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Features•Special Reports
Green movement targets low-income communities
Governments across the country promote environmentalism in low-income communities. But many residents say those programs feel distant and irrelevant to their lives.
Special Reports
Long-term unemployed demand benefit extensions
Millions of long-term unemployed Americans are now on the brink of eviction and hunger. Now, many are demanding an extension of unemployment benefits until the end of 2010.
Features•Slideshows
Popular street entertainer copes in color
It's easy to dismiss Gomez as nothing more than a sideshow performer. But there is a method to his madness: Gomez has AIDS, and his colorful persona helps him cope.
Multimedia•Slideshows
A Jersey City cop on the gangs of JC
In this mixed media slideshow, Detective Ben Wilson opens up the streets of Jersey City like never before through the eyes of a police officer.
News
Transgender activists win battle
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 with advocates.
Audio
Bloomberg targets salty diets
As part of his National Salt Reduction Initiative, Bloomberg called for restaurants and food manufacturers to reduce salt content of their food by 25 percent over the next five years.
Audio•Features
Tenant president stands up for residents
Odell Pamias, 67, is the president of the tenant association at Jacob Riis Houses, a public housing development in the East Village that is home to 4,305 residents.
Slideshows
Artistic statues mistaken for suicidal jumpers
“Event Horizons” art exhibit, by British artist Antony Gormley, places life-size statues atop buildings and on ledges — causing some New Yorkers to have 9/11 flashbacks.
Features
Soul-food diseases afflict black community
Cindy Pratt, like 1.3 million other black people, has diabetes. She was raised on soul food and thinks this has had a major effect on her health.
Features
Abused immigrant women use art to help heal
The painting was actually a collage created by 8 women, who used the vibrant colors and figures to express their violent pasts and promising futures.