By Angie Hernandez Pena on May 16, 2020
Uncategorized
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 […]
By Angie Hernandez Pena on May 16, 2020
barbers, coronavirus, New York, unemployment
Life in a Pandemic, Uncategorized
By Angie Hernandez Pena on April 19, 2020
Bronx Care Health System, St. Barnabas Hospital
Life in a Pandemic, Politics & Policy

Tomas Ramos has built a bridge between generous donors and needy clinics in the Bronx
By Angie Hernandez Pena on April 11, 2020
Brooklyn, Coronavirus

Public school teachers are coping with a new way of educating their students: remotely. It’s been challenging but also rewarding
By Angie Hernandez Pena on April 2, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

With stay at home orders, more and more people are going online to exercise
By Angie Hernandez Pena on March 29, 2020
Life in a Pandemic, Manhattan

What it’s like for workers behind the counters in the restaurants open for delivery
By Angie Hernandez Pena on March 13, 2020
Brooklyn, Business, chocolate shop, Featured, New York, Video
Brooklyn, Business, Multimedia, Neighborhoods, Video

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 […]
By Angie Hernandez Pena on February 23, 2020
Immigration, Manhattan, The Global City, Uncategorized

Hundreds of islanders lined the streets of Washington Heights Saturday to protest the electoral troubles in their homelan
By Angie Hernandez Pena on February 10, 2020
Brooklyn, Coronavirus, NY City Scene, Religion

The diocese in Brooklyn and Queens doesn’t want to risk anyone getting sick
By Angie Hernandez Pena on February 9, 2020
Bronx, Cops & Courts, News

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 […]
By Angie Hernandez Pena on January 24, 2020
Gun Violence, Manhattan, News

One man died and two were injured in the incident on the afternoon of January 23