All around the small office, boxes were piled high with canned goods and toiletries. There would have been more than enough food to feed the small crowd gathering outside, dancing to the live music and chattering in both Spanish and English. …
When Ron Callahan started teaching local kids to code four years ago, he did it from his basement in Jackson Heights. Now, he does it from a local preschool, the walls dotted with finger paintings and posters promoting diversity. The kids line up at computers in the middle of the…
Sitting by the register in Jackson Height’s Lety Bakery and Cafe, a small, sparingly decorated cafe that smells like cupcakes and coffee, four men plan the future of New York’s 14th congressional district.
The men are volunteers, organizing events for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional campaign. Ocasio is a member of Brand…
In Brooklyn Heights, children see a pair of swastikas spray painted on a playground. In Greenwich Village, a Jewish resident finds an anti-semitic pamphlet left in their mailbox. In Rochester, visitors find a Jewish cemetery vandalized, tombstones knocked to the ground. …
