During the evening of Monday, April 8th, 2019, a teenage black man, only 19 years old, was non-fatally shot in the leg at 1213 Prospect Place. Two days later on April 10th, S.O.S. Crown Heights gathered at the site for a shooting response. That Wednesday afternoon was a sunny day, and many young people were […]
CONTINUE READING →In honor of National Volunteer Month this April, we’re featuring some of our volunteers on our blog, and today we’d like to introduce you to Susan! Susan started as a volunteer at Legal Hand in August 2018, but then asked for even more ways to get involved. So she started volunteering with Neighbors in Action […]
CONTINUE READING →On the night of Monday, April 8th, 2019, two men were non-fatally shot only two doors down from the S.O.S. Bed-Stuy office, at the corner of Gates and Nostrand. It certainly hit close to home, in more ways than one. The Bed-Stuy team gathered to hold a shooting response at the site of the incident […]
CONTINUE READING →Neighbors in Action (NIA) is delighted to share that we received two $50,000 awards from New York State from the Vital Brooklyn initiative to support youth programming in Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights! Vital Brooklyn is a New York State initiative that invests in community development and wellbeing in Central Brooklyn across eight sectors, including Education, […]
CONTINUE READING →
since the last shooting
S.O.S. works hard to create safer and healthier neighborhoods and we invite you to join us in these efforts.
since the last shooting
S.O.S. works hard to create safer and healthier neighborhoods and we invite you to join us in these efforts.
