Officer Peter Liang, who had been working in the field since graduating the police academy in January, had his flashlight and gun out when the weapon "accidentally discharged," hitting Akai Gurley who was "a total innocent," NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said. Crown Heights, Prospect Heights & Prospect-Lefferts GardensĮAST NEW YORK - A rookie police officer fatally shot an unarmed man late Thursday in a "pitch black" Pink Houses stairwell as his girlfriend, whom he had been visiting, watched in horror, officials and a witness said.Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens & Red Hook. It's just great because you can just hear yourself think about how you are going to plan once you get in class. The run rises on our faces." Jared Wellington "I love how when I'm in the school, hallways are so quiet when I walk through. Im pending rains." Sheik Bacchus "My cousin Alissa likes being bossy because she thinks she is 'popeller'." Christian Jimenez "The neighborhood I am in is so surprising. I love my cat." Susana Ortiz "We roam around this spontaneous block sticking together as brothers. She likes that I dance and I feel content. Dance ballerina, because you like the music. Catalina (Tata) Trinidad "My husband and I before we were married: he was 20 and I was 16." Alina navarro "My friend always makes me laugh." Linda Erwin "Do I really have to go to church this morning?" Margaret Wells "On Christmas I photograph my cat and I dance with my cat. Margarita Curet Tata and her granddaughter who is expecting a child at the Fort Independence Houses in Bronx, N.Y. One day she had to go to a different home, so I made an 'I love you' card, but in the summer we go to visit and I still call her every night." Angelly Suero "Remember when the ball field was a dust bowl? Now paved, kids love to play basketball." Margaret Wells A neighbor looks after another neighbor's dog at the Amsterdam Houses on the Upper West Side, New York City. There was one girl that I knew for six years. I used to live with my grandma and now I live across the street from her. I've been in my neighborhood all my life. "I love living in my neighborhood because I get to hang out with my friends and dance every day. Ye Ming is a contributor to TIME LightBox. Project Lives, published by powerHouse Books, is available here. And while the family cannot afford a camera, Wellington keeps making pictures using his mother’s cell phone and is inspired to continue studying photography. “He just carried the camera like it was part of him,” his mother Celia tells TIME. “I try to show how I see my friends, family and neighbors.” “I try to find myself in my photos,” he explains. Jared Wellington, 14, a former resident of the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn, New York, participated in the program two years ago, during which he turned his lens onto his everyday life. Together with photographer and educator Chelsea Davis, the three introduced the notion of “participatory photography” to the housing projects, aiming to change the negative perceptions of their living conditions and culture. “There were just no good stories.”įisher first became intrigued by the concept in 2010, through conversations with his friend George Carrano, a former Metropolitan Transportation Authority official who has taken to photography in retirement. “Every image you saw in the media - they were either perpetrators or victims,” Fisher tells TIME. The perpetually biased presentations in the media, Fisher believes, end up doing more harm than good for the already disadvantaged residents. Today, these identifiable redbrick buildings have increasingly come to represent little more than physical proof of the city’s crime rates, and are regularly featured in tabloids and Hollywood films, says Jonathan Fisher, the editor of Project Lives, a photography book on life in public housing seen through the eyes of its inhabitants. The agency’s commitment to providing high-standard affordable housing was once widely admired and imitated around the country. Since its initiation in 1935, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has built hundreds of apartment blocks for hundreds of thousands of medium and low-income New Yorkers.
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