Metropolitan Avenue

Duration: 60

Year Published: 1985

Creator: New Day Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: In the ethnically mixed, working-class neighborhood of Central Williamsburg in Brooklyn, N.Y., women play an essential role in maintaining the community. Faced with cutbacks of city services, demolition of housing, and racial tension, they become activists, transcending their differences. The camera follows the women of Williamsburg speaking out to preserve a local police precinct, addressing racial divisions, and forming a neighborhood coalition. , Portrait of a multi-ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn and the women who are striving to keep it alive. Shows them evolving from "traditional" homemakers to active community leaders.

Complete Record: In the ethnically mixed, working-class neighborhood of Central Williamsburg in Brooklyn, N.Y., women play an essential role in maintaining the community. Faced with cutbacks of city services, demolition of housing, and racial tension, they become activists, transcending their differences. The camera follows the women of Williamsburg speaking out to preserve a local police precinct, addressing racial divisions, and forming a neighborhood coalition. , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.