By Gisela Perez-Mauri
On August 13, a warm sunny day in Manhattan, four men armed with a pistol entered Kaplan Brothers Blue Flame Corporation, a wholesale ranges and stove-supplies on 125th Street between Broadway and Manhattan Avenue. Upon entering, one of the intruders struck a male employee, named J.B.. In reacting, the store’s owner, Charles Augusto, [...]

By Carmen Perez
BRONX New York—-All it took was one second to change fifteen-year-old Vada Vasquez’s life. She was walking home from school with her best friend just before four o’ clock on November 16th when she was shot in the back of the head by a stray bullet. The bullet pierced the left side of [...]

By Dan Fastenberg and Rory Kress
What charges by the minute and talks while it’s working? A New York taxi cab of course. Well, the last part may be changing.

Taxi Phone Ban Confessions from Rory Kress on Vimeo.

There are ten law schools in New York City accredited by the American Bar Association

By James de Mellow and Aaron Lee
One thing a construction project like the Second Avenue Subway guarantees is a lot of noise. Aaron Lee and James de Mellow went to 82nd Street to hear it for themselves.

2nd Avenue Subway Noise / Columbia J-School from Aaron Lee on Vimeo.

As New York City soldiers on through the aftermath of a national recession, development is continuing in some underserved areas. One giant new project in East Harlem will open for business this week, and presents some concerns for the neighborhood.

When 14-year-old Keith Calhoun was murdered in Newark’s West Ward last August, the police, politicians, and community activists were out in full force to ask the logical questions.

A Brazilian mother stood in Newark’s Peter Francisco Park with tears running down her cheeks at a rally for immigration reform in September.

Thanks to a newly opened and first-for-the-area health food restaurant, residents of New York City’s most health-stricken area now have the option of dining on mixed green salads and sugarless organic peanut butter — dishes more traditionally associated with Washington Square Park than Walton Avenue.

Along with Crown Heights in Central Brooklyn, has the highest number of diagnosed AIDS cases and death rates in Brooklyn and New York City.