A mobile trauma unit was dispatched to help Flatbush Avenue's Caribbean store owners – Haitian, Jamaican, Guyanese, Trinidadian, Grenadian and other West Indian vendors – who were left traumatized by the tragic events in the Caribbean country. more>

It's been over a month since Shemika Billups learned the New York City Housing Authority would not honor the Section 8 voucher it awarded her last autumn. The voucher, which should have gotten Billings out of a homeless shelter by subsidizing her ability to pay rent on an apartment, was withdrawn by the authority after it realized it couldn't fund the voucher for her – or more than 2,000 others.



VIDEO :: At the end of last year, Mayor Bloomberg said that the City is not responsible for cuts to housing vouchers. NY1 reports. more>

Recent NY state budget cuts threaten the financial sustainability of many independent Arab-American pharmacies, and deprive their communities of the local pharmacist, whose role goes beyond dispensing medicines.  more>

Stricter rules for keeping the Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which helps seniors to pay for food and a roof over their heads, have provoked much fear and worry for Korean-American elders. more>

The Jewish-Latino alliance on immigration issues builds on the heritage and experience of the Jewish community and on the enthusiasm and urgent needs of the Hispanic community. more>

Reversing a standard practice of work-sponsored immigrants working at client sites, a new ruling bans such activity and has over-zealous airport security deporting legal immigrants on site. more>