With unemployment at its peak, and against the backdrop of the sweltering sun, the word on the streets of Jersey City is that this is going to be a “long, hot summer.” In the ghetto, that is an omen for untold gang violence — the gravest omen in years, advocates said. “People are hot, miserable,...

The transgender community won a small triumph this week in a larger battle to gain fairer media coverage, activists said. The Jersey Journal, a Jersey City-based tabloid, yanked an article about a transgender woman from West New York, from its Website earlier this week after a two-month-long battle...

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Alexandra Sauceo, 12, from the group Youth Action Changes Things, listens intently to a Census outreach seminar for Mexican-American students. Photo by Darren Tobia To his peers, Oscar Zempoaltecatl, 15, is considered a pretty normal kid — perhaps a bit of a jokester. But to his community leaders...

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Jaclyn Cherubini is the executive director of the Hoboken Shelter. Photo by Darren Tobia Jaclyn Cherubini is not being evasive when she tells reporters that she doesn’t know who the “new homeless” are.  She hates the term.  For one, it’s presumptuous. “I don’t know what your question is....

Journalist Andrew LeRay and Michael Njokuobi, right, a cadet at West Point Military Academy, work together on a simulated wartime exercise. Photo by Yvonne Latty WEST POINT, N.Y. — There’s one question no cadet escapes, according to Michael Njokuobi, a senior at West Point Military Academy. “Unless...

In Spanish Harlem, friends and family root for Emigdin Flores, 18, and his local youth running club, Rabbits USA. Photo by Darren Tobia In Spanish Harlem, the largest cheering section at Sunday’s New York City Marathon wasn’t for any major international player: It was for a local youth running club, including...

If you couldn’t already tell from all the campaign stickers and signs they were lugging down Fulton Street, Sharon Brown and Betty Gray are voting for John Liu as comptroller in Tuesday’s primary run-off. They support Liu because they think his background in finance and public service would suit...