NYC: Voted and Counting In New York, more than 2.3 million people voted across the five boroughs, according to the New York City Board of Elections. The city was preparing for the worst – long lines and rioting. But what Columbia Journalism documentary students found was
It’s a Saturday morning in October, and about 50 pro-life protesters are gathered outside the Planned Parenthood clinic on Bleecker Street in Manhattan. Some are wearing masks, others aren’t. Many are standing within a foot of each other. They are a mix of nuns, priests,
Every Friday at sunset since July, Malorie Bryant hustles up and down a shaky fire-escape ladder to welcome guests to the Mad Love Comedy Show, relocated by the pandemic from a Manhattan club to a rooftop in Bushwick, Brooklyn. On a recent Friday, Bryant — the
Dwana Smallwood grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant with a dream to become a dancer. Starting in the mid-1990s, she performed on stages around the world and was declared “one of the greatest modern dancers” by Vogue Magazine. Oprah Winfrey asked her to go to South Africa
A new generation of Staten Island activists is hitting the streets this fall to turn out voters of color in New York’s whitest, most Republican borough. Galvanized by Black Lives Matter, dozens of young people on the North Shore — a cluster of predominantly nonwhite
By late spring, Edwin Quezada had finally phased out plastic bags at the Shop Fair supermarket he manages in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The state’s ban on them became law on March 1, but in the months that followed, enforcement was delayed by a lawsuit. Lincoln Market,
Tadataka Unno, a longtime jazz pianist, had just wrapped up a recording session in Midtown on Sept. 27 and was heading home to his wife and infant son in Harlem. As he passed through the turnstile to leave the West 135th Street station at St.
Families scrambled to pack their loved ones’ belongings, while employees worried about lost wages.
Hurricane Ida survivors in New Jersey still struggle two years after a major flood.
Victor Pate's piercing brown eyes guard the weight of his painful past as if they hold the key to a dark and lonely place he's been before. Pate, a 70-year-old who served 15 years behind bars, began to recount his time spending two years in
The pensive silence of the Orthodox Church service was broken by a violent, rhythmic clatter on Great Friday this past spring. The unsettling sound came from the balcony, where a man cranked a large wooden box with a meticulous arrangement of small oak hammers called
A Brooklyn resident saves pigeons trapped inside construction sites under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
On a Wednesday evening in May, the crowd at Brooklyn’s Littlefield venue went wild over host Fred Firestone’s warm-up puns. He called out prompts, and the audience shouted their best answers back to him. “Podiatrists know not victory,” he said, “but –” “DE-FEET!” the crowd roared. I
April 15 was Holy Saturday in the Orthodox calendar, one day before Orthodox Pascha (Easter). In Jerusalem’s Christian Quarter, this day is marked by the annual Miracle of Holy Fire ritual in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Throngs of worshipers bearing unlit candlesticks crowd around
Attacks on Christian holy sites and Christian clergy have risen precipitously this year. Sadly, examples abound. Days after the new year, two Israeli Jewish teenagers were caught on camera vandalizing and destroying 30 graves at the Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem. Weeks later, a mob
“Truth Tuesdays” is the name of a weekly demonstration outside FOX’s headquarters every Tuesday.
When Benjamin Schwartz, 25, moved from New Jersey to New York City in 2021, he felt lonely. He was working from home as an advisor for Deloitte, and his days would often start with him crawling out of bed to get his computer and then
A Columbia University grad reflects on her family's journey since a catastrophic earthquake uprooted them.
[embed]https://youtu.be/nyR0_NWUEMI[/embed] James Stevenson is a well-known British guitarist based in London who has come to the U.S. to perform at least four to five times yearly since 1979. However, Stevenson might not return because of the recent proposed fee increase on the visa he needs. "I'm never
