By JR Holguin BROOKLYN, NY: As extreme heat incidents surge across the country, officials from three major U.S. cities – Phoenix, Miami, and Los Angeles – convened in a recent virtual news conference by the Ethnic Media Services (EMS) to spotlight their individual strategies to tackle the heat menace. A Startling Surge in Heat-Related Deaths […]
Editorial credit: rblfmr / Shutterstock.com Motorists will be detoured in the Queens bound direction during this historically lower volume travel weekend; NYC DOT will also launch media campaign targeted to local communities to keep them notified of closures and detours New York — New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez today announced […]
Editorial credit: Ruben2533 / Shutterstock.com By Will Freeman | October 5, 2023 What’s the scale of the current migrant crisis in New York City? The city typically receives tens of thousands of new arrivals each year. But since spring 2022, numbers have been rising especially quickly. More than 118,000 migrants and asylum seekers, most of […]
Editorial credit: Dariusz Gryczka / Shutterstock.com By Julian Shen-Berro, Chalkbeat | September 29, 2023 The new school year has barely begun, and already New York City’s notoriously complex (and often controversial) high school admissions process kicks off next week, lasting through early December. The process can be daunting for the tens of thousands of […]
New York, NY USA – October 29, 2022: A Vote Here Vote Aqui voting sign in English, Spanish and Chinese at an early voting location at Columbia University in New York City. (Shutterstock) By Rachel Holliday Smith, THE CITY For the last two election cycles, New York City voters have used ranked choice voting, which […]
By Brian Brant, Audacy NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A Long Island man will spend up to a decade behind bars for scamming an 89-year-old woman out of her Bushwick home, Brooklyn prosecutors announced Tuesday. Shavard Callaway, 48, was sentenced Tuesday by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Phyllis Chu to an indeterminate term of five to […]
New York, NY USA – November 3, 2022 : Fire trucks and an ambulance responding to an apartment fire on the second-to-top floor at the NYCHA Manhattanville Houses in Harlem, New York City. (Shutterstock) New York, NY – In a new report, “Turn Up the Heat,” issued on the one-year anniversary of the tragic Twin Parks […]
By Michael Elsen-Rooney, Chalkbeat, THE CITY The Manhattan 16-year-old started smoking weed to get over a bad breakup, initially keeping the habit outside school hours. Soon, though, he was using marijuana to address other mental health issues, like depression that suppressed his appetite and anxiety that made it difficult to go to class. He began […]
By El Mansour Bettahar Nobody plans to get sick or injured, but sometimes it’s unavoidable. Ten years ago, I got into an accident at my construction job. I was in pain and alone, having left my family in Algeria during my recent move to the United States. I wanted to get treatment but didn’t have […]
Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in New York continue to strike on 2nd day as negotiation still on between administration and union on January 10, 2023 (Shutterstock) New York, NY—NYC nurses strike for safe staffing to end this morning in historic victory as tentative deals reached with both Montefiore Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital. Nurses […]