Asociación de Tepeyac By Alex Goetzfried Around the corner from the wintertime festivities at Bryant Park, on 38th street, behind the glitz and glam of the Lord & Taylor holiday window display, is an unassuming door with a rain-faded blue sign that simply reads: Asociación de Tepeyac. Behind the rickety, double-padlocked door and up one flight of beat-up brown … [Read more...] about Gen Y Immigrants Put Education First
Gen Y Immigrants Put Education First
Two Lives Lived
No bodies hang from the streetlamps running along Utopia Parkway. Huang Ai Yi, a 61-year-old home-care worker, grew up in an unstable China as the newly formed Communist government attempted to rapidly industrialize and cement its power. One such attempt, known in the West as the Cultural Revolution, made violence a nearly every day occurrence. The bodies of persecuted … [Read more...] about Two Lives Lived
Portrait of a Painter
Across the street from the New York Stock Exchange, a 37-year-old painter crouches over a black-and-white portrait of an elderly woman concealing her face with her gnarled hands. As tourists from across the world bustle on the street below him, the Armenian-born artist works in complete silence. Equipped with a laptop, a gray couch for two, and a station full of paint pots, he … [Read more...] about Portrait of a Painter
A Glimpse Into 9th Avenue’s Past
By: Chanelle Perrin and Laura Rossi Car horns blare as Citi bikes whiz down Ninth Avenue's busy bike lane, a jarring contrast to the homey and family oriented atmosphere inside the Poseidon Bakery. Located on 44th Street along Ninth Avenue, the building stands out in the neighborhood being the only light-blue storefront, paying homage to the bakery’s Greek heritage, among an … [Read more...] about A Glimpse Into 9th Avenue’s Past
From Turkish Immigrant to Immigration Specialist
By Bryan Altman The shirt on his back, the complementary blanket that his arriving airline had provided and a Turkish law degree were all that John Cahit Akbulut carried with him into his studio apartment on 85th Street in New York City. It was 1981 when Akbulut and his wife Susan had just concluded the trying journey from Turkey to the United States, but were preparing to … [Read more...] about From Turkish Immigrant to Immigration Specialist