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Connecting NYC neighbors across generations and differences to reduce loneliness and increase compassion and joy🗽
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Stoop Stories connects NYC neighbors across generations and differences to reduce loneliness and increase compassion and joy. Through heartfelt documentary stories and community events, we celebrate stoop culture and shine a light on voices too often overlooked. Because everyone has a story—and every stoop has the power to bring people together. 🎥 Follow along to meet your neighbors, watch our films, and check out our link in bio to learn more and get involved! #StoopStories #NYCStories #CommunityMatters #StoopCulture #NeighborhoodConnections #DocumentaryStorytelling #VoicesOfNYC #CompassionInAction #IntergenerationalConnections #stoopsofbrooklyn #stoopsofnewyork #stooplife taken in Brooklyn, New York by @stoop.stories
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a year ago
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We are thrilled to announce that our short film Stoop Chat with Jimmy & Shanaya has won three awards from wonderful festival communities. 🏆🏆🏆 This recognition is a huge honor, and it wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible work of our talented collective and supporters like you. It’s rewarding to see our film resonating with audiences. #StoopStories #StoopChat #StoopLife #intergenerational #IntergenerationalConnections #Intergen #FilmFestivals by @stoop.stories
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2 years ago
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Huge thank you to everyone who came out and showed love at our Old Skool Streets Game Festival this past Sunday, May 18 at Sol Lain Playground with Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side! The energy was unreal, the games were fire, and the community came through. We couldn’t have done it without y’all—players, DJ Skater Tee, volunteers, families, and OGs alike. Here are just some of the hundreds of moments of joy that were photographed. Special thanks to legendary street photographer, Martha Cooper for stopping by and sharing her images so generously, along with our game experts Mick Greene and Khadijah Shaheed–and @city_lore for connecting us, and finally to our partners @henrystreetsettlement @fiveborostoryproject @unhny. The festival and pilot program was generously funded by the @eisnerfound. Let’s keep the spirit alive—old skool forever. #StoopStories #StoopLife #StoopGames #StreetGames #StreetPlay #OldSkoolStreets #HenryStreetSettlement #LES #LowerEastSide #GameFestival #CommunityVibes #SolLainPlayground #ThrowbackFun taken in Sol Lain Playground by @stoop.stories
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a year ago
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This harvest season has us wondering: what does your garden do for you? For these Brownsville residents, their community garden – The Isabahlia Ladies of Elegance Foundation – is integral to their everyday lives. Ali works at ILOEF through the Fortune Society, a program that “supports successful reentry from incarceration and promotes alternatives to incarceration, thus strengthening the fabric of our communities.” Ali shares a few words here about what the garden means to him. “I like to be part of what helps them to look like they’re doing a good job. You know I don’t wanna let 'em down.” Gertrude came to the garden through one of their community health workshops - she swears that ILOEF Chef-Educator Yusuf Webb’s nutritional program saved her life. She struggled with her weight and “was on the verge of diabetes,” until Webb’s community programming taught her to “... pay attention to what you put in your body.” Gertrude shares a few words here on the garden’s impact on her quality of life. As the weather cools and the growing season comes to a close, consider donating to or volunteering in a local community garden. As Gertrude says, “For real, this is peace. You come here and you just know what you need to do. You ain’t gotta ask her, or ask him. You just do it.” Link in bio to donate! 📸: @brownstonebabe 🎥: @xavier.rolando99 📝: @ameliamagel #Brownsville #StoopStories #UrbanFarming #CommunityGarden taken in Brownsville by @stoop.stories
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2 days ago
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"You do not know what’s in your food, unless you know who your farmer is. And my question’s always: who is your farmer?” At Brownsville’s Green Valley Garden, Brownsville local Brenda Duchene-Thompson is your farmer. Brenda founded the Isabahlia Ladies of Elegance in 2010 and, along with her small team, Chef-Educator Yusuf Webb, and Director of Community Strategy Taurean Lewis, they “educate, support and service the community” through their 5 community gardens. “In the low income neighborhoods, fast food is a pandemic. Really it is.” To combat this, Brenda and her team operate two weekly farmer’s markets where they sell their locally grown, pesticide-free produce. “We see by our participants once the market is open how our customer base has grown. We get more requests for the schools and for centers, to come and talk about the initiatives. More people are interested in healthy choices” Brenda says. “Every year, I try to introduce another vegetable that we are not familiar with. Because a lot of [the community] are not familiar with certain things ” They also work to engage and educate through workshops and food demos. Taurean, while struggling at times to obtain funding for their initiatives, asks people point blank what they want to see instead of telling them what they need. “A few weeks ago there were a bunch of young guys standing outside around the projects and I just walked up to them and asked them. ‘If we were to bring programming to Brownsville, what is it that y'all want to see? What would you be engaged in?’ And like 2 or 3 of them were like ‘I wanna grow a tree’.” “At first they come in and they’re like ‘I can’t grow anything.’ And once you show them, this is how you do it, the excitement I can’t believe,” Brenda says. “They just need that little push, that encouragement. And having a community space…you’re showing them it is not that hard to do.” 📸: @brownstonebabe 🎥: @xavier.rolando99 📝: @ameliamagel #Brownsville #StoopStories #UrbanFarming #CommunityGarden taken in Brownsville by @stoop.stories
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4 days ago
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Save the Date: Stoop Sale Soiree! Sat Oct 17, 10-5 (Rain Date Sun Oct 18) 163 Bergen Street (Btwn Bond & Hoyt) Boerum Hill, near F Train Join us for a good ole fashioned stoop sale with a twist! - Snacks - Shopping - Give-aways - Stoop hangs - Music - Other suprsies! Help us keep making stories that connect New Yorkers! ** If you have an object or service you would like to donate for our sale, please contact us by October 15th or get the party started and support us in advance: donate (100% tax deductible). tinyurl.com/donateBHCS. If you work for a corporation, we accept matching funds! taken in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, New York by @stoop.stories
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6 days ago
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Help us launch Boerum Hill Community Storytellers Like many New York neighborhoods, in Boerum Hill the stories of our Puerto Rican, Arab, and immigrant neighbors — the elders and families who shaped this neighborhood — are being lost with each passing year. In two weeks, Stoop Stories is launching Boerum Hill Community Storytellers, a project that brings youth and older adults together across eight intergenerational workshops to document these hidden histories before they disappear. In partnership with the Arab-American Family Support Center and Raíces Times Plaza Senior Center on Atlantic Avenue, participants will pair up, learn oral history and photojournalism, and create four collaborative photo stories about their neighbors. The project culminates in a free public exhibition in spring 2027. We’re raising $5,000 by this Wed Sept 30th to help launch the project. Your gift directly supports participant stipends, workshop materials, and the free community celebration and exhibit that you are all invited to! Give $75 or more and receive a handmade, signed 9x12 linocut print by artist and project co-lead Gabby Vazquez — a limited edition of 50. We’re 40% of the way to our goal! Council Member Lincoln Restler and Citizens Committee for New York City are already supporting this work. Join us in making it real. ** If you know someone who’d like to participate who is connected to Boerum Hill and the Downtown Brooklyn area, we are building an intergenerational cohort (ages 13-25 and 60+ mainly) but would be open to additional folks), reach out to gabby@stoopstories.com taken in The Arab-American Family Support Center by @stoop.stories
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9 days ago
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Please join us in welcoming two new members of our growing advisory council! Ajeet Singh @oneajeetsingh is a practicing safety-net physician and informaticist dedicated to building our collective agency in addressing community needs. His professional work focuses on the political economy of healthcare and the governance of technologies to build a healthier society, spanning over 15 years across academic, regulatory, entrepreneurial, and operational contexts. He also cares deeply about cultivating a living dialogue with the visual and performance arts, believing in its power to shape shared identities, bridge emotions and narratives across cultures, and offer shelter for individuals and communities to confront their challenges and build shared joy. Gabrielle (Gabby) Vazquez @gabbygvazquez is a Nuyorican-Dominican York multidisciplinary artist, curator, costume designer, and anthropological researcher whose practice bridges textiles, archival research, performance, and public space to examine migration, memory, and diasporic identity. Working across exhibitions, community-based programming, costume, and material research, she investigates how textiles and modes of materiality function as living archives carrying histories of labor, colonialism, resistance, and belonging. Expanding a fashion-as-art methodology, she approaches material culture as sites where anthropology and aesthetics converge—inviting viewers of her artistic and curatorial practice to imagine future forms of sovereignty and cultural assertion. Central to her practice is Diasporican Queens, an ongoing interdisciplinary research project unfolding through performance, costume, and ethnographic research. It began as a study of Puerto Rican identity within U.S. pageant systems, but has since evolved into an exploration of site, embodiment, and cultural memory across Brooklyn—beginning with Boerum Hill. Collaborations with a senior center and local residents have helped shape it into a living archive—one that honors community knowledge and intergenerational care. Gabby is co-leading our Boerum Hill Community Storytellers project. by @stoop.stories
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11 days ago
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Hi everyone! Exciting news from Stoop Stories. We’re launching Boerum Hill Community Storytellers in October — an intergenerational project to document the Puerto Rican, Arab, and immigrant histories of the neighborhood before they’re lost. Working with @aafscny Arab-American Family Support Center and @ssecraicesny Raíces Senior Center, we’ll bring teens and elders together to interview and photograph neighbors, culminating in a public exhibition this spring. The project is also designed to increase social connection with younger and older adults who face the highest rates of loneliness and isolation. Council Member Restler and @citizenscommittee are already supporting it, and we’re raising $5,000 by the end of September to help launch. Donors of $75+ receive a signed limited edition linocut print by our project co-lead @gabbygvazquez 🔗 Here’s the link: https://tinyurl.com/DonateBHCS **any amount is big time appreciated! or let us know a local young person or older adult who might want to participate (free). Also, save the date for our 2nd Annual Stoop Sale Soirée on Sat 10/17 (rain date 10/18)! Thank you 🏘️ — Marj taken in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, New York by @stoop.stories
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14 days ago
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Like many New York neighborhoods, in Boerum Hill the stories of our Puerto Rican, Arab, and immigrant neighbors — the elders and families who shaped this neighborhood — are being lost with each passing year. This fall, we’re launching Boerum Hill Community Storytellers, a project that brings youth and older adults together to document these hidden histories before they disappear. Eight workshops. Four photo stories. One neighborhood’s living memory. In partnership with the Arab-American Family Support Center and Raíces Times Plaza Senior Center. We’re raising $5,000 by the end of September to launch. Give $75+ and receive a signed limited edition linocut print by artist and project co-lead gabbyvazquez (link in bio 🔗) tinyurl.com/DonateBHCS Then come celebrate with us at our 2nd Annual Stoop Sale Soirée on Saturday, October 17 (rain date Sunday 10/18). #BoerumHill #Brooklyn #StoopStories #Intergenerational #CommunityStorytelling #ArabAmerican taken in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn by @stoop.stories
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19 days ago
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"I’m a Brooklyn-born filmmaker. I’m an artist. I’ve been making films and writing for about eight years now. And I just I love the art. I love talking about different things in this world, like concepts of what it means to be a person, what it means to exist. And that’s expressed through my writing and my work. I remember as a kid, everything in Manhattan would be all fast-paced. And then when you come home to Brooklyn, everything would get calm and quiet. But also you hear music everywhere, you hear everybody just hanging out, having something going on. And it’s always been kind of like this burst of identity in a place where I always wanted to capture. I think that’s what motivates a lot of my filmmaking. If I tried really, really, really hard, I could fit in anywhere I wanted to, but that’s not where I belong. My [films] are always about people; they’re outcasts, trying to find their place or trying to find that sense of belonging. For me… the idea of belonging, it’s not necessarily a place, but it’s a sense of being. A feeling where you feel like you. Right now I’m working on a documentary about my grandparents called “The House That Love Built.” It’s about the 1980s. My grandfather and grandmother decided with, like five kids, to build their own house in the middle of Brooklyn. They found things all the way from a shack with broken windows, abandoned doors, and put together a house. They lived there for 17 years until the city came and tore it down. But also I feel like it’s one of those stories that kinda gets lost in Brooklyn’s history. There’s so many people that are losing their homes right now and everything’s uncertain. And so to just preserve that history, preserve that legacy is like one of the biggest honors as a filmmaker– especially being my family– I could possibly do." 📸: @cobyiswise ✍️: @brandondennyfilm 🗣️ @the_stooop_kid taken in Brooklyn, New York by @stoop.stories
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a month ago
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Introducing Derrick Benton aka “The Stoop Kid.” Enjoy a sneak peak before this story goes live tomorrow! 🎥✂️: @xavier.rolando99 taken in Brooklyn, New York by @stoop.stories
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