GROUNDSWELL IN THE NEWS
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Monday, 05/18/2015
New York City Rethinks Art for the Masses
New York City’s cultural-affairs budget is bigger than that of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Jennifer Smith, Wall Street Journal -
Friday, 03/27/2015
Art Collective for NYCHA Youth Aims to Bridge Growing Divide in Gowanus
This summer, Chris O'Falt and Tracey Pinkard hope to have kids in the collective help out when the nonprofit arts group Groundswell comes to Gowanus to paint a mural about gentrification.
Leslie Albrecht -
Wednesday, 03/11/2015
Unveiling Our Community Mural
We are grateful to the young artists of Groundswell for envisioning and creating the beautiful mural that now graces the walls of our Community Room!
Brooklyn Community Foundation -
Tuesday, 03/03/2015
At the end, the camera zooms out and you see what these kids painted. Incredible.
It's pretty amazing what happens when people from one of the toughest neighborhoods in New York put aside their differences and work together using art.
Jeffrey Tousey, Upworthy -
Monday, 02/23/2015
The Jewish Past of Brownsville
CUNY sociology professor William Helmreich has walked over 6,000 miles in New York City, as chronicled in his book “The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City.”
Voices of NY -
Saturday, 02/21/2015
The Secrets of Jewish Brownsville
In the past five or six years, William Helmreich has walked a total of 6,048 miles in New York City, covering every block of the city landscape, at an average of 30 miles per week.
Deena Yellin, Forward -
Saturday, 02/21/2015
The Secrets of Jewish Brownsville
William Helmreich tours Brownsville and discusses "It's Not a Dream If You Will It," inspired in part by a Theodore Herzl quote.
The Jewish Daily Forward -
Friday, 02/06/2015
Public Art Wanted to Bring 'Creative Vibe' to Gowanus Streets
The Brooklyn neighborhood best known for a stinky canal will bubble over with creativity this summer when public art will be installed in at least three outdoor locations.
Leslie Albrecht, DNAInfo -
Monday, 02/02/2015
Stop and frisk: NYPD's 'broken windows' policing 'criminalizes' young black men
On an ordinary evening last November, Keeshan Harley left his mother’s walk-up apartment in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood and headed to his weekly volunteer-cop watch patrol in nearby Bushwick.
Daniel A Medina -
Monday, 02/02/2015
Stop and frisk: NYPD's 'broken windows' policing 'criminalizes' young black men
On an ordinary evening last November, Keeshan Harley left his mother’s walk-up apartment in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood and headed to his weekly volunteer-cop watch patrol in nearby Bushwick.
Daniel A Medina