Keeping Latino Past Alive in Gentrified Williamsburg
Feet in 2 Worlds goes on a tour of the south side of Williamsburg with Ramon Peguero, head of Los Sures. The 41-year-old non-profit helps longtime Latino locals with affordable housing and also strives to keep the community's history and culture intact amidst heavy gentrification.
Sal Albanese: Fighting to be Heard on Issues
Long-shot mayoral hopeful Sal Albanese talks about why his campaign doesn't take money from developers and why he thinks Mayor Bloomberg hasn't done a good job in one of his pet causes, education, in this article originally published in the Amsterdam News on April 30.
Elected Officials Rally for Humane Housing Conditions in Sunset Park
Tired of the horrific living conditions on 46th Street in Sunset Park, three immigrant women launched a rent strike. Years later, their voices have reached local officials, including Christine Quinn, reports Home Reporter News.
Still Not Home Six Months After Sandy
![The piles of trash in the photo taken on November 6, 2012 after Hurricane Sandy may be gone from the streets in the Rockaways, but life still struggles to go on for many still displaced. (Photo by Larry [larryosan], Flickr Creative Commons License)](http://www.voicesofny.org/media/389/files/2013/04/rockaways-sandy-300x199.jpg?c4e3dd)
With yesterday marking the six-month anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Rockaway-based publication The Wave and Gotham Gazette report on the impact that displacement has had on residents, neighborhoods and government.
Queens Real Estate Agency Accused of Swindling Immigrants
Esthela Multiservices, Inc. in Jackson Heights advertised that they would find apartments for their clients but some of the primarily immigrant clients now allege that the company took their money and have yet to find housing, reports El Diario-La Prensa.
NYCHA Residents Suspicious of Plan to Rent Land to Developers
The New York City Housing Authority is desperately trying to climb out of debt by renting land on public housing projects, but tenants fear losing communal spaces and their eventual displacement from the neighborhood, El Diario-La Prensa reports.
L.I. Group to Help Salvadoran Elderly
A group has been founded in Brentwood to assist in the construction of a nursing home in El Salvador, which will house homeless seniors and let them "enjoy their remaining life in dignity," reports La Tribuna Hispana.
Chinese Descend on New York Housing Market
Chinese buyers are making a splash on the New York real estate market and brokers have caught on to this trend, reports The Brooklyn Ink. The Chinese now rank second when it comes to international buyers in the U.S. housing market.
Few Boricuas Left in Pricey Brooklyn Neighborhood
Skyrocketing housing prices mean new faces and demographic shifts in the once heavily Puerto Rican neighborhood of Boerum Hill. The Brooklyn Ink speaks to some of the few Boricuas who have stayed behind.
Thousands Forced to Leave Upper Manhattan
Over the past decade, more than 18,000 residents have left Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hill, partly due to the thousands of rent-controlled apartments these communities have lost in recent years, El Diario-La Prensa reports.
