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A Brooklyn homestead with chickens, fruit trees and a vegetable garden thrives a few doors from the #2 train

By Doug Doyle
Published January 19, 2026 at 11:56 AM EST
Daniel Yeroshalmi holds one of his 20 hens
Daniel Yeroshalmi
Daniel Yeroshalmi holds one of his 20 hens

It is legal to raise chickens in New York City. WBGO’s Jon Kalish has the story of Daniel Yeroshalmi, a young man in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, whose backyard chicken coop is part of an urban homestead that includes a vegetable garden and fruit trees…

Below is a link to Daniel Yeroshalmi's instagram page.

https://www.instagram.com/thecrownheightshomestead/

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Doug Doyle
Doug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998. Since then, Doug and his news staff have received more than 300 awards from organizations like PRNDI (now PMJA), AP, New York Association of Black Journalists, Garden State Association of Black Journalists and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.
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