If you want to spend a pleasant time with the family, we recommend enjoying the “Lightscape” exhibition, which for the third consecutive year is shown at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden This beautiful light show has more than a million lights distributed in 18 installations in an expanded and reinvented route by artists and international design … Read more
Just when the winter temperatures begin to be felt strongly in the city, an initiative is underway to collect coats for the children of asylum seekers. Yesterday, Commissioner of the Office of Immigrant Affairs Manuel Castro and Vice President of NYC Health and Hospitals, Ted Long, presided over the distribution of coats that seeks to … Read more
“No one died and everyone is fine, but the building is completely destroyed,†said Nabeel Fakhruddin, a friend of an affected resident. In less than a week, another large-scale fire broke out in New York, this time affecting a residential area in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. What started as a three-alarm emergency soon escalated … Read more
A bull loose in New Jersey’s largest city made its way onto railroad tracks, disrupting rail traffic Thursday before being captured, authorities said. The reddish-brown bull with long, dark-tipped horns stood on the tracks at Newark’s Penn Station, prompting a police response and halting train traffic between New Jersey and New York’s Penn Station for … Read more
On Christmas Eve, traditional flavors are intertwined with the essence of the celebration. “In order to start the rumba you have to start with the pig,” says Laura. On this special occasion, for Cubans, traditional dishes such as pernil, yuca with mojo, congrí, ropa Vieja with rice and beans, become the protagonists of the night, … Read more
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“Those cuts are cuts specifically to our schools, (to) after-school care, the Health Department, the libraries. There are many of the institutions we need that New Yorkers use every day,” said Councilwoman Jennifer Gutiérrez. Under the slogan “more care, fewer cuts,” dozens of institutions, led by a group of progressive councilors, demonstrated on Monday – … Read more
The minimum wage will increase statewide starting next year and Governor Kathy Hochul is one of the architects of that change. From a visit Saturday to a Brooklyn church, the governor said that starting January 1, no full-time worker should be below the poverty line. Thus, minimum wage workers in the city and Long Island … Read more
StreetEasy’s latest rent report shows the cost of living in the City continues to rise. However, rent prices have not risen as rapidly as in previous years. According to the real estate report, rents in New York increased by 9% this year compared to 2022. This is a smaller jump against the 30 percent that … Read more
Juan Vargas, 39, lost his leg seven years ago and makes a living working in a restaurant. He arrived from Venezuela a year ago, and step by step he has been integrating into life in New York City. He lived for several months in a shelter, but with the new rules he had to go … Read more
The phrase in search of a better life is something that we usually hear over and over again in the voices of migrants, a desire that pushes many to leave their homes despite the adversities they may encounter along the way. The reason for many behind this, family. “And the only thing I came was … Read more