Arts & Culture In Good Company: Meet Two Brooklynites Focused on BIPOC Health and Happiness One of Amy ‘Amz’ Collado’s favorite New York staples is a cup of coffee and butter roll from the bodega. When she was thinking of names for her new skate club, the classic food item moniker stuck. Amy Collado/Author photo“I love coffee. And for a dollar, you
Business Trash into Treasure: A Vision for an East Flatbush Dumping Ground A large, faded sign hangs on the graffiti-laden facade of Qualimax Car Wash in East Flatbush advertising its grand opening specials. It’s one of the many unkempt remnants of a business that long closed its doors, along with dozens of totaled cars and trash piled high in the unoccupied
Central Brooklyn Giving Birth During Pandemic: East Flatbush Moms Dream Of Homebirth, Try To Make The Best Of It On a table set up outside on Rogers Avenue in East Flatbush for a community baby shower, gift bags filled with diapers, formula and other baby necessities sat unclaimed – six of the 20 moms had gone into labor in the last 48 hours, earlier than expected. Angelica Kirlew and her
