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Tuesday, Oct. 19

Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament, 2021, Semifinal Round

South Plainfield 2, Metuchen 0 – Box Score

East Brunswick 3, South Brunswick 1 – Box Score

Mercer County Tournament, 2021, Semifinal Round

Lawrence 4, Lawrenceville 1 – Box Score

Princeton Day 2, Princeton 0 – Box Score

Morris County Tournament, 2021, Final Round

Chatham 2, Randolph 1 – Box Score

Shore Conference Tournament, 2021, Quarterfinal Round

Shore 4, Central Regional 0 – Box Score

Wall 2, Rumson-Fair Haven 1 – Box Score

Point Pleasant Boro 4, Southern 1 – Box Score

Ocean Township 5, Middletown South 1 – Box Score

Regular Season

BCSL

Rancocas Valley 4, Florence 1 – Box Score

Shawnee 1, Moorestown 0 – Box Score

New Egypt 5, Monroe 2 – Box Score

CAPE-ATLANTIC

Ocean City 10, Bridgeton 0 – Box Score

COLONIAL

Gloucester 9, Woodbury 0 – Box Score

CVC

Allentown 4, Hamilton West 2 – Box Score

Hightstown 3, Nottingham 0 – Box Score

ESSEX/UNION

Pennington 4, Newark Academy 1 – Box Score

Scotch Plains-Fanwood 3, Summit 0 – Box Score

Gov. Livingston 2, Verona 0 – Box Score

Glen Ridge 5, Columbia 0 – Box Score

Montclair 2, Johnson 1 – Box Score

Mount St. Dominic 1, Livingston 0 – Box Score

Montclair Kimberley 1, Millburn 0 – Box Score

West Essex 8, Union 0 – Box Score

Kent Place 8, Westfield 1 – Box Score

FSL

Moorestown Friends 2, Westtown (PA) 1 – Box Score

GMC

New Egypt 5, Monroe 2 – Box Score

NEFHL

Pompton Lakes 3, Morris Knolls 0 – Box Score

NJAC

Newton 2, Hackettstown 1 – Box Score

Mount…

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It’s Thursday. We’ll look at a building in Brooklyn where tenants stopped paying the rent. We’ll also look at a new art installation that projects images onto a huge “shoreline” of oyster shells.

The four-story apartment building at 1616 President Street in Brooklyn is notable for the tall letters spelling out “Ultra Court” that are etched over the front door and flanked by elaborate columns. The building is also notable for the anger percolating among the tenants — anger that has boiled over into a rent strike by about half the residents.

Plagued by problems like cockroach infestations and leaky ceilings, they maintain that repairs have been neglected for too long by a landlord who is described by city officials as one of the most negligent in New York. The city has even gone to housing court, accusing the landlord of falsely claiming that dozens of violations had been addressed and of filing “baseless” eviction papers against tenants.

The landlord maintains that the building has been properly maintained and that tenants have sometimes blocked access to their apartments, preventing maintenance people from doing repairs.

Simmering tensions between landlords and renters are not uncommon in New York, but the rent strike on President Street in Crown Heights has a pandemic-related twist. The outbreak has mobilized tenants to take on their landlords. As my colleague Mihir Zaveri explains, the protest on President Street began in May 2020 when a nationwide protest with the rallying cry “cancel rent” demanded housing relief.

It’s not clear how many other protests that were inaugurated then have lasted. Some landlords — also coping with the financial pain of the pandemic — have struck deals with tenants for reduced payments on back rent. But there’s no question that in…

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By ohtadmin | on October 19, 2021

On Wednesday, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams tweeted his opposition to planned affordable housing development in Flatbush said to sit atop a centuries-old African burial ground.

He said, “Our borough absolutely needs to build more affordable housing, especially in Flatbush, but I cannot support building it on an area shown to have human remains of enslaved people below. I stand in solidarity with the vision for a memorial and open space.”

In 2020, the City announced plans to convert the site into affordable housing with around 100 affordable apartments and a youth community facility.

The Flatbush African Burial Ground Remembrance and Redevelopment Task Force is leading an effort to build community-based recommendations on how to honor the African burial ground and serve the neighborhood with 100% affordable housing, youth-programming, and other neighborhood amenities.

Adams, who co-chairs the task force on the issue, says the city-owned site of the demolished PS 90, which is currently vacant, should be a culturally appropriate memorial, accompanied by open space.

A few days before, the Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition gathered in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall & the NYC Department of Housing and Preservation to send a message to the city to stop plans to hand Flatbush African Burial Ground sacred land over to a developer.

In October 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Member Mathieu Eugene announced plans to transform a site on the corner of Bedford and Church Avenues into affordable homes and youth-focused programming.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and City Council Member Mathieu Eugene convened and co-chaired the Task Force in late 2020 as a collaborative…

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