Day: July 11, 2014

Feature Story, Red Hook Houses

New Brown Baptist celebrates Sister Ingram’s Centennial, by George Fiala

Virginia Ingram’s 100th birthday was celebrated on June 28th at the Red Hook church she helped found over fifty years ago. The New Brown Memorial Baptist Church, a block from the Clinton Street post office, was filled with family members from all over the country, and well wishers including Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez and Assemblyman Felix Ortiz. Deaconess Ingram was born […]