Are you trying to say that only the sky hasn't been gentrified?
Btw, did anyone attend yesterday's memorial for Sister Elizabeth? I got arrested with her in 1998 protesting Giuliani's attempt to restrict public access to public higher education. She refused to leave the CUNY Board room when the police were asked to clear us out, so we all followed her lead in protest. I was thrown in the paddywagon with Scott Stringer (!) who was still an Assemblyman.
The event is recorded in a subsequent law suit challenging the CUNY BoT's decision to end remediation at the senior colleges: http://www.cunyufs.org/minutes/judgewilk.htm She was a really important presence in this neighborhood for many years.
sister e was one of the original members of the committee to close the men's shelter (8 e 3 st) which then turned into the committee to improve the shelter and many years later lots of those folks became BASTA (before another shelter tears us apart) in response to the city's proposed first street shelter.
blue glass -- My contact with Sister Elizabeth was limited to the CUNY protest. I'm surprised to learn that she opposed a shelter. I had heard she was an advocate for the homeless.
nygrump -- CUNY administration has not had a truly progressive chancellor since Murphy in the 80s. (The faculty union, however, is actively progressive.) The current Acting Chancellor has brought back ROTC to campuses and I assume he is origin of the decision to close the CCNY student/community center, although I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA or David Petraeus had a role in it.
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Are you trying to say that only the sky hasn't been gentrified?
Btw, did anyone attend yesterday's memorial for Sister Elizabeth?
I got arrested with her in 1998 protesting Giuliani's attempt to restrict public access to public higher education. She refused to leave the CUNY Board room when the police were asked to clear us out, so we all followed her lead in protest. I was thrown in the paddywagon with Scott Stringer (!) who was still an Assemblyman.
The event is recorded in a subsequent law suit challenging the CUNY BoT's decision to end remediation at the senior colleges:
http://www.cunyufs.org/minutes/judgewilk.htm
She was a really important presence in this neighborhood for many years.
sister e was one of the original members of the committee to close the men's shelter (8 e 3 st) which then turned into the committee to improve the shelter and many years later lots of those folks became BASTA (before another shelter tears us apart) in response to the city's proposed first street shelter.
rob, if you don't like skies move to...
blue glass -- My contact with Sister Elizabeth was limited to the CUNY protest. I'm surprised to learn that she opposed a shelter. I had heard she was an advocate for the homeless.
That second to last photo is so wonderful it breaks my heart.
CUNY seems to be a fairly evil institution, extremely conservative and absolutely antifree speech
nygrump -- CUNY administration has not had a truly progressive chancellor since Murphy in the 80s. (The faculty union, however, is actively progressive.) The current Acting Chancellor has brought back ROTC to campuses and I assume he is origin of the decision to close the CCNY student/community center, although I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA or David Petraeus had a role in it.
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