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School’s Out for Summer? Not Here, Where Kids Keep Late-Night Hours Playing Ball
This story is part of Summer & THE CITY, our weekly newsletter made to help you enjoy — and survive — the hottest time in the five boroughs. Sign up here. On a recent Saturday evening, Jamel Lewis stood in the middle of the gym inside the Eagle Academy for Young Men in Ocean Hill, […]
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Mission to Revive Abandoned Spaces With Art Expands to Public Housing
Usually, a New York City vacant storefront has nothing to offer passersby but the dead and empty husk of what once was an alive and vibrant business. The nonprofit Art on the Ave, however, has taken over some of that barren window space to transform it into elaborate art exhibits for New Yorkers to enjoy. […]
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International Doctors Keep This Brooklyn Hospital Running. Visa Whiplash Has Jeopardized That.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Anastasiia Tsyunchyk was just finishing medical school. After her studies, she held off from starting a residency in favor of sorting medications and acting as a translator — work, she said, that was more valuable at the time, because as a resident in Ukraine she would not have been […]
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Times Square Casino Bid Faces Public Ahead of Key Vote — and It Was ‘Union Against Union’
Will a new Times Square casino bring a lot of new jobs to Midtown, or will it displace existing workers? That debate was front and center as the proposal faced a key public hearing on Wednesday. It was a full house at the Caesars Palace Community Advisory Committee hearing on the east side of Manhattan […]
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At Bronx School for Immigrants, One Teen Fights for an Education Under Trump
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Chalkbeat spent more than six months visiting ELLIS Preparatory Academy during the 2024-25 school year to understand the far-reaching effects of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy on New York City’s students. This is the first of two stories. In the hours […]
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