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June 8, 2006
Debate a Contrast of Styles
Brooklyn Downtown Star
By Nik Kovac
When it comes to contentious political issues in central Brooklyn, everybody knows about the Atlantic Yards project. After Monday night's candidates' forum inside a Fort Greene church, add to that short list the generation gap.
Just minutes after Freddie Hamilton, Hakeem Jeffries, and Bill Batson very civilly and very substantively discussed the ins-and-outs of the Atlantic Yards proposal and other pressing local issues, City Councilman Charles Barron and Kevin Powell went at it very substantively - but also very personally.
Posted by lumi at June 8, 2006 7:21 AM