Time for a Raise?: Inside the Fight for 15
The kind of day Kasseen Silver has at work often depends on the weather. He’s worked at the Burger King on 116th Street (at Lexington Avenue) in Manhattan for two…
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May 15, 2013Time for a Raise?: Inside the Fight for ...
The kind of day Kasseen Silver has at work often depends on the weather. He’s worked at the Burger King on 116th Street (at Lexington Avenue) in Man... -
May 14, 2013Student Privacy For Sale to Highest Bidd...
How safe is the personal information of public school students? This is a question that parents are starting to ask themselves. We teach them to keep ... -
May 13, 2013Queens Residents, Developers Battle over...
Since 2008, after Major League Soccer (MLS) lost their bid to build a soccer stadium at Pier 40 in the West Village they’ve been determined to build... -
May 2, 2013Stop-and-Frisk as a Policy of State Cont...
Nicholas Peart doesn’t appear to be a menace to society. Mild-mannered, humble and a little shy, he described his time as a student focusing on libe... -
April 17, 2013Labor Heroes from Queens and Brooklyn
MAY DAY SOLIDARITY: A short list of important union, organized labor and working-class leaders from Queens and Brooklyn. On May 1st, working folks fro...
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Fly on Out, A Gorgeous...
Fly on Out A House of Nod Production Produced by Bennett Elliott Written & Directed by Robert Ko... -
Painting: New York Lig...
Gabriel Vincent Ventura is a Brooklyn-based visual medium artist. Influenced strongly by graffiti an... -
Your Weeked Smile: Kid...
The students of P.S. 31 Samuel F. Dupont School in Greenpoint, Brooklyn got the privilege of learnin... -
Celebrating Black Hist...
There’s tons of ways to celebrate Black History Month in New York City. Check out just some of... -
The BQ Brew: Artisan J...
Starting a media outlet in New York City, the most media-saturated market in the world, has to be on... -
“The Mold”...
Nearly three months after Sandy, many Far Rockaway residents are still fighting to rebuild after the... -
Brooklyn Dog Breaks ou...
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Beach 92nd Street, Far...
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The St. Jacobi Occupy ...
(Photo: Occupy617/CC/Flickr) (11/18/2012) For more information on Occupy Sandy or to Volunteer time ... -
Lefrak City seen from ...
Student Privacy For Sale to Highest Bidder?
How safe is the personal information of public school students? This is a question that parents are starting to ask themselves. We teach them to keep their personal information as…
Queens Residents, Developers Battle over Iconic FMCP: Who’s Land is it Anyway?
Since 2008, after Major League Soccer (MLS) lost their bid to build a soccer stadium at Pier 40 in the West Village they’ve been determined to build one in the…
Stop-and-Frisk as a Policy of State Control Over Blacks and Latinos
Nicholas Peart doesn’t appear to be a menace to society. Mild-mannered, humble and a little shy, he described his time as a student focusing on liberal arts at a Manhattan…
Labor Heroes from Queens and Brooklyn
MAY DAY SOLIDARITY: A short list of important union, organized labor and working-class leaders from Queens and Brooklyn. On May 1st, working folks from around the world will celebrate their…
Why is rent in NYC so Expensive?
“Since 1997, more than 100,000 apartments have been deregulated, at least one-tenth of the city’s rent-regulated stock.” If there’s one thing New Yorkers complain about more than the weather, it’s…
Rent Control—What It Means
How much rent you pay and your other rights as a tenant are governed—or not—by a complicated system of regulations. Rent control permits increases of up to 7.5 percent a…
NY’s Stop-and-Frisk Election
“Young black and Latino men accounted for 41.6% of stops, but they are only 4.7% of NYC’s total population“ Last month, on March 14th 2013, the New York Police Department…
The Corporations Colonizing our Public Schools
In an era of corporate aggression into the public sphere, not even the classroom is safe. As the corporate reach extends into public schools, our kids are increasingly reshaped as…
Occupy Sandy: Building Community and Worker Power in Far Rockaway
“When the workers get together and decide how to distribute the income in such an enterprise, would they give the CEO $25 million in stock bonuses while everybody else can…
