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 […]
Grinding away at being a New York artist
By Chijoke Onyeagucha Moving to New York City in November 2025, Donovan Banmalley had no job lined up and no place to stay. Six months later, Banmalley’s work was hanging in Salmangundi Club, which calls itself the oldest organization of its kind in New York City, exhibiting the works of Norman Rockwell, Thomas Moran, William […]
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 […]
Librarian organizes unionists against ICE
By Kwadjo Otoo Librarian Karl Schwartz first visited the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in 2017, before national news headlines captured ICE officers and anti-ICE protesters in a kind of combat, replete with billy clubs and tear gas. “It’s kind of this dystopian atmosphere … I’ve heard others refer to it as a sacrifice zone,” […]
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 […]
Recent grads join freelance journalist ranks
By Mitchell Brown When her advisors warned Jade Bramwell that she may face some employment struggles after college, she wasn’t worried. A year later, that changed. “The job I really wanted rejected me after I’d been interviewing with them for about two months,” 2025 Pennsylvania State University graduate Bramwell said of a digital news fellowship. […]