Monthly Archives: June 2026
In Little Haiti, a hot home team cools ICE tensions
By David Bien-Aime Kompa, a signature music of Haiti, flows through open car windows. Shoppers chat in Haitian Creole at the corner store checkout. The scent of garlic and onions in various dishes of diri — Creole for rice — floats out of restaurants. Those are among the signs of renewed activity in Brooklyn’s Little […]
Nintendo fans who hold the game in their hands
By: Kailen Hicks Some in the corner-to-corner line stretching along Rockefeller Street had waited as long as five hours to get access to this year’s Nintendo Direct watch-party, the company’s livestream of its most anticipated new game series. The fanatics in that line who were lucky enough to get inside game-maker Nintendo’s flagship store in […]
Cold water, rats — and a record fine for a rogue landlord
By Zendo Rouson Cold water, rats and broken elevators are on a longer list of problems that, for years, have plagued the residents of Robert Fulton Terrace and Fordham Towers in the Bronx. “My son is in a wheelchair; he cannot get up and down [the stairs]” said longtime Robert Fulton resident Jennifer Sledge, when […]
Finding community and calm on regional hiking trails
By Jalen Long In a city known for its crowded streets, packed subway cars and nonstop pace, one hiking club is helping New Yorkers slow down and reconnect with nature and each other. What began as a small getaway among friends has grown into a thriving outdoor community. Founded in 2024, the Down to Earth […]
Ex-boxer aids residents of his boyhood, Brooklyn neighborhood
By Jaxon Gay Before Shannon Briggs was “The Cannon,” a World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion, he was just a kid growing up in the 1980s and ‘90s in a rough, tough Brownsville, Brooklyn neighborhood. He’d never met his father. Before a heroin addiction derailed his mother’s life, she had enrolled him in private school. To […]
‘Griot Circle’ is a haven for Black LGBTQ elders
By Justus Wilhoit The night they met in 2005, Regina Shavers offered Sandie Green an opportunity. Green, queer and Black like Shavers, immediately agreed to volunteer — on a full-time basis — to organize what now is a 30-year-old center reserved for LGBTQ people who look like them. “It’s very hard when it comes to […]
Training young adults with autism to bake
By Ehvan Fennell Parents Nigel Thompson and Qiana Daniels have had some challenges in navigating the world of needs facing their son, who is moderately autistic. Especially when he was younger, they had to make sure he had such essential things as speech therapy, physical therapy and occupational therapy. But there was more. “What would […]
Food, fellowship and Black male mental health
By Robert Doyle They dub their monthly potluck “The Medicine.” On Father’s Day, they provide free acupuncture and haircuts. They do sound baths for those interested in it. They provide supplies for fathers and their children to do arts and crafts together. Because of what they offer, they named their organization Men at Work Healing. […]
Harlem steakhouse’s future rests on three feet of space
By: Samuel Geronimo After 22 years of doing business in the same Second Avenue location, Casa Ricardo sat three feet from trouble — until its customers and a state legislator stepped in. Also known as the Harlem Steakhouse, the restaurant is 197 feet, instead of the legally required 200 feet, from the Kingdom Hall Jehovah’s […]
At the Schomburg, 100 years of diasporic study and archiving
By Kordell Martin Kevin Matthews was pondering these times as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture approached its 100th anniversary festival saluting that world-class library. “We haven’t lost anything,” said the center’s deputy director, about being among Black institutions from which the Trump White House has blocked federal funding. Some people say we […]