New York City (Page 26)
Features•Special Reports
NYC Cold: Bad Weather brings big business to plumbing store
The brutal winter is this shop’s good fortune.
News
Activists: ‘Save your plastic bottles’
Every year, New Yorkers throw away 25,059 tons of recyclable plastic bottles in their household garbage, environmental activists say.
News
Retirement home residents protest wars
Residents of a Manhattan retirement home protested the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on Saturday.
Features
Man comes to terms with AIDS after 27 years
Michael Stone was living with AIDS — and he was trying to kill himself through drug and alcohol abuse. But eventually he realized he had to stop.
Special Reports
Federal funds help with weatherization
President Obama’s stimulus bill allocated $5 billion to provide energy-saving measures specifically to low-income families.
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.
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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.
Features•Video
Homeless find strength in spirituality
Faith in a higher power provides a constant source of strength to countless people living on the streets.
Special Reports
Muslim immigrants struggle with domestic abuse
Mollah was a victim of domestic violence for two decades. As a Muslim immigrant from Indonesia, she knew no one in New York City she could turn to for help.
News
Proposed budget cuts will hurt homeless
More than 39,000 people in New York City seek shelter each day. Officials and advocates claim Paterson’s proposed cuts would drastically reduce aid to the homeless.