A Mom Battles for Her Special Needs Child
By Carson Kessler and Currie Engel A Mom Battles for Her Special Needs Child from NYCityLens on Vimeo. For one mother, finding her child a place in a special needs classroom was an uphill battle. Read...
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Nurses Union Sues Two Hospitals and New York Health Department
April 6, 2020. Nurses protest lack of protective equipment for working with COVID-19 patients in front of Harlem Hospital. © 2020 Thomson Reuters The New York State Nurses Association, the state’s...
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How the Bronx is Fighting Food Insecurity During a Pandemic
One of few local Bronx stands selling fresh produce, on Third Ave in the South Bronx (Photo by Paroma Soni for NYCityLens) Emerging from a small bodega off Concord Ave in the Bronx, Janet Clark, 53,...
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Garbage Mountains are Driving Some Bronx Residents Crazy
Updated, 1 p.m. Feb 23. Residents at Soundview Houses, a housing project of New York City Housing Authority in Soundview, Bronx, have been overwhelmed, they say, by piles of street-side garbage bags...
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Teen Artists Explore What “Home” Means
Artwork by Jamel Shabazz in the ‘What We Call Home’ exhibit at the Bronx Museum. (Photograph by Paroma Soni for NY City Lens) The COVID-19 pandemic has been relentless and deadly, but for a group of...
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Lawmakers and Advocates Push Bill to Protect Small Businesses From Unfair...
Lawmakers, activists, and business owners gathered in front of a Bronx grocery store on February 23rd to call for the passage of the 21st Century Antitrust Act, an anti-monopoly bill that would allow...
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Dedicated Trans Shelters Are Coming to NYC
What will it take to make them succeed? Late last year, the city reached a legal settlement that requires it to create new, dedicated shelter facilities for unhoused trans New Yorkers. By the end of...
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Ocasio-Cortez Faces Constituent Questions About Policy Priorities at Town...
Some residents of New York’s 14th congressional district say immigration and police brutality are more pressing concerns than climate change. Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, speaking at a town...
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Twin Parks Apartment Fire Is Revisited at U.S. House Committee Hearing in Bronx
The panel heard testimony about the Jan. 9 blaze that killed 17 residents as it seeks to improve fire safety in federally assisted housing Sandra Clayton, a 26-year resident of the Twin Parks North...
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Hunts Point Produce Market to Get $100 Million Makeover to Lose Its...
The mayor’s plan would also spend $40 million to revitalize the surrounding South Bronx neighborhood By Juliette Gaudamer and Evelyn Nam The 105-acre Hunts Point Produce Market, the largest facility...
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