Building Grassroots
Grassroot businesses are the centers of growing communities. Grassroots movements and organizations use collective action from the local level critical to effect change at the local, regional, national, or international level. With the intention of integrating into the goals and intentions determined by these communities that often times must weather environmental challenges single handedly and unassisted, Architecture can consciously ensure, preservation, and sustainability for spaces to grow with integrated consciousness.
DALEVIEW BISCUITS AND BEER, Brooklyn, NY
In the past decade, New York City has gone from a craft beer backwater with only three breweries in the five boroughs, to a beer-brewing epicenter with more than three dozen. Only one of these new breweries is helmed by an African-American and located in a predominantly Black community. In two years, Christopher Gandsy has built DaleView Biscuits and Beer into a Nostrand Avenue hotspot, featuring gluten-free biscuit sandwiches (inspired by his wife’s gluten allergies) and craft beer brewed in his two-barrel system.
JAYA YOGA, Brooklyn, NY
Jaya YOGA since opening in 2000 has been and remains one of radical inclusivity and hospitality. They believe that the willingness to engage with the timeless practices of YOGA is all that is required to attend. Their desire to serve has kept all of the teaching staff studying and learning from the greats in this tradition so that they can continue to bring forth and share their most authentic interpretations of asana and yoga philosophy and meditation with you.