A Call for Narrative   by Brian J. Carreira
At a moment when it has become largely irrelevant to the approval of the Atlantic Yards proposal, the New York media has finally noticed some of the real light unfiltered by the Ratner PR projection. Namely, that there is substantial local resistance to the humongous eminent domain-dependent project.

Up with Downzoning   by Aaron Brashear & Mic Holwin
Last year, my wife and I moved from the increasingly hectic Fort Greene section of Brooklyn where we had lived for over 20 years to a country-like (to us) neighborhood block in Greenwood Heights, the South Park Slope area of Brooklyn. We had bought our first home: a tiny but heavenly (to us) two-story frame house built around 1900, with “good bones” but in need of a gut renovation.

Bloomberg Says His Prayers   by Kate Greer
While Fernando Ferrer is getting a lift from Bill Clinton, Mike Bloomberg is getting his from the Lord. On a recent Sunday in Bed-Stuy, Bloomberg sits among the congregation at Cornerstone Baptist Church alongside Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. In a crowd of myriad browns, the two undersized Jewish men absorb the sermon of Reverend Lawrence E. Aker, III.








The Rail congratulates the following winners of 2005 Ippie Awards from the Independent Press Association-N.Y.:

1st Place, Best Story About Immigrant Issues Gabriel Thompson, "When Even the Minimum Wage is a Distant Dream" (December 2004/January 2005)

2nd Place, Best Editorial/Commentary Theodore Hamm, "Arthur Miller’s Brooklyn Legacy" (March 2005)

3rd Place, Best Investigative/In-Depth News Story Brian J. Carreira, "No Room at the Inn: Ratner Continues to ’Game’ Officials and the Public" (June 2005)

3rd Place, Best Overall Design: Amelia Hennighausen

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