Drums, Chants or Bull Horns? Political Canvassers Strive to Awaken Latinos
More Latinos are eligible to vote, but few are actually showing up at the polls
Smashing the Crystal Ball
How one Bushwick psychic and spiritual healer tries to dispel stereotypes.
Oldest American Bike Factory Cycles On
New York company tries to keep manufacturing in the U.S. by opening a factory in South Carolina
Women Entrepreneurs Drive Economic Growth in the Bronx
The number of women opening businesses in the borough has shot up 53% in recent years, outpacing the rest of the city
A Grocery Plans to Shut Down and Chelsea Protests
Rent hikes drive a supermarket to close, and residents worry about affordable alternatives.
Mom-and-Pop Pizzerias Are In Knead of Some Dough!
Competition from above and below is challenging New York City’s small pizza shops
Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? No, It’s a Drone
New York City gets its first Drones-only store in Brooklyn
Unpeeling the Logic Behind GMO Labeling
In New York, echoes of the federal debate over labeling genetically modified foods
Vertical Patrols: What the People Think
In public housing, residents have a complicated relationship with those long stairwells
A News Flash From Deep Space
[caption id="attachment_15241" align="aligncenter" width="1168"] An artist's impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars. Credits: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL[/caption] Gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes have come to Earth. This is not exactly a local story: The waves emanated from a galaxy far, far away—about a billion light years, to be more or less precise. But scientists from New York’s Columbia University are part of a team that detected the waves. What does all this mean? Muna Habib of NY City Lens spoke to one of the Columbia scientists, Imre Bartos, lead researcher and lecturer in the university’s Physics department.
New Flowers From the Roots of Hip-Hop
An underground radio show rewires a cultural legacy of The Bronx
Not Having Sex in the City: A Budding Asexual Community in NYC
New York City is famous for its motley sex life, illuminated, celebrated, and exploited in countless ways - but hidden within the predominantly sexually active culture is a budding population of people looking for relationships offering anything but sex. They identify as asexuals, or people who do not experience sexual attraction. At least twice a month, a group called Aces NYC (ace being short for asexual) meets up to socialize and discuss ace-related topics, with the overarching goal of building a stronger local community for asexuals. Among the dozen or so members at the latest meetup, the group was roughly
Helping Hands Reach Out to Flint Residents
Almost 600 volunteers from the aid agency Islamic Relief USA distributed truckloads of water bottles over the past two months to residents of Flint, Michigan, a city in a state of emergency due to its contaminated drinking water. The group, a humanitarian aid agency, has joined other Muslim organizations and the American Red Cross in supplying clean drinking water, filters, and deployed teams of health workers to take blood tests and provide educational material to residents about the hazardous lead in the water. A generous donation of $100,000 by Islamic Relief USA purchased over 300,000 bottles of drinking water for the community in
A Tax Season Labor of Love
Preparers connect low-income clients with checks from Uncle Sam at a free prep center in the South Bronx
A Seven Year Old Takes On Broadway
Bronx native Devin Trey Campbell is making his Broadway debut in "Kinky Boots."