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Arrests Nearly Halt at Immigration Court. One Reason: Fewer People Are Showing Up
For the first time since masked agents started staking out the hallways of 26 Federal Plaza’s immigration courthouses in late May, attorneys monitoring the building this week, said they didn’t witness a single arrest over the course of the entire day Monday. After witnessing anywhere between five to 15 arrests of immigrants following their court […]
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‘We Can’t Function Out of Fear.’ Can This School for Immigrants Survive Under Trump?
This is part two of a two-part series. Read the first story here. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Chalkbeat spent more than six months visiting ELLIS Preparatory Academy during the 2024-25 school year to understand the far-reaching effects of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy on New […]
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School’s Out for Summer? Not Here, Where Kids Keep Late-Night Hours Playing Ball
This story is part of Summer & THE CITY, our weekly newsletter made to help you enjoy — and survive — the hottest time in the five boroughs. Sign up here. On a recent Saturday evening, Jamel Lewis stood in the middle of the gym inside the Eagle Academy for Young Men in Ocean Hill, […]
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Mission to Revive Abandoned Spaces With Art Expands to Public Housing
Usually, a New York City vacant storefront has nothing to offer passersby but the dead and empty husk of what once was an alive and vibrant business. The nonprofit Art on the Ave, however, has taken over some of that barren window space to transform it into elaborate art exhibits for New Yorkers to enjoy. […]
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International Doctors Keep This Brooklyn Hospital Running. Visa Whiplash Has Jeopardized That.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Anastasiia Tsyunchyk was just finishing medical school. After her studies, she held off from starting a residency in favor of sorting medications and acting as a translator — work, she said, that was more valuable at the time, because as a resident in Ukraine she would not have been […]
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