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New Yorkers Speak Out Against European Austerity
Days after Greece approved new austerity measures, New Yorkers took to the streets to protest poverty and racism — in the U.S. and Europe. Demonstrators in New York joined hundreds of thousands of...
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Charging Fees for Free Benefits in Chinatown
Post-Sandy food stamp benefits are free, but some elderly Chinatown residents have been charged for them — and they’re not happy. On an early November day, not long after Superstorm Sandy hit New York...
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A Loyal Irish Audience
For Irish American media, the digital revolution is more road bump than obstacle course. When editor-in-chief Ray O’Hanlon walks into the New York offices of the Irish Echo, the oldest Irish American...
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Facing New Options and Realities
Young immigrants who have received temporary reprieves from deportation learn that their new status comes with new responsibilities. Since August some 20,000 young immigrants in New York state have...
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Austerity in the Caribbean
Protesters in Northern Washington Heights hold signs calling for former Dominican president Leonel Fernandez and “the corrupt” to be jailed. CREDIT: LANCE DIXON Some in New York’s Dominican community...
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Miniature Mariachis Learn the Music of Mexico in Manhattan
At an academy in East Harlem, a veteran musician who has played at places like Carnegie Hall includes Spanish and Mexican heritage in his nightly lessons. It’s 8 p.m. when 7-year-old Juan Escamilla...
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A Comic in the Community Board
Michael Diaz is many things: actor, director, comic — and a member of Community Board 12, where he brings comedy and a youthful perspective to the most serious situations. Diaz (left) discusses an...
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Ukrainian restaurant still thriving in New York’s East Village
The exterior of Veselka, a popular Ukrainian restaurant on Second Avenue. Photo credit: REBEKAH MINTZER When Tom Birchard, owner of Veselka, a well-known Ukrainian restaurant in New York’s East Village...
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Will Rhyme For Change
Two West African immigrants rap with purpose. Diallo Sanoussy Gallice Jr., a Guinean-American rapper, dresses sharp and speaks carefully. He pauses after questions, looks you in the eye, and has...
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The Hustler
Mohammed Abdou gets paid. It’s a bright September afternoon, and the sun shines through Mohammed Abdou’s aviators as he sits outside a Harlem barbershop, where the West African regulars smoke and talk...
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Will Eid Holy Days Become School Holidays?
American Muslim children outside Masjid Darul Quran center on the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Bay Shore, N.Y.Photo credit: (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman) Growing up as a student in New York City, Nadia A., a...
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Modi´s Madison Square Garden Visit Draws Opposition
Anti-Modi protestors line up between 6th and 7th Avenue in front of Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Photo credit: Natalie Schachar/GlobalCityNYC Inside Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Indian Prime...
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East Harlem Takes Budget Into Its Own Hands
The renovation of this playground at the Robert F. Wagner Houses is one of many projects proposed at a participatory budgeting meeting. Photo Credit: Nathan McDermott/GlobalCityNYC One million dollars...
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Guillermo Linares: On the Comeback Trail
Guillermo Linares votes in the primary in Marble Hill. Photo by Jane Greaves/GlobalCityNYC In reclaiming the New York Assembly seat he vacated two years ago, Guillermo Linares is hoping to also reclaim...
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You Say Malcolm X Blvd., They Say Lenox
Street sign on the corner of Frederick Douglass Boulevard and 116th Street displays the lack of any “8th Avenue” indication. Photo by Jenna Belhumeur/GlobalCityNYC Frederick Douglass Boulevard or...
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East Harlem Prepares for Fight Against Luxury Development
Nestled behind apartments, the current East River Plaza is difficult to see from the street, but three luxury skyscrapers may change that. (Photo Credit: Nathan McDermott/GlobalCityNYC) In East Harlem,...
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The Untold Stories of Early Chinese Americans
The coaching book, written by Amy Chin’s grandfather, has the questions that an immigration officer might ask printed in Chinese translation. Photo credit: WENJING HUA When her father died in 2007, Amy...
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The Chinese Gray Market for Foreign Goods
In line outside the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, waiting for iPhone 6. Photo credit: WENJING HUA When Apple released its new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus last month, the usual crowds lined up to get the...
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Sunday Shkola: Judaism in Translation
Rabbi Benyamin Goldsmith and the children at Sunday Shkola. Photo by Sunday Shkola. Rina Lyampe, an artist who emigrated from Moscow 15 years ago, leans over her pupils, holding one’s paintbrush and...
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Former Assemblywoman Rosa Starts One-Year Sentence Next Month
Former Assemblywoman Gabriela Rosa leaves the Federal Courthouse in tears after her sentencing at 500 Pearl Street, New York, on October 3, 2014. Photo by Mariela Lombard / El Diario Last week’s...
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