Video: The Last Pickle on Essex Street
By Trevor Anderson and Patrick McGovern Once home to a bustling number of pickle stores, the Lower East Side’s Essex Street now only has one left: The Pickle Guys. For over twenty years, owner Alan...
View ArticleVideo: The Boxing Girl
by Rishi Iyengar, Joanna Plucinska, Marion Halftermeyer Selena Lauth started boxing when she was five. As one of only two girls who trains at the Willis Avenue Boxing Gym in the Bronx, she is used to...
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Multimedia: Battling Isolation With Music
Joseph Morag and Ian Niederhoffer, both 17, have been playing together since they were 3 years-old. Here they play at Dr. Avodah Offit’s home on the behalf of Concerts in Motion, a nonprofit that...
View ArticleVideo: The Holocaust Rescuers
by Annie Wu, Steven Rosenbaum, and Sandhya Subbarao One of many stories out of the Holocaust is that of the Jewish prisoners who managed to escape, and of the brave people who helped them reach...
View ArticleVIDEO: One Feast, Many Faiths
by Asha Mahadevan Christians, Muslims and Jews gathered together at Park Avenue Christian Church for an Interfaith Peace Seder on the third night of Passover. The seder, organized by the Interfaith...
View ArticleVIDEO: Don’t Replace, Repair
By Sybile Penhirin Americans represent 5 percent of the world’s population, but they represent 30 percent of the world’s garbage, according to a recent Recycling Coalition Of Utah survey. In Brooklyn,...
View ArticleVIDEO: A Second Chance
By Sybile Penhirin After being an English teacher for three years at Rikers Island East River Academy High School, Jordyn Lexton came to a grim assessment. “Way too many of my students, who were full...
View ArticleThe League of Kitchens
by Younjoo Sang Did you ever want to learn cooking with your mother or aunt or grandmother? The League of Kitchens is a cooking class that started from that idea, and participants can learn different...
View ArticleStruggling For A Chance To Help Others In Need
by Annie Wu Melanie Cintron, 29, returned to school in Jan. 2013 to finish her bachelor’s degree and hopefully launch her dream career in nonprofit work. She was attending school full time while...
View ArticleA New York City Winter on Wheels
by Justine Calma The Center for Independence of the Disabled, an advocacy group in New York City, filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city last July to make sidewalks safer and more accessible for...
View ArticleNeon Novices Learn from a Master
Working in the Neon from Jessica Cartwright on Vimeo. Neon glasswork will never be mainstream, but one man in Brooklyn believes the handcrafted technique is what makes it so special. The majority of...
View ArticleThe Art of Making Dominican Chocolate
Damion Badalamenti, chocolate maker at Kah Kow U.S.A. the first Dominican chocolate factory in New York City, explains what makes Dominican chocolate unique. The Rizek Cacao company is a family-owned...
View ArticleOn the Frontlines of a Pandemic
By Chris Howell and Carson Kessler Coronavirus infection numbers continue to rise rapidly in New York City, intensifying the debate over who can get—and cannot–be tested for the potentially deadly...
View ArticleOn the Frontlines: Feeding a Community in Crisis
When La Jornada, a food pantry, opened its new location at the James A. Bland houses in Flushing in mid-March, it was tasked with aiding several hundred seniors in the neighborhood. But days after...
View ArticleVIDEO: One Feast, Many Faiths
by Asha Mahadevan Christians, Muslims and Jews gathered together at Park Avenue Christian Church for an Interfaith Peace Seder on the third night of Passover. The seder, organized by the Interfaith...
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