By Gregg McQueen When New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a new initiative to provide free doula services to pregnant women, many providers viewed it as a landmark opportunity to improve birth outcomes in the city’s most vulnerable…
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By Gregg McQueen Yes to the union. Graduate student workers at Fordham University have successfully voted to unionize during an official National Labor Relations Board election held on April 7. At an election held on the Fordham’s Rose Hill…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Uptown Collective (@uptowncollectiv) “Long overdue.” Juneteenth will become a paid holiday for New York City workers starting this year, announced Mayor Eric Adams, who noted that it was “long overdue.”…
By Sherry Mazzocchi Painter Valeri Larko extracts pristine beauty from urban landscapes. “I see beauty in things that other people might overlook,” she said. Larko paints en plein air, which means she works outside, on location, to capture the Bronx’s…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by The New York Times (@nytimes) Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura penned a heart-breaking piece in The NY Times on how last week’s fire in the Bronx devastated the tight knit Gambian community.…
The following are the names of the 17 casualties, listed from the youngest, a two-year-old to the oldest, age 50. Ousmane Konteh, age 2, male Fatoumata Dukureh, age 5, female Omar Jambay, age 6, male Haouwa Mahamdou, age 5, female…
By Gregg McQueen When Abibou Sawadogo opened her apartment door, all she saw was black. Stirred on Sunday morning by a fire alarm, the Twin Parks North West resident unlocked the door to her 18th floor unit to gauge the situation.…
By Gregg McQueen Not on his watch. New Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg does not plan to prosecute offenses like transit fare evasion, prostitution and marijuana misdemeanors. In a memo sent to staff members on January 3, Bragg outlined…
Results yield rewards. New York City has received a $20.5 million federal grant to support ongoing work by Cure Violence providers as part of the city’s Crisis Management System (CMS) network – chosen from a pool of 36 government…
By Gregg McQueen It’s a first for foster students. The New York City Department of Education (DOE) is set to create its first-ever division of staffers devoted to serving the needs of students in foster care. The DOE is…