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New York Times
03-06-2025
- Business
- New York Times
Black Families Are Leaving New York. Can a Pastor's Plan End the Exodus?
On one of the coldest mornings of the year, David K. Brawley stood on the roof of a new home for seniors he had helped create, his coat fluttering in the wind. He surveyed his domain. He pointed to the left, toward the hazy outline of the Manhattan skyline, to the rows of rental apartments below that he had helped develop. He pointed to the right, toward Jamaica Bay, to the mall and the rowhouses, built on top of landfill and overgrown fields, whose construction he had championed. Squint, and you could almost see it: his vision of 10,000 more apartments, in new buildings stretching into every undeveloped corner of a neighborhood once known as the murder capital of New York City. Mr. Brawley, 56, is not a real estate developer. He is the pastor of one of Brooklyn's most storied Black congregations, St. Paul Community Baptist Church in East New York. But at a moment when Black families are leaving the city in droves, there's no way to lead a church like his without having a keen — in his case almost obsessive — interest in building more affordable housing. It's the only way he can keep his flock intact. This corner of Brooklyn, at the edge of one of the most expensive cities on the planet, has long been an epicenter of New York's Black civil servant class: the people who drive buses, administer food stamps, work with children with disabilities. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Yahoo
Man, 18, killed and woman wounded in shooting across street from Brooklyn school
An 18-year-old man was killed and a young woman wounded in a hail of bullets across the street from a Brooklyn public school, police said Sunday. The man was shot in the torso while the woman, also 18, was blasted in the right arm across the street from Public School 36 in East New York about 9:55 p.m. Saturday, cops said. Medics rushed the man from the scene on New Jersey Ave. near Linden Blvd. to Kings County Hospital but he could not be saved. His name was not immediately released. The woman was taken to Brookdale University Hospital in stable condition. No arrests have been made.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Andor Recasts Legacy Star Wars Character — Find Out Who, and Why
Though Disney+'s Andor series — a prequel to the 2016 motion picture Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — has been pretty great about casting continuity, at least one legacy character is now sporting a brand-new face. Midway through Episode 6 of Season 2 (now streaming on Disney+), Senator Mon Mothma (played by Genevieve O'Reilly) and her husband Perrin (Alastair Mackenzie) got gussied up to tour the art collection of shady Chandrilan financier Davo Sculdun aka their daughter Leida's new father-in-law. En route to the VIP experience, they ran into Mon's colleague, Senator Bail Organa. More from TVLine Will Trent Adds Yul Vazquez in Major Recurring Role - Will This 'Newfound Enemy' Play a Part in Season 4? Landman Season 2 Adds 1883's Sam Elliott Casting News: Matt Lauria Joins CBS' Fire Country Spinoff and More Since the 2002 prequel trilogy entry Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Bail had been played by Jimmy Smits. The NYPD Blue and L.A. Law alum also played Leia's father in the aforementioned Rogue One, Disney+'s 2022 Obi-Wan Kenobi series and some video game titles. On Andor, however, the senator is being played (in multiple Season 2 episodes) by Benjamin Bratt, whose previous TV credits include Poker Face, Private Practice, Law & Order, 24: Live Another Day and… let's go with with a deep cut, E-Ring. Andor Season 2 filmed November 2022 through Spring 2023, with the Chandril scenes shot in Valencia, Spain. Smits during that stretch of time was largely busy shooting CBS' East New York, 3,700 miles away in the Big Apple. 'It's very difficult sometimes to bring legacy characters back, for a whole variety of reasons,' Andor creator Tony Gilroy explained to TVLine. And in the case of Bail Organa and Smits, 'they just couldn't work it out' due to the franchise vet's East New York commitments. Star Wars vets among the Andor cast include O'Reilly (who has played Mon in a number of projects) and Rogue One's Diego Luna (as Cassian Andor), Forest Whitaker (Saw Gererra) and Ben Mendelsohn (Orson Krennic). Is the Force strong with 's pick to step in as Senator Bail Organa? Chime in below, and grade Season 2's second batch of three of TVLine Stars Who Almost Played Other TV Roles — on Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, Lost, Gilmore Girls, Friends and Other Shows TV Stars Almost Cast in Other Roles Fall TV Preview: Who's In? Who's Out? Your Guide to Every Casting Move!
