Some of my best and favorite stories

NEWS:

• Destructive Greenpoint fire caused by food left on stove, apartment building was in foreclosure at time of blaze, Brooklyn Paper, Dec. 2023

• ‘Ticking time bombs’: Crown Heights fire that killed 3 family members caused by e-bike battery, Brooklyn Paper, Nov. 2023

• ‘How could you do this?’: Hit-and-run killer of public school teacher Matthew Jensen sentenced to prison, Brooklyn Paper, May 2023

• The King’s College students get eviction notices at Downtown BK apartments as school faces financial crisis, Brooklyn Paper, March 2023

• ‘Our clients deserve answers': Legal Aid Society demands clarity after decades of police evidence destroyed in Red Hook fire, Brooklyn Paper, Dec. 2022

• ‘I’m from Brooklyn, New York, of course’: Lester Chang criticizes Assembly residency investigation, Brooklyn Paper, Dec. 2022

• Brooklyn has lowest polio vaccination rates in the city: who’s at risk and where to get the jab as resurgence continues, Brooklyn Paper, Sept. 2022.

• Brooklyn nursing home with infamous owner ordered to pay $750k after death of longtime resident, Brooklyn Paper, Jan. 2022.

ENVIRONMENT:

• ‘A big relief’ for Kent Avenue tenants after DEC halts construction on Brownfield site, Brooklyn Paper, March 2023

• National Grid’s ‘first of its kind’ fuel project at Newtown Creek treatment plant draws ire over cost, delays and malfunctions, Brooklyn Paper, Feb. 2024

• ‘We must get it right’: Northern Brooklyn examines the Army Corps plan for post-Sandy resiliency, Brooklyn Paper, Feb. 2023

• EPA, electeds left in the dark on construction at toxic Gowanus Brownfield site as developer seeks to avoid 421-a deadline, Brooklyn Paper, May 2022.

FEATURES:

• More than memories: Brooklyn’s cultural institutions invite people with memory loss to live in the moment, Brooklyn Paper, Dec. 2023

• ‘Ahoy, this is Operation Christmas Cheer, we have cookies!’: PortSide NewYork revives an old tradition on the New York Harbor, Brooklyn Paper, Jan. 2023.