Stoop Stories

Stoop Stories is honored to be a Bronze and Community Voice Award winner in Community Engagement for our “Stoop Chat” Series Pilot at the 4th Annual Anthem Awards! https://lnkd.in/gBkxem2Q “Stoop Chat with Jimmy & Shanaya" is an award-winning short doc film featuring “Harmonica Jimmy” and his neighbor, Shanaya, who forge an unlikely friendship as they discover a shared love of poetry, music and street games. This short is the first in a series of intergenerational “Stoop Chat” videos bridging older and younger neighbors to reduce loneliness, increase social connection and celebrate community. Co-directed by Marj Kleinman and Gabriella Canal. This recognition celebrates our dedication to amplifying voices and fostering meaningful intergenerational connections. We’re so proud to stand alongside other incredible projects making an impact. Thank you to our team, partners, funders and everyone who has supported and believed in our vision—we couldn’t have done it without you! This film is made possible by public funds from the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Statewide Community Regrants Program, as well as from a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of the New York State Legislature, both administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. The film is funded in part by the Stoop Stories community. Thank you to our team, advisors, partners Heights and Hills, donors & for being part of our journey! #StoopStories #StoopChat #StoopLife #intergenerational #IntergenerationalConnections #Intergen #FilmFestivals #cogenerational #shortdocseries #shortdocs The Anthem Awards

Thank you for hosting an inspiring evening with the grantees!

Thank you so much, to Project UnLonely and The Foundation for Art & Healing for this beautiful feature!

Check out our?chat with Top Chef Winner Danny Garcia and his wife, pastry chef, Sumaiya Bangee! This culinary power couple celebrate?their cultures through their food.?Hear about?growing up in Carroll Gardens, how they met, and opening their new seafood spot, Time & Tide. ??? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Featuring Chef Danny Garcia & Sumaiya Bangee Producer/Director: Marj Kleinman Editor: Ben G. Director of Photography: Mengyu Yan Camera Operator: Mengyu Yan Audio: Shanaya Perkins Production Coordinator: Amelia Magel Social Media Mgr: Andrea A. Resendiz Gomez Images courtesy of Danny Garcia & Sumaiya Bangee? Additional Photography: James Martinez Amaro Special thanks to the Stoop Stories Collective, Advisors and Community #StoopStories #StoopLife #TopChef #ChefLife #PowerCouple #CulinaryLoveStory #CulinaryJourney #FoodieChronicles #NYCFood #CarrollGardens #TimeAndTide #ChefLife #NYCRestaurants

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” - Angela Davis Today is National Civid Pride Day. When everyone takes part in creating and sustaining our beautifully diverse, vibrant city, we bring communities closer,?fostering a shared sense of belonging and safety. Let’s inspire each other to get involved, show support, and contribute to making our home a place where we’re all proud to live and work.?Let’s continue to show grace to our big stoop, New York City ???? ??:?Marj Kleinman ??:?Andrea A. Resendiz Gomez #stoopstories?#stooplife?#civicpride?#communitylove?#strongcommunity?#nyclife?#nycstoop?#bekindtooneanother?#strongertogether?#nationalcivicprideday

Grateful to be including in conversations about community and hope, especially right now. Thanks, Marci Alboher and CoGenerate!

Grateful for this beautiful article by The Greater Good Science Center, including a wonderful shoutout for Stoop Stories by our friends at CoGenerate. Thank you, Eunice Lin Nichols, Marc Freedman and the entire team at CoGenerate...and for your inspiring leadership in generational connection.

Good morning, friends. Many of us are feeling big and intense feelings today. Please remember to breath and take the best care of yourself. Know that you are not alone. We can be here for each other. And the work we're doing to bring people together, and highlight the most marginalized people is more important than ever. Sending love and hope. If you're in the Downtown Brooklyn area, join a compassionate gathering on my stoop tomorrow night, Thurs 11/6, 7pm. Message me for deets.

?? MEET THE TEAM MONDAYS ?? Kathleen Donohoe (she/her) is the author of the novels Ghosts of the Missing and Ashes of Fiery Weather, which was named one of Book Riot’s 100 Must-Read New York City Novels. Her stories and essays have appeared in WebConjunction, Washington Square News, SNReview, Harpur Palate, Irish America Magazine, and the anthology The Writing Irish of New York. She also writes on Medium at https://lnkd.in/gD5iYzBq Kathleen grew up on Avenue J in Midwood. Her mother was a nurse at Kings County Hospital, and her father and four uncles were New York City firefighters. An amateur genealogist, she spends a great deal of time poring over censuses and other records, piecing together the lives of her ancestors, most of whom resided in Manhattan and Brooklyn. This work has led her to appreciate the need to preserve the stories of New Yorkers, in their own voices. Besides Midwood, she has lived in Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens and Park Slope. For the past five years, she has been living in Kensington, where she spent all of quarantine in an eight-hundred-square foot apartment with her husband and son. Currently she is at work on her next novel, Saints in Brooklyn. Kathleen is a long time volunteer with Stoop Stories and we are grateful for her beautiful stories and support.

Home and belonging are central to our mission. So looking forward to this exhibit, and these programs look incredible. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum