James Heggs
Brooklyn born and raised screenwriting fire life safety director(yes it’s a real job-local laws 5 & 26). So don’t write a scene with the lighter up to the sprinkler and then all the sprinklers go off. Don’t do that son! That ain’t it!
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9/11 in the Hood (opens the original)
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25 years after 9/11 I don’t think I’ve read one perspective from the hood. I’m not from any hood in New York, East New York despite citywide record lows in crime, still resonates in heavily gentrified Brooklyn. It is by any measure not gentrified it’s not even in any beginning stages of the phenomenon. In the last month or so a 17 year old was shot in the head on “Killer” Miller Ave, a pimp killed another pimp on the city’s most notorious track, Cozine Ave, I grew up in 295 Cozine. Hunts Point a
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