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Vishal Persaud
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Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: What the ARC tunnel would have looked like 2 years, 5 months ago · View
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Mohammad Hussain, 64, works seven days a week and lives in a room in a basement apartment in Jamaica, Queens. He spends his mornings as a newspaper vendor and his afternoons as a custodian at a mosque near his apartment. His rent is $325 a month and his food and transportation expenses vary from month [...]
Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: $325 a week; living as a newspaper vendor 2 years, 5 months ago · View
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2000-2008 (data not available for all years) Median Household Income by NYC Community District
*Data compiled from the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy’s annual State of the City’s Housing and Neighborhoods reports. The federal and New York State minimum wage: $7.25 per hour New York City averages from the 2009 Furman Center for Real Estate and [...]
Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: The Past Decade: Comparing Wages in NYC’s 59 Community Districts 2 years, 5 months ago · View
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Curious how people in New York City get by on what they make, and what their monetary choices are based on their incomes. Data collected from this document will be used to create maps and graphs to expand upon and update the data presented in the interactive map representing median household incomes in New York City. Loading… [...]
Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: Your wages and what you spend them on. 2 years, 5 months ago · View
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Almost a year later, after the showdown and defeat over the development of a looming structure in the northwest Bronx, neither the borough or the city have taken major steps to rectify any concrete plans for the unused bastion. The bitter battle over the Kingsbridge Armory left everyone involved in the dispute, community activists, politicians, [...]
Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: Back to square one: nothing new at the Kingsbridge Armory 2 years, 6 months ago · View
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The Bronx doesn’t have more small businesses, but it is improving the ones it already has. Morris Park , a mainly residential area of the borough remained fairly stable through the recession despite high unemployment and economic instability in other parts of the Bronx that continue to suffer. Some small business owners along Morris Park Avenue have managed [...]
Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: Despite poor Bronx economy, some small businesses grew 2 years, 7 months ago · View
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Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: A Korean Parade performer dances in front of a row of grand marshals, including Gov. David Paterson, on Saturday, October 2, 2010. 2 years, 7 months ago · View
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Almost a year later after Stella D’Oro closed its doors – only a handful of people have found jobs out of the 136 that went on strike and lost their jobs . Most of those without jobs have relied on unemployment benefits and severance pay to get by, while others have tried to cash in on their pensions [...]
Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: Still Without Work, Some Stella D’Oro Workers Fight For Pension Benefits 2 years, 7 months ago · View
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Despite recent news that the recession may be over, small businesses continue to struggle – especially in the Bronx where business owners were among the hardest hit in New York City. Rey Santana has owned his small business on the Grand Concourse for almost 25 years – but when the recession hit and banks were [...]
Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: New program gives Bronx small business ambition 2 years, 8 months ago · View
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ReBuilder’s Source offers new life to building materials and ex-prisoners Sounds of power sanders filled the warehouse of ReBuilder’s Source on Timpson Place on a recent afternoon. They didn’t buzz, they boomed. Six people were at work, two or three times the usual staff at the worker-owned cooperative. ReBuilder’s Source didn’t hire more workers. It was [...]
Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: Mott Haven co-op preaches gospel of reuse 2 years, 11 months ago · View
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Classes connect residents to jobs and family on-line By Vishal Persaud persaud@mottthavenherald.com Hunched over a keyboard in the second row of a computer lab at the Phipps Opportunity Center in Melrose, Ricardo Avillan, 51, chats with his grandsons in Puerto Rico on Facebook. Avillan began making the trek across the 145th Street Bridge from East Harlem [...]
Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: A Mott Haven bridge to the information highway 3 years ago · View
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Shh! don’t tell the kids at PS 18 that as they dance, play games and put on plays, they’re getting an education John Acham, a fourth-grader at PS 18 on Morris Avenue sat in the second row of the school auditorium, in a worn, wooden seat, and stared at the two pieces of paper he held [...]
Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: Students keep learning after school 3 years, 1 month ago · View
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Ever wonder who those guys are on street corners ringing bells for the good of charity? Steve Myers, 24, is one of those guys. Myers and the trio of Salvation Army bell ringers raise money at the corner of 42nd street and Park Avenue right outside Grand Central Terminal. The Bell Ringers from Vishal Persaud on [...]
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1. Decadent Decorations: : Why can’t everything look this good year round? Why do we have to decorate everything just so it looks nice this time of year? Think about all the extra time, money and effort put into making things look extra nice this time of year. The sheer decadence of all the department stores seems [...]
Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: Top five worst things about the holidays 3 years, 5 months ago · View
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Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: A Santa Claus performs her creative hula-hoop routine for crowds at Santacon 2009. 3 years, 5 months ago · View
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South Bronx Food Co-op offers classes in how to prepare its produce Two large purple eggplants lay on a small wooden cutting board, surrounded by knives, metal baking pans and containers of salt, pepper and herbs as an intimate cooking class began on a recent Wednesday evening. “So, who’s had eggplant before?” Lara Cely asked the [...]
Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: In Melrose, class learns healthy eating one recipe at a time 3 years, 5 months ago · View
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On paper, it sounded like great program for veterans in the South Bronx: affordable apartments, utilities included, in a brand new housing complex on Jackson Avenue in the Bronx. Richard Levine, 61, jumped at the opportunity to rent one room in a three-bedroom apartment at the complex. He and two other vets split the apartment’s $1, 785 [...] -
Anna Vincenty didn’t begin her career in community organizing. For years, she worked as a private investigator for foreign banks, the bank she worked for laid her off. When she began to take computer classes on 149th street, a long time friend suggested she come back to the old neighborhood and work for Nos Quedamos, a [...] -
Could it be another “Thrilla in Manila”? This time though, one of the contenders would actually be from the Philippines. After Manny Pacquiao won the WBO welterweight championship from Miguel Cotto two weeks ago, fans and commentators predicted a Pacquiao-Mayweather showdown in the coming months. And those predictions might actually become a reality, as some [...]
Vishal Persaud wrote a new blog post: Pacquiao vs. Mayweather: This Generation's Ali vs. Frazier? 3 years, 5 months ago · View
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