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Filling the pantries, New York City’s hungry children
By Alexandra Waldhorn
Over the past year, lines at many of the city’s 1,000 emergency food organizations have gotten longer, and many of the people are younger as the recession’s crippling effects continue. A new report by the New York City Coalition Against Hunger (NYCCAH) found that there has been a 21 percent spike in the number of people who depend on emergency food since the beginning of 2009.
Religious leaders work for immigration reform
17. December 2009
By Jeremy B. White
Bishop Orlando Findlayter sees his Brooklyn church as more than a place of worship. In 2001, he launched a coalition of Caribbean clergy to advocate for congregants that had been affected in the September 11, 2001 attacks. This summer, he focused on immigration reform.
Beekeepers and non-profit push to legalize beehives
14. December 2009
By Wadzanai Mhute
Since December 2008, the New York City Beekeepers Association, working with Just Food, a non-profit organization that connects local farms to neighborhoods and communities, petitioned City Council for an amendment of the law to exempt bees. So far 3,358 people signed the petition.
Hundreds protest 9/11 trials in Lower Manhattan
14. December 2009
By Amy Brittain
Hundreds brought signs and their loud voices to protest the Obama administration’s plans to carry out civilian trials in Lower Manhattan for the five alleged co-conspirators of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Students show support for Iran’s Student Day in New York.
8. December 2009
By Paulina Villegas
A group of Iranian students at Columbia and New York universities protested yesterday, along with their fellow students in Iran, in celebration of its National Student Day, also known as 16 Azar in the Persian calendar.
American fashion designers’ innovation, craftsmanship displayed in new exhibit
3. December 2009
By Amy Brittain
“American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion” opened in early November at the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology in Chelsea. Curator Patricia Mears picked 90 dresses to illustrate the relationship between hands-on craftsmanship and the ideals of beauty in America – a departure from a common idea that U.S. fashion is simply a collection of concepts from abroad.
Keeping the Fulton Fish Market spirit, not smell, alive
25. November 2009
By Spencer Bailey
For artist Naima Rauam, the Fulton Fish Market no longer resembles the place, full of fishy fragrances, she found 40-some years ago. In 2005, the market moved to Hunts Point, in the Bronx, after decades of development, mostly facilitated by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s investment in the seaport area. Last Sunday, Rauam presented the fourth annual Fulton Fish Market Day, featuring an exhibit of her sketches, drawings and paintings and a panel of local historians.
Transit museum is a ride down memory lane
20. November 2009
By Ruth Schneider
The museum store, tucked in the back of the Metro-North terminal at Grand Central, attracts its fair share of people who revel in mass transit nostalgia. But it also attracts little boys who pore over bins of track pieces, trying to construct the tracks of their dreams. And tourists who enjoy the novelty of the city’s transportation infrastructure.
A Times Square-lit vigil for homeless youths
16. November 2009
By Lynsey Chutel
For 30 minutes on a chilly evening last week, the JumboTrons of Time Square beamed the images and stories of some of America’s homeless children taken in by Covenant House. Below the bright light of the screens, Covenant House held a vigil to raise awareness of the plight of more than a million homeless young people across the country.
Video: The next frontier of NYC Web innovation
10. November 2009
By Alex Hotz and Radhika Marya
It’s no secret that Americans love TV. Although the vast majority of viewers (99 percent) still watch shows on a television set, it’s clear that at least some couch potatoes are moving online. Today approximately 131 million Americans watch about three hours of online TV every month, according to a study by two industry research agencies.
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