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Founder of @stoop.stories | Photographer | Writer | Producer
As seen in NYT, Time Out, NY1, PIX11, WaPo, Photoville, ICP 🙌🏽 StoopStories.com

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A few scenes from our Stoop Sale Soirée! 🛍️

Thanks to everyone who stopped by for some good finds and even better conversations. Together, we raised $1200 to support our 2027 programs and documentaries.

Thanks to our sponsors, @onegirlcookies and @sottocasaboerumhill for the cookies and pizza!

#stoopstories #stoopsale #stoopsalebklyn

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It was such an ABSOLUTE pleasure sitting down with these @bedstuyfly beauties. Dr. Gail Taylor on Bed-Stuy, #brooklyn - "This place is sort of like a womb or a cauldron that when you go in it, you come out stronger. You come from this community of largely very strong, empowered, impactful women. You have cultural institutions, schools that educated us, churches that strengthened us spiritually."
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.Go check out the story of Muriel Singleton and her beautiful daughters Dr. Gail Taylor and Sheila Singleton aka Da Mayor of Bed-Stuy on @stoop.stories. great captures via @linavisual_

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💛 Visit Stoop Stories, attend an event, share a story, invite a friend, or make a donation. Help keep these conversations alive and these connections growing.

Find them at StoopStories.com (and check their official channels for upcoming events and ways to give).

Because stories matter. Our elders matter. Our young people matter. Our neighbors matter. And in a world that can sometimes make us feel more disconnected than ever, gathering to listen to one another is an act of community and love.

Now, if you know, you KNOW! Let's hear our chant:

S.T.O.O.P. — STORIES TOLD IN NYC! 🗣️💛

#StoopStories #StoopStoriesCollective #BrooklynStories #IntergenerationalConnections StorytellingMatters JoyIsRevolutionary #StayInTheYellow StoriesToldInNYC
@stoop.stories
@brownstonebabe

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Be there or be square! Saturday 10/17, 10-5. Stoop Sale Soiree! 163 Bergen St. btwn Bond & Hoyt.

Snacks, stoop chats and stories about old stuff you can take home. Thank you to @onegirlcookies and @sottocasaboerumhill for donating cookies and pizza!

(Rain date 10/18)

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Via @aleatheasapp Namaste everyone this year I'm so excited to participate in the 30th annual Gowanus Open Studios weekend.
I'm showing some New Work,
plus will have Art prints ,and doing a live painting
This event is free and open to the public.
Hope to have an conversation with you.
Find me on the map @aleathea /painting/Aleathea Sapp-Jimenez @597 Union St, Brooklyn NY 11215.
@artsgowanus #Gos2026#Gowanusopenstudios#ArtGowanus #keepgowanuscreative

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Seven days at Cinema Village.

Nukhufest 2026 brought filmmakers, audiences, artists and collaborators together in New York City for screenings, Q&As, workshops, panels and conversations around independent film.

Some filmmakers watched their work with a New York audience for the first time. Others returned after years of being part of Nukhufest. People who arrived knowing one film left knowing the filmmakers behind several more.

A lot of our favorite moments happened outside the screenings themselves.

Filmmakers meeting after Q&As. Cast and crew seeing one another’s work. Conversations continuing in the lobby. People traveling from across the country and around the world to be in the same room. Our Cinema Village team helping us make seven straight days of programming possible.

At Opening Night, we talked about advocacy as something larger than financial support. Tell someone about a film. Bring someone with you. Share the work. Say an artist’s name in a room they are not in. Give the work your attention.

Thank you to every filmmaker, audience member, volunteer, panelist, partner and friend who did exactly that during Nukhufest 2026.

The festival is over. The films, conversations and relationships continue.

Watch the films on Nukhu.com and find the full Nukhufest 2026 video archive at youtube.com/nukhu.

#Nukhufest #IndependentFilm #FilmCommunity #NYCFilm #FilmFestival

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We’re 70% funded. Please give what you can! 1 more day to go!

Link in bio or tinyurl.com/DonateBHCS

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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

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Stepped out for a few minutes. Literally. Ran into some of my favs. #goodbyetosummer #stoopset. Took a hot shower. Went on my Saturday #superhero tried a new lipstick compliments of @thelipbar
#hbcumade ummmmm although we didn't hear a @fiskuniversity shout out. We were indeed present and accounted for. Shout out to @karlkani legacy repping for the culture. #Iloveus BEAUTIFUL DAYS ARE SUCH, BECAUSE YOU CREATE THEM.

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Our constellation is here. We are preparing for lift off. 🚀

See our final screenings, which will be followed by our awards ceremony. We can’t wait. 🪐 ✨

Grab your tickets as there is limited availability.

📍 Hen & Chickens, Islington
🗓 Saturday 19th September
⏰ 8pm
🎟️ Link in bio

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Meet the 2026 Brooklyn Org 25 💙

These 25 changemakers are doing the work every day to make Brooklyn stronger, more just, and more joyful.

Across the borough, they’re defending rights, protecting families, preserving our arts and culture, and building real change from the ground up.

Meet this year’s Brooklyn Org 25:
Randy Ali, @aafscny
Amy Andrieux, @mocada_museum
Caron Atlas, @nocdny
Jenna Bimbi, @nybcap
Wai Yee Chan, @homecrestcommunityservices
Atiba Edwards, @bcmkids
Aundaray Guess, @griotcircle
Reverend DeVanie Jackson, @brooklynrescuemission
Julia Jean-Francois, @cflsunsetpark
Rasu Jilani, @bkartscouncil
Marj Kleinman (@brownstonebabe), @stoop.stories
Sierra Kraft, @icare_coalition
Toya Lillard, @651arts
Tiera Mack, @unitedforbrownsville
Jonathan Monsalve, @osborneassociation
Morgan Monaco, @prospect_park
Nanda Prabhakar, @theopphub
Dana Rachlin, @webuildtheblock
Ravi Ragbir, @newsanctuarynsc
Robin Redmond, @fdconline
Régine Roumain, @haiticulturalx
Florence Saint-Jean, @gtr_org
Melony Samuels, @tcahnyc
Emily Shechtman, @southbrooklynsanctuary
Yamilée Toussaint, @stemfromdance

We can’t wait to celebrate them on October 28 at the Brooklyn Org Changemakers Ball at Powerhouse Arts. ✨

And this year, in partnership with @photoville, all 25 will be featured in a special photo installation debuting at the Ball before heading out into Brooklyn in November.

🪩 Get to know the full Brooklyn Org 25 at the link in bio.

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