New York Daily News
Jake Pearson
August 24, 2010
The Duffie cousins know that if they weren’t selling fruits and vegetables in Brownsville this summer, there’s a good chance they’d be in trouble with the law.
“The precinct knows me and my cousin,” said Toby Duffie, 17, who works at a weekly greenmarket at Rockaway and Livonia Aves. with [...]

SUMMER PLAZAS-July 10, July 17, July 24
The Pitkin Ave. BID and the Brownsville Partnership invite you to walk, bike, play, and shop along Pitkin Ave on three car free Saturdays: July 10, July 17, and July 24 between 11AM and 6PM. Summer Plazas will occur on Pitkin between Strauss and Thomas S. Boyland Streets and [...]

Wall Street Journal Magazine
June 10, 2010
Alastair Gordon
Most homeless shelters don’t have ballrooms. Walking into the elegant lobby of New York’s old Prince George Hotel, with its richly hued woodwork, feels like you’ve entered some Merchant Ivory movie, not a residence for displaced individuals. It’s the surprising creation of Rosanne Haggerty, founder and director of the [...]

Huffington Post
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD
April 26, 2010
Greg Jackson, now 59, was drafted by the New York Knicks in 1974 after they had won the NBA Finals. He began playing with Walt Frazier, Bill Bradley, Earl “the Pearl” Monroe and Phil Jackson — a dream for a young black man from Brooklyn. Then Jackson decided to [...]

The Brownsville Partnership was part of a local effort with shop owners and the Pitkin Avenue BID to serve as a drop off center for donations and contributions going to help families devastated by the earthquake in Haiti. The donations were collected and sent to the BRC (Brownsville Recreational Center) for storage until they [...]

All levels of government helped fund a multimillion-dollar initiative to make some Brooklyn housing projects safer.

“I’m pretty sure it’s going to reduce the crime in the Brownsville Houses, which is just terrible,” said Brownsville Houses Tenants Association President Laura Morgan.

“Old Timers” is an annual celebration of Brownsville, Brooklyn that draws thousands of current and former neighborhood residents and their families, many of whom travel to Brownsville from points around the country for the month-long event.
In 1963, the proprietors of two bars in Brownsville organized an annual softball game billed as “Old Timers Weekend.” [...]

Brownsville, Brooklyn featured in PBS video. In inner cities across the US high numbers of African-American men are caught up in the criminal justice system. It’s costly to keep them in prison. It’s also costly to the communities they leave behind — and return to.

Common Ground celebrates the start of The Domenech, our first residence for homeless and lower income seniors. The Domenech is part of our Brownsville Partnership — Common Ground’s pioneering homelessness prevention initiative in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. Creating more affordable housing in the neighborhood is a key feature of our strategy. [...]

thestar.com
Toronto, Canada
Jul 24, 2008
Patty Winsa, Staff Reporter

NEW YORK CITY – Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan shuffle past sinewy resin chairs sculpted by computer and pixelated flowers moving on a wall. Then they stop to study an arresting red-and-black map of Brooklyn hanging in a dark corner of the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit. Each point on the map, and the red line rising from it like a ray of light, represents the home of a person who was sent to prison in 2003.