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Bed-Stuy Artist Explores Home
With photography and oral history, Kira Williams shares stories of how Bed-Stuy is home.

Peter worked at Patch from 2022 to 2024 and covered the Upper East Side, Upper West Side and Harlem — plus other neighborhoods in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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With photography and oral history, Kira Williams shares stories of how Bed-Stuy is home.

Residents are cautiously optimistic, they tell Patch, after years of living in a rodent hell.
The officers were investigating a shooting near Broadway and Kosciuszko Street about 9:30 p.m. Thursday night, police officials said.
Bed-Stuy archivist Faith Robinson, 27, calls the project "a love letter to my neighborhood."
Schools with traditionally high proficiency scores dropped compared to 2019, with P.S. 321 showing its worst score in five years.
Two people were injured, according to officials.
17-year-old Shayma Roman was shot on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights Wednesday night, police said.
The United Order of Tents, a group with ties to the Underground Railroad, is shedding its secrecy in a last ditch effort to save its home.
“I’m just happy and thanking Jesus right now,” Bishop Lamor Miller-Whitehead told Patch. “Jesus did it again for me.”
Police want to speak to Edwin Pedroza after a fatal stabbing in a Park Slope smoke shop, spurred by absent thanks for an act of courtesy.
Peter Senzamici is the new reporter for Bed-Stuy and other parts of Brooklyn and would love to chat!
Nearby schools all received a higher overall rating than the well-known William Penn school.
Anita Daniels testified that fellow firefighters have lit fires at her feet, smeared feces on the women's toilet and slapped her backside.
The shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. Monday night, police said.
“Everyday is a game of Frogger,” Applebaum said of Park Slope sidewalks. “It just feels like it’s getting worse."
The Bedford Armory announced it is partnering up with a non-fungible token, or NFT, platform called (k)nightclub.
A woman was killed on St. Johns Place by a driver who fled the scene.
After making a splash, it turns out the traps were just a drop in the bucket.
Help decide where your council member should spend $1 million.