Confederate Flags Put Next to New York Housing Project

EAST VILLAGE, SOUTHERN PRIDE?

The hateful banners have been there for months, but few seemed to notice until Charlottesville. Neighbors stopped in the street, stunned.

Published Aug. 17 2017 1:00AM EDT

170816-weill-confederate-flags-tease2_dscrg2 — Daniel McKnight

Gabrielle Hysinger stopped her car in the middle of Avenue D and stepped out to stare at the pair of Confederate flags.

“This is really sick,” she said on Wednesday, looking up at the flags hanging from a fifth-floor apartment window across from a public housing project in Manhattan’s

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Confederate Flags Put Next to New York Housing Project

The hateful banners have been there for months, but few seemed to notice until Charlottesville. Neighbors stopped in the street, stunned.

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Kelly Weill