Neighborhood News: The Kimmel Resistance Comes to Fort Greene

Unlikely free-speech warrior broadcasts from BAM.

- Rebecca Alter

JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! has held a week-long residency in Brooklyn seven times since 2012, but this was his first as Comrade Jimmy. About a week after Kimmel's show was reinstated from a suspension by ABC after comments by FCC chair Brendan Carr, the shows were full of politics and hometown affection. (He's from Mill Basin.) On Thursday, October 2, hundreds of free-ticket-lottery winners lined up at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House, infusing Ashland Place with midtown tourist energy. They shuffled through the lobby metal detectors, stopping to post at a giant photo-op scr