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Meet the Tenants Fighting Barberry Rose Management, Landlord From Hell
New York State passed laws in June that dramatically strengthened its rent regulations, but tenants in Inwood are still…
“Kids in Cages” at the Border Find Terra Firma in the Bronx
Unaccompanied children who come alone from Central America to seek asylum in the United States have complex legal, medical…
Sewing Dissent with Textile Artist Diana Weymar
The words, stitched in black, glare out from the center of a handkerchief, decorated with a motif of pink…
How Trump Uses Fear Of Immigrants To Stoke Civil War
In Minnesota, officers smashed a car window and dragged the undocumented worker out. The ICE raids to deport some…
At first glance, the Novotny-Clissold family, protagonists of Julie E. Justicz’s Degrees of Difficulty, seem pretty garden variety: white…
Trump Goes To Hades as Theater for the New City Takes to the Streets
During the 1970s, Theater for the New City played a crucial role in Off-Off-Broadway’s emergence, revolutionizing New York City…
Weekly NYC Events Calendar: August 8 to 14
The Indypendent’s curated events calendar comes out every Wednesday online and once a month in print. Sign-up for our regular e-newsletter and…
Tiffany Cabán Concedes to Melinda Katz in Queens DA Race
In her concession speech last night in Astoria, Tiffany Cabán declared that her grassroots campaign had “completely transformed the…
Weekly NYC Events Calendar: August 1 to August 7
The Indypendent’s curated events calendar comes out every Wednesday online and once a month in print. Sign-up for our regular e-newsletter and…
Katz is the Declared Winner of the Dem Primary, But the Queens DA Race is Far From Over
Here are some things to watch out for as the court battles in the Queens DA race commence Wednesday…