In 2010, Dr. Faherty and co-founders Dr. Emily Rice of CUNY Macaulay Honor’s college and Dr. Kelle Cruz of CUNY Hunter college, combined similar scientific interests related to the study of low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets and founded the working research group entitled Brown Dwarfs in New York City (BDNYC). They are currently engaged in comparative brown dwarf/exoplanet studies and are primarily interested in exploiting the properties of well-characterized brown dwarfs for the purpose of disentangling age, metallicity, gravity, and atmospheric effects on their observables. They invite researchers in the New York Metropolitan area and beyond to join in collaborative meetings and journal clubs. Their group is centered at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Daily details on the teams research can be found at http://www.bdnyc.org/