An Irish American in Little Poland
Hughie Reid loves money. That’s why he went into the funeral business.
Education Helps Young Adults Lift Themselves Out of Poverty
Danielle Duval, 23, lives in a shelter and depends on food stamps and supplemental security income to get by. But she said she is trying to put her life together through education. Her first goal: to pass the GED.
Apple-Picking Robbers Caught Enjoying Their Fruit
There's an app for that robbery: two New Yorkers who were robbed at gunpoint Monday, Oct 7 got their phones back and helped arrest the men who targeted them, police said.
Polish Greenpoint's Iconic Kiszka
This Polish deli on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint opened its doors 33 years ago and is still one of the most popular butcher shops in the neighborhood.
Polish Greenpoint’s Iconic Kiszka
This Polish deli on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint opened its doors 33 years ago and is still one of the most popular butcher shops in the neighborhood.
Surfers Honor Their Roots at Rockaway Beach Surf Club
On Saturday night the Rockaway Beach Surf Club held Talk Story: the History of New York Surfing, featuring surfing legend Rusty Miller and 14 other guests of honor.
Blacks on Staten Island Celebrate Their Roots
Over 1,000 people, according to organizers and vendors, gathered on Saturday to celebrate the annual Staten Island Black Heritage Family Day.
Change for the Greener for a Few Bronx Sixth-Graders
For years, this southwest Bronx neighborhood has outsourced its middle schoolers to classrooms outside the hilly enclave rising up to the west of the Grand Concourse. After eight years of petitions to the Department of Education for a school of their own, this year a few local parents got the chance to send their kids to nearby Highbridge, the city's first LEED-certified green school.
Red Hook Grain Silos Play Host to a Music Festival
The hulking Red Hook Grain Terminal has loomed over the mouth of the Gowanus Canal since 1922. Following the decline of the industry it was built to support, its concrete silos have been abandoned for nearly half a century, a relic of Brooklyn’s industrial past.
Grimy Greenpoint: The Neighborhood Calls for Another Cleanup
Greenpoint came in at the top of the list of the dirtiest neighborhoods in New York City in an August study by MIT that used Google Street View to compare random city streets.
At Center of Contentious Jewish Ritual, Chickens
On Sept. 16, two Mondays ago, Rina Deych planned to hold a peaceful vigil in Borough Park, Brooklyn, to protest an obscure Jewish ritual called Kapparot.
A Vicious Circle of Low Voter Turnout in the South Bronx
It’s Primary Day, but not one campaign flyer is posted in the four-block radius of election district 50/84 in the South Bronx. A few blocks away, four campaign workers line the block in front of a polling place, but no one lines up to vote.