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Melissa Rose Cooper

Bronx

Video: Update on Cuomo’s South Bronx Poverty Plan

By Melissa Rose Cooper | June 20, 2017

The plan soon to emerge from the Bronx segment of the governor’s Empire Poverty Reduction Initiative will set the stage for the most important question: Will the state apply adequate resources to addressing, rather than diagnosing, poverty?

activism

Video: Program Helps Artists Make Their Work a Tool for Social Change

By Melissa Rose Cooper | April 5, 2017

Artists are hoping to produce work relevant to the issues facing neighborhoods and connect with people leading the fight for change.

Art at the Limits

Gentrification and Homelessness: A One-Man Drama

By Melissa Rose Cooper | February 20, 2017

In a span of three weeks, Kilusan Bautista experienced the fear and rejection of being evicted, living on the street and being denied for new places to live. From that dark place, he created a one-man show exploring the human impact of gentrification and displacement. A video story by Melissa Cooper.

CityPlate

Video: How Red Hook’s ‘Added Value’ Grew Back After Sandy

By Melissa Rose Cooper | October 28, 2016

Added Value Farms is an urban farm and compost operation in Red Hook that offers healthy food and community training. Damage from Superstorm Sandy threatened all of that.

art

Amid Real-Estate Squeeze, Trying to Carve Out Space for NYC’s Emerging Artists

By Melissa Rose Cooper | August 2, 2016

As developers target buildings and neighborhoods that used to offer affordable studio space to artists, more and more practitioners are finding it difficult simply to find a way to do their work. One nonprofit is trying to preserve room for creativity.

activism

Video: Does Art Matter to a Community Under Threat?

By Melissa Rose Cooper | June 30, 2016

East New York has long faced problems like poverty, disinvestment and crime. Now its worries concern gentrification and displacement. In a neighborhood confronting so many different risks, what role can community artists play?

EDUCATION

Video: What Some NYC Students Do When a Regular High School Doesn’t Work

By Melissa Rose Cooper | March 8, 2016

A look inside an alternative high school, where personalized learning serves kids who have been unable to succeed elsewhere.

ECONOMY

WorkSite Video: Finding Work for the Hard-to-Place

By Melissa Rose Cooper | September 1, 2015

An improving job market looks less inviting to those with little education or an inconsistent work history. But there are ways to navigate around those obstacles.

The Work Site

Video: What it Takes to be a Woman Entrepreneur

By Melissa Rose Cooper | June 17, 2015

Data indicate that the number of businesses owned by women have increased 43 percent in the last decade. Behind each of those data points lay ambition, ideas and hard work.

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