By Simone McCarthy on April 13, 2016
News, Politics & Policy

Verizon workers wearing red and clutching signs swarmed the outside of the company’s office in downtown Brooklyn starting at six a.m. this morning, the start of a strike across the East Coast involving nearly forty thousand workers. Verizon, the Communication Workers of America (CWA), and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers have apparently reached a […]
By Simone McCarthy on April 9, 2016
News, Religion

It took two years, two gatherings of some-190 bishops from around the world, and 264 pages for Pope Francis to release a historic declaration urging clergy around the world to welcome gay, divorced, and single-parent Catholics into the fold. The declaration, which came in the form of an apostolic exhortation released Friday morning, lays out […]
By Simone McCarthy on April 6, 2016
Alioramus, Altangerel Bulgaa, GeoFossiles, Mongolia, U.S. Attorney Robert Capers
Brooklyn, News

The U.S. is returning a 70-million-year-old dinosaur head, along with other fossils, to Mongolia
By Simone McCarthy on March 23, 2016
Ana Isabel Charle, Bronx Boulevard, West Spruill
Bronx, Cops & Courts, News

The man accused of killing a Bronx shelter director refuses a court appearance
By Simone McCarthy on March 7, 2016
Earned Income Tax Credit, Food Bank for New York
Bronx, Business, Politics & Policy

Preparers connect low-income clients with checks from Uncle Sam at a free prep center in the South Bronx
By Simone McCarthy on February 21, 2016
Manhattan, News

After their public launch, the city’s first wifi kiosks are (sort of) up and running.
By Simone McCarthy on February 18, 2016
Bronx, NY City Scene

A Bronx art center asks how it can create space for a group that needs it
By Simone McCarthy on February 11, 2016
Bronx, Politics & Policy

SoJourner McCauley is part of LGBTQ and black history in the Bronx. She looks back at progress made and ahead and what still needs to be done
By Simone McCarthy on February 3, 2016
Bronx, mental health, suicide
Bronx, Education, Politics & Policy, Public Health

Brett Scudder is a one-man band for mental health support, particularly for young black men in the Bronx.