Brooklyn
New York City Responds To Earthquake In Haiti
Abigail Kramer |
Grief and action are mingled on ‘the day after’ in the third-largest Haitian community on the globe. Here’s what’s going on – and what you can do.
Citywide
City To Focus Attention On Human Trafficking
Rae Gomes |
This ugly problem is a local one, too, and a city task force plans to increase public awareness with a campaign next year.
Bronx
Fewer Options For Moms Seeking Natural Births
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Midwives are protesting the shuttering of Manhattan’s only natural birth center that served women on Medicaid.
Citywide
First Stop, Rikers. Next Stop, Colombia?
Rachel Stern |
Immigrant advocates are trying to separate local police work from federal immigration enforcement.
Citywide
Poverty Fighters Get Their Own Consultancy
Rae Gomes |
An institute forms to assemble, develop and spread the word about successful services and programs for lower-income people.
Citywide
Proposed: NYC Should Have Even Smaller Apartments
Bendix Anderson |
A reimagining of people’s space needs could point a way out of the affordable housing shortage.
ARTS and CULTURE
Dreaming of Brooklyn: Development Reconsidered
Robert Neuwirth |
An art exhibit and conference looks at what development has meant—and will mean—for New York’s most romanticized borough.
Citywide
The World's Religions Meet In The Hospital
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Health care providers are availing themselves of new tools to increase their cross-cultural sensitivity.
Citywide
Intrigues and Immigrants: A Soap Opera For Learners
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An earnest new educational show attempts to close the gap between NYC’s many English language learners and too few affordable language classes.
Bronx
AIDS Activists Seek Gains Amid High Infection Rate
Curtis Stephen |
With HIV spreading especially fast among young black men, advocates press for better treatment for communities of color in housing, corrections and immigrants’ services.
