Immigration Reform: The Phone Call Heard Around the Country
NEW YORK Organizers described them as immigration reform "house parties." Across the country recently, in churches, schools, immigrant…
FDNY, Bldgs. Take Illegal Conversion Battle to the Street
The City is making a new push to curb the number of illegally converted apartments after a series of…
Puerto Ricans in New York Face Persistent Struggles
Puerto Rican leaders have made lots of news this year from Sonia Sotomayor’s rise to the Supreme Court,…
Marshall Urges All Queens Residents To Be Counted In 2010 Census
With an eye toward getting the census count in Queens next year as accurate as possible, Borough President Helen…
STAR OF QUEENS: Sagrario Mendez, Volunteer, Make the Road New York, Rego Park
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Sagrario Mendez volunteers with the organization Make the Road New York (MRNY) located in Corona, which gives…
Policía defiende presencia en escuelas
NUEVA YORK Tras una protesta de estudiantes, padres, profesores y activistas, el Departamento de Policía (NYPD) justificó ayer…
Undocumented Workers Seek Unpaid Wages
A promise of work in exchange for payment is one of the oldest types of contracts in the world…
First Stop, Rikers. Next Stop, Colombia?
Following a wave of activism protesting interrogations of immigrant detainees at Rikers Island, the city Department of Correction has implemented…
Former Employees Jostlin’ Jocelyne Wildenstein for Penny-ante Wages
Me-ee-ow! Millionaire socialite Jocelyne Wildenstein, nicknamed the cat woman because of her serial plastic surgery, stiffed four laborers who…
Cough Up the Sick Days
The City Council is currently considering a bill that would require all employers to provide paid sick leave to…