Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brooklyn, N.Y., however, entrepreneur Tim McCarthy is ignoring the economic uncertainties and plunging ahead with expansion of his start-up Great Harbor Design Center. McCarthy's company, founded in July 1997, makes synthetic stone from recycled glass and concrete. He is planning to make large equipment purchases in December and to start full production in February. He says he's not bothered much by what is going on around him. "I'd always assumed we would be dealing in a very volatile market," he says. "I knew there was going to be a downturn. I just didn't know...
...makes a lot of sense now. In September, Johnny, now four, started pre-kindergarten at Brooklyn's P.S. 200, the local public elementary school--free. He is one of the first beneficiaries of a $62 million New York State program aimed at making preschool, like elementary and high school, part of every child's publicly funded education...
...have to let these kids be as creative and as free as they want," says New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, whose state funds public pre-kindergarten in 136 districts. Standards vary from state to state. Georgia's pre-kindergarten curriculum includes language, literacy and math concepts. At Brooklyn's P.S. 200, a go-at-your- own-pace approach seems to apply. After a brief lesson, pint-size pupils roam among a playhouse, a game corner, an art center and a library. Says principal Neal Opromalla: "These children learn through play...
...final grade for public pre-K is yet to be determined. When the initial class of Georgia four-year-olds reached first grade, they logged higher test scores than kids who had not gone to pre-K. For the Morreales of Brooklyn the benefits have hit home. With the money they saved, they bought Johnny a computer...
Thomas Wolfe once said that only the dead know Brooklyn. He never met photographer Thomas Roma, who doesn't just live in Brooklyn, he gets it. When Roma goes to a public pool--sunstruck guys in Speedos, women unfurling on the concrete--he understands that a municipal body of water is where the eternal elements meet the here and now. When he rides an elevated subway car, he sees a cramped rectangle that's a public square, where people sign the air every time they stretch. And in the simplest black churches he recognizes that rapture is democratic, that...