More than a year after efforts to annex parts of Brownsville into Hialeah failed, the historically Black community and three other neighborhoods are taking steps to become a city. Brownsville Civic ...

The city has created a so-called “stress-free zone” in a low-income Brooklyn neighborhood where new parents can get everything from free massages to mental-health screenings to combat maternal ...

At the corner of Northwest 27th Street and 54th Avenue in Brownsville sits a plot of land that was supposed to have a grocery store atop it. It has changed hands many times and suffered through many ...

NEW YORK — Longtime residents of Brownsville, Brooklyn are focused on bringing business back to their neighborhood. A local nonprofit is creating a new hub to provide wealth-building opportunities.

Fleeing high housing prices in Crown Heights, some adherents of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement are moving further east to the formerly Jewish, now predominantly African-American neighborhood. Back in ...

Kenneth Kilpatrick, president of the Brownsville Civic Neighborhood Association, Inc., fought against the annexation of parts of Brownsville. Now he wants to turn the historically Black neighborhood ...

Kenneth Kilpatrick, president of the Brownsville Civic Neighborhood Association, poses with a mural of neighborhood historical figures on Wednesday, July 23, 2025 in the Brownsville neighborhood of ...