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  Commercial Decline on Mount Pleasant Street

  Ben Adler | Mon, Nov 17th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Brooklyn | Tags: news, economy, brooklyn, gentrification, washington post, latino, ben adler, mount pleasant, washington, d.c. | 3

  The Washington Post reports that my neighborhood, Mount Pleasant is suffering from a plague of shuttered storefronts on its commercial strip, Mount Pleasant Street. Although it was roughly equal parts white, black and Latino in the last census, it appears the population is changing.

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• Headlines

  Untangling Intersections

  Next American City | Fri, Jul 25th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: new york city, transportation, brooklyn, kat kondracki, wiley norvell, transportation alternatives, alternative transportation, 21st century street, sustainable, streets, intersection | 0

  Transportation Alternatives, a New York City-based advocacy group for walking, bicycling, and public transit, encourages the public to register in a complete street design competition.
  

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• Underpaid, Under-trained NYPD Officers Make Deadly Decisions

  Chanel Lee | Tue, Apr 29th, 2008 | City: Brooklyn | Tags: | 1

  Last Friday, Queens Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman delivered his highly anticipated verdict in the trial of three NYPD detectives accused of killing Sean Bell. Can Bell’s death and others like it be attributed to the fact that NYPD officers and patrolmen are underpaid and insufficiently trained? Next American City welcomes new guest columnist, Chanel Lee.

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