Shanjida Choudhury
Shanjida Choudhury is an American Muslim who, when she was young, had trouble accepting her religion and held a good deal of anger towards God. Now she works to build ties between Muslims and Jews.
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Jeffrey Verna
Jeffrey Verna witnessed both the positive and negative sides to growing up in Brooklyn. “It was great, as far as my childhood, it was fun. I didn’t notice anything negative around me, but as you get older you notice all the negative things that were going on that we were so blinded by as kids.
Myrna Skurnick
Myrna Gordon Skurnick never planned to come to America. Growing up in London during World War II, living through the Nazi bombing during the Blitz and her father’s loss of his job, by the end of the war, she wanted to get out.
Fall 2016 End-of-Semester Celebration
"QUOTE FROM THE STORY" Second paragraph... Third... Fourth... Fifth.. Sixth... Seventh.. Eighth... Ninth.. Jeffery Verna http://bclisteningproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Jeffrey-Verna-Clip-1.mp3 "QUOTE FROM THE STORY" Second paragraph... Third... Fourth......
Gentrification
Gentrification has almost become synonymous with Brooklyn. Neighborhood after neighborhood—Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Carroll Gardens—has been transformed as real estate developers have scooped up older buildings, putting pressure on tenants to move out, rehabbing apartments and charging three or four times the previous rents