The New York State Bar Association honored attorney Esmeralda Simmons during the 2018 Haywood Burns Award Ceremony and Symposium that was held in Queens on Wednesday, Nov. 28. Simmons is the executive director of the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights. The annual award is given by the […]
A training facility for court officers across the state opened in Crown Heights on Monday — a deal that was nine years in the making. The corner of St. John’s Place and Classon Avenue — once the location of a Catholic school where nuns lived — is now home to the 60,000 square feet of […]
Harlem Renaissance sculptor Richmond Barthe’s 80-foot-long outdoor frieze at Kingsborough Houses in Crown Heights is in danger of crumbling, according to experts. Barthe intended his sculpture to be part of a planned amphitheater at NYCHA’s Harlem River Houses, which opened in 1937. However, the amphitheater was never built, and the frieze was instead installed at […]