In the past year, Elsa Martinez has seen utility bills from New York energy monopoly Con Edison soar to as much as $300 per month. The costs seemed inexplicable to Martinez, a disabled Harlem resident ...

In her acceptance speech on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Kamala Harris promised new investments in the care economy, support for workers rights, reproductive ...

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew won't do what it takes to improve a contract that denies some workers parity pay, writes this union member. OT/PTs have similar and sometimes ...

On a quiet side street two blocks from a J train subway station in the heart of Bushwick, around 500 immigrants live on Stockton Street in a “respite center,” a low-budget version of a homeless ...

What is known today as Atlanta used to be a thriving trade hub for Native Americans. In 1821, the federal government began to force the Muscogee tribe out of what Atlantans now call the South River ...

They are working to transform two city-owned parking lots into affordable housing that will be built on land that cannot be resold for profit. Katie Pruden Oct 21, 2022 Tito Delgado, 71, has lived in ...

The 4,500 tenants at NYCHA's Fulton and Chelsea-Elliott Houses face the recent announcement that their buildings will be demolished and rebuilt by The Related Companies and Essence Realty. Elsie ...

On a clear day, looking out over the sloshing blue-gray swell of Gowanus Bay from Sunset Park’s waterfront, you can see the Manhattan skyline. Pivot slightly and you’ll find eight nearly identical ...

In its three reports on the exonerations, the CRU did not mention Hale. Nor did the unit identify Lori Grifa and Joe Alexis, the ADAs that handled the Irons trial, or Jonathan Frank, who joined his ...

The influential rabbi and publisher of Tikkun magazine urged Jews to reconnect with their spiritual traditions while he resoundingly supported Palestinian self-determination. Judith Mahoney Pasternak ...

A true classic of the genre, Harlan County, USA should be required viewing for every progressive and union-lover. This documentary (director Barbara Kopple’s first feature) chronicles the Brookside ...