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No Shelter in Maspeth, Queens
No Shelter in Maspeth, Queens
New York City wants to open 90 new homeless shelters across the city to solve an unprecedented crisis. But if what happened when the city…
Charles Rollet
Jun 18, 2017
Why Chinese people in the U.S. support Donald Trump? (Explainer video)
Why Chinese people in the U.S. support Donald Trump? (Explainer video)
See why Chinese people in the U.S. support Donald Trump in this short video…
Yinan CHE
Dec 18, 2016
Sixty Years of Survival in Greenwich Village
Sixty Years of Survival in Greenwich Village
Jeff Slatnick is the owner of the Music Inn on West 4th in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. First opened in 1958, the store has survived the…
Britt Martin
Dec 18, 2016
A Community, An Organization and A Cause
A Community, An Organization and A Cause
What the Church of St. Thomas More means to Carnegie Hill
Nayla Al-Mamlouk
Dec 18, 2016
After Forest Hills lost its only bookstore
After Forest Hills lost its only bookstore
Three former B&N employees try to open an independent bookshop
Yueqi Yang
Dec 17, 2016
How One Brooklyn Real Estate Developer is Bringing Jobs Back
How One Brooklyn Real Estate Developer is Bringing Jobs Back
In the 1960s, the 16 complexes along the waterfront in Sunset Park, Brooklyn were one of the busiest industrial sections in New York City…
Krystal Hu
Dec 17, 2016
Hero or Villain? Hollywood Has Put Greenpoint Business Owners in Dilemma
Hero or Villain? Hollywood Has Put Greenpoint Business Owners in Di...
Four years ago, if you passed the corner of Franklin St. and Church St. in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, you might have noticed the…
YIFAN YU
Dec 17, 2016
Waiting At the Median Bus Stop, You Wonder When the Next Ride Arrives
Waiting At the Median Bus Stop, You Wonder When the Next Ride Arrives
Another day passed when Gregory Lim spent about 35 minutes on a Q52 bus back to Woodhaven from E train on Woodhaven Boulevard station…
Wolfie Wei Zhao
Dec 17, 2016
One year later, Battery Park City private security reveals local underrepresentation
One year later, Battery Park City private security reveals local un...
It’s one in the afternoon in the center of Manhattan’s Battery Park City, and Moises Morales is patrolling his beat. His job is to keep an…
Mike Juang
Dec 17, 2016
The Caribbean Melting Pot Makes Room for Crown Heights Newcomers
The Caribbean Melting Pot Makes Room for Crown Heights Newcomers
CROWN HEIGHTS—Trinidadian native Kimmey Lexx usually waits until she travels home to eat Caribbean food. But she makes an exception for the…
James Thorne
Dec 17, 2016
Roosevelt Island, on the WIRE of change
Roosevelt Island, on the WIRE of change
Briana Warsing, the new editor-in-chief of Roosevelt Island’s community newspaper, checks apartment prices every day. She’s living what she…
Paula Seligson
Dec 17, 2016
Following a Condemnation Spree, Homeowners Fled Scranton,PA
Following a Condemnation Spree, Homeowners Fled Scranton,PA
Patricia Fowler was a Scranton, PA housing inspector for the city’s Department of Licensing, Inspections and Permits. Her job was to issue…
Jane Yi Zhang
Dec 17, 2016
Why should we care about interest rates?
Why should we care about interest rates?
YIFAN YU
Dec 17, 2016
Nerdonomics: What is the Plowback Ratio?
Nerdonomics: What is the Plowback Ratio?
A common economic concept explained… with droids.
James Thorne
Dec 17, 2016
A New Yorker’s Guide To Life In Canada
A New Yorker’s Guide To Life In Canada
As a Canadian who experienced the 2016 Presidential Election in very-blue New York City, I have been asked repeatedly by New Yorkers about…
Britt Martin
Dec 17, 2016
Struggling to Breathe in Asthma Alley
Struggling to Breathe in Asthma Alley
The South Bronx is trying to fight back against a long-running asthma epidemic, despite fears that a new trucking facility will make things…
Charles Rollet
Dec 16, 2016
Contently Squares Up Against the Publishers
Contently Squares Up Against the Publishers
As the content marketing space fills up, old friends turn foes
James Thorne
Dec 13, 2016
How To Get Money Out of China
How To Get Money Out of China
As RMB depreciates and the government tightens capital controls, Chinese citizens find out creative workarounds
Yueqi Yang
Dec 13, 2016
What is the .io domain, anyways?
What is the .io domain, anyways?
Wolfie Wei Zhao
Dec 12, 2016
Minimum Wage Misunderstood
Minimum Wage Misunderstood
Minimum wage is hurting low-skilled workers instead of helping them. Here is why.
Jane Yi Zhang
Dec 12, 2016
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