City
In the late 19th century, there were some two million cows being herded in the streets of New York City. It’s long been rumored that underground “cow tunnels” were created to ease the congestion, but evidence (archeological or otherwise) has been hard to come by and exact locations have not been verified...
8. The Lost Bogardus Building
A building that once stood in downtown New York City in the Washington Market area was stolen not once, but twice in its history. The area was targeted for urban renewal in the 1960s, but because the Bogardus Building....
9. The Cornerstone of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Much is known about the cornerstone of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. As the Archdiocese of New York embarks on a five-year, $175 million renovation of what has been described as the nation’s largest Roman Catholic Gothic sanctuary, architects and historians have meticulously reviewed every detail of James Renwick Jr.’s original blueprints.....
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45 Years After Roe v Wade
On January 22, 1973 women in the United States won the right to seek a legal abortion, yet equal access remains elusive. Ilyse Hogue, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York magazine, Katha Pollitt, author of Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, and Jamia Wilson, Executive Director and Publisher of Feminist Press, discuss the legacy and future of this landmark case on the occasion of its forty-fifth anniversary.
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An MS-13 member killed a man on a New York subway platform. The gang dates back to the 1970s.
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Brooklyn, 15 Best Places to See In The World: Brooklyn Review
We go Around Town with Fred Brown to find out why Conde Nast magazine named Brooklyn one of the 15 best places to see in the world right now.From Brooklyn Independent Television's Brooklyn Review, episode 239. Original air date: 4/11/2011.
New York City (Brooklyn Bridge,Central Park,Rockefeller) Part 3
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The Brooklyn Bridge is a bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. With a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), it was the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge.
Originally referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and as the East River Bridge, it was dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name from an earlier January 25, 1867 letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and formally so named by the city government in 1915. Since its opening, it has become an icon of New York City, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1972.Wikipedia
Brooklyn Bridge New York City (Manhattan--Brooklyn)
The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States and was completed in 1883, The bridge connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. With a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), it was the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge.
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Discover NEW YORK Tour | Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island | Travel Big Apple NYC
Explore New York City's five boroughs and visit the Big Apple's famous attractions: Empire State Building, Times Square, Broadway, Central Park, Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty, Harlem, Carnegie Hall, Yankee Stadium, Coney Island, Shea Stadium, Brooklyn Bridge, Staten Island Ferry, Bronx Zoo, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Columbia University, NYU, Fordham, Yeshiva University, Julliard School, Flatiron Building, National Tennis Center, 42nd Street, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Wall Street Stock Exchange, Federal Hall, Grant's Tomb, Chrysler Building, NYC Opera, Metropolitan Opera, American Ballet Theatre, NYC Ballet, New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center, Freedom Tower, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Greenwich Village, NYC Public Library Historical Society, TriBeCa, Soho, Newtown Creek, Brooklyn Museum/Academy of Music/Botanical Gardens, Aqueduct Racetrack, United Nations, Apollo Theater, Museum of the City of New York, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Williamsburgh, Crown Heights, Borough Park, Hudson River, East River, Long Island Sound, Astoria, Woodside, Forest Hills, Flushing, Elmhurst, Calvary Cemetery, 1939/1964 World's Fair, New York Harbor Upper Bay Lower Bay, Queen Catherine & King Charles II, NYC Islands: Governors Randalls Wards Roosevelt U Thant, Marble Hill, NYC Subway/Harbor, LaGuardia & JFK Airports, etc. In this Edition of Timeline: Discover NEW YORK CITY and it's five boroughs: Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island. Timeline also presents a simple map of the metropolis that is easy to comprehend, and fun to replicate for educational school projects.
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Downtown Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Bridge Walking Tour
This walk takes you through New York's first historic district, and then across the most beautiful suspension bridge in the world. The tour begin at what was the city hall of the City of Brooklyn until 1898, and finish at what has been the City Hall of New York City since 1812.
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Transportation: The 2, 3, 4, or 5 train to the Borough Hall subway station, or the A, C, or F train to the Jay Street Borough Hall station, or the N or R train to Court Street.
Length: 3.33 mi - 5.35 km
Duration: 2-4 hours
Start: Brooklyn Borough Hall
End: Town Hall
Category: History - Discover how the city's fascinating past illuminates its vibrant life today.
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This walking tour takes you around one of the world’s most vibrant and interesting cities. The City of New York is like a theme park with the theme being; the Big City. The tour will begin in downtown Brooklyn, an area sometimes also called the Civic Center, that is the central business district of Brooklyn, the most populous of New York City’s five boroughs, with its offices and residential buildings; an area alive with life and exuberance.
The tour begins at the Brooklyn Borough Hall, that was the city hall of the City of Brooklyn until 1898. Brooklyn and New York were separate cities until 1898, when they were consolidated into greater New York City, the current five boroughs. Here in the Brooklyn Heights we will pass many interesting landmarks and churches along the way. The tour is essentially a visit to some of Brooklyn’s grandest architectural churches and cathedrals. It will examine closely these churches and how they blend in with the vicinity.
The tour will encompass the US Post Office building before moving on to our first church, the Spencer Memorial Church, which is our first church site, before descending on the tree covered avenue that is home to the tall tower of Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Cathedral.
We then descend upon the St Ann and Holy Trinity Church at the corner of Montague and Clinton streets in the heart of the Brooklyn Heights neighbourhood. The tour will then see us look at how the history is so poignant in the tour with a visit to the Brooklyn Historical Society so you can see where some of the documents are held pertaining to Brooklyn’s rich architecture and glory.
Your next stop is the Church of the Savior on Pierrepont Street before you will be present to one of the most romantic spots in New York City that will take your breath away. One-third of a mile long, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade offers a vista of the Statue of Liberty, the Manhattan skyline and the majestic Brooklyn Bridge.
Here we will witness the St. George Hotel and the Leverich Towers. A tall 18-storey hotel built during the time of the Great Depression and still standing tall in many more ways today. Next stop is more historical architecture in Plymouth Church where the walk encounters the old Margaret Apartments, a 12-storey high building on Columbia Heights. Here, Jehovah Witnesses were lovingly restoring these apartments when they were tragically burned down in 1980.
We then pass the Brooklyn War Memorial and span the Brooklyn Bridge where the walking tour concludes. lets hope you enjoy this walking tour around Brooklyn, where you will see no fewer than seven churches of architectural splendour, and cross one of the most beautiful bridges in the world.
One Brooklyn-- NYS Complete Count Committee Public Hearing
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams hosted the NYS Complete Count Committee that held a public Hearing regarding the obstacles Brooklyn, New York City and NY State faces in 2020. Brooklyn has a troubling history of being under-counted in census and that causes the borough and the city to miss out on much needed funding.
One Brooklyn-- Calling for an Audit and Investigation into Possible Deed Fraud in the Borough
Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams and Council Member Robert Cornegy, Jr., the chair of the Committee on Housing and Buildings, called for a full-scale forensic audit and investigation on the federal, state, and city levels into the issue of deed fraud in the borough of Brooklyn, including the role that the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development's Third Party Transfer (TPT) program may be unintentionally playing in defrauding homeowners of their property.
In letters they sent last week to United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Richard P. Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman, New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, and Public Advocate Letitia James, Borough President Adams and Council Member Cornegy additionally asked for partnership with the City Council to enact a temporary moratorium on TPT seizures and other foreclosures in Brooklyn such as to ensure no illegal activity is occurring.
Borough President Adams and Council Member Cornegy will be joined by a number of impacted homeowners who have reached out to their offices in recent months. They will speak to the need to do more in ensuring bad actors and government programs are not forcing seniors and low-income residents out of their homes in the face of a changing borough.
Only in Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a beautiful patchwork of contradictions. Explore it.