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20 Brooklyn Nonprofit Finalists Selected for $100K SPARK Prize
Featured: image (Lorena Kourousias, volunteers)
Tax Preparers Charge Up to $600 To Send Applications for the Excluded Workers Fund
Featured: Nicole Rojas, Community Organizer
The Struggle to Improve Vaccination Rates Among Latinos in New York
Vast disparities in immunization levels persist between the city’s communities.
Madres migrantes se manifiestan en DC en apoyo a los trabajadores esenciales
Decenas de familias inmigrantes salieron este miércoles a las calles del Distrito para alzar su voz a favor de un camino hacia la ciudadanía para miles de trabajadores esenciales
More Than A Third Of New Yorkers Now Fully Vaccinated, Cuomo Says
A man exits a mobile vaccination van after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine administered by NYC Test & Trace Corps in partnership with Mixteca, a community organization serving primarily Spanish-speaking and indigenous Latin American populations in Sunset Park.
Deliverers Unite in the Face of Adversity
Deliveristas, representing their home country of Mexico, prepare to make their way downtown. (Photo by Jasmine Fernandez for NY City Lens)
New York City launches walk-in vaccinations without appointment for those 50 and older
Maria Meneses, left, speaks with Mixteca community organizer Nicole Rojas while waiting to get a COVID-19 vaccination in a mobile vaccination van parked on a street in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, Monday, March 29, 2021, in New York. As part of New York City’s ongoing efforts to increase access to the COVID-19 vaccine citywide, NYC Test & Trace Corps added mobile vaccination to its community vaccine clinic program Monday, launching a clinic-on-wheels with community partner Mixteca, a community organization serving the Spanish-speaking and indigenous Latin American population in the area.
New Yorkers Waiting for Excluded Workers Fund
New York state Democrats say there are at least 275,000 immigrants who would benefit from a $2.1 billion Excluded Workers Fund.
NY to expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to those over 30
New York state residents over 30 will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations starting Tuesday, and everyone over 16 will be eligible starting April 6, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.
Sunset Park: Street Vendors vs. Gentrification
As the sun peered through a cloudy afternoon Saturday, Lizette Canongo, 20, and her mother, Gabriela, sold the last of their tinga—a specialty of stewed, shredded chicken from Puebla, Mexico, her mother’s home state—at Sunset Park in Brooklyn
Vaccination bus to help NYC neighborhoods in need
With many in New York still struggling to find appointments for the COVID-19 vaccines, the city is now partnering with community organizations, like Mixteca, to place mobile vaccine buses in neighborhoods in the most need of help.
Sunset Park nonprofit works to get Latin community inoculated against COVID-19
Sunset Park nonprofit works to get Latin community inoculated against COVID-19