Local Voices

Major crimes decreased by 11.6% and in the fourth quarter of 2022, overall index crime dropped by 1.5%. 

Roodelyne Sylvain, a Brooklyn-based real estate agent with Compass, provides insight for homeowners looking to sell.

The Carew family has left Brooklyn for a 6-month, cross-country road trip in their new motorhome. Each week, the family will share an update with BK Readers about where the road has taken them... join us for the ride!

Sienna Daviau, who is part of the Brooklyn Chapter of Climate Citizens Lobby, writes about rising energy bills and green policy in Congress.

Brooklyn's Noel Pointer Foundation serves 1,500 children each year through programs across 40 Title 1 schools and daycares.

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.