If you parent a baby or toddler in Central Brooklyn, you might already be familiar with the music and movement class Lavender Blues…
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If you parent a baby or toddler in Central Brooklyn, you might already be familiar with the music and movement class Lavender Blues…
Before starting her training in massage therapy, Khadijah Tudor worked at the New York Department of Transportation. Her partner, Ade Collman, was already a seasoned massage therapist and acupuncturist working at health clubs and doctors’ offices across the city.…
Owned by married couple Nicole and Michael Nicholas, the multi-hyphenate Flatbush oasis…
Garden in the Wake was founded by Morgen Bromell (left) and Justina Walker this spring,…
We don't really use hierarchical terms, but if I had to describe what I do, I guess I’m like the CEO,” says Steph Wiley, more accurately described as a founding worker-owner of the Brooklyn Packers…
“I was walking barefoot in Saratoga Park — and hugging trees. I don’t know if that’s a good idea, but that’s what I was doing,” says Chanel Porchia-Albert as she describes laboring with her first child in 2008…
Buy Better Foods, a recently opened organic market in Bed-Stuy, was many years in the making. Although owner Myriam Simpierre has spent most of her career managing retail stores…
Joseph Shayne and Jennifer Blalock stay on the run — just 26.2 miles a time…
When Chef Romeo Regalli moved to New York eight years ago to pursue his filmmaking career, he landed a day job at the Brooklyn outpost of Awash Ethiopian Restaurant. The owner’s daughter, Milka, was tasked with training him in the family’s recipes...
“This could not have happened at a worse time,” says Elijah Bah…
Briana Thompson didn’t initially plan to turn her side hustle into her main hustle. Her concept just turned out to be…
Long before veganism became a relatively mainstream, aspirational lifestyle, Rastafarians were all about following a plant-based diet. “We started this thing”…
We’re frequently asked: Do you know any Black-owned supermarkets? With much respect to the Black-owned corner stores holding it down in Brooklyn, full-service grocery stores…
To hear Grandmaster Bill McCloud tell it, his journey from teen boxer in Brooklyn to jiu-jitsu Grandmaster isn’t all that surprising. The owner of MAUSA Health & Fitness Center, 75, explains that martial arts has long been…
Karen Rose, owner of Sacred Vibes Apothecary, says her childhood home of coastal Guyana may have lacked medical doctors, but many elders in the community — from the midwife who handled births…
“The concept for HealHaus came about because of a void,” says Elisa Shankle, the 32-year-old co-founder of the Bed-Stuy/Clinton Hill wellness center and café (@healhaus) offering classes and private sessions for yoga…
With a wild amount of bike lanes and paths, Brooklyn is New York’s most bikeable borough. And with about a dozen bike shops, Park Slope is cyclist mecca. But 50 years ago…
“I’m brash, I’m an Amazon, I don’t bite my tongue, and I’m not for everybody,” begins Jyll Hubbard, owner of Urban Asanas yoga studio. “But the people who get it, they get it.” In fact so many folks get Jyll that, after nearly 15 years…
Jacques Sylvestre, owner of the Juicy Box, knew his Midwood community was conscious about its health. He regularly worked out alongside neighbors at one of the area’s many gyms, and all his peers were…
“If you could do anything, what would you do?” As Sarah Williams hung out with a group of friends a couple years ago, conversation drifted to this question. Working at the time as a fashion account executive and costume designer, Williams had an immediate answer.
