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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.
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.
From parking lot to playground, a Bronx school transformed
16. October 2009
By Alexandra Waldhorn
New research from a February 2009 report published in the journal Pediatrics found that having a daily recess period of just fifteen minutes or more improves teacher’s ratings of classroom behavior. Yet in New York City, where 43 percent of schoolchildren are overweight or obese, there are 118 elementary schools without playground access, affecting about 100,000 children citywide.
Finding Melissa: the 170th kid
5. October 2009
By Alexandra Waldhorn
Danny Goldfield, a Brooklyn-based photographer is on a quest to photograph a child under the age of 12 from every country in the world who lives in New York City. He has since gone on a local trip around the globe for his project, NYChildren.
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21. December 2009
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