In pre-pandemic times, Ernesto Rossi used to play guitar for customers wandering through the eclectic goods on offer at his Little Italy gift shop -- a maze of Bialetti coffee machines and traditional pasta-making utensils, tote bags featuring the map of Sicily, vintage postcards of
The first time it happened was 15 years ago. Jessica Wilson, a hair stylist who works at Salon 448 in Wood Dale, Illinois, was told by a client that she had been raped by her husband who had also verbally abused her. New to the
The hearings are the first chance outside of several ongoing protests for Greenpoint residents to voice concerns about National Grid's push to expand a liquified natural gas storage facility.
Street vendors, laundry workers, house cleaners and taxi drivers from across New York were among the hundreds of demonstrators who blocked traffic on the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges Friday morning, demanding New York State legislators create a fund for undocumented workers and others left out
The legislation comes at a time when vendors have been hit hard by the pandemic.
For Peter Benjamin, school didn’t get any better than Mrs. Lieber’s kindergarten class at P.S. 26 in the Fresh Meadows neighborhood of Queens in 1963. Mrs. Lieber let the children sit where they wanted in class. She knew that Benjamin liked the Yankees while his best
As New York City gears up for another pivotal election season, youth leaders in Harlem are working to prepare younger voters for the June 22 city primaries. Starting with two virtual meetings held in February, The Greater Harlem Unite coalition hosted 20 of the 30-plus
The USS Intrepid museum has a choice berth on the Hudson River, with easy access to Midtown Manhattan. The rent? A dollar a year. That’s too cheap, say local officials seeking a much higher rate in the institution’s new lease with the Hudson River Park
Sitting at home last summer, coughing and aching all over, Angela Skillings heard her phone ring. Her heart dropped when she saw the caller ID. “Are you sitting down? Are you alone?” the caller asked. Skillings was sitting down. “She passed.” Even though she knew this call was coming,
Screams and the cracks of gunshots barged into the room where 10-year old Ana Barreto slept with her mother, sister and cousin, and she knew immediately: Someone had been shot, again. The next day, on her way to school in Jardim Ângela, Brazil, she would have
Alexis Springer wavered between closing her eyes and staring at the harsh, fluorescent lights on the ceiling of the examination room. She was shaking uncontrollably, despite the sedative her doctor had given her to ease her anxiety during the insertion of an intrauterine device (IUD). As the
