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Free summer lunches are back at most Queens libraries
For many NYC families, the summertime can mean higher grocery bills as school meals disappear. This year, free meal programs may be even harder to find as the federal government moves ahead with historic cuts to SNAP, the nation’s largest food assistance program. NYC Public Schools operates a citywide Free Summer Meals program, which includes…
For Korean survivors and volunteers in Queens, kimchi tastes like home
Giant jars of kimchi — wild lettuce, stuffed cucumbers, whole cabbages and radishes — lined the path into K Kimchi restaurant in Douglaston, Queens on Saturday. Inside, high school and college students, young professionals and their middle-aged counterparts pulled on latex gloves and rubbed gochugaru paste onto Napa cabbages, preparing kimchi and care packages for…
How to build a DIY model of democracy
As a kid, Sumana Harihareswara had a vision of democracy: people in a room, different perspectives, respectful disagreement and a shared attempt to figure out the best solution. Now, as a resident of central Queens, she is enacting that idea in a very practical way — by meeting people in person, sharing information and helping…
What does the Mamdani sweep mean?
Tuesday was primary day in New York, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who had bet big, won big. Former Comptroller Brad Lander, Mamdani’s ally from the mayoral campaign, trounced incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. That was less surprising than Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, an underdog, defeating Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso in the…
How the Bronx School of Hip-Hop uses the borough’s signature genre to teach lessons far beyond it
School’s out this week, and a new high school will soon welcome its first ninth-grade class: the Bronx School of Hip-Hop. City officials and available research suggest it’s the only known noncharter public school in the nation that weaves hip hop into every aspect of education. And despite the name, it’s not simply an arts,…
Zohran Mamdani wins … again
What New York’s primaries say about the mayor’s power, the midterms and more
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