Brooklyn Borough Hall echoed with the festivities of the Haitian Flag Day awards ceremony last Friday. Organized by Councilman Jumaane Williams, the ceremony recognized five Haitian and Haitian-Americans for their contributions to the community. Among the honorees were reporter Alisha Laventure, of News 12 Brooklyn, and NYPD Sgt. Herve Guiteau. Dancing and drumming from an East Flatbush-based [...]

From its inception in 1980, the Paul Robeson Theatre in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, showcased poetry, plays and other works from black artists. But within the last decade,  The Nabe ‘s Gabrielle Alfiero finds, as neigborhood demographics changed, the venue started deteriorating in structure and prominence.

Paul Robeson Theatre at 40 Greene Avenue in Fort Greene, Brooklyn (Photo by Beyond My Ken via [...]

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Fortunata Kasege at home in the Bronx. (Photo by Amy Lieberman via Women’s eNews) Over three years have passed since the United States lifted a 22-year ban on entry into the country for people with HIV. But it has only eased one of the many challenges facing immigrants infected with the virus. Women’s eNews’ Amy [...]

Would you like the program that allows U.S. citizens to apply for green cards for their adult siblings retained? Or would you prefer that the visa quota for highly skilled workers be increased? These are the key questions that concern Chinese Americans watching the immigration reform debate. Some legal experts worry that it is a zero-sum game. [...]

The use of food stamps to buy fresh produce from farmers markets has increased by nearly a third, especially in Latino neighborhoods. (Photo by DumboNYC.com, Flickr Creative Commons License) According to a new report by the organization GrowNYC , the use of food stamps to buy healthy food has risen considerably in New York City, especially in neighborhoods [...]

Not even John Liu, the only Asian running for mayor, emerged unscathed after showing up half an hour late. (Photo by Edward Charrette via The FilAm) Around 50 Asian-American groups had high hopes for “Growing Numbers, Growing Impact: Mayoral Candidates Forum on Asian Pacific Americans,” but out of the seven mayoral hopefuls who confirmed attendance, [...]

The early-morning Saturday murder of Mark Carson in Greenwich Village by alleged suspect Elliot Morales has shocked and appalled New Yorkers, over a thousand of whom  marched through the neighborhood on Monday speaking out against hate and violence. Coverage in the ethnic and community press includes a story in El Diario-La Prensa by Gloria Medina, translated below, who interviewed members [...]

This year’s municipal elections are full of diversity, from the race for mayor to the race for City Council. One of the most striking aspects about the Democratic Latino candidates is that some of them aren’t even 30. Ritchie Torres, at only 24 years of age, is looking to become councilman for District 15 in the [...]

Two of the 49 charter schools in Brooklyn have dual-language immersion programs but neither teaches a second language that is among the seven most frequently-spoken in the borough, reports The Brooklyn Ink’s Ellie Ismailidou as part of the series ” Growing Up in Brooklyn .” Ismailidou  profiles both charter schools , the Hebrew Language Academy (HLA), which teaches its curriculum in both English and Hebrew, [...]

El Diario-La Prensa reports in two separate articles translated below on efforts at the state and municipal levels to issue IDs for undocumented immigrants.  Public Advocate Bill de Blasio introduced a proposal that would issue a city ID for undocumented immigrants. (Photo by Latima Stephens/CUNY Photo Wire) Public Advocate and mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio introduced a [...]

The New York Irish Center at 1040 Jackson Ave. in Long Island City, Queens, provides a community space, originally founded for Irish immigrants who arrived in the pre-millennial decades, reports Irish Echo’s Peter McDermott . Many of its patrons today are New Yorkers over 65. According to the head of the organization, Paul Finnegan of Galway City in [...]

Immigrant workers toil for low wages and under tough conditions at restaurants across the city. (Photo by Vincent Desjardins via Flickr Creative Commons License) The many restaurants that feed the appetites of New Yorkers, from the corner eatery to the high-end celebrity chef businesses, heavily run off the hands of low-paid servers and those behind [...]

Polish leaders want to make sure there’s a Kosciuszko Bridge for years to come. (Photo via Nowy Dziennik) The Kosciuszko Bridge, which spans over Newtown Creek and links Maspeth, Queens, with Greenpoint, Brooklyn, will be 75 years old next year and is awaiting a thorough rehabilitation. Ahead of the anniversary, the New York Downstate Division of [...]

At the turn of the century, many Arab Americans populated “Little Syria,” an area that encompassed Washington Street in Lower Manhattan from down south, including what would be the World Trade Center decades later. An ongoing downtown exhibit displays pieces and remnants of the neighborhood, reports Terese Loeb Kreuzer for  Downtown Express .

Syrian and Lebanese immigrant children [...]

The upcoming reality show “Princesses Long Island” is raising concerns that it “will give the already-offensive term Jewish American Princess a bad name.” (Photo from Bravo’s promo video)

Could it get any worse?

When it comes to Bravo’s new reality show, “Princesses Long Island,” debuting on June 2, Debra Nussbaum Cohen doesn’t seem to think so. With that [...]

Fidel Feliciano dances with his caregiver Vernetta Darby of Throgs Neck Extended Care Facility. (Photo by José Acosta via El Diario-La Prensa) Of the 312 million U.S. residents, it is estimated that around 70,000 are 100- years-old or older. Fidel Feliciano from Puerto Rico is one of them. Feliciano was recognized for reaching the ripe old age of [...]

State Sen. José Peralta said that he is not under investigation and that nothing inappropriate occurred in his conversations with disgraced former state Sen. Shirley Huntley. (Photo by Humberto Arellano via El Diario-La Prensa) State Sen. José Peralta emphatically stated that he hasn’t done anything wrong, he isn’t under investigation, and he will march ahead in [...]

From left to right, Abby Brown Scheier, Rachel Kohl Finegold and Ruth Balinsky Friedman, have graduated as Orthodox clergy from Yeshivat Maharat, a milestone for the school and its dean, Sara Hurwitz (second from left) but not for the Rabbinical Council of America. (Photo from Yeshivat Maharat via Jewish Daily Forward) Yeshivat Maharat, located in Riverdale in the Bronx, [...]

The city’s annual Turkish Parade is reinventing itself to stand out among so many other marches clogging city streets during the warm months,  reports Cemil Ozyurt in Turk of America .

Every other weekend some ethnic communities march on the streets of Gotham City and only a few them get attention from national press, such as the Irish, Israeli, [...]