Brownsville
The Afternoon Wrap: Monday
- Information Age Triumph of the Day: MTA subway arrival signs are finally here. Never again will L Train riders have to suffer the indignity of wondering how long they'll have to wait before being whisked from Williamsburg to Manhattan. (Photo by John Koblin.) [AMNY, via Real Deal]
- One-time Mets firstbaseman Mo Vaughn will pay $21 million for the 385-unit apartment complex Noble Drew Ali Plaza in Brownsville, Brooklyn. One hopes the slugger is a better landlord than the infamous Abdur Rahman Farrakhan, one of the Village Voice's "10 Worst". [City Limits]
- Vietnam is the new chic flat-world winter hotspot, and there's a fresh $200-million-dollar, 500-acre resort to prove it. [Luxist]
- Last, but not least: Happy MLK Day. [Brooklyn Record] - Max Abelson
A Yassky Supporter in Brownsville
Saturday afternoon at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Brownsville, Kenner hosted a debate for the candidates in the 11th district race, and to her dismay, Yvette Clarke did not make an appearance. Kenner was not pleased, and vocally criticized Clarke at the forum.
"I don't know why she didn't come," she said in an interview afterwards. "She was invited like everyone else. I would like for her to have come. You know, if you want to represent the people you are supposed to come, regardless of what people."
Kenner denied she was doing Yassky's bidding, and offered the following unprompted explanation of why she was supporting him:
"He did not pay me, and I didn't ask for no money. I want the people to know this. I am tired and I know a lot of other people out here in Brownsville - well I cover the whole 55th, but part of it is the 11th congressional - we're tired of being denied certain things from education, from healthcare, or anything. We have been denied for so long, we ain't going to be denied no more. So the next person who goes to Congress, they are going to be held accountable."—Nicole Brydson
The Boyland Dynasty, Continued?
Tracy Boyland
Rumors are floating about that Tracy Boyland has started to petition in order to challenge Velmanette Montgomery for her Brooklyn-based senate seat. When reached by phone just now, Boyland would only say that she can't comfirm anything until Wednesday. Which, maybe, says it all. read more »
Boyland challenged Major Owens for his congressional seat in 2004, declined to run again this year, and was term limited out of her city council seat last year. Her brother, William Boyland, Jr., currently holds an assembly seat in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, where their father, William Sr. has created a dynastic political family. Montgomery's senate seat reaches through Red Hook, Bedford Stuyvesant and Brownsville.
—Nicole BrydsonF.D.R.’s Closest Call: What if He Had Lost?
