Youth football teams play on, with some changes
By SAWAN DOUGE From as young as 10, Sean Williams has been playing football. He started with a youth team in Brooklyn, and then played …[read more]
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B.C. Grad Narrates Travel Adventures in Book
By CHRIS MOONEY Stylish and smiling, Errol Shaw relaxes on a bench, observing the New York City hustle as he awaits an interview. Although he …[read more]
A Push for Sustainability at Brooklyn Navy Yard
By DANIEL STEIN-SAYLES This article appeared in the August 14, 2014 Gotham Gazette. John Randall gestured to a pile of wood stacked to the ceiling …[read more]
Brooklyn BP challenged over real estate ties
By MARCO POGGIO It had rained unceasingly for a few hours, but that did not prevent more than 400 residents from showing up in …[read more]
Art and a touch of madness in Bushwick
By KATHERINE LLOYD The rumbling of the elevated J train echoes along Brooklyn’s Broadway in the neighborhood where Bedford-Stuyvesant meets Bushwick. A few blocks over …[read more]
On Flatbush Avenue, stores close as rents rise
By ALVARO BLANCO In the back of a struggling eyeglasses store on Flatbush Avenue, Edgar Henry made call after call as he tried to keep …[read more]
Hate crimes mount in city amid Middle East unrest
By INEZ SHARABY It was a breezy fall night in September when 20-year-old Lorraine Dana was walking to her older sister’s house, ready to enjoy …[read more]
Sergei Nabatov: Teaching the Ballroom Dance Moves
By KACIAH BAILEY The theme song “Moving On Up” from the Jefferson’s blares through the speakers and resonates throughout the dance studio in the Brooklyn …[read more]
Is cricket taking Brooklyn and Queens?
By LOVASHNI KHALIKAPRASAD Cricket, which was first played in New York City in 1844, has now become a growing sport here. As immigrants from the …[read more]
On one block in Brownsville, 3 churches offer refuge
By TIFFANY THOMAS Pushing a shopping cart filled with loads of laundry below the No. 3 elevated train tracks in Brooklyn’s Brownsville section, Anastacia Stanley …[read more]