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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 ...
Despite his commitment to increase the budget for parks, Mayor Eric Adams cut $63 million from the Department of Parks and Recreation. During his campaign, Mayor Eric Adams committed to allocating one ...
The Kunjip, a Korean barbecue restaurant in K-Town, is slowly recovering from what has been a difficult year. Declining foot traffic, a supply-chain bottleneck and rising costs led to a trimming of ...
As a line snaked down near Cinco de Mayo Place in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, on a freezing Saturday in mid-February, the back room of Tortilleria La Malinche was sweltering at 100 degrees. The exhaust ...
In order to qualify for ERAP, a household must make below 80 to120 percent of the area median income. The median income determined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for New York City ...
With a city budget in tatters and hiring plans in flux, some FDNY hopefuls fear their dreams of becoming a New York firefighter may be dashed for good. Last February, Jordan Tymony was a few weeks ...
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 ...
For the first time in decades, voters in eastern Queens in a special City Council election Tuesday got a chance to select up to five candidates for City Council and rank them by preference. The ...
The program, with the National Alliance on Mental Illness of NYC (NAMI-NYC), aims to lessen the stigma around the banking industry’s all-too-common issues of depression and anxiety. Throughout this ...
Late last year, the city reached a legal settlement that requires it to create new, dedicated shelter facilities for unhoused trans New Yorkers. By the end of 2022, the Department of Homeless Services ...
Taco Bell is bringing back its favorite item on the menu, Mexican Pizza.Dairy Queen launched Stackburger after record sales in 2021. Chick-fil-a reported business success in spite of inflation.