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Audio•Business
Lower East Side slowly losing its charm
Now more than ever, store owners and residents in the Lower East Side fear growing numbers of affluent middle-class transplants are threatening the area’s unique character.
Audio•Features
Chess pro challenges willing opponents
Sweet Pea fell into the chess profession during the '60s when he couldn’t find a job. He’d wander around the city’s chess shops, looking for a way to occupy his time.
Features•Multimedia•Slideshows
Haiti Earthquake: Benefit concert promotes hope
While some chose to send money or texts to contribute, Save the Children thought of a different way: host a star-studded benefit concert.
Multimedia•News•Special Reports•Video
Haiti Earthquake: A Haitian church mobilizes
Some community-based organizations in New York City are sending independent convoys to scout for family members.
Audio•Multimedia•Special Reports
Haiti Earthquake: Worry triggers involvement
When the Louis family learned their Haitian relatives home collapsed on top of them, they took action.
Slideshows•Special Reports
Haiti Earthquake: ‘I lost my family’
After recently losing his wife to diabetes, Gaspard Lynch lost his family and business in the Haiti earthquake.
Features•Multimedia
Homeless enclave hides along Jersey cliff
Carmen Maysonet won her slice of the skyline the hard way. She became homeless for the first time a year ago, and she now resides among a hidden community of cliff dwellers on land bordering Jersey City, Union City and Hoboken.
Multimedia•Video
Yorkville pantry helps hungry New Yorkers
As many New York families prepare to celebrate the holiday season, a stagnant national economy means less money to put food on the table. In New York City alone, the jobless rate has hit 10 percent.
Audio•Multimedia•News
Educators reach out to children of all abilities
Three women started their own independent school, named The Ideal School. Dedicated to creating an inclusive learning environment, co-founders worked with education experts to balance the needs of all children.
News•Video
Homeless Iraq War vet begs for change on subway
There are more than 200,000 veterans living on streets and in shelters across the country. Many of those veterans also suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a mental illness that affects people exposed to extreme violence.