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James, The Chess Champ

James Black is not your typical tween. The 12-year-old from Bed-Stuy is one of the best junior high chess players in the country.This April, James took home trophies for best individual chess player,...

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Last Chance Foods: Bed-Stuy Bok Choy

The Tristate area may be enjoying unseasonably warm weather lately, but for the most part, farmers' markets still reflect the fact that winter will be around for a few more weeks. At Bed-Stuy Farm in...

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Ed Towns Steps Down

Errol Louis, host of "Inside City Hall" on NY1, discusses the legacy of Edolphos Towns, who announced he will not be running for his 16th term, and the generation shift in Brooklyn politics.Video...

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Not Taking it Anymore: One Woman Talks Back to Street Harassers

As spring sets in, New Yorkers are gladly shedding those layers of winter clothes and women are often finding themselves the object of more cat calls, whistles and roving eyes than they’d like. One...

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Niche Market | The Fragile Art Behind Bernie's Glass

New York is a city of specialists from foodies to academics, laborers to shopkeepers. Every Wednesday, Niche Market will take a peek inside a different specialty store and showcase the city's purists...

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Memorial Day Around New York

New York City's Memorial Day observances included both parades and solemn ceremonies. And with sunny skies and temperatures reaching the mid-80s, thousands of people spent their Memorial Day holiday at...

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The Middle Class Squeeze in Bedford-Stuyvesant

The city's median income is $51,865 across the five boroughs. In Manhattan it's closer to $70,000; in the Bronx it's around $34,000. And in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, in Census tract 267, where...

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One Mother, an Anti-Violence Expert and a Recipe to Lower the Body Count

Brunilda Rivera has been on a mission to keep her 17-year-old son safe, ever since he was assaulted in a park in February.It’s the second time he’s been attacked in their Bedford-Stuyvesant...

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Blocking the School-to-Prison Pipeline

New York City has the largest school district in the country and a reputation for doling out harsh penalties. Even the Justice Department has warned that routine infractions should land a student in...

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An Alternative Guide to Art in NYC

There is a lot of art and culture to see in New York beyond the museums of the Upper East Side and the galleries of Chelsea. WNYC is exploring several neighborhoods this summer to find some local gems....

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Remembering the Harlem Riot of 1964

50 years ago, 15-year-old James Powell was shot and killed by Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan, igniting a spree of riots in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant that spread throughout the country. Peniel Joseph,...

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Old Cops Teach New Picks

 As the police department tries to reassure New Yorkers about a recent spike in shootings, a new program pairs rookies with seasoned officers to heal police-community relations at the same time. The...

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Real Estate Investing for the Rest of Us

For Parisians, it's sitting in cafes. Bostonians love them some baseball. Southern Californians just want to surf. But New Yorkers' favorite pastime? It's real estate.We love to speculate about the...

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Reaching Out to Kids To Improve Relationships with Police

About 100 residents tackled the topic of police-community relations on Friday evening. The event, billed as the first annual youth summit in Bedford-Stuyvesant, was meant for teens but attracted all...

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Being Black

Allison spends her time in two very different Brooklyn neighborhoods: Brooklyn Heights where she works and goes to school, and Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy) where she lives with her family and gets...

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32 Indicted in Brooklyn Gang Bust

An investigation into a notorious Brooklyn gang has resulted in charges against 32 people. The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office announced Thursday that 12 suspected members of the Gates Avenue...

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Somber Christmas At Brooklyn Shrine To Slain Cops

A constant stream of mourners came to the corner in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Wednesday where a makeshift shine had gone up to honor police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. Many said it was important...

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Bed-Stuy Residents Wonder — Where Are the Cops?

Residents of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, where NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were shot and killed last month, have noticed the slowdown in police activity.Candace Keith, 16, said she...

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Thousands Attend Brooklyn Funeral for 'Dean of American Preachers'

Several streets around Concord Baptist Church in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on Monday were blocked for the funeral of Reverend Gardner C. Taylor.The fact that the 96-year-old Taylor stepped away from...

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Pulitzer Winner Gregory Pardlo on Life as a Poet in Bed-Stuy

Gregory Pardlo was standing outside of his daughters' school, waiting to pick them up on a recent Monday afternoon, when his phone buzzed with the sound of an incoming text message. And then another,...

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In Bedford-Stuyvesant, a Café Uses Gentrification to Give Back

On a recent afternoon at ReConnect Café in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, Eszter Dobay and her three sons burst into the coffee shop. Her two eldest boys rushed co-owner Efrain Hernandez, who greeted...

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Investigation Daily; Council Member Vanessa Gibson; NJ Gubernatorial Primary;...

Coming up on today's show: Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent at Yahoo News, talks about the latest on the Russian investigations and his reporting on early Trump administration efforts...

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Poverty and Bohemia in Bed-Stuy

Brandon Harris, contributing editor to FilmmakerMagazine, filmmaker and film writer and the author of Making Rent in Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City (Amistad, 2017), talks...

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Doctor's Advice: Take Two Bike Rides and Call Me in the Morning

If you see a doctor at Interfaith Medical Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant, you might walk out with a helmet and a prescription for a bike membership. It's part of a pilot program called...

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Change-Makers: Reconnecting Bed-Stuy Men to Good Jobs

As part of our Change-Makers Series, Father Jim O’Shea talks about his organization Reconnect Brooklyn, along with Efrain Hernandez, co-founder of Reconnect, and Shawn Moody, a young man employed at...

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After Fatal Shooting Of 1-Year-Old In Bed Stuy, Community Leaders Say 'Enough'

The leaders of several "cure violence" organizations came to the scene of the shooting in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn to say "enough." Erica Ford leads Life Camp in Queens."You ain't no gansta your're...

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Housing Scams

Brooklyn, NY —This summer, a thirteen year old boy was allegedly murdered by two young squatters who thought he had stolen a dollar. Patrick Bhola's body was found in a vacant building in Bedford...

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