• Monday, 07/15/2013

  Student Artists Design Mural for 'Dark' Atlantic Avenue Underpass

  On Atlantic Avenue, a dreary underpass that connects a waterfront park to the thriving commercial corridor will soon be transformed by a group of student artists.

  Nikhita Venugopal, DNAinfo
• Friday, 06/14/2013

  The Minik Mural in Brooklyn

  In March of this year, I was briefly in New York City. This year’s trip was brief, but while there I heard of a wonderful artistic tribute to Minik that was on public display in Brooklyn.

  Ken Harper, TAISSUMANI: Around the Arctic
• Wednesday, 05/29/2013

  Turning Brownsville Green

  A fateful bike route and some Kickstarter seed money yield a vibrant school garden.

  Rachel Wharton, Edible Brooklyn
• Sunday, 05/05/2013

  Brownsville Youth Lead "Jane's Walk" to spark appreciation for neighborhood history and beauty

  This past Saturday, individuals from across New York City gathered at the Powell Street Community Garden for "Brownsville Stronger Together: A Walk Through East Brooklyn's Diamond in the Rough," a community tour of Brownsville led by the Justice Center's own rockstar interns, Alonzo Jones and Emma Johnson.

  Brownsville Community Justice Center
• Thursday, 04/11/2013

  ‘Murals on the Bowery,’ Organized by Art Production Fund

  The steel roller shutters found on the front of commercial supply shops along the Bowery were once a playground for graffiti artists. But now, for a few months anyway, they are going to be used as canvases for a more upscale group of painters. There’s a catch. The art will be visible only at the end of each day, when the stores have closed and the shutters have been pulled down.

  Carol Vogel, The New York Times
• Tuesday, 03/19/2013

  Living in the Columbia Street Waterfront District

  New condos are popping up, joining hundred-year-old row houses, converted industrial buildings, and multifamily urban-renewal town houses built in the ’80s and later.

  John Freeman Gill, The New York Times
• Tuesday, 02/12/2013

  Shoe Obsession: 10 Shoes and the Art That Inspires Them

  Fashion Week has stepped into the spotlight in New York. Groundswell is a mural project that brings street art and graffiti into the realm of public art... and perhaps fashion.

  Christina Knight, Huffington Post
• Friday, 12/14/2012

  Renovations on the way for BQE underpass

  An eyesore of an underpass on Atlantic Avenue is on the way to being renovated, thanks to a grant recently awarded by the city.

  News 12
• Tuesday, 10/02/2012

  'Million-Dollar Blocks' Map Incarceration's Costs

  In many neighborhoods, hard truths about day-to-day life — like violent streets or crumbling schools — are readily apparent to residents, but less obvious to city and state officials.

  Audie Cornish, All Things Considered
• Monday, 09/03/2012

  Corona Students Paint their Way to Safer Intersection

  Students and city officials unveiled a new mural on the wall of their Corona school on Friday aimed at curbing reckless driving near a busy Horace Harding Expressway service road.

  Paul DeBenedetto, DNAinfo

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