For Tasnim Huque, the past few months have been full of surprises. Her Muslim parents, who immigrated to New York City from India’s sprawling eastern city of Calcutta in the…
For young people born without that proverbial silver Spoon in their mouths, New York City has never been An easy place to grow up. It’s a tough love kind of…
The Port Richmond Water Pollution Control Plant is designed to handle 60 million gallons of sewage per day.
Photo by: Marc Fader
Projects to upgrade a sewage plant and construct a cement…
Ruskin Piedra is the founder and director of the Juan Neumann Center, an organization tied to the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help church, which provides low-cost legal services…
The recession pushed an alarming number of New York City families, many of them with children, into homelessness in 2009, according to a new report by Citizen's Committee for Children.…
People on the street in Saint Louis, Senegal. The U.S. State Department says femal genital mutilation is widely practiced in Senegal.
Photo by: Alexandra Pugachevsky
Some deportees must choose whether to leave…
The state’s high court allowed foster children to pursue claims that they were denied services and boosted a case challenging the state’s indigent defense system.
Drugs dominate the list of the top 10 crimes leading to legal immigrants’ deportation. A new state panel would expedite the pardon of old or minor crimes.
Civil liberties groups are suing the federal government to get information on a program that makes local jails—including New York—part of the immigration enforcement network.
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