I’ve grown quite fond of this picture as it shows me about as happy as I’ve ever been in my life, in spite of all we were dealing with at the time, including the poverty typical of bands like ours.Such was “stage craft” in prehistoric times. Fast forward to January 20th, 2010...
Writer/director Matteo Garrone and his co-writers, Massimo Ceccherini, Massimo Gaudioso and Andrea Tagliaferri introduce Seydou and Moussa as they live in poverty in Senegal while dreaming of fleeing abroad. Their wish comes true when they save enough money to make the arduous voyage from Senega...
Advertisement: It’s sad but true: Certain things in our nation's greatest city never change. There’s scarcity and poverty, right up against a mind-blowing concentration of wealth. Foreign oligarchs own luxury penthouses they never visit, while the working homeless sleep wherever they can....
NYC Mayor Eric Adams discusses the latest details in the NYPD's search for the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a new proposal to end income tax for those at or below the poverty level and his plans to meet with incoming border czar
help more New Yorkers afford public transit by again increasing funding and expanding eligibility for Fair Fares to 145 percent of the federal poverty level, and connect more of our neighbors in need to the housing they deserve by prioritizing the creation of affordable housing. We...
If New York now is a place of wealth and insane living costs, and New York of the 70s and 80s was a place of poverty and decrepitude, then the New York of the 90s was undergoing a time of economic transition between those two times. You see that in the arrival of bougie things ...
About Street Soccer:By offering grassroots soccer programs, SSUSA provides an inclusive alternative to the traditional pay-to-play model, reaching the 11 million youth living at or below the poverty line. For over a decade, UNIQLO USA has been a proud partner of SSUSA, supporting these initiativ...
Washington Heights' poverty level is above the city average, and the study says it has "the highest per capita levels of subway pollutant commuting exposure." The top four highest polluted subway stations, according to the study, had trains going Bronx-bound. They include: 181st Street, 168th...
In a statement to FOX 5 NY, the DOT says they've seen the greatest decreases in pedestrian fatalities both in neighborhoods with high poverty rates and the highest level of non-white residents. "Since the beginning of Vision Zero back in 2014, NYC DOT has worked to ensure all New ...
Lysandra Agosto’s passion for her work at Children’s Aid comes from her own experiences. Growing up in poverty, her grandmother encouraged her to make the most of her classes in high school and college – a focus that made a huge difference in her life. ...