Skip to content
Join our Newsletter

Featured News

'Don't Be a Karen:' Celebrated Crown Heights Marching Band Fields Rash of New Complaints

'Don't Be a Karen:' Celebrated Crown Heights Marching Band Fields Rash of New Complaints

"You don't call 911 for children playing drums." Complaints about a marching band practice in Crown Heights is raising calls of gentrification in the neighborhood.
Read more >
The Week in Crime: Spotlight on Fort Greene/Clinton Hill

The Week in Crime: Spotlight on Fort Greene/Clinton Hill

Overall, crime is down in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, and Brooklyn as a whole.
Read more >

Brooklyn Communities Collaborative Hits $3M in Donations to Local Nonprofits During the Pandemic

The agency has awarded grants to 44 nonprofit organizations that serve communities most impacted by COVID-19
Read more >
Disability Futures Gets $5M Grant on the Eve of Inaugural Festival

Disability Futures Gets $5M Grant on the Eve of Inaugural Festival

The Ford and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations have pledged the money to support the initiative through 2025
Read more >
Miss USA Surprises Kids at Bed-Stuy Org for Children With Incarcerated Parents

Miss USA Surprises Kids at Bed-Stuy Org for Children With Incarcerated Parents

Miss USA Asya Branch made a surprise visit to kids of incarcerated parents in Bed-Stuy Wednesday, to let them know they're not alone
Read more >
Gov. Cuomo, BK Borough President Eric Adams Talk Gun Violence Solutions in Brooklyn

Gov. Cuomo, BK Borough President Eric Adams Talk Gun Violence Solutions in Brooklyn

The governor joined the NYC Democratic mayoral candidate and other community leaders at the Lennox Road Baptist Church in Brooklyn
Read more >
Delta Variant Makes it Even More Important to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine, Even if You’ve Already Had the Coronavirus

Delta Variant Makes it Even More Important to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine, Even if You’ve Already Had the Coronavirus

A person can develop immunity – the ability to resist infection – in two ways: either after being infected with a virus or by getting vaccinated.
Read more >
East Flatbush Postal Worker Arrested for Stealing $3M Worth of Postal Money Orders

East Flatbush Postal Worker Arrested for Stealing $3M Worth of Postal Money Orders

The USPS workers also stole unemployment benefits cards and more than $42,000 in cash
Read more >
New York's Billion Dollar Problem Hits Brooklyn Artists

New York's Billion Dollar Problem Hits Brooklyn Artists

New York City's arts organizations lost nearly $1 billion in income this past year. Here's how Brooklyn organizations are bouncing back.
Read more >
BK Affordable Housing Developer and Federal Govt. Reach Agreement Addressing Race, Disability Discrimination

BK Affordable Housing Developer and Federal Govt. Reach Agreement Addressing Race, Disability Discrimination

Carbook was told in April it would no longer receive federal funds due to subjecting possible tenants to discrimination
Read more >