Ensuring Eco-Friendly Biz in South Bronx
Kellie Terry, executive director at The Point CDC, speaks at a forum at Hostos Community College on March 18, about the need for environmentally-friendly businesses. (Photo by Annamarya Scaccia via The...
View ArticleSome Businesses Settle Willets Point Suit
A business at Willets Point (Photo by d.aniela, Creative commons license) Sunrise Cooperative, a group of 48 auto shop businesses that faced eviction from the Willets Point site in Queens slated for...
View ArticleChecking the Soil for Lead in Red Hook
Frisbee playing at the Red Hook ball fields (Photo by Robyn Lee, Creative Commons license) Some time this month the Environmental Protection Agency is due to report its findings regarding lead...
View ArticleDefending Staten Island Against Future Storms
A street scene on Staten Island Oct. 30 after Hurricane Sandy hit (Photo by Rob Gross, Creative Commons license) Staten Island, battered during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, is in a “race against time” to...
View ArticleIndependent Sources: Earth Day Special
This special Earth Day edition of CUNY TV’s Independent Sources explores a number of inequities around Earth Day. First, Sarah Pizon speaks with Mychal Johnson, co-founder of South Bronx Unite, on the...
View ArticleSection of Rebuilt Rockaways Boardwalk Opens
The Rockaway Boardwalk (Photo by Nick Normal, Creative commons license) The full $480 million allocated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the rebuilding of the Rockaway boardwalk, much of...
View ArticleEnvironmental Groups File Lawsuit Against NYCHA
The shortage of recycling services at Betances Houses in Mott Haven is described in the lawsuit as “bins are too small and there are no signs indicating residents can toss their recycling there.”...
View ArticleDoes Wood a Sturdier Boardwalk Make?
Rob Burstein protesting the replacement of the Coney Island boardwalk planks with concrete. (Photo by Elizabeth Graham via The Brooklyn Paper) While the boardwalk at Coney Island is slowly being...
View ArticleWill Korean Seniors in NJ Get Their Garden Back?
(Photo via The Korea Times) One week after Bergen County officials shut down a community garden that 20 Korean seniors had cultivated in Overpeck County Park, the controversy continues, with the...
View ArticleCommunity Gardens: A Puerto Rican Legacy
Plaza Cultural, on the Lower East Side, has changed along with the neighborhood’s residents. (Photo by Marcela Alvarez via El Diario) Through the vines, the images of a mother carrying her child, the...
View ArticleSmall Business Not Sold On Foam Ban
(Photo by Gerardo Romo via El Diario) At Casella Bagel Coffee Shop, in Brooklyn, they are getting ready to comply with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s green measure to ban expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam...
View ArticleStonewall: Where It All Began
The Stonewall Inn and the adjoining storefront to its right now enjoy landmark status. (Photo by Andy Humm via Gay City News) On June 26, the Supreme Court of the United States made history by voting...
View ArticleReadying Hunts Point for Auto Shops
Pedro Estevez of the United Auto Merchants Association addressing fellow auto workers at a July 9 meeting on Jerome Ave. (Photo by Cole Rosengren via Hunts Point Express) About 45 auto repair...
View ArticleFrom New York to San Juan, with Our Bags Filled
On a highway exit ramp near Cayey. (Photo by Maite Junco) Maite Junco, editor of Voices of NY from 2012-13, recently traveled with her wife Wanda from NYC to Puerto Rico to transport goods to relatives...
View Article‘María Took Everything Except our Hope’
Cristopher Quiñones, his wife Charline Márquez, their children – Krysariel, 14 months, and Krisliany, 5 – and his mother Rosa arrived at the home of his father Raúl Quiñones (in the Yankees’ hat)....
View ArticleSandy, Five Years On
Destruction left behind by Hurricane Sandy. (Photo courtesy of Rockaway Youth Task Force via Amsterdam News) This Sunday, October 29, marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane or Superstorm Sandy, and...
View Article‘Lloro todos los días por Puerto Rico’
Vents sostenidos de 155 mills poor hora caesarean que tuna estación de gasolina casi se derrumbara. (Photo por Vanessa Colón-Almenas para Voices of NY) [Read in English.] Mi agenda de Gmail estaba...
View Article‘I Cry For Puerto Rico Every Day’
Damage at a gas station thanks to 155 mph winds in Caguas. (Photo by Vanessa Colón-Almenas for Voices of NY) [Leer en español.] My gmail schedule was full of college events. After two decades of...
View ArticleBigbelly Garbage Cans Bring New Trouble to Chinatown
Garbage, some of it too big to fit through the opening of the Bigbelly, is left beside the garbage can. (Photo by Jiaying Yan via World Journal) Supported by solar power with high-tech functions, the...
View ArticleAfter Sandy, Resiliency in Red Hook
After Hurricane Sandy, the 15-year-old nonprofit Red Hook Initiative “was the go-to place” for food, water, and making calls, Shaquana Cooke, tells BRIC TV. She’s a facilitator in the organization’s...
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