Issue 235
The Indypendent
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Issue 235
May 1, 2018
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Seeing Green: A Developer Envisions 30-story Towers Near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Megatowers, shady developers, community resistance — it’s a story so commonplace these days it is almost a bad joke.…
When Father Finds You on Grindr
A look at Uzodinma Iweala’s new novel about a gay teen’s coming-out nightmare.
Six Months on, Many of Hurricane Maria’s Refugees Still Have No Place to Go
On the evening of April 18, the sun is just beginning to set over the Penn South complex in…
Alsarah: The Sounds We Smuggle Inside Us
The lead singer of Alsarah & The Nubatones discusses her roots, music and her favorite childhood mixtape.
The ABCs of Austerity: Adult Literacy Classes Face Budget Axe
Julio Forbes sneaks into the intermediate ESL class almost half an hour late, red folder in hand and ready…
ICE Breakers: Public Defenders are Standing Up for their Undocumented Clients in More Ways than One
The increasing detention of undocumented immigrants inside New York City courthouses is spurring protests from the public defenders who…
New York’s sort-of-third party has won some big victories in the past two decades but its future is uncertain after defying Andrew Cuomo and his labor allies to endorse Cynthia Nixon.
The Trump Administration is Dismantling the Refugee Resettlement System
April 1 marked the halfway point in the federal government’s fiscal year and, so far, the United States has…
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