Nanoom House has converted a two-story single family home into a refuge for 20 or so homeless Korean immigrants. Facing an onslaught of pressure from neighbors, the city and their landlord, the shelter is fighting for its existence.
Despite loud chants of “no more luxury residential buildings” from opponents, Queens Community Board 7 approved a rezoning plan that would green light a waterfront development project by creating a Special Flushing Waterfront District.
A local parents group is trying to knock down a false rumor circulating among Chinese parents that students couldn’t wear face masks to school.
Though no cases have been diagnosed in New York, businesses in the city’s Chinese-concentrated neighborhoods are already feeling the impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China.
The study will look at the potential of adding “subway, commuter rail, light rail or bus service” along the Bay Ridge Branch, a 16-mile existing freight line that runs from Astoria to Bay Ridge.
Advocates hoping to fend off aggressive investor interest think they might get a new defensive weapon: a cease-and-desist zone covering all of Brooklyn.
A memorial service was held Saturday for Srijal Panthi, who was killed by a Department of Sanitation truck in Queens last week in an event that shook the local Nepalese community, of which the victim was a member. His death has spurred calls from street safety advocates for tougher penalties against dangerous drivers.
One of the biggest challenges to Census outreach efforts has been reaching immigrant populations, workers say — particularly in Queens, where nearly half the population is foreign-born.
Nepal’s government is launching a “Visit Nepal 2020” publicity campaign that aims to draw at least 2 million tourists to the country next year, Everest Times reports.
‘We need to create our own voice, we need to create our way of doing journalism,’ says QueensLatino director Javier Castaño, who founded the Spanish-language local news outlet nearly a decade ago.
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