A coalition is pushing for passage of the New York Dream Act, which would help undocumented immigrants to get in-state tuition at New York colleges and health care, among other services.
Revelers celebrated Holi, India’s festival of colors, by smearing each other with colored powder. The rite is a sign of spring – and of New York’s growing Indian community.
Melrose is one of the fastest-growing neighborhoods in the city – another sign of the South Bronx’s rise from the ashes.
Nearly one of 10 homes in St. George is vacant, thanks to a building boom that turned into a bust.
The Brooklyn neighborhood has long been known for its Italian traditions. But a new wave of French immigrants is transforming this community into Little Paris. Will the newcomers stay?
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MANHATTAN – Kalunga, an Afro-Dominican/Haitian music group, draws upon the once-forbidden rhythms of the island’s African ancestry to bring some New Yorkers closer to their roots.
