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The Stars of New York Dance with Restoration's very own, President Colvin W. Grannum!

Friday, January 22, 2010
THE STARS OF NEW YORK DANCE! The Stars of New York Dance, presented Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, is a charitable, thrilling and judged dance competition likened to Dancing with the Stars but with the charitable mission of increasing children from low-income communities' access to dance.

NYC Justice Corps Website Launch

Thursday, December 3, 2009
The NYC Justice Corps – a community reentry program for young adults in New York City – is pleased to announce that its website is updated and live! Designed and developed specifically for current and potential partners, the website includes useful information for the following audiences: • Young adults from the targeted neighborhoods interested in learning more about the benefits of the NYC Justice Corps and enrolling as Corps members at one of our two current sites;

Our Time Press-Justice Corp at the Magnolia Tree Earth Center

Friday, November 20, 2009
A JUST RESTORATION: The Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford-Stuyvesant received a facelift courtesy of the New York City Justice Corps, a program operated by the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation serving formerly incarcerated youth ages 18- 24. A team of some 25 Justice Corps members retiled floors and bathroom, carpeted and repainted the Washington Carver Gallery as well as designed, created and painted a mural in the backyard. Now Justice Corps are continuing their work in the site...

The Culvert Chronicles “Coalition Of Twenty-Three Bedford Stuyvesant Non-Profits Is Urban Force for Change, Model for Other Cities”

Thursday, November 12, 2009
Brooklyn, New York- There is strength in numbers, and no better example of that strength is in the Coalition for the Improvement of Bedford Stuyvesant (CIBS). CIBS is comprised of 23 powerful community-based nonprofit organizations and government officials mobilized around a single purpose: to combine efforts and strengths in attacking major issues of concern to the community so as to increase leverage, increase opportunity and enhance the chances for successful results.

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK PRESIDENT DUDLEY TO VISIT RESTORATION

Monday, October 26, 2009
FOR PLANNING PURPOSES FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK PRESIDENT DUDLEY TO VISIT NATION’S FIRST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, BEDFORD STUYVESANT RESTORATION CORPORATION

Some 450 runners/walkers came out for 28th Annual 10K Run/Walk

Wednesday, October 14, 2009
The oldest community development corporation in the country, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation held its 28th Annual 10k run and fun walk this past Sunday October 11th. This fun filled day had a turnout of 450+ runners and walkers ranging from the age of 10 to 78. This was a wonderful sight to see considering that during the past couple of years only about 100 to 150 runners participated. Many of the runners/walkers came out as a team to support each other like the YMCA, Brownstoners of...

Restoration Sends Seniors Off to College with a Night to Remember

Thursday, September 17, 2009
Last month, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation celebrated its third annual graduation for the In School Youth (ISY) program, an initiative dedicated to the development of our young people. Each year, we take a moment to acknowledge the hard work and accomplishments of some 70 program participants. The event was held in the Skylight Art Gallery at Restoration where parents, friends, program staff, internship hosts and other key stakeholders were all in attendance. Of the 35 juniors who...

RESTORATION CELEBRATES 42 YEARS

Friday, July 17, 2009
On June 18 Restoration celebrated its 42nd anniversary at its annual fundraising benefit and awards ceremony at Steiner Studios at Brooklyn Navy Yard. Prominent civil rights attorney, author and Harvard Law Professor, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. received the Robert F. Kennedy Humanitarian Award and Commissioner of NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal, Deborah VanAmerongen received the Jacob Javits Achievement Award. Maurice Dubois, CBS 2 News Anchor, hosted this event.

Thompson Statement on Bed-Stuy Gateway BID

Friday, March 27, 2009
New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. today announced his support for the creation of a new Business Improvement District (BID) for Bedford Stuyvesant in central Brooklyn. The new Gateway BID will include properties along Fulton Street between Classon and Troy Avenues and along Nostrand Avenue between Halsey Street and Atlantic Avenue.

The New York Times "Seeking to Intervene With Young Adults Before Crime Becomes a Way of Life"

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Almost every time he was released from jail, Wilfredo Hierrezuelo stumbled back in, once after an arrest for dealing drugs, another time after he assaulted a school safety guard...full story at NY Times.

NBC-Black History Month: Destination Brooklyn

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Brooklyn-based Black History Month tours put a new focus on bringing more business to New York's other African American cultural center. NBC's Sonia Narang reports. watch the video

The New York Times "Examining the Kennedy Legacy in Brooklyn"

Friday, January 30, 2009
The newly appointed senator, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, has been in her new job for the better part of a work week now, and Caroline Kennedy has been out of contention for the same post for even longer. But before Ms. Kennedy has eased off the stage of electoral politics completely, it seems worthwhile to consider for a moment why her last name still carries the weight in New York that it does... full story at NY Times

The New York Times "Star Power, Still Shining 40 Years On"

Thursday, January 29, 2009
RESTORATION PLAZA, the rambling headquarters of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, takes up several buildings, including one that was once an abandoned milk-bottling plant, on a full square block south of Fulton Street... full story at NY Times

The New York Times "Bed-Stuy’s Long-Playing Music Man "

Thursday, January 22, 2009
JOE LONG, the owner of Birdell’s, a venerable independent record store on Nostrand Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, has supplied three generations of music lovers with 45s, 78s, 33s, cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs and the occasional dollop of fatherly advice... full story at NY Times

Restoration on PBS "Black Communities Struggle with Soaring Energy Costs"

Monday, August 18, 2008
Energy and food prices are skyrocketing. Some people are forgoing necessities, simply because they costs too much. Some black communities have been hit particularly hard because residents pay a larger percentage of their incomes on energy costs. Jori Lewis looks at the reasons and how some homeowners are adjusting... full audio and transcript at PBS

NY Daily News "Young Noel Pointer School of Music performers wow concertgoers"

Monday, August 18, 2008
In a sunlit room far, far away from Carnegie Hall, proud mothers sat on a recent Friday afternoon, with bouquets of fresh flowers on their laps. Proud dads stood along the walls of the room, cameras ready to record the action... full story at NY Daily News

NY Daily News "New AM radio station One Caribbean Radio tunes in Caribbean community"

Thursday, August 14, 2008
Edmon Braithwaite must be onto something. After a sometimes rocky year, Braithwaite's One Caribbean Radio (620 AM), a part-time station with studios in Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, is rapidly becoming the destination of choice for politicians eager to reach the city's 3-million-plus Caribbean-American community... full story at NY Times

NY Observer: "Bed-Stuy Restoration Corporation Marks 40 Years Amid Gentrification Chatter"

Sunday, January 20, 2008
Even though he was an honoree, Governor David Paterson couldn’t make it to the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation’s 40th anniversary gala on Thursday night. He was campaigning for Barack Obama. Things have changed, indeed, for the central Brooklyn neighborhood and its boosters in the 40 years since Senators Robert Kennedy and Jacob Javits founded the preservationist Restoration Corporation.... full story at NY Observer

NY1 News: Restaurant Grand Opening Celeberates New Food, Jobs in Bed-Stuy

Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Customers lined up outside the new neighborhood restaurant in Bedford Stuyvesant. Inside, the Applebee's Neighborhood Bar and Grill was packed. The grand opening of the restaurant brings more than just moderately priced food to the area. It also brings jobs. Ninety-nine percent of them are all from here; a number of them live across the street. Most of them walk to work," says Applebee's owner Zane Tankel. "You can't be in a neighborhood without neighborhood people here."

NY Daily News: Bed-Stuy Exhibition reveals Youngsters' Frame of Mind

Sunday, November 27, 2005
AT FIRST GLANCE, it would appear Ahmed Manns of Bedford-Stuyvesant would have little in common with Pearl Shelby of Marvell, Ark. Shelby's hometown, which is 45 minutes from Memphis by car, is exactly 1.4 square miles and has a population of 1,395. Manns' borough measures 71 square miles; its population is 2,467,326. But when photographs by Manns and Shelby went on exhibit at the Skylight Gallery in Bedford-Stuyvesant's Restoration Plaza recently, a common theme was evident.

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