Thousands of runners will pour through Brooklyn streets on May 16 for the annual RBC Brooklyn Half Marathon, but for many participants, the 13.1-mile race is about far more than pace times and medals.
For lifelong Brooklynite Teresa Hui, Bed-Stuy runner Kenneth Serrano and heart transplant survivor Lisa Colon, this year’s race is a testament to perseverance through disability, grief and life-threatening illness — all tied to a deep connection to the borough.
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📸: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8: courtesy of Lisa Colon, Kenneth Serrano and Teresa Hui | 2: File photo by Erica Price @eternalpixny
✍️: Olivia Seaman @livseaman
#newyorkroadrunners #rbcbrooklynhalf #brooklynhalfmarathon #brooklyn
At Maimonides Medical Center, nursing isn’t just a single role — it’s a spectrum. It stretches beyond research and the education systems that shape the profession to the bedside moments that define it. For Fabienne Ullyse and Shaari Feinberg, that spectrum is lived every day.
During National Nurses Week, their stories reveal how wide and deeply human the field of nursing truly is. Scroll through to learn more about Ullyse and Feinberg, and head to the link in bio for the full story!
📸: 1,3,4: Courtesy of Maimonides Medical Center | 2,5-7: File photos by Gabriele Holtermann
✍️: Olivia Seaman @livseaman
#nationalnursesmonth #nationalnursesweek #nurses #maimonides #brooklyn
With every lace cleaned, sole restored, sneaker bottom re-iced, stain removed and surface repainted, @revival_x_bklyn is not only repairing sneakers for the community — it’s showing what’s possible.
Originally founded in 2023, Revival X Brooklyn has moved from its principal location in Bedford-Stuyvesant to a new shop in Bushwick. The move marks a full-circle moment for owner Ricardo Pierre, a Brooklyn native who grew up in the Sea Rise Houses in Coney Island. Pierre uses his store as a platform for young people, placing them in positions to succeed.
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🎥&✍️: Elijah Megginson @elicozart_
#sneakers #bushwick #revivalx #brooklyn
Dog runs, tennis courts, grass fields, picnic benches and a playground. These are some of the amenities that could comprise a new park where the asphalt lot at McCarren Park currency sits.
Last year, @lincolnforcouncil secured $14.7 million to transform the lot from cracked asphalt to green parkland, with help from @bkbpreynoso , City Hall and other local electeds.
Community members got their first chance to weigh in on the park’s future on May 7, at a virtual workshop held by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Over 325 people joined to express their hopes for the open space.
Out of hundreds of comments left in the meeting’s chat, three requests rose above the rest: A new dog run, more tennis courts, and open green space.
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📸: Courtesy of John McCarten/NYC Council Media Unit
✍️: Brennan LaBrie
#mccarrenpark #williamsburg #greenpoint #asphaltlot brooklyn
A few hundred @nynurses nurses rallied outside NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in Park Slope on May 8 alongside elected officials including Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Assembly Members Robert Carroll and Jo Anne Simon, and Council Member Shahana Hanif.
They called for a fair contract with enforceable safe staffing standards to ensure adequate nurse-to-patient ratios, stronger protections against workplace violence, greater respect for nurses’ clinical judgment over artificial intelligence in patient care, and improved wages and benefits.
The union contract for nearly 1,600 nurses at NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital expired April 30. The negotiations come on the heels of the largest nurses strike in New York City’s history, when 15,000 nurses stood on the picket line for 41 days and secured a new contract that includes more than 12% salary increases over three years, improved staffing ratios, workplace violence protections, and safeguards against AI.
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🎥: @gabriele_holtermann , video editing by Olivia Seaman @livseaman
✍️: Gabriele Holtermann
#nysna #newyorkpresbyterian #brooklynmethodist #nurse #brooklyn
Between school pickups, city council meetings, client appointments and late-night problem-solving, motherhood often unfolds in the spaces between everything else.
This Mother’s Day, Brooklyn Paper spoke with three local moms — Council Member Alexa Avilés (@alexaforcouncil ), restaurateur Leah Wiseman Fink (@leahwisemanfink ), and salon owner Rubi Aguilar (@la_rubi_rubi ) about the realities of raising children while building careers and creating community.
Scroll through to find a piece of advice from each mom, and head to the link in bio for the full story!
📸: First slide, L-R: By Yumi Matsuo | Courtesy of Shakir Rodriguez | By @gabriele_holtermann | 2: Courtesy of Salina Sultan Sogutlu/Pexels | 4: Courtesy of Fernanda W Corso/Pexels | 6: Courtesy of Daka/Pexels | 8: Courtesy of Arda Kaykisiz/Pexels
✍️: @gabriele_holtermann
#brooklyn #mothersday #moms #newyorkcity #nycmom
Locked in before tip-off. New York Liberty getting shots up at shootaround ahead of their home opener at Barclays Center vs. the Connecticut Sun. 🗽
🎥 Dylan Christie (@tropixmusicofficial )
A group of Crown Heights tenants are taking their landlord to court for allegedly illegally de-stabilizing their apartments and hiking the rent.
In 2010, 52 of the 53 units at 283-285 Albany Ave. were rent-stabilized, tax records show. As of early 2025, the building, which was constructed in 1941, had just 20 rent-stabilized apartments left.
Some tenants believe the landlord falsely told the state they had made major improvements to their units in order to raise rents above deregulation thresholds. In a class action lawsuit filed on Thursday, 13 residents demand that their landlord, 283 Albany Equities LLC, restore the legal rents and refund them significant rent overcharges.
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📸: Google Maps
✍️: Kirstyn Brendlen
#crownheights #tenants #lawsuit #housingrightsinitiative #brooklyn
A newly-opened green space is putting the “inlet” back in Bushwick Inlet Park.
The small but lush Motiva parcel, wrapped around the inlet at the northern edge of the patchwork park, officially opened to the public last week.
Once home to a shipbuilding operation, Motiva had been vacant since the 1960s, fenced off and filled with invasive plants. The city purchased the 1.8-acre plot from fossil fuel company Motiva — hence its name — in 2014 as part of its 20-year-journey to building out Bushwick Inlet Park.
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📸&✍️: Kirstyn Brendlen
#bushwickinletpark #nycparks #wildlife #williamsburg
The bedraggled Bedford-Stuyvesant Multi-Service Center will be totally redeveloped into a brand-new social services center with hundreds of all-affordable homes in the Mamdani administration’s first public development project.
On May 7, the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development and Human Resources Administration will start a public engagement process meant to gather local feedback and help shape the redevelopment.
Built in 1912, the city-owned five-story building at 1958 Fulton St. houses several community services orgs, including CAMBA HomeBase and Little Flower Children & Family Services. But it’s in need of $60 million in capital repairs, according to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and has a high vacancy rate, in part because of its dire need for repairs and upgrades.
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📸: 1: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office | 2&3: Google Maps | 4: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
✍️: Kirstyn Brendlen
#bedstuy #zohranmamdani #housing #brooklyn
Meet NY-9 Candidate Mike Goldfarb in today’s edition of Campaign Insiders.
Mike Goldfarb is running to represent New York’s 9th Congressional District in Brooklyn which includes Brownsville, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Kensington, Midwood, Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach and Prospect Lefferts Gardens.
Visit PoliticsNY.com to read Mike’s full Q&A and stay tuned for more!
A dozen of Bay Ridge’s finest pizzerias duked it out on May 3 at the second annual Pizza Wars.
The event, hosted by @merchantsof3rdave started last year as a “Star Wars”-themed walking tour of the nabe’s most beloved pizza joints. Participants voted for their favorite slice, and the winner was crowned by choice of the voting public.
The vote was tight, and in third place was family-owned pizzeria Peppino’s, followed by Elegante in second. @manciniwoodfiredpizza , a fairly recent addition to the neighborhood, clinched first. They took home the Golden Pizza Cutter.
