The city will begin cracking down on overweight trucks on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, better known as the BQE. Aldo Marín, a truck driver, indicates: “It won’t damage the highway other cars and well, I think that it will also help with time because just as they made more lanes in the George Washington, here it … Read more
A 29-year-old man loses his life after being shot in Brooklyn. The incident reportedly occurred early Saturday morning inside the Vernon Houses housing complex in Bedford-Stuyvesant. When the emergency services arrived on the scene they found Dawuand Darrien with a gunshot wound to the chest. So far no arrests have been made in connection with … Read more
Melkin Bonilla, his wife Chantel and their five children spent a journey of more than thirty days to reach New York. They are Garífuna from Tela Honduras and since they got off the bus they have been admitted to the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan where they have received help. “Well, well, they give us food, … Read more
It is the opportunity to enjoy some streets, normally used by cars, to walk, jog, ride a bicycle and play on them. Summer Streets, organized by the Mayor’s Office and its Transportation Department, held its second day, this time in Manhattan, with various activities for everyone. “Dedicated miles, cultural, educational diversity, opportunities for cyclists to … Read more
Living in the Big Apple will greatly affect your pocket, since the average cost of rents in Manhattan reached 4,400 dollars last month, according to the latest report from the real estate company “Douglas Elliman” and the firm appraisal and consultancy “Miller Samuel”. Analysts point out that this is the third record rental seen in … Read more
Each asylum seeker costs New York City an average of $383 a day, according to calculations by Mayor Eric Adams. Adams accounts for the cost of the arrival of new immigrants. In this fiscal year the expenditure has been almost 3.600 million dollars, this at the gates of receiving 100,000 asylum seekers who have entered … Read more
More buses have arrived transporting immigrants seeking asylum to New York City as we see in the images. The authorities indicated that of the more than 57,000 immigrants who are in the care of the city, 18,000 are children, so the city needs help from the federal government. Amanda Chirinos has only recently arrived and … Read more
With her 11-month-old daughter, Marizol goes out to sell fruit in the busy South Conduit, near JFK airport. “The same and it’s work. I think, it’s not right, but I have to work anyway to get ahead,” Marizol said. Mother of five children, Marizol crossed the border from Guatemala to New York City five months … Read more
Again a minor fell from the window of a building. A three-year-old boy recovers at the hospital after falling from a second story in the Bronx. It happened last night in a residential building located on Stratford Avenue, near East 172nd Street, in the Soundview sector. According to the New York Police, the minor was … Read more
Early Monday morning, the Bronx Borough Vice President set an example and asked the community to donate blood. “62% of the US population is eligible to donate blood, but only 3% do, it’s an incredible number that scares us,” said Janet Peguero, Bronx Borough Vice President. -Because? “Because in the Latino, African-American areas, blood is … Read more