On streets of Crown Heights, standing up to violence
By MELISSA WALKER Allen James looked out over a sparse crowd of 25 people gathered at the corner of St. Marks and Schenectady avenues in …[read more]
Brooklyn
`Lucky 13th’ Coney Island Film Festival Held
By KATIE MILANI The “lucky 13th” annual Coney Island Film Festival got under way last weekend in a museum that was opening its doors to …[read more]
Women Protest Street Harassment
By REBECA IBARRA Twenty-year-old Tahira Huff was walking to her Bedford-Stuyvesant home late one night when a man tried to chat her up. “What up …[read more]
Students Taking Action
Video journalist Orinthia Robinson reports about a grass roots effort to end gun violence in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
Parking Problems
Video journalists Karen Mendoza and Michael Gomez report about the shortage of parking spaces around Brooklyn College.
Brooklyn College Women’s Softball
Video journalist Anthony Tart profiles the Brooklyn College Women’s softball team and center fielder Kim Konklewski. Anthony goes on to capture the play-by-play for two …[read more]
In Bensonhurst, immigrants shape a church
By SAMANTHA GRILLO On a Saturday evening, Maria Ferrera grabbed her coat from the closet in the hallway of her Bensonhurst, Brooklyn home, took her car keys from the …[read more]
Japanese culture flowers at cherry blossom fete
Cherry blossom festival at Brooklyn Botanic Garden presents Japanese culture to thousands of visitors. (Photos: Sal Romano) By SAL ROMANO Over 70,000 fans of Japanese …[read more]
City cuts AIDS prevention money
By JERMECIA EDWARDS As HIV rates in a number of New York City neighborhoods continue to be as high as those in some developing countries, …[read more]
Brooklyn DA Honors ‘Extraordinary Women’
By KATELYN HRUBY A robust force in the luxury design bubble that most of us can only dream of bursting, Massatre Ltd. is not the …[read more]