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November 26, 2007
Pass the praise, please
NY Daily News
Columnist Errol Louis is thankful for James Caldwell and got in a plug for the pro-Atlantic Yards group founded for the express purpose of representing "the community" on Ratner's Community Benefits Agreement.
Ten years ago, when a kid in my neighborhood was killed in gang violence - and it turned out he had no family to bury him or even say a word at his wake - one of the few people to step forward with a Bible verse and an offer to help pay for a burial was James Caldwell, who soon after was elected president of the 77th Precinct Community Council.
Caldwell continues to lead a long, difficult fight against street violence in Crown Heights - he recently co-sponsored an anti-violence rally - and works on the root causes of poverty and joblessness as co-founder and president of Brooklyn United for Innovative Local Development, a group dedicated to making sure locals get a fair share of the jobs at the Atlantic Yards project, www.buildbrooklyn.org.
Posted by lumi at November 26, 2007 6:04 AM