Every year, Jerry leads the new faculty at BC on a tour of multicultural Brooklyn. Taking visual urban sociology to the people (as it were)!

As the bus turned down Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay and headed toward its first stop in Brighton Beach, Krase recounted the movement of various ethnic groups in and out of the neighborhoods. He and implored his audience to look closely at the people, the shops, the signage, and the types of housing that make up communities.

Read the full story at the Brooklyn Eagle

I've just added a photo survey of the L'Eixample neighborhood in Barcelona to the photo archive.

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.