Emerging from a small bodega off Concord Ave in the Bronx, Janet Clark, 53, struggled to carry her three shopping bags full of fruits and veggies. A single mother of five, Janet lost her job as a ...

Holding banners in Chinese, English and Spanish, tenant unions, housing activists and local politicians rallied in front of City Hall Thursday morning to protest proposed rent hikes affecting roughly ...

The Church of St. Francis Xavier’s community group is a part of a collective endeavor to foster an unapologetically LGBTQ-affirming, woman-friendly Catholicism When Stephanie Samoy first entered the ...

At around 8:00 a.m. on March 30, Debra and Angel woke up to police officers demanding they leave their makeshift shelter under the Prospect Expressway. Sanitation workers broke up and discarded the ...

NY City Lens illuminates the rich and varied life of New York City—borough by borough, neighborhood by neighborhood, one good story at a time. It is produced by students at Columbia University’s ...

NY City Lens illuminates the rich and varied life of New York City—borough by borough, neighborhood by neighborhood, one good story at a time. It is produced by students at Columbia University’s ...

You can find Bryant Park’s free bird watching tours in partnership with NYC Audubon at the following link: https://bryantpark.org/programs/birding-tours The New ...

On a crisp October evening in 2001, Meena was cutting onions and potatoes in her tiny kitchen, sweat dripping down her face as she tried not to accidentally touch the stove. Her husband was watching ...

February did not arrive quietly this year. Instead, Winter Storm Orlena blanketed New York City with the largest single snow event it’s seen in five years. According to the National Weather Service, ...

About 200 people logged onto a virtual town hall on Wednesday to discuss strategies for combating hate crimes that are on the rise throughout the five boroughs and the nation. The meeting was ...

From its roots to representation, the discourse surrounding comic book culture takes on the past and present of Jewish-New York-based chronicles As the author and graphic novelist Arie Kaplan put ...

Every year for the last seven, volunteers offer people on the street a few basic supplies and a hot meal on a cold night.