West Indian Resources

Community Resource Guide

* The information listed below was accurate & functional during the course of the pilot. Inevitably, as time goes on, some links to other websites may become out of date. *

Community and youth group centers:

Caribbean-American Sports and Cultural Youth Movement (CASCYM)
William Jones, Executive Director
249 Sterling Street, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 941-8209

Something Positive
info: somethingpositive@excite.com
Cheryl Byron
(718) 951-3645

Brooklyn Cricket League
Joyce Harmon
(718) 649-4072

Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CACCI)
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 63 Flushing Avenue, Bldg #5, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 834-4544
www.cacci.org

Caribbean Women's Health Association
Marco Mason
Linden Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY

Caribbean Action Lobby
391 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY

Sesame Flyers International
3510 Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 693-5503

Caribbean-American Steelpan Education Center
Renold Joseph
363 Elton Street, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 235-0587

Caribbean Immigrant Services
205-14 Linden Boulevard, St. Albans, NY

T&T Folk Arts Institute
Les Slater
3500 Farragut Road, Brooklyn, NY

Organizations helpful to all immigrant communities — click here

Religious institutions in the community:

In the Caribbean community religious institutions serve as more than places of worship. They are also vibrant centers of community life, and of social services including legal, immigration, housing, and health information and assistance.
The people from the English-speaking Caribbean follow a variety of religious beliefs. The list below includes many with predominantly West Indian congregations and/or religious leaders.

Spiritual Baptist:
St. Anthony's Spiritual Baptist Church
966 Rogers Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 940-7533

St. Ann's Baptist Church
1061 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, NY
(718) 778-0332

St. Michael's Spiritual Baptist Church
5122 Clarendon Road, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 451-1036

Trinitarian Spiritual Baptist Assembly
906 New York Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 469-3750

Mt. Hope Pilgrim Spiritual Baptist Church
416 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn NY

Episcopal (Anglican):
St Augustine's Episcopal Church
4301 Avenue D, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 451-4439, 629-0959

St Gabriel's
337 Hawthorne Street, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 774-5248

St. Thomas (Father Rene John)
1405 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 452-2332

St. Paul's
157 St. Paul's Place, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 282-2100

St. Phillip's Protestant Episcopal Church
204 W. 134th St., Harlem, NY
(212) 862-4940

St. Martin's Episcopal Church
230 Lenox Ave (122nd St), NY, NY
(212) 534-4531

Roman Catholic:
Our Lady of Victory
583 Throop Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (718) 574-5772

St. Matthew's
1123 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 774-6747

Seventh Day Adventist:
Trinity
924 Rogers Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 586-0672, (718) 856-5558

Hindu:
The Hindu Temple
Flushing, Queens
(718) 460-8484

Shree Satyam Mandir
324 Lincoln Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 964-0827

Vishwa Sewa Ashram
Corona Avenue, Queens, NY
(718) 271- 5423

The Vishnu Mandir
Noble Avenue, Bronx, NY
718) 893-1435

Arya Samaj of New York Inc.
150-22 Hillside Avenue, Jamaica, Queens, NY
(718) 526-2926

Satya Narayan Mandir
Elmhurst, Queens, NY
(718) 899-8863

The Hindu Center
Flushing, Queens, NY
(718) 784-0287

Methodist:
Fenimore United Methodist
266 Fenimore Street, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 462-1816

St. Paul's United Methodist
3714 Avenue D, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 462-5086

St. Mark's United Methodist
Ocean Ave. and Beverly Road, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 282-6304

Unity:
Pyramid of Truth
400 Argyle Road, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 856-9598

Pyramid of Truth
271 New York Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 778-3641

Moravian:
John Hus Moravian Church
53 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 856-2200

Ethiopian Orthodox:
Ethiopian Orthodox Church
244 Palmetto Street, (between Morris & Knickerbocker)
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 443-7889

Ethiopian Orthodox Church
40-142 West 176th St, New York, NY
(212) 299-2741

The Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church
2018 7th Avenue, (corner 121st St. & Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.)
Harlem, NY
(212) 749-0093

Medical facilities including hospitals and clinics:

Kings County Hospital
Flatbush Avenue Health Center
630 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn NY
(718) 462-0656

Flatbush Medical Heights Center
1794 Flatbush Avenue, NY
(718) 338-4293

Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, NY

Harlem Hospital
Lenox Avenue, New York, NY

Congregational Nursing Center
135 Linden Boulevard, Queens, NY
(718) 693-6060

Special Events (including ethnic festivals, parades, etc.):

Eastern Parkway Labor Day Carnival
WIADCA Inc.
1028 St. John's Place, Brooklyn, NY

Pre-Labor Day Masquerade
Jouvert City International
Yvette Rennie, President
13 Atlantic Commons, Brooklyn, NY

International African Arts Festival
for info, e-mail: artsfestival@earthlink.net

Favorite restaurants (including recommended dishes):

Sylvia's
Church Avenue at Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

Bake and Tings

Veronica's Kitchen
4208 Church Avenue Brooklyn, NY
(718) 693-9336

Golden Krust Patties
3958 Park Avenue Bronx,NY
(718) 583-0360
www.goldenkrustbakery.com

Mike's International
Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Gloria's
1148 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Culpepper's
1082 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 940-4122

Pepper's Bar and Grill
95 Leonard Street (off Broadway near City Hall), New York, NY
(212) 343-2825

Foods For You, Inc.
3322 Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 282-2261

Ambrosia Health Foods

For Goodness Steak and Seafood Restaurant
1623 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 252-7420
395 Flatbush Avenue Extension, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 643-2830

Veggie Castle
2242 Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 703-1275

Specialty stores and their specialty (including clothing, food, music):

Caribbean music:
Straker's Caribbean Record World
242 Utica Ave, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 756-0340

Spice Island Records
4228 White Plains Road, Bronx , NY (718) 944-2860
128-08 Liberty Avenue, Queens, NY (718) 848-0971

JW Records
2833 Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 693-9261

Charlie's Record Store
1271 Fulton Street Brooklyn, NY
(718) 783-8336

Caribbean Shop — Music, videos, books, crafts, jewelry, apparel, gifts, news, community. Excellent.
www.caribbeanshop.com/welcome/

Caribbean Style
www.caribbeanstyle.com/

Recommended books:

Vidiadhar S. Naipaul: A Turn In The South, Miguel Street, The Mystic Masseur, Guerrillas, The Enigma Of Arrival, An Area Of Darkness

Derek Walcott: Riepolo's Hound, Dream On Monkey Mountain And Other Plays,Omeros, The Arkansas Testament,The Antilles: Fragments Of Epic Memory

Michael Anthony:The Games Were Coming,Green Days By The River, A Year In San Fernando

Merle Hodge: Crick Crack Monkey

Vanessa Alleyne: There Were Times I Thought I Was Crazy: A Black Woman's Story Of Incest

Dionne Brand: In Another Place, Not Here

Elizabeth Nunez: Bruised Hibiscus, Beyond The Limbo Silence, Discretion, When Rocks Dance

Eric Williams: From Columbus To Castro, Capitalism and Slavery

C. L. R. James: Beyond The Boundary

Andrew Salkey (Editor): West Indian Stories

Peter Abrahams: This Island Now

Jan Carew: The Last Barbarian, Rape Of Paradise, The Wild Coast

Simon Peter (et alia): Reggae Bloodlines: In Search Of The Music And Culture Of Jamaica

George Eaton: Alexander Bustamante and Modern Jamaica

Austin C.Clarke: The Meeting Point, The Prime Minister, Proud Empires, The Survivors Of The Crossing

Wilson Harris: The Age Of The Rainmakers, Tumatumari London

Edgar Mittelholzer: Latticed Echoes, Thunder Returning A Novel In the Leitmotiv Manner, Uncle Paul

Shiva Naipaul: Beyond The Dragon's Mouth Stories And Pieces, The Chip-Chip Gatherers, Journey To Nowhere: A New World Tragedy, Love And Death In A Hot Country, An Unfinished Journey

Andrew Salkey: Escape To An Autumn Pavement

George Lamming: Green Days By The River, In The Castle Of My Skin, Natives Of My Person

Jamaica Kincaid: A Small Place, Lucy, The Autobiography Of My Mother, My Brother, Talk Stories, At The Bottom Of The River, Annie John

Earl Lovelace: The Dragon Can't Dance

Community newspapers and magazines:

Carib News
15 West 39th Street, NY, NY
(212) 944-1991
www.nycaribnews.com

Caribbean Life
1733 Sheepshead Bay Road, Brooklyn, NY
718) 469-4400

The Caribbean Voice
(718) 542-5545
http://www.caribvoice.org

Everybody's Magazine
published by Herman Hall
(718) 941-1879
for info, e-mail: everybody@msn.com

Caribbean Community Online — news, sports, events, music, chat.
afiwi.com/main.asp

Wadabagei: A journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora.
www.dynateck.com/wadabagei/

Links to all the Caribbean newspapers and news on line. A very good site:
www.dynateck.com/wadabagei/index2.htm

Caribe Centre
www.caribectr.org

Caribbean Daylight

Special-interest radio stations and cable-TV stations, Websites:

WLIB 1190 — (212) 889-1876

Caribbean Classroom hosted by John Crow
QPTV Science Building at York College
94-50 159th Street, Queens, New York
(718) 523-7700

WWRL 1600 — Rennie Bishop and Sabrina Lamb Prince Kalunda

Trevor Wilkins Show

Les Slater's Channel 25 show

Business Matters Cable TV show produced by Terrance O. Joseph
Ci&i Productions, 2801 Beverley Road, Suite 2D, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 287-5407
for info, e-mail: toj@worldnet.att.net

Museums featuring specialty exhibits and interests:

El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street, NY, NY
(212) 831- 7272
Includes exhibits and shows featuring Caribbean history and culture.
www.elmuseo.org

Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse Bronx, NY
Mostly contemporary art.
www.bxma.org

Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 638-5000 A huge museum full of the treasures of the world.
www.brooklynart.org

Museum for African Art
593 Broadway (between Houston and Prince Streets), NY, NY
(212) 966-1313
www.africanart.org

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard, NY, NY
(212) 491-2200
www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

Studio Museum in Harlem
144 W. 125 St., NY, NY
(212) 864-4500
www.studiomuseum.org

BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture
647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 855-7882
Information on Brooklyn's museums, parks, arts, cultural institutions and sites of special interest by mail and on website. Free quarterly calendar. Closed Saturday, Sunday. Oversees Brooklyn Tourism Council.
www.brooklynx.org

Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Avenue @ 82nd St., New York, NY
(212) 879-5500
Collections span the history of world art. Hundreds of world-famous masterpieces. Gift shop. Closed Monday.
www.metmuseum.org

Community organizations:

Allied Organizations of Guyana, Inc.
Mr. E. Bowen, (718) 622-5452

Trinidad and Tobago United Cultural Association International
2277 Schenectady Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(718) 421-5735
www.tatuca.org

Jampact
Keisha Phipps, President
for info, e-mail: jampact2000@yahoo.com
www.jampact.org

Consulates in the New York area:

The Caribbean consulates generally have contact information for their respective community organizations and are where their nationals may be able to seek various types of assistance.

Antigua (212) 541-4117
Bahamas (212) 421-6420
Barbados (212) 867-8435
Belize (212) 599-0233
Dominica (212) 599-8478
Grenada (212) 599-0301
Guyana (212) 527-3215
Jamaica (212) 935-9000
St Vincent (212) 687-4490
St. Kitts/Nevis/Anguilla (212) 535-1234
Trinidad & Tobago (212) 682-7272