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34 taken into custody after pro-Palestinian protest at Brooklyn Museum, artwork damage reported
NEW YORK – New York City police said Saturday that they took 34 people in custody following a pro-Palestinian protest at the Brooklyn Museum, which reported damage to some artwork and harassment of security staff by demonstrators. Hundreds of protesters marched to the museum Friday afternoon, set up tents...
Brooklyn scoops of ice cream and love: ‘a neighborhood institution, we can’t lose it’
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS, Brooklyn (PIX11) – A local ice cream shop in Brooklyn that’s been serving scoops and scoops of love in its Brooklyn neighborhood for four decades is now fighting for its life. It’s called Scoops and Plates. “If I can’t have home-cooked food, I come here,” Wendy Metivier, a loyal Scoops customer, told […]
Pro-Gaza Protestors Stage Action at Brooklyn Museum, Calling for Divestment from Israel
As afternoon dimmed into evening Friday, the Brooklyn Museum became the stage of one the most fervent Gaza solidarity actions yet to descend on a New York City art institution. In a Polarized Art World, This New Index Is Mapping Incidents of Censorship Since October 7 Starting at 4:30 p.m. inside the lobby, a group of cultural workers, artists, and New York City community members brandished banners, beat drums, and blew whistles, calling for the museum to condemn the killing of Palestinians in Gaza, as well as disclose and divest its financial ties to Israel. Outside the museum, a hundreds-strong march that began...
Pro-Palestinian protesters damage artwork and shut down Brooklyn Museum
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Pro-Palestinian protesters descended on the Brooklyn Museum Friday evening, shutting down the institution and damaging artworks in the museum lobby, according to a spokesperson for the museum. Museum workers frantically rushed to lock the front doors but were quickly overcome by protesters who overtook the Brooklyn Museum’s lobby. “At around 4:30 […]
WEDDING: Bennett — Sperrazza
Zoe Bennett and Mark Sperrazza were married on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, at the Lake Junakuska Event Center in North Carolina. The bride is the daughter of Heidi Longwith, Tenn.; James Pettigrew, Calif.; and Jeffery Bennett, her adoptive father, of Albany. The bridegroom is the son of Vincent and Karen Sperrazza of Sauquoit.
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