Chronic leaks, sewage runoff and black mold that ... Saunders said. The building sits in a neighborhood known as “The Hole'' near the border of Brooklyn and Queens. The area is built upon ...

Traditional Black church hymn by Albert Goodson, 1956 By the early 19th century, the town of Brooklyn lay nestled on the shore of the East River in what is today Dumbo. Not yet a city, it was still a ...

The fate of the $700 million Brooklyn Village mixed-use redevelopment remains up in the air amid a heated impasse between ...

A food bookstore and culinary hub devoted to Black foodways is opening in Brooklyn this fall. The sisters behind BEM have ...

The all-black, seven-story office building at 395 Flatbush Ave. Extension was once dubbed “one of the biggest eyesores in downtown Brooklyn,” by Brownstoner. Now, the borough’s second ...

Developers say they hope to rekindle vibrancy from Charlotte’s original Brooklyn community in place of an uptown building that sits at a critical crossroads for the city’s Black business history.

Annamarie Bravo, left, a first floor tenant, is consoled after the Brooklyn building fire on Thursday ... coming out of the upper story and full on black smoke coming out and engulfing this ...

Today, Ajueyitsi owns the only Black brokerage for private ... making flyers for parties in Brooklyn to make ends meet. Eventually he began building websites for artists as well as doing ...

A committee known as “Building Black Bed-Stuy” in the popular Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy) neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, is taking a stand against gentrification. Comprised of Black ...

Clara Wu Tsai at a Brooklyn Community Foundation ... market has shifted toward elites. And wealth building is particularly important for the Black population. After hundreds of years of slavery ...