Local Voices

As BKCM winds down the 2022 calendar year, it has added over 80 private lesson students, totaling upwards of 400 students learning 20 instruments.

I vowed to make public safety my top priority, and under the bold leadership of NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell, our efforts are paying off

Brooklyn Community Foundation President and CEO Dr. Jocelynne Rainey shares reflections and stories of impact from the organization's work across Brooklyn.

As someone who has worked with community-based organizations serving the city's most vulnerable members, I became intimately familiar with the void in services and mental health providers in the city. 

By Khari Edwards Most of the current New York cannabis conversation centers around the budding adult-use market and when the first dispensary will open.

Friends and family should learn the particular signs of an oncoming crisis when in the company of loved ones affected by SCD, a local Brooklynite writes.

Lurie Daniel-Favors, a Brooklyn local and the commissioner of NYC Racial Justice Commission, shares the context of the initiatives on the ballot that voters will confront on Election Day.

Fort Greene local Daryl Rock shares his thoughts on the City's plans to build a public plaza on Gates Avenue in an open letter.

In August, Ingrid Murray landed on the coveted Inc 5000 list for her New York-based business, Prospect Cleaning Service

By Elizabeth Trotter On Oct. 21, community garden members, neighbors, and developers held a public meeting to discuss the future of the Brownsville mural that has identified the Jess Good Rewards Children’s garden for the past twenty years.