Many New Yorkers have to walk blocks with their children because they find it difficult to board a bus with their strollers. Zenaida Zurita, a mother of four, told us that she relies on public transportation to get them to school and medical appointments, but has had a hard time trying to drive her open … Read more
Steven Meléndez, with Puerto Rican roots, never imagined that classical ballet dance would give his life a 360 degree turn. “Ballet changed my whole life,” Meléndez said. It all started in 1992, while he and his family were living in a shelter in the South Bronx. At the age of seven, Steven was discovered and … Read more
The walls inside the pedestrian tunnel at 191st Street in Washington Heights became a new canvas: The graffiti here is now only days old. The tunnel leading to a train station on line 1 looked like this over the weekend after the Department of Transportation painted over it to remove the graffiti, drawing criticism from … Read more
A huge celebration was held on the Lower East Side yesterday to mark the Lunar New Year. Hundreds of people gathered at Sara D. Roosevelt Park to watch the fireworks, costumes, and dancers celebrating the Year of the Rabbit. New York police stepped up security at the event following Saturday’s mass shooting during a Lunar … Read more
NEW YORK — The NYPD is searching for the culprit who unprovokedly beat an MTA employee at a Manhattan station. The attack happened around 8:15 p.m. Sunday at the Hudson Yards station, according to police. The victim is 70 years old and was on duty at the station when the man came up from behind … Read more
Thousands of people gathered in New York’s Chinatown to celebrate the arrival of the Lunar New Year this Sunday (10.22.2023), under the watchful eye of the police, after the deadly shooting in California. Fireworks, dancing dragons and other traditional elements with which they usually celebrate this important date took place in the so-called Chinatown of … Read more
The organizations that represent them and the migrants themselves joined more than a dozen elected officials who showed up at the municipal building to ask for more support to provide services to the thousands of asylum seekers who have arrived in the five boroughs. Janeth Rodríguez told us that she understands that the problem is … Read more
Mayor Adams announces that a fifth Humanitarian Response Center will soon open inside the Brooklyn Marine Terminal to continue to address the influx of asylum seekers to the five boroughs. The estimated number of migrants who have arrived since the spring already exceeds 41,000. The new shelter will serve adult males and provide them with … Read more
Edilsa Ariza lives in one of the 250 apartments in the Grant Houses complex in Morningside Heights that has been completely without gas since January 9. According to NYCHA, there will be no service until July 31. The situation is due, according to the New York housing authority, to an underground leak that forced them … Read more
NEW YORK — A death on the Upper West Side has left more questions than answers after a 74-year-old woman was found inside her apartment this week bound and unconscious. Authorities say the woman was discovered Wednesday night in her West 83rd Street apartment with her hands and feet bound, but said she had “no … Read more