“No-Cost Face Covering Give Away” low on N95 masks amid citywide shortage
By ANNABELLE PAULINO Some New Yorkers will have to wait for shipments of N95 masks to protect them from the Omicron variant. At midday, February …[read more]
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America Needs You, Wants You To Succeed
By GABRIEL SALAS Starting college can be a difficult and intimidating experience for many freshmen. The America Needs You (ANY) organization, with a virtual event …[read more]
Social Justice Organizations Criticize the Mayor’s Blue Print to End Gun Violence
By ANISHA BERMEJO Several prominent social justice organizations agree: New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ “blueprint” to end gun violence is a way to “oversee …[read more]
Amidst Growing Food Insecurity, Volunteers and Donations Are Down in NYC
By SHIRLEY ALVAREZ The numbers of NYC food pantry volunteers declined due to the COVID-19 pandemic, even as food insecurity worsened. Food pantries around New …[read more]
Heather McGhee Explains How Everyone Suffers Because of Racism
By BILLY WOOD “Whites increasingly see racism as a zero-sum game that they are losing,” said Heather McGhee a newly appointed lecturer at The City …[read more]
Witnesses Give MTA Officials an Earful at Public Hearing
By BOBBIE BELL Commuters testifying before Thursday’s MTA public hearing on the bleak budget outlook accused the agency of using the pandemic as an excuse …[read more]
May I Help You? Inside the 311 Call Center
By GINA MARIE GREENWALD Hundreds of cubicles equipped with double Dell computer screens are scattered about New York City’s 311 call center, idling as representatives …[read more]
Small Businesses Get City Help
Lloyd Cambridge and the Queens NYC Business Solutions provide counseling and advice to small businesses. Similar services are available throughout the five boroughs of New York …[read more]
South Bronx Video Game Developers
Some people want to do more than play video games. They want to make them. A few young people in the South Bronx got the …[read more]
Sports Illustrated Models Speak-Out
Sports Illustrated swimsuit models talk about their jobs and plus-size models. Brooklyn College TV/Radio reporters Dominique Rollins and Danielle Brooks talked with the models at …[read more]