Non-Profit & Community

At a recent town hall meeting in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn residents continued to raise the alarm on deed theft, partition schemes and other real estate scams destroying their equity and livelihood.

After moving to Brooklyn, Jin Tong Wang, a retired physics professor, spends his days cleaning up trash on Van Buren Street.

Brooklyn Packers is a Black-owned, grassroots food co-op that has been providing fresh food to Brooklyn residents on a sliding scale for 10 years.

Community groups received $397,000 in NYC Green Fund grants to support parks, gardens and environmental projects across the borough.

The Anchor House Men’s Residential Treatment Facility, at 1041 Bergen St. in Crown Heights, will undergo signigicant renovation. Former President Bill Clinton was at the ground breaking.

A new entrance and landscaped public space at the Brooklyn Navy Yard aim to improve access, safety and connections with surrounding neighborhoods.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York is awarding funding to 21 libraries across Brooklyn through Carnegie Libraries 250, a national initiative marking the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

May features First Saturdays, Museum on Wheels, teen programs and the Artists Ball After Party.

Suleiman Rifai provides counseling and daily guidance to homeless men in East New York. He says his experience of becoming blind at the age of 11 helps make him even more empathetic to clients.

Many home flippers concentrated their purchases in central Brooklyn between 2021 to 2025, a new report from the Pratt Center for Community Development found.