Press Room For press inquiries, please contact: Zachary HalperMomentum Communications GroupEmail: [email protected] OPINION: New NYC Budget is a win for human services. But we can do better NYN Media | Jun 14, 2022 Slate, RiseBoro push forward on massive Brooklyn affordable housing project Crain's New York Business | May 24, 2022 Rolling back Raise the Age won’t make us safer The Daily News | Apr 2, 2022 Scott Short on Good Day Street Talk Fox 5 NY | Mar 26, 2022 Brooklyn youth mentoring and anti-violence program receives $40K for expansion Brooklyn News 12 | Mar 2, 2022 ‘I miss everything. 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The New Republic | Oct 1, 2021 Gotham Unveils Huge Rent Stabilized Gotham Point Development Real Estate Weekly | Sep 14, 2021 Andrew Cuomo Left Behind a Rent-Relief Debacle The New Yorker | Sep 4, 2021 Neighbors Volunteer to Help Seniors in Bushwick Stuck in Home Due to Ida News 12 Connecticut | Sep 3, 2021 The Community Engagement Power 50 City and State | Aug 22, 2021 Construction Begins At ‘Atrium At Sumner’ Affordable Housing Project In Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn NY YIMBY | Aug 18, 2021 Bushwick Senior Center Provides Free COVID-19 Vaccines During Mobile Vaccine Event Brooklyn Reader | Jul 23, 2021 The State Distributed $0 in Rent Relief in Program’s First Month The City | Jul 15, 2021 Watch Scott’s Short’s Interview on The Bronx Buzz The Bronx Buzz | Jun 17, 2021 Landlords Ask Cuomo to Lift Eviction Ban After Ending Covid Restrictions The Real Deal | Jun 16, 2021 Slate to partner with RiseBoro to build 215 apartments in Brooklyn Real Estate Weekly | Jun 4, 2021 NYC Immigrant Renters to Get Legal Guidance, Rent Relief Through New Housing Helpline Brooklyn Reader | Jun 4, 2021 What If New York Stopped Knocking Down Buildings? The Intelligencer | May 17, 2021 City Must Urgently Plan to Reopen Senior Centers Brooklyn Reader | May 14, 2021 Opinion: What the City Must Do to Address Its Checkered Past and Legacy of Segregation CityLimits | May 12, 2021 New York AG Supports Community Group In Battle With AIG Over Tax Credit Property Forbes | Apr 21, 2021 City Nonprofits Face ‘Financial Catastrophe’ Due to Pandemic’s Demands The Gothamist | Apr 21, 2021 ‘Corporate Greed’ Sees Company Back Out of Bushwick Affordable Housing Deal: Lawsuit Brooklyn Reader | Apr 19, 2021 Brooklyn Group Battles for Bushwick Building — and the Future of Affordable Housing The City | Apr 15, 2021 Opinion: NYC’s Next Mayor Must Focus on Eradicating Child Homelessness CityLimits | Apr 14, 2021 New York City group retrofits apartments without displacing residents Yale Climate Connections | Apr 12, 2021 A shady partner in affordable housing: How corporations threaten LIHTC’s success The Daily News | Mar 10, 2021 Scott Short, RiseBoro in City & State’s Nonprofit Power 100 City and State | Feb 21, 2021 PODCAST: Fighting climate change, one building at a time UN News | Feb 12, 2021 Origin Stories: How RiseBoro CEO Scott Short’s Passion To Reduce Inequality Led Him To Real Estate Bisnow | Jan 20, 2021 Bushwick Senior Center Employee Surprises Residents With 75 Hot Christmas Meals Brooklyn Reader | Dec 30, 2020 New York’s Real Climate Challenge: Fixing Its Aging Buildings NY Times | Dec 29, 2020 Riseboro to Distribute Food Baskets to more than 400 Families Bushwick Daily | Dec 21, 2020 ‘I Have Nowhere to Go’: This New York City Mother Is One of Millions Facing the Threat of Eviction Courier | Dec 18, 2020 Opinion: Nonprofits Supporting the City’s Most Vulnerable Need More Funding—& Respect CityLimits | Dec 7, 2020 New Central Brooklyn Food Co-op Aims to Nourish and Empower Locals The City | Oct 17, 2020 Elderly New Yorkers languish on wait lists for critical services amid COVID-19 NY Post | Sep 6, 2020 COVID Rent Relief Program to Alleviate Rent Burden for Vulnerable New Yorkers PoliticsNY | Jul 22, 2020 Brooklyn Nonprofit Riseboro Keeps NYC Seniors Fed During COVID-19 Brooklyn Reader | Jul 22, 2020 NEW YORK CITY’S PUBLIC HOUSING RULES COULD FORCE MANY RELEASED PRISONERS INTO HOMELESSNESS The Appeal | Jul 22, 2020 Coronavirus Ravaged New York’s Budget and Made Your Census Participation More Important Than Ever. Gotham Gazette | Jun 20, 2020 Op-Ed: New York’s budget cuts create a ‘social time bomb’ for underserved youth AM New York | Apr 27, 2020 Press Release: OneCity Health Awards Community Partners $4.3M to Address Food and Housing Insecurities Among NYC Health + Hospitals’ Patients RiseBoro | Feb 5, 2020
Slate, RiseBoro push forward on massive Brooklyn affordable housing project Crain's New York Business | May 24, 2022
Brooklyn youth mentoring and anti-violence program receives $40K for expansion Brooklyn News 12 | Mar 2, 2022
‘I miss everything. I miss everybody’: Depression rates for seniors are soaring amid COVID-19 USA Today | Feb 2, 2022
RiseBoro Community Partnership Chief Program Officer Mirtha Santana Discusses the Eviction Moratorium CBS News | Jan 25, 2022
A digital locker for public benefits: Harness tech to help the poor and working class NY Daily News | Oct 24, 2021
HPD Celebrates Grand Opening of 100 Percent Affordable Housing Development in Cypress Hills Cityland | Jun 20, 2022
Developers Compete 50 Penn Affordable Housing Project At 50 Pennsylvania Avenue In East New York, Brooklyn New York YIMBY | Jun 14, 2022
Grand Opening of 50 Penn Mixed-Use Development in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn Real Estate Weekly | Jun 12, 2022
Documental theater program at Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Center looks back on members’ lives Brooklyn Paper | Mar 28, 2022
‘It’s a sanctuary’: the magic of quiet, low-cost, allergy-free ‘passive’ homes The Guardian | Feb 24, 2022
Economic impacts of pandemic and threat of eviction far worse for minority New Yorkers: study The Daily News | Jan 11, 2022
Here’s the Best Way to Stop the Future Food Crisis Looming Over American Cities Daily Beast | Nov 29, 2021
MTA reveals ‘Monitor Point’ redevelopment project of Brooklyn waterfront warehouse AM New York | Oct 20, 2021
Gotham Point’s 57-Story ‘Parcel F’ Tops Out In Hunters Point South, Queens New York YIMBY | Oct 5, 2021
Woodlawn Heights: Housing Lottery Open for Senior Living Units at 69 East 233rd Street Norwood News | Oct 2, 2021
Neighbors Volunteer to Help Seniors in Bushwick Stuck in Home Due to Ida News 12 Connecticut | Sep 3, 2021
Construction Begins At ‘Atrium At Sumner’ Affordable Housing Project In Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn NY YIMBY | Aug 18, 2021
Bushwick Senior Center Provides Free COVID-19 Vaccines During Mobile Vaccine Event Brooklyn Reader | Jul 23, 2021
Landlords Ask Cuomo to Lift Eviction Ban After Ending Covid Restrictions The Real Deal | Jun 16, 2021
NYC Immigrant Renters to Get Legal Guidance, Rent Relief Through New Housing Helpline Brooklyn Reader | Jun 4, 2021
Opinion: What the City Must Do to Address Its Checkered Past and Legacy of Segregation CityLimits | May 12, 2021
New York AG Supports Community Group In Battle With AIG Over Tax Credit Property Forbes | Apr 21, 2021
‘Corporate Greed’ Sees Company Back Out of Bushwick Affordable Housing Deal: Lawsuit Brooklyn Reader | Apr 19, 2021
Brooklyn Group Battles for Bushwick Building — and the Future of Affordable Housing The City | Apr 15, 2021
New York City group retrofits apartments without displacing residents Yale Climate Connections | Apr 12, 2021
A shady partner in affordable housing: How corporations threaten LIHTC’s success The Daily News | Mar 10, 2021
Origin Stories: How RiseBoro CEO Scott Short’s Passion To Reduce Inequality Led Him To Real Estate Bisnow | Jan 20, 2021
Bushwick Senior Center Employee Surprises Residents With 75 Hot Christmas Meals Brooklyn Reader | Dec 30, 2020
‘I Have Nowhere to Go’: This New York City Mother Is One of Millions Facing the Threat of Eviction Courier | Dec 18, 2020
Opinion: Nonprofits Supporting the City’s Most Vulnerable Need More Funding—& Respect CityLimits | Dec 7, 2020
COVID Rent Relief Program to Alleviate Rent Burden for Vulnerable New Yorkers PoliticsNY | Jul 22, 2020
NEW YORK CITY’S PUBLIC HOUSING RULES COULD FORCE MANY RELEASED PRISONERS INTO HOMELESSNESS The Appeal | Jul 22, 2020
Coronavirus Ravaged New York’s Budget and Made Your Census Participation More Important Than Ever. Gotham Gazette | Jun 20, 2020
Op-Ed: New York’s budget cuts create a ‘social time bomb’ for underserved youth AM New York | Apr 27, 2020
Press Release: OneCity Health Awards Community Partners $4.3M to Address Food and Housing Insecurities Among NYC Health + Hospitals’ Patients RiseBoro | Feb 5, 2020