- "Marching bands are a Southern and Caribbean tradition. I was able to get a band scholarship at an HBCU. I went to school in NC but I rarely see marching bands here in the city. If a few of these kids are able to secure band scholarships because they have participated in this band, please forgive the noise and let them practice. Practice space has also become problem for the steel pan bands."
‘Don’t Be a Karen:’ Celebrated Crown Heights Marching Band Fields Rash of New Complaints
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The Brooklyn United Marching Band (BU) has performed for New York’s top sports teams, officials and venues — but its young entertainers can’t seem to catch a break on their home turf in Crown Heights.
BU founder Ty Brown said, since March, he’s had to field a rash of new complaints about the band practicing under the LIRR on Atlantic and Kingston Avenues, with the complaints raising new questions for him about gentrification in the area.
In the past four months the band has been approached three times by NYPD officers, twice by members of the community board and several times by a bothered neighbor, he said. The band practices from 4:30pm to 6:30pm Monday through Thursday.
Now, Brown says he’s frustrated about the way some members of the community are voicing their complaints, especially as the band has nowhere else to go.
“The police are there for criminals and crimes, you don’t call 911 for children playing drums,” he said.
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