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Exterior of the Museum of the City of New York, with a promotion for the "City of Faith" exhibition currently on display, New York, Dec. 1, 2022.
Lifestyle & Belief
Museum exhibit highlights New York’s sacred spaces
Pope Francis sits with Rabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove (left) and Iman Khalid Latif (right), executive director of the Islamic Center and chaplain to the students at New York University, at a multi-religious gathering during a visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum i
Identity
NYU chaplain calls for a ‘true pursuit of empathy’ to heal from 9/11 aftermath
Journalist Masih Alinejad speaks onstage
Justice
Iranian journalist targeted in alleged Iran kidnap plot says operation ‘must be condemned’
People wearing different types of black and white clothes sit and stand among orange and yellow seats on the New York subway
Science
New research can ‘fingerprint’ a city’s ecosystem to better understand the microbes within it
The Sisyphus Stones stretch out along the Hudson in Manhattan. They're the work of one man, Uliks Gryka, who has spent hours almost every day, erecting and maintaining them.
Arts
In New York, a Sisyphean task on the Hudson comes to an end
Close-up of woman in kitchen, looking at phone
Politics
A bill to allow divorce in the Philippines could mean freedom for some women in New York
A man stands in the middle of Grand Central Terminal as he speaks on a cell phone.
If you get a robocall in Mandarin, just hang up
Arts, Culture & Media
Tillie’s Art
Arts, Culture & Media
Meanwhile, back at Studio 360…
Arts, Culture & Media
Sideshow Podcast: The Internet’s Best TV Show Heads to HBO
Arts, Culture & Media
Samantha Hunt Wants You to Believe
Marc Noisette of Westchester County, New York fixes the cables on an electric post opposite the Cathedral of San Juan in the historic quarter of Puerto Rico's capital.
Business, Finance & Economics
In San Juan, they’re going street by street, house by house, turning the lights back on
DHS bus
Conflict
The complicated reasons why some people overstay their US visas
minke whale
Science
In New York, a whale of a comeback story
Family of six sitting closely together on a sofa
Global Politics
The courts called him a terrorist, but one judge and several politicians want him to be able to stay in the US
Myrta Kalampoka says investing in her olive trees saved her family from the Greek economic crisis. Now she hopes their olive oil can rescue them from an ongoing drop in tourism to Lesbos.
Economics
Hear how investing in olive trees saved one Lesbos family from economic crisis
Women
Arts
These women made a big mark on New York — in more ways than one
Kelly Wong is one of the lion dance instructors at the New York Chinese Freemasons Athletic Club. Originally founded as a fraternal society, the Freemasons were among the first troupes in Chinatown to train women to lion dance.
Culture
In New York’s Lunar New Year parade, women are breaking barriers as lion dancers
Black and white photo of man standing in room
Justice
‘When I vote next week, I will be saying loud and clear, this is also my country.’
Woman with tool in front of damaged building
Development
Nepali immigrants who came to the US after the 2015 earthquake can stay a little longer
Goats at Leach Farms in upstate New York.
Culture
Some immigrants in New York prefer to slaughter animals themselves. There’s a farm that wants to help.
A woman walks on a catwalk around people sitting in chairs
Justice
These undocumented workers aren’t in the shadows, they’re out on the catwalk
Health centers in New York are providing information about the Zika virus to New Yorkers traveling home to the Dominican Republic. People who've traveled to the DR represent more than half of the Zika cases in New York.
Health
Dominicans in New York are planning summer visits home. That means Zika planning.
“I think I’m blessed in tuning harmoniums,” says Mindra Sahadeo, who is from Guyana but now lives in New York City. “I find joy, actually, in fixing them.”
Culture
Meet the harmonium king of Queens, New York
Maria Venegas
Stories of Violence and Reconciliation in ‘Bulletproof Vest’, a Memoir by Maria Venegas
Full Episode
Fatty Arbuckle (center) riding in The Whip, one of William F. Mangels' classic rides. At one time, Mangels had 500 of them in operation.
Culture
It took a ‘cranky,’ dour immigrant to make Coney Island the capital of fun
The Igorrotes sitting around a campfire, and playing up for the camera, at Coney Island in the summer of 1905.
Books
A tale of sex, greed and Filipinos on Coney Island
Environment
How do you get kids interested in math and science?
A Woman, A Writer, a Wit
Full Episode
Conflict & Justice
From Adam Clayton Powell Jr. to Charles Rangel: the past and future of Harlem’s political leadership
No Discount
Afropop’s Summer Festival Roundup
The Villalobos Brothers, a musical group of three brothers from Veracruz, Mexico, sing at the Mercury Lounge in New York City. Ernesto, Alberto and Luis have made their mark on the global music scene, but now they are focusing their songs on immigration i
Arts, Culture & Media
How three violin-wielding brothers mix their music with immigration politics
Gambrinus restaurant, a local hangout in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. One waitress says people come in the summer to peel shrimp and drink beer outdoors near the ocean.
Arts, Culture & Media
A Russian pirate-theme restaurant in Brighton Beach gives solace to Cold War nostalgia seekers
Guggenheim
Arts, Culture & Media
Protesters take over the Guggenheim on behalf of workers a world away
Dwayne R. Rodgers, an independent artist and curator in Brooklyn, took this photograph of Amadou Diallo's funeral procession in New York City in 1999. Rodgers was photographing a series on police brutality in the city.
Conflict & Justice
How the legacy of Amadou Diallo lives on in New York’s immigrant community
Business, Economics and Jobs
Meet the one man still making those little Statue of Liberty replicas
Brooklyn-based Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu.
Arts, Culture & Media
Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu takes us on a ‘Fantastic Journey’
Rose and Alfrits Monintja outside of their home in the New York City borough of Queens. The Monintjas are originally from the village of Sonder in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are among an estimated 100,000 people who speak the disappearing language Ton
Arts, Culture & Media
When New Yorker Rose Monintja speaks her native tongue, the memories flood back
Adolfo Carrión campaigns along 116th Street in “El Barrio” in East Harlem. Carrión, a former Bronx Borough President and member of the Obama administration, is running for New York City mayor on the Independence Party ticket.
Global Politics
How New York City’s Latino politics are shifting
Global Politics
Eric Holder’s legacy still up for debate
Obama’s New Plan for Higher Education
Nereida Comes to America
Willing to Be Lucky in New York
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Legacy
Arts, Culture & Media
New York’s Museum of Modern Art reconsiders decision to raze neighbor
Arts, Culture & Media
New movie presents new spin on Franklin Roosevelt’s personal life
Environment
Local, seasonal foods making waves at restaurants, cooking schools
Environment
Former airport turned campground a hit in the Big Apple
Business, Economics and Jobs
Recent Bloomberg ruling a blow for working moms
Arts, Culture & Media
What would you save in a disaster?
Iowa politicos try to sell Pollock’s “Mural”
Arts, Culture & Media
Design for the Real World: Rock Band T-Shirt
Business, Economics and Jobs
Reviving the Bronx with green jobs
Global Politics
Foreign policy and the presidential campaign
Arts, Culture & Media
The man who shaped FDR’s public image
High school sports axed amid economic slump
The Summer Music of 1993
Senator Rand Paul on the NSA Scandal & Military Sexual Assault
Design for the Real World: Parachute Jump