For those who worked with Fatima Schmidt for the past 15 years, walking by her fourth-grade classroom of Public School 333 in the Hunt’s Point section of the Bronx, will never be the same. She died on April 13th from COVID-19. She was 57. A curly short-haired woman, with light brown skin, and brown eyes […]
Tomas Ramos has built a bridge between generous donors and needy clinics in the Bronx
Public school teachers are coping with a new way of educating their students: remotely. It’s been challenging but also rewarding
With stay at home orders, more and more people are going online to exercise
What it’s like for workers behind the counters in the restaurants open for delivery
Damion Badalamenti, chocolate maker at Kah Kow U.S.A. the first Dominican chocolate factory in New York City, explains what makes Dominican chocolate unique. The Rizek Cacao company is a family-owned business that has been exporting cacao beans from the Dominican Republic for over 100 years. Fifth-generation Nadia Rizek wants to share the potential of Dominican […]
Hundreds of islanders lined the streets of Washington Heights Saturday to protest the electoral troubles in their homelan
The diocese in Brooklyn and Queens doesn’t want to risk anyone getting sick
Two NYPD officers were shot in two different incidents in less than 12 hours in the Bronx, police said, and a suspect is now in custody. At around 8 a.m. Sunday, the alleged shooter, identified by police as Robert Williams, went into the 41st precinct office and opened fire, according to police. A lieutenant, who […]
One man died and two were injured in the incident on the afternoon of January 23
