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We’re back on the ground after a month-long hiatus (and looking to return to regular bi-weekly stories in June).

In the meantime, check out the latest on Substack about a recent town hall where several attendees shared a common thread: Black and battling with deed theft.

Reporter life has been quite busy in the last few months:

My latest reporting includes bylines in @documented.ny, a publication focused on immigrants in New York. There, I’m covering New York’s Caribbean community from restaurants to music to healthcare.

I’ve also been closely following a controversial shift for public housing funding known as RAD PACT at NYCHA’s Red Hook West development. Check it out @redhookstarrevue

For Brooklyn Grounds, I published a video on my engagement with G train riders for an earlier story on the train’s length. Watch the video on my page and follow/subscribe to the @bklyngrounds newsletter!

Reporter life has been quite busy in the last few months:

My latest reporting includes bylines in @documented.ny, a publication focused on immigrants in New York. There, I’m covering New York’s Caribbean community from restaurants to music to healthcare.

I’ve also been closely following a controversial shift for public housing funding known as RAD PACT at NYCHA’s Red Hook West development. Check it out @redhookstarrevue

For Brooklyn Grounds, I published a video on my engagement with G train riders for an earlier story on the train’s length. Watch the video on my page and follow/subscribe to the @bklyngrounds newsletter!

Reporter life has been quite busy in the last few months:

My latest reporting includes bylines in @documented.ny, a publication focused on immigrants in New York. There, I’m covering New York’s Caribbean community from restaurants to music to healthcare.

I’ve also been closely following a controversial shift for public housing funding known as RAD PACT at NYCHA’s Red Hook West development. Check it out @redhookstarrevue

For Brooklyn Grounds, I published a video on my engagement with G train riders for an earlier story on the train’s length. Watch the video on my page and follow/subscribe to the @bklyngrounds newsletter!

Reporter life has been quite busy in the last few months:

My latest reporting includes bylines in @documented.ny, a publication focused on immigrants in New York. There, I’m covering New York’s Caribbean community from restaurants to music to healthcare.

I’ve also been closely following a controversial shift for public housing funding known as RAD PACT at NYCHA’s Red Hook West development. Check it out @redhookstarrevue

For Brooklyn Grounds, I published a video on my engagement with G train riders for an earlier story on the train’s length. Watch the video on my page and follow/subscribe to the @bklyngrounds newsletter!

Reporter life has been quite busy in the last few months:

My latest reporting includes bylines in @documented.ny, a publication focused on immigrants in New York. There, I’m covering New York’s Caribbean community from restaurants to music to healthcare.

I’ve also been closely following a controversial shift for public housing funding known as RAD PACT at NYCHA’s Red Hook West development. Check it out @redhookstarrevue

For Brooklyn Grounds, I published a video on my engagement with G train riders for an earlier story on the train’s length. Watch the video on my page and follow/subscribe to the @bklyngrounds newsletter!

In a previous Brooklyn Grounds story, I asked G train riders whether they thought the G’s five-car trains were too short and if they wanted longer trains. For years, advocates have pushed for longer trains as G train ridership has surged over the last 20 years. But the MTA maintains that current ridership levels, which hover around 160,000 weekday passengers, still don’t justify full-length trains.

What are your thoughts on the G train’s size?

🎥: Dashiell Allen (@dashielll_ ) & Divya Murthy (@divyamurthyy)

Edited by Shanaé Harte (@thejournalismgirl)

#gtrain #MTA

April 16th, 1929, marked the groundbreaking of the New York City Independent Subway (IND) Fulton Street line, which we now know best as the A and C trains. It was commemorated by local politicians with a ribbon-cutting held at Fulton Street and Arlington Place, near the future Nostrand Avenue station in Bed-Stuy.

Opened in 1936, the Fulton Street Line provided a vital link to the IND’s 8th Avenue line, bridging Harlem with Bed-Stuy. The line is credited with contributing to the growth of Bed-Stuy’s Black population by providing a direct link to the cultural hub of Harlem, even earning it the nickname of “Little Harlem.”

Bed-Stuy had more than 65,000 African American residents by 1945, including singer Lena Horne and community and civil rights activist Elsie Richardson.

As Duke Ellington’s famous tune “Take the A Train” (composed by Billy Strayhorn) says, “If you miss the ‘A’ train / You’ll find you missed the quickest way to Harlem.”

✏️ Dashiell Allen @dashielll_

April 16th, 1929, marked the groundbreaking of the New York City Independent Subway (IND) Fulton Street line, which we now know best as the A and C trains. It was commemorated by local politicians with a ribbon-cutting held at Fulton Street and Arlington Place, near the future Nostrand Avenue station in Bed-Stuy.

Opened in 1936, the Fulton Street Line provided a vital link to the IND’s 8th Avenue line, bridging Harlem with Bed-Stuy. The line is credited with contributing to the growth of Bed-Stuy’s Black population by providing a direct link to the cultural hub of Harlem, even earning it the nickname of “Little Harlem.”

Bed-Stuy had more than 65,000 African American residents by 1945, including singer Lena Horne and community and civil rights activist Elsie Richardson.

As Duke Ellington’s famous tune “Take the A Train” (composed by Billy Strayhorn) says, “If you miss the ‘A’ train / You’ll find you missed the quickest way to Harlem.”

✏️ Dashiell Allen @dashielll_

April 16th, 1929, marked the groundbreaking of the New York City Independent Subway (IND) Fulton Street line, which we now know best as the A and C trains. It was commemorated by local politicians with a ribbon-cutting held at Fulton Street and Arlington Place, near the future Nostrand Avenue station in Bed-Stuy.

Opened in 1936, the Fulton Street Line provided a vital link to the IND’s 8th Avenue line, bridging Harlem with Bed-Stuy. The line is credited with contributing to the growth of Bed-Stuy’s Black population by providing a direct link to the cultural hub of Harlem, even earning it the nickname of “Little Harlem.”

Bed-Stuy had more than 65,000 African American residents by 1945, including singer Lena Horne and community and civil rights activist Elsie Richardson.

As Duke Ellington’s famous tune “Take the A Train” (composed by Billy Strayhorn) says, “If you miss the ‘A’ train / You’ll find you missed the quickest way to Harlem.”

✏️ Dashiell Allen @dashielll_

April 16th, 1929, marked the groundbreaking of the New York City Independent Subway (IND) Fulton Street line, which we now know best as the A and C trains. It was commemorated by local politicians with a ribbon-cutting held at Fulton Street and Arlington Place, near the future Nostrand Avenue station in Bed-Stuy.

Opened in 1936, the Fulton Street Line provided a vital link to the IND’s 8th Avenue line, bridging Harlem with Bed-Stuy. The line is credited with contributing to the growth of Bed-Stuy’s Black population by providing a direct link to the cultural hub of Harlem, even earning it the nickname of “Little Harlem.”

Bed-Stuy had more than 65,000 African American residents by 1945, including singer Lena Horne and community and civil rights activist Elsie Richardson.

As Duke Ellington’s famous tune “Take the A Train” (composed by Billy Strayhorn) says, “If you miss the ‘A’ train / You’ll find you missed the quickest way to Harlem.”

✏️ Dashiell Allen @dashielll_

April 16th, 1929, marked the groundbreaking of the New York City Independent Subway (IND) Fulton Street line, which we now know best as the A and C trains. It was commemorated by local politicians with a ribbon-cutting held at Fulton Street and Arlington Place, near the future Nostrand Avenue station in Bed-Stuy.

Opened in 1936, the Fulton Street Line provided a vital link to the IND’s 8th Avenue line, bridging Harlem with Bed-Stuy. The line is credited with contributing to the growth of Bed-Stuy’s Black population by providing a direct link to the cultural hub of Harlem, even earning it the nickname of “Little Harlem.”

Bed-Stuy had more than 65,000 African American residents by 1945, including singer Lena Horne and community and civil rights activist Elsie Richardson.

As Duke Ellington’s famous tune “Take the A Train” (composed by Billy Strayhorn) says, “If you miss the ‘A’ train / You’ll find you missed the quickest way to Harlem.”

✏️ Dashiell Allen @dashielll_

*This is an updated post reflecting changes made to the article*

On Apr. 9, Brooklyn’s Community Board 8 unanimously approved the design of the $11 million skate garden slated for Mount Prospect Park.

The skating area is funded by the City of New York and involves a public-private partnership with Tony Hawk’s non-profit, the Skatepark Project. It will feature not only typical skate park elements such as ramps, rails, and quarter pipes, but also new trees, perennials, shrubs, and park furniture.

Read more about it at the link in bio!

I’ve also noted the corrections made on the next slide, and I apologize for the inaccuracies.

*This is an updated post reflecting changes made to the article*

On Apr. 9, Brooklyn’s Community Board 8 unanimously approved the design of the $11 million skate garden slated for Mount Prospect Park.

The skating area is funded by the City of New York and involves a public-private partnership with Tony Hawk’s non-profit, the Skatepark Project. It will feature not only typical skate park elements such as ramps, rails, and quarter pipes, but also new trees, perennials, shrubs, and park furniture.

Read more about it at the link in bio!

I’ve also noted the corrections made on the next slide, and I apologize for the inaccuracies.

Tonight, Brooklyn’s Community Board 8 will vote on the design of a planned skate park at Mount Prospect Park.

Though physically located in Community Board 9, the neighboring CB8 has jurisdiction over Mount Prospect Park as a result of boundary changes in the 1970s. CB8 District Manager Michelle George explained this at a recent Parks Committee meeting, after advocates for the park pondered CB9’s decision making power over Mount Prospect.

Read more about the skate park plan at the link in bio!

At a recent community meeting discussing a remediation plan for a section of the future Gowanus Green development, residents and advocates rigorously questioned state officials presenting it.

“Why are you having this meeting now?,” asked Voice of Gowanus member Katia Kelly at the Mar. 25 meeting about the cleanup plan for a section of the highly contaminated site on Smith Street. “You’re basically telling us, pick the color of the brick because it’s already decided and this is just a big show.”

Read more about the showdown between New York State officials and Brooklynites at the link in bio!

Let’s be real: Bed-Stuy and Coney Island feel like they’re on two opposite ends of the earth from each other. Stand on the downtown platform at Jay Street, and you can choose which side of the Brooklyn globe to land on: Take the A or C and head east towards century-old brownstones or hop on the F and head far south towards a century-old amusement park.

Depending on who you ask, both options are enticing. That’s because both Brooklyn neighborhoods have a distinct character that locals are vying to preserve.

“Black people were able to create this little enclave for themselves that no one wanted – and now it’s become highly desirable, but it’s in jeopardy right now,” said Omar Walker, a lifelong Bed-Stuy resident who said the character of the neighborhood is “in jeopardy” with changing demographics and increased development.

Head to the link in bio to hear from the Brooklynites behind the latest preservation efforts and the support they’re getting to achieve them!

Skaters aren’t typically (at least that I know of) lining the auditorium of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum on any given day. However, Tuesday evening at the museum was the exception: Over 100 people, many of them avid city skaters, packed the room.

They weren’t there to do kickflips down the steps and rails of the auditorium for an unorthodox skating event, but to hear about a design plan for a skate garden in Mount Prospect Park.

Read more about the $11 million skate garden and the opinions behind it at the link in bio! 🛹

Skaters aren’t typically (at least that I know of) lining the auditorium of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum on any given day. However, Tuesday evening at the museum was the exception: Over 100 people, many of them avid city skaters, packed the room.

They weren’t there to do kickflips down the steps and rails of the auditorium for an unorthodox skating event, but to hear about a design plan for a skate garden in Mount Prospect Park.

Read more about the $11 million skate garden and the opinions behind it at the link in bio! 🛹

Skaters aren’t typically (at least that I know of) lining the auditorium of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum on any given day. However, Tuesday evening at the museum was the exception: Over 100 people, many of them avid city skaters, packed the room.

They weren’t there to do kickflips down the steps and rails of the auditorium for an unorthodox skating event, but to hear about a design plan for a skate garden in Mount Prospect Park.

Read more about the $11 million skate garden and the opinions behind it at the link in bio! 🛹

Skaters aren’t typically (at least that I know of) lining the auditorium of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum on any given day. However, Tuesday evening at the museum was the exception: Over 100 people, many of them avid city skaters, packed the room.

They weren’t there to do kickflips down the steps and rails of the auditorium for an unorthodox skating event, but to hear about a design plan for a skate garden in Mount Prospect Park.

Read more about the $11 million skate garden and the opinions behind it at the link in bio! 🛹

The G has been a hot topic lately with calls to extend the line to Forest Hills, new trains and signal upgrades that snarled service last summer. G riders also have another gripe with the train: it only has five cars, half the length of most subway lines in the city.

Read about the five-car dilemma in our latest edition at the link in bio!

“You cannot sell your house to anyone; you have to sell it to a nonprofit – that’s what COPA is.”

Those are the words of New York City Council Member Darlene Mealy at the Jan. 8 meeting, incorrectly explaining the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, a City Council bill that aims to preserve at-risk housing stock.

Mealy’s words were met with objections and confusion from Brooklynites attending the Jan. 8 meeting, even prompting a board member to walk out in frustration after hearing Mealy’s erroneous claims about the policy.

Read more of this story at the link in bio and subscribe!

Brooklyn Grounds has officially launched!

This first story takes place on the grounds of Brower Park, where I interviewed a group of Crown Heights residents about their campaign to fix a spray shower. It builds upon my original report for BK Reader, published in October.

Towards the end, I have a section of the newsletter dedicated to sharing vital information from Brooklyn community boards called Community Board Corner. Also, there’s a “fun facts” section, where I share a fact about a Brooklyn historical event from the day or week of publication.

Subscribe and read at the link in bio!