By Sasha Pezenik on October 13, 2015
construction, disagreement, Forest Hills, home, Immigrants, mansion, New York, Queens, taste, Tudor, Zoning
Lens on New Yorkers, Neighborhoods, News, Queens
Wet cement fumes rise and mingle with the syrupy scent of crab apples, which drop from Forest Hills’ scrawny trees en masse and ferment in residential gutters. Several antique Tudor homes on these quiet streets display construction permits. But the charm of their Gothic gables and quaint brick blanches in comparison to the large homes […]
By Sasha Pezenik on September 25, 2015
Bukharians, Forest Hills, Immigrants, Jewish Community, New Year, Queens, Rabbi, religion, school, Yeshiva
Education, Religion, The Global City
The first morning at the Bukharian school Sha’arei Zion may thrum with steady send-offs, but no crazed whirlwind of tearful stress.
By Joanna Plucinska on March 14, 2014
Featured, Greenpoint, Immigrants, Poles, Ukranians
The Global City, What's New?
Polish Immigrants Worry about What’s Happening in Ukraine
By Stav Ziv on February 20, 2014
brighton bazaar, Brighton Beach, Brighton Beach Avenue, Featured, Immigrants, mosvideofilm, Olympics, opening ceremony, russia, sochi, ukraine
The Global City, What's New?
The Winter Games in Sochi are prompting little fanfare in the neighborhood
