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Valery Jean, Executive Director of Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, on FUREE's 10th Anniversary Party

The Village Voice, 12/14/2011 -

It's the holidays and time for nightly benefit parties. This month, we're be circling back to non-profits and art groups we've talked to through out 2011 as they gear up for their annual shindigs. Read more »

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Occupy Brooklyn Storms Back with a Weekend of Action in Downtown

Brooklyn Paper, 11/11/2011 -

This weekend, Brooklyn will be occupied with Occupy Brooklyn.

The borough’s fledgling social justice movement will offer two days of rallies, teach-ins, speeches and, yes, some good old-fashioned protesting as longstanding progressive groups embrace Occupy Wall Street.

“The weekend is in line with the various struggles that have been going on here already for a long time,” said an organizer who’s been involved with the movement since its inception, but requested not to be named. Read more »

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FUREE, Elected Officials Want Input on Selection of New Downtown Brooklyn Partnership President

Brooklyn Eagle, 11/10/2011 -

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A letter to the board of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership sent by Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE) and signed by several elected officials demands that the community have input in the hiring process for the organization’s new president. Read more »

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Community Leaders Hopeful That Red Apple Owner Will Keep Promises

Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Patch, 10/21/2011 -

The supermarket for which Fort Greene Houses residents have been waiting years may now be only more than a week away.

Red Apple Supermarket, located at The Andrea building on Myrtle Avenue, has been given a tentative opening date of Oct. 31, according to a source at the Gristedes organization, which owns the store. Read more »

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Cut, Baste, Stitch, Sing!

NY Times , 06/21/2011 -

The big voice and dramatic flair that served Wanda Imasuen well as a community organizer are turning out to translate nicely to another stage: musical comedy.

Ms. Imasuen plays several roles in an updated revival of the fabled 1937 revue “Pins and Needles” that aims to demonstrate that when it comes to the struggles of working people, as she puts it, “the same thing that was happening then is happening now.”

Running at the Irondale Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, from Wednesday through July 9, the show, comprising sketches and songs, is a joint endeavor of the Obie-winning Foundry Theater and Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (Furee), which since 2001 has worked to increase access to housing, jobs and services for low-income families.

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'Pins and Needles' revival sings in Brooklyn with fresh take on classic New York living

NY Daily News, 06/17/2011 -

The tenant-landlord relationship has always come with a high-tension hum.

Now, with rents in recovery (as in, going up), a revival sings of this timeless big-city issue plus others.

No, not "Rent."

It's a fresh take on "Pins & Needles," a 1937 Broadway revue that blends social protest and satire into a heady musical mix.

The show is a collaboration of the Foundry Theatre and Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE), Brooklyn-based community group largely comprised of women of color.

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Locals Seek More Than Bread From Red Apple Supermarket

The Local - Fort-Greene Blog - NYTimes.com, 04/19/2011 -

If there was ever any doubt, the supermarket chain Red Apple Group now knows that the residents of Ingersoll, Farragut, and Whitman housing developments will demand a grocery store that is committed to their communities. Thursday’s forum on a plan for a new 12,000-square-foot Red Apple Supermarket on Myrtle Avenue at Ashland drew over 100 potential patrons to the Ingersoll Community Center. Read more »

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Anger over underground supermarket

Brooklyn Downtown Star, 04/19/2011 -

The development company behind an underground supermarket coming to Fort Greene is facing criticism from public housing residents for a design that will have them descending into the basement of an upscale apartment building to shop for fresh produce.

The Red Apple Group is planning to open the grocery store underneath The Andrea, on Myrtle Avenue and Ashland Place, sometime this summer.
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Rotten Apple? Locals Lay Into Developer of Delayed Supermarket

Fort Greene - Clinton Hill Patch, 04/16/2011 -

Around 100 fed-up residents grilled representatives from a long-delayed supermarket at Myrtle Avenue and Ashland Place — demanding that the desperately needed store be affordable for all.

The locals — many from the Ingersoll and Whitman houses, and the Kingsview and University towers — repeatedly criticized execs from the Red Apple supermarket for leaving their slice of the neighborhood without a grocery store for five years.

"This block used to be full of stores and a vital part of this community, but the block went down, just like dominoes," said Cynthia Butts, a member of FUREE, a community group that helped organized Thursday night’s meeting at the Ingersoll Community Center.

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Malls for Sale, Doughnuts, Jane Jacobs

The New York Times Fort Greene/Clinton Hill Local, 03/30/2011 -

Good Morning Fort Greene and Clinton Hill!  It’s another beautiful day outside!

Dough, Clinton Hill’s own artisan doughnut shop was featured in The Huffington Post yesterday.  Careful, the video just might make your mouth water enough to force you to head out and try one for yourself. Read more »