Meet Your New Bed-Stuy Reporter

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — Hello, Brooklyn!

My name is Peter Senzamici and I am your new reporter for Kings County, covering Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, PLG, Park Slope and most importantly, Bed-Stuy.

You can email me at peter.senzamici@patch.com or follow me on twitter @psenza.

I've been covering local news in New York City for the past few years after a nearly decade-long career in the commercial photography industry in NYC, working mostly in fashion (I got to photograph Beyonce once in 2016).

In 2019, I decided to change course and enrolled at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where I got to intern at THE CITY, a non-profit newsroom focused on service and investigative journalism. From there, I worked for a spell at WNYC with the Brian Lehrer Show and worked as a freelancer for the New York Daily News' metro desk.

I've reported on a wide array of issues, like stories of tenants being harassed, the effects of the city's controversial lien sale on renters, the history of how organized residents worked to build the Nehemiah Homes, the story of a man who lived in a tent for seven years and started his own outdoor photo gallery and an award-winning single-episode podcast about rats in NYC and how we try to live with them (or without them!).

My aim is to cover the issues that matter most to you. I encourage all readers to reach out to let me know about what they want to see on Patch.

Hosting a community event? Annoyed that the city won't fix a broken sidewalk? Feeling stressed about schools or housing? High-level intel about corruption in City Hall? Seeing more rats than ever? Random question?

Let's talk about it, or about anything else you think deserves more attention in the neighborhood.

Looking forward to chatting more soon!