We still don’t know what exactly prompted Tuesday morning’s subway attack, though suspect Frank James’ extensive online record shows he was disturbed, afflicted with overwhelming anger toward official systems and plagued by conspiracy theories and fantasies of a race war. Investigators and journalists will spend the next several weeks parsing the man’s history and activities, including how he managed to legally purchase the firearm he used. But now that he’s in custody the more immediate question is how the authorities will respond to the public’s fear and apprehension.
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Maria Flores Galindo
This week we welcome Maria Flores Galindo. Galindo was born and raised in Spain, and has been living in New York City for the past eight years. Since moving to […]
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Uber app is helping yellow taxi drivers get out of the red
Without its iconic yellow taxis, New York City … simply wouldn’t be New York City. When taxi drivers to earn a living. However, things have been looking up for yellow taxi drivers. In October 2021, they received a much-needed debt relief package, and on March 24, Uber announced it was partnering with existing taxi software like Curb and Creative Mobile Technologies and integrating them into its app.
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Eric Adams’ controversial homeless sweeps
If you’ve turned on the news at all or scrolled through social media (provided you’re following New York activist or community organization types) you’ve probably seen images of city sanitation workers, flanked by outreach workers from the Department of Homeless Services and NYPD officers, throwing homeless people’s possessions into trash compactor trucks.
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Students learning hydroponic farming
It’s not what you think. The nonprofit organization New York Sun Works has set up a hydroponic farming program in almost 200 schools across New York City and New Jersey and about 65,000 students are harvesting their crops this year.
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NYC public schools faced with chronic absenteeism
The absenteeism rate in NYC schools has hit 40%. That is equivalent to around 375,000 students. This number is up from 26% before the pandemic. A student is considered chronically absent when they miss 10 percent or more of the academic year—at least 18 days of excused or unexcused absences.
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Olga Alexander
This week we welcome Olga Alexander, a native New Yorker who obtained her bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley and her master of […]
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A clarion call to talk about whiteness to save democracy
Our podcast this week revisits a previous guest, actor April Matthis. She’s starring in “Help,” a play at The Shed written by poet and Yale professor Claudia Rankine, which runs through April 10. We last talked to Matthis in June about making ends meet as an artist in the pandemic, thanks to a grant from the Knight Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund via URL Media. What a difference these 10 months have made. Here’s a sneak peek of the conversation between her and Epicenter’s publisher S. Mitra Kalita. Tune in to listen to the whole conversation tomorrow morning. Edited excerpts:
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A Ukrainian mother’s journey from Kyiv to Brooklyn
As Russia’s war in Ukraine wages on with devastating consequences, millions of Ukrainians have fled their home seeking safe haven abroad, including in the United States. Epicenter-NYC reporter Andrea Pineda-Salgado spoke with one of them, Yana Miroshnychenko, about her and her son’s long journey from Kyiv to Brooklyn.
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The real long-term impacts of Covid-19
Something has to be done.
That was the stance of policymakers after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. That certainty, coupled with a fraught political environment, resulted in frenzied decision-making and some of the most globally consequential and disastrous decisions of the last several decades.
