19 May 2009
Faith in Crown Heights from A E on Vimeo. One kind of storefront dominates Utica Avenue near the 77th precinct in Crown Heights. These “shops” don’t sell anything, but that does not stop scores of people, many of them Caribbean immigrants, from showing up on their doorstep every week. On Sunday mornings, these doors vibrate […]
Posted in Multimedia
14 May 2009
By: Maria Clark and Jessica Wakeman Naseem Qureshi knew that soon after high school she would leave the bustling Brooklyn neighborhood she grew up in to marry a husband chosen for her in her parents’ homeland. She married the Pakistani man her parents selected for her in 1995. “It happened with my sisters, so I […]
Posted in Multimedia
28 April 2009
by Tracy Chimming, Emily Feldman, Joel Schectman, and Tim Persinko WHAT A speeding unmarked police vehicle driving in the wrong lane on 125 Street in Harlem hit a man on a bicycle and then continued driving. The black police sedan appeared to be chasing a man on foot running west on 125 Street toward Adam […]
Posted in Manhattan, Multimedia, Video
26 April 2009
Reported by Sergey Kadinsky, Alana Rigal, Ben Fractenberg Collage by Ben Fractenberg Earth Day 2009. New York’s historic Grand Central Terminal hosted a massive Earth Day Festival, taking up three city blocks and the Vanderbilt Gallery inside. 108 organizations participated in this year’s event. An unseasonably high temperature also ensured a strong turnout on the […]
Posted in Earth Day
26 April 2009
Newsmakers and news-consumers met in Philadelphia on Saturday for BarCamp News Innovation, an “unconference” designed as a platform for people interested in journalism to exchange ideas on how to save the ailing news industry. Newspapers’ woes have worsened recently as the industry tries to adjust to a changing media landscape. Just last week, the New York […]
Posted in Multimedia
26 April 2009
By Maria Clark, John De Petro, Xiomara Martinez-White, and Jessica Wakeman The new hybrid 2010 Honda Insight rivaled the Toyota Prius both in price and efficiency at the 2009 New York International Auto Show. While there was plenty of fanfare surrounding the costly sports cars on display, hundreds of potential buyers chose to make their […]
Posted in Multimedia
25 April 2009
By Amber Benham, Jacqueline Linge and Heather Chin Update (May 11, 2009): Following approval from the New York State Legislature for a $2.26 billion bailout of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the agency’s board voted today to raise subway fares and road tolls by 10 percent instead of the proposed 23 to 30 percent. The commuter […]
Posted in City Proposals, Manhattan, Multimedia, Politics
25 April 2009
By Valerie Lapinski, Colin Orcutt, Maureen Sullivan, Nicole Turso, and Brian Winkowski New York: The New Windy City? City officials on Thursday honored Chelsea Piers, the country’s biggest sports and entertainment complex, for converting to 100% wind power. Chelsea Piers made the switch in October, making it the biggest business in NYC to use wind […]
Posted in Business, Earth Day, Featured, Manhattan, Multimedia
24 April 2009
By Jim Flood, Jessica Simeone, Michael Preston, and Kate Nocera On a beautiful spring day in Manhattan’s East Village, volunteers came out as part of the three-day Green Apple Festival, a yearly Earth Day event that spans 10 U.S. cities. Mike Lytle, the head gardener at Tompkins Square Park, put teams of volunteers to work […]
Posted in Earth Day
23 April 2009
A sell-out crowd of almost 48,000 fans filed into the brand new $1.5 billion Yankee Stadium for Opening Day on April 16. So much for home-field advantage—the Yankees fell to the Cleveland Indians with a humiliating 10-2 loss. But at least they have a home field. The stadium now sits upon the former Macombs Dam […]
Posted in Bronx, City Proposals, Multimedia, Politics, Sports, Video
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