Homeowners Gone Wild: A Proposed Shelter in Queens has a Majority-White Community on Edge
Homeowners in opposition to homeless shelters in Queens have become increasingly militant over the last few years, adopting confrontational…
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Four New Jails For $10 Billion: Now is the Time For NYC to Invest in Communities Not Cages
The Oct. 17 vote by the City Council to fund the construction of at least four new jails in…
Brooklyn DA’s Office Ordered To Stop Concealing Key Witness Info
This past June, as The Indypendent reported, New York’s Court of Appeals reinstated the Brooklyn murder conviction of John…
Lead Crisis in Newark Raises Concerns About NYC’s Taps. Here Are the Facts.
Last summer, more than 15,000 households in Newark, New Jersey, were forced to drink and cook with bottled water…
Miracle on 14th Street: Now Advocates Want More Busways Across NYC
It’s eerily quiet on 14th Street these days. You can hear the birds chirp and cross the road without…
‘Until Freedom’ Protesters Hold Day of Rage Against Racist Policing
Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was at home in Fort Worth, Texas playing video games with her eight-year-old nephew on the…
Amazon Emerges as a Flashpoint in Sanders-AOC Queensbridge Rally Controversy
When 26,000 Bernie Sanders supporters gathered in Queensbridge Park last Saturday to welcome their candidate’s return to the presidential…
NYC’s Only Black-Led, Community-Owned Supermarket is Raising Funds
In one of the most rapidly gentrifying areas in New York City, a group of residents have come together…
Important questions surround the Working Family Party’s handling of the final stage of the Queens DA race.
Pacifica and WBAI Square Off in Court After Station Coup
WBAI’s Listener Station Board (LSB) met Wednesday night for the first time since the station was shut down Monday…