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JOHN C. LIU FOR MAYOR The People's Choice

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ne of the reasons Comptroller John Liu should be elected as the next Mayor of New York City, is that he envisions a city centered on everyday people and their humanity and not on the machinations of dealmakers and their percentages, as the most important asset of the city.That is so different from the thinking of people who like to believe they are destined to profitably control the city eternally, that they have aligned against him to such a degree and on so many levels, that it only confirms his position as the people’s choice.

The big banks certainly don’t like him because he’s cost them billions of dollars already by opening up the handling of city bond sales to a competitive process that went beyond the “old boy” Wall Street network.

In doing so, the city found a firm that has saved over $2 billion dollars, and that happens to be AfricanAmerican-owned.

There are a lot of opportunities like that out there, for the city to both save money and invest in its core asset, the people. But no-bid contracts or requirements that are a kind of poll tax on small businesses, exclude community participation, so they go to the friends and associates of the dealmakers and their social milieu, and

from there downstream to the overseers of the low wage workers, who are actually doing the work.This is something that has to stop.

Another reason is The People’s Budget, a document which takes the billions of dollars now lost in unique tax considerations for the multi-trillion-dollar banking and financial industries, and redirects it to investments in the human infrastructure that will pay off immediately in

the form of jobs, education and emotional stability, lowering the tensions for everyone in New York. It would be an asset that will pay off in the long term, when our properlyeducated, critical-thinking young people will be able to compete against those around the world for whom New York is the prize.And some of us have it triplebad, not only do we live in the coolest city in the world, Brooklyn, we live in

Bed-Stuy, a frontier of the hipster universe.And the only way our young people will survive is to invest in them and their caregivers and if that makes Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase grit their teeth, then they’ll just have to suck it up. The city should not be enabling their addiction to money and power.

Here are just a couple of entries from The People’s Budget:

“CHARGE INSURANCE COMPANIES THE GENERAL CORPORATION TAX - The City’s Insurance Corporation Tax was eliminated in 1974 and today insurance companies are the only large category of businesses that is exempt from the New York City General Corporation Tax. Increased City Revenue Expenditure: FY14 $310,000,000”.

What could be done with the money: “PERMANENTLY RESTORE OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME PROGRAMS - Out-ofSchool Time programs provide for students before and after school, and generally are enrichment-driven. Funding would be increased to the peak levels of FY 2008. City Budget Expenditure: FY14 $71,500,000 PERMANENTLY RESTORE CUTS TO CHILD CARE - This proposal would restore child-care funding to FY 2013 levels, including $12.1 million for 4,400 child-care vouchers and approximately $60 million for 3,500 contracted slots and 1,100 family slots. Currently, these slots are for 0-4-year olds. As the new programs (UP3 and UPK) are phased in, these slots would apply to 0-2-year olds.

City Budget Expenditure: FY14 - $72,000,000.

EXPAND THE HOURS OF UNIVERSAL PREKINDERGARTEN - This proposal calls for providing Universal Pre➔ Continued on page 3

Truth to Power

Statement by Comptroller Liu on behalf of our youngest learners, and those who teach them.

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esterday, August 7, 2013, City Comptroller John C. Liu stated the following in response to Mayor Bloomberg’s defense of the City’s poor results on state “Common Core” tests: “Despite all the spin, these results show that the Mayor’s focus on high-stakes testing and data-driven management of the schools has

failed. For years, Mayor Bloomberg trumpeted the supposed miracle of his management, as the City’s test scores ostensibly rose.Now,as our kids can’t meet a tougher state standard, we’re supposed to continue believing the miracle happened? You can’t have it both ways.As a public school parent, I am appalled that the Mayor would try to protect his legacy by pulling the

wool over the eyes of parents. After all this P.R., it turns out that he’s the ‘A-Rod’ of public education.

“The simple fact of the matter is that the City’s focus on high-stakes testing is wrong, and its strategy of ‘teaching to the test’ has come at the expense of real learning. While the new state tests may be harder, what we see here is Bloomberg doubling

down on a bad policy.Tests should be used to assess what students know and guide educators in curriculum development, that is, to help kids learn. They should not be used for punishing teachers, closing schools, determining merit pay, or helping adults win elections.” ➔ More on Comptroller John C. Liu, Page 6

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Marvell Cruickshank Celebrates Court-ordered

Return of Her Children ■

By Mary Alice Miller

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arvell Cruickshank has been celebrating every day for the past few weeks. Family Court ordered the return of her daughters from foster care supervision. “I feel relief because they are home.

They have been in foster care for two years without a cause. It is a relief to our family,” said Marvell Cruickshank.

“I just give thanks to the creator for watching over my babies, keeping them safe in this terrifying situation.

They are home safe and sound. I don’t have to wonder if someone is hurting them or mistreating them. It was not a day that went by where I was not worried. I can go back to being a mother to my babies.”

The children are happy to be home.

“I feel great,” said Tyonna, 11.

“I like being home so that I can spend more time with mommy. I like being back in my own home and see all the things my mommy bought us and sleep in my own bed in my room.”

While leaning on her mom, Arianah, 6, said, “I like being back home with mommy,” with a big grin on her face. “We get to go places like the library. I like that. I

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like that I get to sleep in my own bed. I like being with mommy.

We make earrings and do things together.”

Both children love their mother’s cooking. “It’s a party in my tummy,” said Arianah. “I eat it all.”

The children were allowed to come home on July 19, during an extended heat wave. “We sat down in the living room under the air conditioner and just hugged each other and sitting quietly,” said Marvell. When they came home, they started pulling out their old toys. The first thing the two of them did was pull out their scooters.

“Later, my older daughter was walking around the apartment reacquainting herself with home,” Marvell said. “The most important thing for me is allowing them to explore their home environment as if nothing changed.”

For the rest of the summer, Marvell is going to try to take them to as many events as possible, and the library so they can have a good time and enjoy the rest of the summer.

As reported in Our Time Press, Marvell’s children were removed from her care two years ago based upon false allegations from her teen daughter, who did not want to live by her mother’s cultural and religious values. During that time, Marvell missed Arianah’s pre-K graduation because no one at the agency thought to notify her. Arianah has experienced several serious injuries while under foster care supervision and still bears dark scars from 2nd-degree burns she received in one co-foster mother’s home.

Marvell is apprehensive about public schooling due to how she was treated when her children were removed. In addition, Marvell received a letter from Arianah’s school three months after the child was removed from class and placed into foster care.

The letter stated “your child has missed 51 days and has been late 11 days of school this year”.

Marvell is seriously considering homeschooling her children.

Marvell credits the Committee to Honor Black Heroes for arming her with the knowledge to navigate the system and “speak out about the cruelty of ACS against my family and I. They were so eager to dismantle my family. ” Now that her children are home Marvell said, “I don’t take one moment with them for granted.”

A family again: Marvel Cruickshank is home with her daughters Tyonna (middle) and Arianah, right.

Photo: Mary Alice Miller

The City University of New York

CHANCELLOR

The Board of Trustees of The City University of New York announces a global search to recruit a new chancellor with a record as an outstanding leader, manager and scholar within a major higher education system or other complex organization.

The university provides high-quality, accessible education for more than 270,000 degree-credit students and 226,000 adult, continuing and professional education students at 24 campuses across New York City. There are more than 7,300 full-time faculty and more than 11,500 adjunct faculty at CUNY. The chancellor serves as the chief executive officer of the university and reports to the Board of Trustees.

College presidents and deans of the university’s professional schools report directly to the chancellor.

CUNY is an integrated system of senior and community colleges, graduate and professional schools, research centers, institutes and consortia. It provides New York City with graduates trained for high-demand positions in the sciences, technology, mathematics, teaching, nursing and other fields. The university has strengthened its mission as a major research institution, building an array of modern facilities and expanding the ranks of its world-class faculty. Today CUNY enjoys a rising reputation, record enrollments, increased standards and enhanced resources.

CUNY is seeking a chancellor who will maintain the momentum of the university-wide renewal that has occurred over the past decade and a half. She or he will be responsible for fulfilling the stipulations of New York State Education Law that “the university will continue to maintain and expand its commitment to academic excellence and to the provision of equal access and opportunity for students, faculty and staff from all ethnic and racial groups and from both sexes.”

Among the tasks for the new chancellor will be to continue to strengthen the quality and diversity of the institution through the hiring and retention of full-time faculty; to promote increased student success, including improved retention and graduation rates and post-graduate outcomes; to exercise excellent judgment in the hiring of college presidents and other senior university officials; to advance the needs of the university in a complex political environment; to meet the challenge of incorporating change in the delivery of academic content; to enhance the university’s doctoral programs; and to be open to adopting best practices from other sectors of higher education, including partnerships, where appropriate. The next chancellor must have a proven record as an entrepreneur and fund-raiser.

Members of the university community and the public are welcome to submit nominations. The review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Submission of applications is encouraged by October 25, 2013.

Applications: Applicants should send a curriculum vitae and a letter expressing their interest in the position that addresses how they meet the search committee’s preferred qualifications.

Nominations: Nominators should send a letter of nomination and, if possible, the nominee’s curriculum vitae.

Applications and nominations should be sent electronically to: John Isaacson, President; Sheryl Ash, Vice President; or Ben Tobin, Senior Associate Isaacson, Miller Email: cuny@imsearch.com Address: 263 Summer Street, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02210 OR Ms. Mahlet Tsegaye Office of Executive Search/CUNY Email: executivesearch@mail.cuny.edu Address: 205 East 42nd Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10017 All nominations, applications and inquiries will be held in strict confidence. CUNY is an EO/AA/IRCA/ADA employer with a strong commitment to racial, cultural and ethnic diversity. The search committee actively seeks and encourages nominations and applications from men and women of all races.

Foot Soldiers is a supplemental sanitation service in the Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, Clinton Hill, and nearby inter-joining communities in Brooklyn. We offer hallway cleaning, yard/curbside sweeping, garbage removal and snow shoveling services. The program trains high school students supervised by adults to provide these services. These students receive stipends get academic support, job readiness trainings, help with managing household responsibilities, physical activities, personal development workshops, and they develop community projects.

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Kindergarten six hours per day for all four-year olds in NYC during the academic year (more than 100,000 children). This would create almost 4,000 permanent jobs for various teaching positions. City Budget Expenditure: FY14 - $107,278,000”.

There are hundreds of millions more that can be raised and used for education, health and infrastructure.

These are the things we should be discussing.

Instead, the sexual antics of men behaving badly is put on the pages, airwaves and internet, waving voters away from anything that threatens to obstruct those for whom too much is never enough.

Suggest to members of a trilliondollar industry such as banking or investing, that if they pay their fair share, the children their limos pass by will be able to eat, see doctors and get a good education, and they start to twitch and whine about a climate unfriendly to business.It is a strange mentality, but there it is.

John Liu’s People’s Budget would cost trillion-dollar industries billions of dollars. We emphasize “trillion” because otherwise “billions of dollars” might be thought of as a lot of money.Giving up a few billion more or less is barely discernable spread across their collective balance sheets, but it would be like splitting the atom in the impact it would have on the well-being of the city for generations to come.

And yet there are those to whom the idea of fairness, humanity and a common social pact are foreign ways of thinking and they’d rather make money the old fashioned way, by exploiting workers and

leaving nothing on the table.It’s a slave owner’s mentality, and it’s time for it to stop.

And as for threats to leave a city that is a magnet for some of the smartest and most creative people in the world, that provides them with a wide range of living experiences, an astonishingly redundant transportation web, feeds them well, allows them to physically gather and create, a city that offers the best experiences in so many areas, those threats are hollow. They can’t recreate what New York’s got.They’ll be here when the waters rise and they’ll be edging up to higher floors like the rest of us.As long as the workforce is healthy, educated, and happy in a competitive environment with a generally low economic stress level, why would their people want to live anywhere else?

The polls say Liu is far behind.

We believe they’re whistling in the dark. We’ve heard the murmurs when he comes to events and the heightening of applause when he’s introduced. This is not stuff of an advance team getting the members ready, this is generated by the gut recognition of someone who is on your side. Someone who is not about the nonsense that is passing for a “political campaign”, where the media is focusing on prurient interests rather than on the dollar and cents issues that affect the daily lives of the voters.

After the Democratic Primary in 2009, the Times reported the voter turnout to be “the lowest in modern New York City history.

Despite pleasant weather and the efforts of candidates who crisscrossed the city for weeks, just 11% of enrolled Democrats

Comptroller John Liu speaks with a constituent at the National Night Out Against Crime held Tuesday at Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn.

Photo: Mark Stewart

went to the polls”. Given that low a turnout, tenant leaders in one NYCHA housing complex can turn the election. Registered Democrats who receive food stamp can turn the election, those in Section 8 housing or the voting homeless who are registered as Democrats can turn the election.Even Lottery players can turn the election on its head if they stopped at the voting booth first and then played their voting number. Don’t believe you have no power. If you are a registered Democrat, you have the only power that matters between now and Tuesday, September 10th.

Registered Democrats have an awesome responsibility in this coming Primary. They can assert themselves and not be fooled into thinking that what’s called “mainstream media” knows what’s going to happen. With an 11% turnout as history, not the media, the pundits, or even

the candidates themselves have a clue of what would happen if 20% of the people came out.The rulers of the city only know this: at 11% turnout, they have control.

There are candidates they find acceptable and one who they do not. The election of the Democratic candidate for Mayor of the City of New York, can either be left to 11% of registered Democrats choosing one of the “leading” candidates, or the remaining 89%,who may think politicians are all the same and of no use, can come out and vote for the guy they’ve been waiting for.

On September 10, 2013, they can come out and vote for someone who has them at heart, and who the establishment keeps trying to push aside. Our Time Press is standing with that person. The polls be damned, we’re standing with John Liu for Mayor.

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City Council candidates vying to replace Al Vann in Bed-Stuy address gentrification ■

By Stephen Witt

to homeowners and foreclosure assistance.We also need to teach people s Robert Cornegy, Kirsten John how to pass their assets from one Foy, Rev. Conrad Tillard and generation to the next. We also have Rev. Dr. Robert Waterman head some very savvy long-term residents into the final weeks before the Demo- that own four or five homes in Bed-Stuy. cratic Primary in the race to succeed So we can strike the balance. Both my term-limited Al Vann in the City Coun- wife and I are not originally from Bedcil and represent Bedford-Stuyvesant, Stuy so I can understand a new person Crown Heights and Weeksville, Our wanting to come to Bed-Stuy. However, Time Press asked the candidates the as a pastor and City Councilman, we following question: must protect and preserve the folks How would you as City that have been here for a long time.”

Councilman plan to strike a balance between welcoming the newcomers Kirsten John Foy: “I will work to the neighborhood and maintaining to ensure we have a community the longtime characteristics of the that is united by a mutual respect community? for the rich character and history The following are their answers: of our neighborhoods – Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights and Weeksville – Robert Cornegy: “I have a long- and the sense of community that standing partnership with the Block exists within them. I will support and Tenant Associations in the district. community events that bring all They are the official greeters for all residents together to celebrate newcomers to the area and they make this and contribute to our entire a concerted effort to include all new community, and will make sure residents in their associations. One longtime residents have the ability to has only to look around the district remain in our community.To do this,I to see the integration of age, culture intend to prioritize the strengthening and faith to know that they are and expansion of affordable housing successful. As District Leader, I take for our residents and preserve pride in promoting all aspects of the the homeownership of longtime district, from the cornerstones of our residents through property tax relief. community to newcomers alike. I stand Reducing the zero sum game for with those who want to see Bed-Stuy housing will help avoid potential continue to thrive and grow. tension between new residents and our longtime indigenous residents.

Rev. Conrad Tillard: “I don’t see a conflict. First of all, one of the great Rev.Dr.Robert Waterman: “When things about great communities is you use the term long-term character that you always welcome newcomers. and newcomer, are we talking about In fact, we have a great community gentrification? Are we talking about and many great pastors, and even I class? Are we talking about income? heard Al Vann wasn’t originally from If so, when you look at Bed-Stuy you Bed-Stuy. Bed-Stuy also includes don’t have to make adjustments. If people born and raised here and they you take Crown Heights, Stuyvesant have great pride.

Heights and Bed-Stuy and block it off However, I don’t think newcomers you would see it exists today because should be recipients of long-term you face a series of classism, income residents being forced out, losing their disparity and even some gentrification homes or signing over and selling their from Crown Heights to Stuyvesant homes at a fraction of the cost. So in Heights to Bed-Stuy itself. the past, I pulled together nonprofit The balance is in the establishment organizations like Bridge Street of relationships.It startswith resident to Development and provided education resident, and through the community board and block associations. The balances in all these relationships are equal. When people have moved into the community we, the people of color, have always been most welcoming no matter who MANY INSURANCES ARE ACCEPTED!! Call & Make an moved in based on Appointment TO SEE IF YOU ARE ELIGIBLE!! income or race. As 2034 Atlantic Ave City Councilman, ASK ABOUT OUR you just build Brooklyn, NY 11233 PROGRAMS FOR relationships.

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Michael Greys Announces Run for Mayor on Freedom Party Line

Freedom Party Candidate: Michael Greys addresses a meeting of the United African Movement.

Photo: Mary Alice Miller

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etired police officer Michael Greys made public his intent to run for mayor on the Freedom Party line.

The announcement, during which attorney Michael Lloyd stepped forward to run for Public Advocate, took place during a United African Movement rally. Greys -- a member of UAM -- is also a member of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care. He started his public service in the Guardians.

Greys listed his top agenda items: stop-and-frisk and police shootings of African-Americans. Attorney Alton Maddox said, "Everybody is talking about law-and-order. We have a law-and-order candidate who will bring order to the law."

Speaking at length about gentrification and the displacement of Black people from their communities, Greys asked, "Where do we turn? Who do we go to when Black elected officials gentrify our communities?"

Greys was the original candidate for governor on the Freedom Party line in 2010 - a reaction to the lack of minority representation on Andrew Cuomo's slate -- until Council member Charles Barron usurped the position. Although the nascent party had acquired 43,000 signatures statewide to get on the ballot, that year's general election garnered 20,000 votes, nowhere near the 50,000 needed to gain permanent ballot status for the party.

Attorney-at-War Alton Maddox said there is a reason why white folk vote on a variety of party lines: to keep the Democratic and Republican Parties accountable. "We intend

to win," said Maddox, "because those who don't have vision at this moment will get vision on Sept. 11 when they are looking at Christine Quinn" (or Anthony Weiner as the Democratic nominee). Greys added, "Other people will not see it until their candidate is gone."

This year's Freedom Party slate - which may include down ballot candidates for City Council races across the city - is designed to militate against splitting minority voting strength and the very real risk of having zero candidates of color emerge from the September 10th primary. It is a replication of the strategy employed in Brooklyn's 2006 congressional race when at least five Black candidates and David Yassky were vying for the seat in a Section 5 Voting Rights District. That year, the Freedom Party fielded Sankofa International Academy founder Mrs. Ollie McClean as insurance against the off-chance Yassky might have won the Democratic Primary to prevent what Alton Maddox characterized at the time as the possibility of a "public embarrassment" to the AfricanAmerican voters of central Brooklyn.

During the next couple of weeks, UAM members plan to organize and "wake people up" in the Bronx, Manhattan and Queens, said Maddox.

"This is bigger than a campaign for mayor," said Dr. Leonard Jeffries.

"It is the restoration of African humanity."

"Every moment, every day is a contribution. Blacks and Latinos can write their own future," said Greys.

"We want to inspire people to work for this because we think it is right."

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What’s Going on at City Point?

• Construction Workers from Ohio, Florida, Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, Vermont, Connecticut and Maine • Hardly Local Folks from the Neighborhood!

Downtown Brooklyn’s CityPoint Project has been given close to $40 million in public subsidies – including our tax dollars – and we were promised good paying, local jobs in return.

But we’re not getting that.

The developer – Acadia Realty Trust – says that the people they are hiring are local. But a close look at the cars parked in the managers’/workers’ lot tells a very different story – 75% of those cars are from out of state.

Is this local hiring?

In fact, Acadia is taking our tax dollars and giving away our jobs to workers from other states – and the City is letting them get away with it!

That’s why we filed a lawsuit to demand responsible development at City Point. Hiring out of state firms like Men of Steel Rebar (New Jersey) and Memco Steel Erectors (Virginia) and touting them as local, minority contractors is just plain shameful.

Acadia is not only hiring out-of-state workers, they are also exploiting these workers by paying them poverty wages – while our community suffers. So the City is refusing to meet its responsibility to make sure these are real minority contractors that are paying decent wages and benefits.

It's time for the City to stand up to developers like Acadia.

Get in touch with Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert K. Steel and demand that the City investigate Acadia’s shady hiring practices: call 212.788.3000; email RSteel@cityhall.nyc.gov); twitter @RobertKSteel Join us in demanding real community benefits at City Point - Metallic Lathers and Reinforcing Ironworkers Local 46, Ironworkers Local 361, Ironworkers Local 580, NYC District Council of Carpenters, Sheet Metal Workers Local 28, Laborers International Union of North America Local 79, FUREE (Families United for Racial and Economic Equality)

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The People to Comptroller Liu:

You Count!

The CFB ruling was partially based on a report developed by the CFB-hired Thatcher Association.

A skeptic asked, “Why didn’t they save money, and do the report themselves?”

"With just five weeks remaining before Primary Election Day, these first public funds payments represent a significant milestone in this election," said Ms. Loprest.

"Matching funds will allow candidates,at this critical time of the campaign, to focus on what matters most: presenting their views on the issues of the day and their plans for the future of our city."

Following the verdict, there was controlled outrage as expressed in these comments: “Shouldn’t the board have recused themselves?

(Bloomberg selected three CFB members; Quinn, two.) Doesn’t this question their ability to be objective?

So how come my money doesn’t count? It’s not about gender, age, color? It’s about the American way, Long Distance Runner: Hours aſter learning NYC’s Campaign Finance Board denied him $3.5M in matching and being fair. My money is clean. public funds, Comptroller John C. Liu, candidate for the Mayor of the City of New York, standing between City Hall The people who gave $25, $50 – no (not seen here, on far leſt) and the Municipal Building (at far right), informs the media and his supporters he’s one has a right to refuse their right? focusing on his run — with five weeks to go.

Can any of our voices be heard? It’s a Photo: Bernice Elizabeth Green hearing, right? Don’t the people have a right to be heard? Who’s hearing us? We have to show these people, ➔ Continued from page 1 up to $175 per donor, the city to NYC candidates, and headlined the power of the people!” pays $6 in matching funds for a Liu’s “setback” and “crippling blow”.

“Kangaroo court,” called out a ■ By Bernice Elizabeth Green maximum of $1,050 in public funds Martin Connor, Liu’s campaign Staten Island resident. “They don’t per contributor. Liu had the largest lawyer, said (prior to the board’s want to give it to the Comptroller, ayor Liu! Mayor Liu! percentage of small donors. decision), “It’s no secret that there so (we the people) will have to raise Mayor Liu!” Inside the hearing on the 6th floor, were problems in the Liu campaign it for him.”

Comptroller John Amy Loprest, executive director in early 2011, but what the board is Connor told reporters, “The C. Liu, waging an uphill climb to of the five-member CFB, read the proposing is the death penalty for rules say if they deny us we can become New York City’s top leader, decision by Mark S. Piazza, Joseph P. minor transgressions.” Connor told appeal.” But that appeal may not belies the Democratic polls that Parkes, S.J., Art Chang and Courtney reporters in the crowded hearing come through until days before place him last in the running on the Hall with Loprest.It was unanimous. room that the penalty should be based the September election. Too much, list of mayoral candidates.

Liu was denied the funds due to on the “level of wrongdoing”. The too late.

At the 79th Precinct Council’s campaign “irregularities”. The board wrongdoing adds up to 35 donations For Arthur Cheliotes, president “National Night Out Against Crime” said it all boiled down to the recent out of more than 6,339. “Liu’s of Local 1180, Communication Tuesday event, walking through the trial of two Liu campaign workers campaign is the first in campaign Workers which is backing Mr. Liu, crowds, shaking hands, taking time and a damaging, unreleased internal history to get this level of scrutiny.” the actions of the CFB were a kind to talk to the people, Mr. Liu was investigation.

Father Joseph Parkes,the CFB chair, of felony: "I witnessed a crime Number One. Tuesday, August 6, media said “The candidate is ultimately today," he told Our Time Press.

And that’s the way it was the announced the awarding of a total of responsible for the campaign’s "Where do I report it?" day before, on Monday morning, $23.3 million dollars in public funds compliance with the law”.

Several hours later outside the August 5, in lower Manhattan at a Municipal Building at One Centre rally in support of him outside of Street, the Comptroller vowed to CFB Matching Funds (partial listing): 40 Rector Street - home of New York stay focused: “There’s no time to City’s Campaign Finance Board be distracted. We have a race to Candidates for the Office of Mayor for the City of New York: where matching funds of more than run. The strength of this campaign • NYC Comptroller John H. Liu (amount pending anticipated appeal) $3M-plus (due to Liu) was denied. has never been in the money, it’s • City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was granted The waves of signage came in always been about the people.” the highest amount: $3.4 million. all variations: “John Liu for Mayor” People like Joe Ann Brown of • Public Advocate Bill de Blasio: $2.2M. messages that were yelled, cried and Brooklyn, seated in the back of • Former Congressman Anthony Weiner got $1.46M. roared by hundreds of supporters the CFB hearing room, who was • Former NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson received $1.42M. of all races, ages and nationalities. outraged with the final decision.

• Republican Joe Lhota, former MTA chair, $1.44M. They easily outnumbered the “Remember the Central Park “resisters”— approximately 90% Five? Liu was the only one who stood Candidates for Public Advocate Office: of Asian descent – who, it was said, up there with Rev. Sharpton.The only • NY State Senator Daniel Squadron, $1.48M were “bussed in” by Liu’s rivals. person who stuck with those boys • Former Deputy Public Advocate Reshma Saujani, $907,446.

“People’s Voice! People’s Money! when everyone thought they were • Former NYC Councilwoman Letitia James, $777,879.

People’s Vote”! The chants echoed guilty. He never let them down. We through the Rector Street canyon: can’t let him down, either. If you Candidates for City Council 35th District Office: “Give John a Share, Let’s Be Fair” can give millions to some of these • Community leader Laurie Cumbo, $87,000. ”What do we want?” “Matching politicians who don’t deserve it, and • Community leader Alabi Olanike, $87,000. funds!” “When do we want it?” not to these boys… and not to John “Now”!

Liu, then something’s very wrong.”

Candidates for City Council 36th District Office: Liu, with the most number of To Ms. Brown and the 2,000 folks at • District Leader Robert Cornegy, $92,000. small contributions, was eligible to Von King Park yesterday evening, the • Former Public Advocate director Kirsten John Foy, $87,000. receive approximately $3.5 million. ➔ Continued on Next Page • Community leader the Rev. Robert Waterman, $87,000.

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Night Out in Bed-Stuy with the People: Left to right, NYS Senate Velmanette Montgomery; commendation recipients Michael LiPetri, Deputy Inspector, 79th Precinct, and Dr. Kim Best, president, 79th Precinct Council; with guest NYC Comptroller John C. Liu, a candidate for the Office of Mayor, enjoyed “A Night Out Against Crime” in Herbert Von King Park with thousands of people of all ages, this past Tuesday.

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hundreds who rallied on Monday in the canyon of Rector Street just off the West Side Highway in lower Manhattan, the dozens of nonmedia observers in the hearing room, and the “average” thousands who have not been polled,there’s a real big difference between Comptroller Liu and the other mayoral hopefuls; they know him. He’s been out there walking the beat in the city’s diverse neighborhoods: not for a day, nor a month, but for years.

He shows up.

Deborah Jacobs (leſt), owner of Deb’s Costume Crystals, was among the many micro-business entrepreneurs displaying their products at Bed-Stuy’s “Night Out.” She was joined in the photo by friend, Imani, and saluted by Comptroller Liu. Photo credit: Bernice Elizabeth Green

CIT YPOINTBROOKLYN.COM The last time we saw him before the Monday (5) rally on Rector, was at the June 3 transition ceremonies for community education activist Jitu Weusi at Brown Memorial Church in Clinton Hill. He sat respectfully for the duration of the services near his colleagues NYS Sen. Velmanette Montgomery, NYS Assemblywoman Annette Robinson and Sen.Bill Perkins.

Between then and now, Liu has traversed the city, many, many

times, following a broad roadmap of diverse, multicultural events, ceremonies, meetings, appearances and more. Where the people live, on trails possibly unfamiliar to polling data samplers.

So the CFB “verdict” notwithstanding, Comptroller Liu counts big time in various communities. Big enough for them to call him “Mayor,” five weeks before the Primary.

Friends of True South Bookstore Launch new Legacy Film Series, Sunday, Aug. 11 Screenings: Five on the Black Hand Side at 2p; The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 at 7p.

As part of an ongoing effort to raise funds for the True South bookstore founded by the ailing Brother Brown, Friends of True South are hosting a limited-run Legacy Film Series.

Popular full length features and documentaries, short films and videos, works in progress by established and emerging filmmakers will be screened at True South, consecutive Sundays at 2:00pm and 7:00pm, beginning August 11 (492 Nostrand Avenue/ near Halsey Street, in Brooklyn*).

Donation is $5.00 for each session.

On Sunday (11): At 2pm, the 1973 comedy Five on the Black Hand Side, directed

by Oscar Williams from a script

by Charlie L. Russell and starring Godfrey Cambridge, Clarice Taylor, will be presented.

At 7pm, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, at 7pm. Swedish filmmaker Goran Hugo Olsson’s

film samples powerful voices from the 1960s and 1970s and injects contemporary commentary from older people who were involved with the movement and younger people (including Erykah Badu, Talib Kweli, and Questlove) whose lives were changed by it.

“Brother Brown is known throughout Brooklyn and beyond for his appreciation and respect for works by and about people of color, including books, art, photographs and film,” says Akua Henderson, a friend of the bookstore. “The Legacy series combines two loves: his keen desire to foster interest in the bookstore as a forum for dialogue and as an open learning center for the presentation of art that reinforces positive or powerfully stunning images of diverse cultures and races.”

In the future, the Legacy Film Series will present such projects as:A Band Called Death,Mo’ Better Blues, The Agronomist, My Brooklyn, Ken Burns and Sarah Burns’ Central Park Five documentary film, Jack

Hill’s 1973 classic Coffy played by Pam Grier; short film by Bed-Stuy filmmakers Shaka King, Cocoa Loco,

Herkimer DuFrayne and Bernice Elizabeth Green. Presentations and time slots will be announced.

For more information, please email brooklynzhb@gmail.com.

See you on Sunday!

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PARENT'S NOTEBOOK Exploring the true Three R’s

(Responsibility, Relationships and Resources) necessary to unleash the innate genius of our children.

We Owe Our Children Family and Community ■

by Aminisha Black

“I

t takes a village to raise a child” was at one time generally understood and practiced in African- American communities. That African tradition survived slavery. Neighbors kept an eye out for youngsters and youngsters kept an eye out for adult neighbors, especially if they (the youngsters) were making mischief. In recent years, this communal child-rearing practice has declined drastically, if not disappeared.

Parents are attempting to rear their children in isolation – not only from community but in too many cases from the other parent.

There are many disadvantages in rearing children in isolation. Family values are often replaced by those of outsiders. Youngsters are thrown into alien settings and if they are not sufficiently grounded, they become vulnerable and often victims. Parent and child are often locked in hostile combat alone inside their home over incidents which others are either experiencing or have handled. Scarcity of resources accompanies isolation.

Sharing with others creates more resources. It’s a simple process.

The saying “More hands make the work light” is easily understood and practiced when doing the same thing or a common goal is shared. We’ve got much work to do in order to look beyond our differences and instead of spending time and energy making each other wrong for the differences, look for what, if anything, we share.

If you are a parent of a child from birth to 21, you will find some shared needs. Having grandchildren in that

age range, and given the statistics on youth incarceration and murders, I’ve gotten clear about my focus: Seeking and sharing ways that support all youth in knowing (1) that they are loved; (2) their opinions matter; (3) their contributions are recognized and appreciated; (4) that they are unique souls born with a purpose and gifts to develop and share; (5) they are not compared to another human being.

We adults have work to do – modeling examples of and demonstrating community – seeking ways to support neighbors; recognizing and refusing to engage in gossip (defined as talking about a person in their absence); accepting differences; seeking common concerns, looking for the good in others and acknowledged when found.A popular trend has been to select our affiliations based on what we’re against. It’s time to produce some results – evidenced by seeing our youth live, develop and contribute their innate talents to the community.

An invitation and challenge to parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and other relatives of youth under 21 years old. Seeking individuals who see the benefits of creating community for our children and ourselves. Would you share with us your experiences past or present? Can we gather,not physically but mentally and spiritually as a community whose mission is creating a community where each and every child is valued and supported. Contact parentsnotebook@yahoo.com. ➔ Continued on page 12

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wendolyn had only her daily chores to do before she could go up to Mr. Turner's. Make her bed, clean her room and sweep off the porch and steps. Today, she also had to sweep one of her favorite places in the house, the hair parlor.

Grandma Ellie was a beautician, working out of the finished basement of her home.

She had one salon chair with a long crank that made it lean back.

The customer's hair would lie over a stainless-steel waterslide catching the warm, soapy water as Grandma Ellie washed and rinsed the hair.

There was a longsnouted dryer that had wheels, and Gwendolyn used it as a toy when she was alone in the basement.

She would flip the switch just to get a blast of warm air. The whole blower was warm, the metal, the motor and the air. Gwendolyn loved to let the warm air fall over her and she pressed her cheek against the warm metal housing.

She would stand on the legs and let the dryer roll across the gently, undulating hard tile floors that her grandmother, her mother and her aunts had laid down.

It was a long time ago to a ten-yearold but when she tries, Gwendolyn can remember all of them in the basement working on the floor.

She sees the hair sticking to sweating faces. She remembers the smell of the tar and the sound of the laughter.

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A Dark Cloud

n Monday afternoon, Major League Baseball handed out several suspensions to players who were involved in the “Biogenesis” case. Twelve players were suspended for 50 games each, which is a standard MLB penalty for a first offense by Major League Baseball for taking performance-enhancing drugs.Notable players such as Nelson Cruz (Texas Rangers), Jhonny Peralta (Detroit Tigers), Jordany Valdespin (New York Mets), Francisco Cervelli (New York Yankees) and Everth Cabrera (San Diego Padres) have accepted their 50-game suspensions.As we all know, the big wild card of this entire story would be the punishment Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez would face.Around the three o’clock hour,A-Rod was told he would be suspended for the rest of this season, and all of the 2014 season, a total of 211 games. If this suspension holds up, it will be the longest suspension ever handed out by MLB. At the moment, A-Rod is currently appealing the suspension and he made his anticipated and controversial 2013 début in Chicago in front of 30,000 fans who welcomed the former MVP to a chorus of boos. Rodriguez went 1 for 4 with a single in an 8-1 loss.

It’s really hard to point out any positives in this situation,but if there’s one bright light A-Rod did play in his first game back from off-season hip surgery; it boosted the ratings for the YES channel (Yankees Entertainment Sportsnetwork). This past Tuesday (the day after Rodriguez’s return),YES said that the game had a 4.34 rating and averaged about 393,000 viewers.

The previous high before that was a 4.16 rating during a 2-1 loss to the Mets on May 27. The most viewers in

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After finishing the porch and sweeping the hair up from around the parlor, Gwendolyn was off to Mr.Turner's house to see about the chair.

She found him on a low stool working in the "miniature area" of the shop, Gwendolyn's favorite.

"I see morning to you means morning," Mr.Turner said greeting her. "Come on in.

How are you doing, Gwennie?""Just fine," said Gwendolyn, "just fine," as she came over to where Mr. Turner was working. "My grandmother has a real one just like that."

Mr. Turner was working on a perfect replica of a Victorian cabinet that was being held steadywith alligator clips at his eye level. Mr.

Turner looked up with his loupe wedged firmly in his eye. Gwendolyn liked to see him open his eye and watch it fall into his hand.

"What's wrong with it?" Gwendolyn asked.

"This cabinet lock ain't lockin' and I'm going to stop fiddling with it in a minute and put on a new one if this one won't do right," Mr. Turner said.

He looked up and let his loupe fall out."That's it. New lock. I guess you're here about the chair?"

Gwendolyn was smiling and excited. She could tell by the look in his eye that it was going to be okay. “Were you able to fix it?" she asked.

"Well, let's see where we're at," said Mr. Turner.

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Monday’s game were around the time of his first at bat, which was around 8:308:45, which drew an 8.22 rating and about 756,000 viewers. The Yankees are averaging a 2.53 rating with 231,000 viewers on YES this season. That is a 35% drop in viewership opposed to the 3.96 and the 354,000 they were averaging around this time last season. But that provides little solace to the team or the fans.

The fact that Rodriguez is appealing his suspension may keep him on the field for the rest of the season. The question now is how much does he have left in the tank? Hip surgery took A-Rod out for 4 months. How much can we expect from a 38-year-old third baseman who is clearly no longer a superstar in the league? Last time he was playing consistently on the field he went 3 for 25 batting .120 in the 2012 playoffs that ultimately led to him being benched by manager Joe Girardi.

Remember, he was 0 for 18 with 12 strikeouts against right-handers in that series. The fact is, the Yankees seem to be drowning. They are in fourth place and haven’t had anyone at third base be consistent for them all year long. From here on out, all Rodriguez can do is play and help the Yanks get into the playoffs.The dreams of seeing him hit 800 home runs and break Barry Bonds’ record are now an afterthought. He will be known as the most successful player ever to be suspended. We feel most sorry for the kids who used to look up to him.

Sports Notes: (Football) Both the Jets and Giants kick off the preseason this week. (Baseball) Yankees vs.

Tigers on Friday could mark Alex Rodriguez’s first home game of the year. (Basketball) Tuesday evening, the NBA released their 2013-14 schedule.

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1870 BATH AVE. LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 5/8/13. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1870 Bath Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11204. General Purposes.

Park East Regional Center LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) 29th day of April 2013. Office in Kings County at 320 7th Avenue, #239, Brooklyn, New York 11215. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to Park East Regional Center LLC, 320 7th Avenue, #239, Brooklyn, New York 11215. Reg. Agt. Upon whom process may be served: Spiegel & Utrera, P.A., P.C. 1 Maiden Lane, NYC 10038.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF KINGS Index No. 20696/2012 Date of Filing: 7/31/2013 Plaintiff designates Kings County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon County in which premises are situated.

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Tax Lien Foreclosure Block: 4456; Lot: 61 a/k/a 425 Montauk Avenue Brooklyn, New York NYCTL 2011-A TRUST and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON as Collateral Agent and Custodian, Plaintiffs,-against- GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ PACHECO, if living, and if he/she be dead, his/her representative heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendants who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the amended complaint herein, JULIA PACHECO, if living, and if he/she be dead, his/her representative heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendants who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the amended complaint herein, FLUSH-

ING SAVINGS BANK FSB, CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING, PRESERVATION & DEVELOPMENT, CITY OF NEW YORK ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, "John Doe No. 1" through "John Doe No. 100" inclusive, the names of the last 100 defendants being unknown to plaintiff, it being intended to designate fee owners, tenants or occupants of the tax lien premises and/or persons or parties having or claiming an interest in or a lien upon the subject property, if the aforesaid individual defendants are living, and if any or all of said individual defendants be dead, their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, committees, devisees, legatees, and the assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest of them, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by, through, or against the said defendants named as a class, of any right, title, or interest in or lien upon the premises described in the complaint herein, Defendants.

To the above named Defendants: You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff’s Attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Notice of Nature of Action and Relief Sought The Object of the above entitled action is to foreclose a Tax Lien in the original Tax Lien Principal Balance of $2,535.34 with interest as described in a certain Tax Lien Certificate dated November 16, 2011 and recorded in the Office of the City Register for the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, on November 23, 2011 in City Register File Number (“CRFN”) 2011000408629 upon premises described as follows: ADDRESS: 425 Montauk Avenue, Brooklyn, New York BLOCK:4456 LOT: 61 COUNTY: Kings The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Tax Lien described above.Plaintiff designates Kings County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the county where the Property being foreclosed

upon is located. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the Plaintiff who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you may lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and complaint and protect your property. Sending a payment to the Plaintiff will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: July 30, 2013 New York, New York THE LAW OFFICE OF THOMAS P.MALONE, PLLC By: Thomas P. Malone Attorneys for Plaintiffs 60 East 42nd Street, Suite 1540 New York, New York 10165 Ph.: (212) 867-0500 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing supplemental summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Court dated July 15, 2013 and filed along with the supporting papers in the Kings County Clerk’s Office.

SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS E.R. HOLDINGS LLC, A NEW YORK LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, Plaintiff against 62 MONROE STREET, INC., et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated August 1, 2012 and entered herein on September 14, 2012, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY on the 12th day of September, 2013 at 2:30 PM premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the southerly side of Monroe Street distant 95 feet 4 inches westerly from the southwesterly corner of Monroe and Franklin Avenue and opposite the center of a certain party wall; RUNNING THENCE southerly in a line parallel with Franklin Avenue and partly through the center of said party wall, seventy-five (75) feet; RUNNING THENCE westerly and parallel with Monroe Street 4 feet eight inches (4'8"); RUNNING THENCE southerly and parallel with Franklin Avenue twenty-five (25) feet; RUNNING THENCE westerly and parallel with Monroe Street fifteen (15) feet; RUNNING THENCE northerly and parallel with Franklin Avenue and partly through another party wall, 100 feet to Monroe Street; and RUNNING

VOL. 18 NO. 32 THENCE easterly, along Monroe Street 19 feet 8 inches to the point or place BEGINNING. Block: 1987 Lot: 41 Said premises known as 62 MONROE STREET, BROOKLYN, NY Approximate amount of lien $ 508,749.95 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index Number 2344/10. THEODORE ALATSAS, ESQ., Referee. Harris Beach PLLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff The Omni Building, 333 Earle Ovington Blvd Suite 901, Uniondale, NY 11553 File No 1363/A, 2004 CITATION the People of The State of New York, By the Grace of God Free and Independent, to the heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of Robert Ranson a/k/a Robert Ransom a/k/a Robert Whitley Ransom deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence, THE COMMISSIONER OF FINANCE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK KINGS COUNTY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR Send Greeting: A petition having been filed by DENNIS WILLIAMS who is domiciled at 291 STUYVESANT AVENUE #4 BROOKLYN NEW YORK. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Kings County, at the Court House, 2 Johnson Street in room 319, Brooklyn, New York, on SEPTEMBER 5th, 2013, at 9:30 A. M., why a decree should not be made in the estate of ROBERT RANSON a/k/a ROBERT RANSOM a/k/a ROBERT WHITLEY RANSOM lately domiciled at 291 STUYVESANT AVENUE #4 BROOKLYN NEW YORK in the County of Kings County. Why an order shall not be made declaring Dennis Williams and no other person as the sole distributee of the decedent’s Estate and further direct that the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York to pay Dennis Williams, the sum of 19,853.17 with interest representing the funds on depot to the credit of the Estate and for such other and further relief that this Court deems just and proper. Dated, Attested and Sealed, July 25th, 2013. Hon. Diana A Johnson, Surrogate; Doreen A. Quinn, Chief Clerk; Frank A, Racano, Attorney

Telephone number (718) 644-9093 Address: 198-13 Hollis Ave, P.O. Box 140131 Howard Beach, NY 11414. [This Citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. If you fail to appear, it will be assumed that you consent to the Proceedings, unless you file written objections thereto. You have a right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you.]

Divorce Summons Supreme Court of the State of New York County of Kings Index No. 50743/13 Nana Frimpomaah Plaintiff against Derek Moore, Defendant, County as the place of trial.

The basis of venue is Kings. Action for a Divorce. To the above named Defendant. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer on the Plaintiff within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the state, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated 02/16/2013. Address for Plaintiff: 127 George Street, apt. 1, Brooklyn, NY 11237. Phone No.: 347-569-3517 Notice of Sale NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS NATIONAL CITY BANK, Plaintiff, against VLADIMIR KAMINSKY, et al., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 12/26/2012 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Room 224 of the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on 08/15/2013 at 2:30PM, premises known as 52 Bradford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11207 All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State Approximate amount of judgment $465,693.34 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 12594/08. Charles F. Otey, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC 250 Mile Crossing Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14624 Dated: June 24, 2013 1047006 7/18, 7/25, 8/1, 08/08/2013

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The Sycamore Tree Gwendolyn got in the chair and started to "Come on up to the rock, but the chair didn't porch and bring your make a sound. Gwendolyn wagon and blanket." didn't want to cry, and she They walked around to didn't. But the weight of the front of the house and disappointment looked there was the chair, sitting so heavy on her that Mr. in the middle at the top of Turner had to cheer her up. the stairs.

"Gwennie, you're just "Were you able to fix it?" a little thing. You can't Gwendolyn asked again as make that chair creak. Your she started to run. grandmother's a woman.

Mr. Turner found It'll creak for her." himself lengthening his Mr. Turner looked at stride trying to keep up her, and she knew it would with the back of the little work. red wagon.

"Really?" she asked.

"Why don't you go take "Absolutely," Mr. Turner a look," he suggested while responded. slowing down to a more "That child is going to dignified pace. Leaving her get hurt if she tries to bring wagon at the bottom of the that chair up those stairs stairs, herself," said Aunt Marie.

Gwendolyn walked up She had been, as usual, to the porch. perched and tracking, ''You've added another from the bay window at piece," she shouted as she the top front of the house. went over to the chair. Gwendolyn had already There, connecting the top unwrapped the chair by the spindle in the front with time Marie got downstairs. the bottom spindle in the Mr.Turner had taught her back, was a new length of how to tie a slipknot. So with wood, turned and stained, one good yank on two ropes, perfectly matching the the chair was ready to go up. rest. "That'll make it creak?"

She was figuring out how she asked. to balance it on her head and ''Yes it will," said Mr. shoulders when Aunt Marie Turner. came out the door. ➔ Continued from page 8

"Gwendolyn,please.Give me that chair," she said as she came downstairs.

Gwendolyn was relieved that she didn't have to carry it up, but she knew she could if she had to.

"Thank you," she said.

"Ellie!" Marie called into the house.

"Come out here and let's see what Vernon's done."

"I tried it, Grandma, and it didn't squeak for me because I'm so small but Mr. Turner said it would squeak for you because you're a woman. Sit in it Grandma."

Grandma Ellie turned to Aunt Marie and said, "Did you hear that?”

"I'm sure he meant that you're an adult, not that you're large," her sister reassured her.

Ellie sat in the chair and slowly leaned back.

Gwendolyn's ears were straining and she wanted to shout when she heard it but she wanted to be quiet to hear it again.

Softly, there it was, as her grandmother leaned all the way back, there it was. And there it was again.And again.

In the sleepy rhythm of a late summer's morning in South Carolina, the chair

creaked with renewed old memories.

"Gwendolyn, come up over here," Grandma Ellie said as she reached out to her.

In a flash, Gwendolyn was in her lap.

“You know you're getting too big for this," Ellie said with no hint at all that it was a bother. "No, I'm not," said Gwendolyn as she buried her face in the warmth of her grandmother.

The three of them listened in silence to the chair enjoying a light breeze that had just sprung up.

Gwendolyn thought about the Sycamore tree and wondered what happened to Mr. Turner's grandmother after she had been sold. She wondered what his granddaddy did in the war.

"When I grow up, I'll be able to make the chair creak, right Grandma?"

Gwendolyn asked.

Ellie looked down at her and said, "You don't have to worry Gwendolyn, you'll be making this chair creak soon enough. This is just fine. This is just too fine for words."

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