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Garment District in Peril: The Fashion Crisis Killing Small Businesses

A narrow garment shop bursts with rows of tie-dyed, African textiles and colorful Caribbean prints. A couple blocks down, a […]

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Is New York Comic Con only for “White Suburban Kids”? Inside the Nation’s Largest Convention Ahead of the NYC Mayoral Election

Spider-Man, Batman, and Deadpool share a cigarette together in Midtown. Supposedly off-duty heroes, they greet Chainsaw Man and Chun-Li passing […]

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Policy vs. image: What’s motivating Bronx residents to vote for their next mayor?

Hour after hour, door after door, rejection after rejection, Maxwell Dickinson—a field lead for Zohran Mamdani’s Bronx field team—spent four […]

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A divided Brooklyn: Gentrification’s grip on the Mayoral race

Walk up the stairs of the Bedford Avenue exit in the Williamsburg L train station, and you’ll see the words […]

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200 years later: The Black neighborhood destroyed to create Central Park

Central Park was home to shoeshiners, farmers and churches two centuries ago.  The now-famous park is on land where neighborhoods […]

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Copy, Cut, Conservative: Inside the surge of anti-LGBTQ legislation

A large number of anti-LGBTQ legislations were introduced across states during the past years, as reported by human rights organizations […]

Special Report: North Carolina 2024

Can Trump’s policies help alleviate Robeson County’s substance use disorder crisis?

Alicia Hunt drives her Chevrolet Silverado 300 miles a week catering to clients in Robeson County, North Carolina. She takes […]

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How therapists are helping Americans work through post-election stress

As the dust settles from President Trump’s election and inauguration, Americans’ anxieties are still running high across the country. For […]

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Politics are stressful. Here’s how Americans are being impacted by a second Trump presidency.

The United States is preparing for another four years of President Trump as its leader. Just the thought of the […]

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Is New York’s “City of Yes” initiative a threat to communities?

Paul Graziano, who hails from Flushing, Queens, has lived in the neighborhood all his life. He lives in a low […]