Opening a record store wasn’t a long-held goal for Victorious De Costa, Barkim Salgado and Haile Ali.…
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Opening a record store wasn’t a long-held goal for Victorious De Costa, Barkim Salgado and Haile Ali.…
Husband-and-wife team Ayo Agbede and Farai Simoyi merged what were originally two separate Bed-Stuy businesses…
“Growing up in a Nigerian household is tough — there’s all these expectations you gotta meet…”
Entrepreneurship was instilled in Makini Regal Martin at an early age. Growing up, her father owned a convenience store in East New York, and most of her friends today are also business owners.…
“I realized I was going to die from stress or something,” says Ludlow Beckett, reflecting on the moment he decided to leave his job…
“Family businesses are hard,” says Jitu Maat, 30, co-owner of Hardware 2.0. Before taking over the hardware store founded by his father, the Clinton Hill native had explored other careers…
Sure, Make Manifest sells clothes, accessories, home furnishings and more by independent Black designers — but the kaleidoscopic storefront is more than…
You could say that artist Reuben King, owner of the ceramics studio Brooklyn Clay Industries, got into pottery for the culture. Literally. A native of Dominica, he grew up with…
Conventional wisdom says real Gs move in silence, but that wasn’t the route taken by Naj Austin, founder and CEO of Ethel’s Club. When she started piecing together her idea for the social and wellness club designed for and by people of color…
As they watched droves of Black middle class families move away from their beloved Bedford-Stuyvesant, in 1977 a small group of Black homeowners came together to stop the flight, counter relentless negative press…
“A lot of people look at plants as if they are art or accessories, and they’re not,” says Deborah Young, owner of Seasons, a nursery and garden center in Bed-Stuy. “They’re living things that will tell you what they need…
When Richard Beavers opened his fine art gallery in Bed-Stuy back in 2007, some expressed skepticism. Why Bed-Stuy? Wouldn’t it make more sense to establish a gallery in Chelsea or SoHo?
Papa Rozier Farms, a Bushwick boutique specializing in all-natural beauty products, carries some of the best skin and hair moisturizers we’ve tried. But managing the gorgeously designed storefront, owned by…
“My mom gave birth to me in Washington, D.C., but I was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn,” says Monique Greenwood, owner of Akwaaba Mansion…
People often act puzzled when they learn what Jae does for a living. “They’re like, ‘Out of all the businesses to get into, why that?’” says the 28-year-old owner of Paws and the City…
Flowers have always been Rasheedah Leslie’s thing. The owner of Les’ Blooms attributes it to having spent her early girlhood in Belize, watching her mother and grandmother tend to…
Back in 2012, two years after Nilea Alexander married her husband Lamine Diagne, the couple took stock of the new businesses popping around their Crown Heights neighborhood…
“That’s the number one question I get,” Ty Holloway, designer and owner of MILES Culture, says with a smile. “No, my name is not Miles.” But the name of the Crown Heights…
“I’ve always been a flea market, junk shop type of cat,” says Martin Brewer, owner of Halsey & Lewis, a vintage shop selling records, books, home goods, and “various and sundry” gifts. Brewer speaks too modestly of his skillfully curated inventory: intriguing finds including antique lamps, 19th century-looking prairie boots, and retro glassware, with specialty products like body butters and oils, healing crystals and bundles of Palo Santo.
