By Mary Alice MillerBrownsville is considered a food desert, with 15 corner stores/bodegas to every one supermarket. Brownsville is also a food swamp, with a concentration...
By Mary Alice Miller Brownsville’s motto, “Never Run, Never Will,” speaks to the resilience of a neighborhood plagued with low rates of home ownership, wages, and...
Brownsville has Brooklyn’s highest neighborhood rate of unemployment with 29.6% of disconnected youth ages 16-24 who are not working or going to school, according to a...