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More green projects for western Queens
NYDailyNews.com Headlines
Mar 15Healthy food options are few and far between for residents of the sprawling Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City. But a new grant designed to help its fledgling community garden could help locals grow more fresh veggies in between the imposing publi... »
Asian seniors have uneven access to programs
NYC in Focus
Dec 29Wong Tim and Wong Zhou Hung have lived in New York City Housing since they immigrated to the United States in 1981. Their 14th-floor apartment in the Seward Park Extension development – located just a few blocks south of the Williamsburg Bridge – has a... »
Behind the walls of Queensbridge Houses
NYC in Focus
Dec 28Click on individual images for captions (Photo: Sarah Alvi) I was an alien in Queensbridge Houses. With my hijab, I looked like an Arab though I was not. I spoke fluent English though it was my first time in the United States. By an average Pakistani’... »
Deferred dreams
NYC in Focus
Dec 20Dec. 20 - Malik Sheppard spent a total of 15 years in prison on an armed robbery charge, nine of them in solitary confinement. The experience turned him into a spoken word poet. Why do most ghetto dreams die stillborn? Could it be the vision is blocked... »
‘Son of No One’ packs flavor of the NYC streets
NYDailyNews.com Headlines
Nov 03Queens-born writer-director Dito Montiel’s drama “The Son of No One,” about a cop facing his demons after he’s assigned to the Queensbridge Houses project he grew up in during the 1980s, comes with genre issues attached, but wins out thanks to its moo... »