Prospect Heights, November 2007: Walking along Vanderbilt Avenue from Atlantic towards Grand Army Plaza. My neighborhood is one of the gentrification hot spots in Brooklyn. I've decided to try to photograph my neighborhood regularly to document how it is changing. Here are a few images I took when I was teaching a research seminar on visual ethnography last fall.

River to River Anti-War Rally: Photograph of my colleague David A. and myself carrying the PSC banner at the March River to River anti-war protest. Photograph taken by Scott D.

We've passed the fifth anniversary of the invasion and the 4000th death among U.S. soldiers. It is long past the time to end the occupation and bring the troops home.

The Professional Staff Congress has taken a strong anti-war stance. We will be tabling at Brooklyn College on May Day in solidarity with the ILWU strike. We are also promoting a BCAW event, Rock Against the War, on May 13th.

We've added a couple of new albums to the photo archive, Montmartre and Belleville. Both are neighborhoods in Paris. The latter is a newly emerging Chinatown.

Professor Krase's work on Coney Island Avenue is discussed in a USA Today story:

What is it about Coney Island Avenue?

That's what Brooklyn College sociologist Jerry Krase wonders as he rides the B68 bus along this 5-mile commercial strip, which is populated at various stops by pockets of West Indians, Latinos, Pakistanis, Indians, Orthodox Jews, Chinese, Russians, Israelis and Ukrainians.

How do so many different kinds of people live so closely yet so peacefully?

Take a look, and then browse the CIA album in our photo archive.

Another new gallery in the photo archive. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto, Staten Island.

Two new galleries in the photo archive: Coney Island Avenue and Court Street in Brooklyn.

We've added two albums to the photo archive: Wooster Street in New Haven, and Little Italy in Baltimore.

We've figured out the problem and the experts at Kattare Internet Services have got everything working again. Hooray!

The photo archive is temporarily unavailable while our ISP does server maintenance. It should be online again soon.

Professor Jerry Krase is quoted in this Daily News feature about Brooklyn.

We've created two new albums in the photo archive, for The Hill, St. Louis, and for Bella Vista, Philadelphia. More images from Jerry Krase's photo collections of urban neighborhoods. More images to come in each album and more albums added soon.

We have added a new gallery. We now have over 200 photographs of Belmont, The Bronx, from Jerry Krase's archive of urban neighborhoods.

Teachers for a Democratic Society has a petition in favor of academic freedom. Go there and add your name to the signatories. It is important to take a stand. Democratic societies need public intellectuals. Support 'em even if you don't always agree with 'em.

Lindsay Beyerstein over at Majikthise has a post about a NYC public school teacher fired for union organizing. The whole charter school thing is a favorite of those on the right who really want to abandon the public school system entirely. The lousy treatment of teachers is only one reason to oppose charter schools.

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