At Al-Noor Poultry Market, the employees have been working six days a week, 10 hours a day for an average wage of $400 a week, with no overtime pay, and without the employer providing proof of payment. The company owes $63,000 to five of its employees, which also levied penalties that bring the total owed by the business to $134,000, according to the Department of Labor. more>

“The fact is that the more successful we (environmentalists) are, the more we open our communities to the displacement of poor people,” explained Elizabeth Yeampierre, director of the organization UPROSE in Sunset Park. more>

Seven months after New York City appointed a commission to study the establishment of day laborer job centers, the commission has yet to meet. more>

According to the Immigration and Health Initiative (IAHI) of Hunter College’s School of Public Health, the city’s growing Latino community prompted the proliferation of botánicas, alternative healthcare establishments. more>

While community leaders denounce the four-block-wide Uptown New York development project in Spanish Harlem, because it may worsen traffic and shoot up the costs of rent in the area, New York City’s Economic Development Corp. wants to expedite its completion. more>

Although Massiel Delgadillo has been accepted at four private universities, the fact that the Dominican honor student is undocumented closes the door to financial aid, narrowing her choices to public institutions. more>

Potential day laborers languish while the Mayor and City Council endlessly debate the particulars of setting up the hiring centers. more>

While the Board of Education is deciding whether it will establish a lottery for families who want to send their children to one of the best school districts in the city, an immigrants’ organization is claiming that the lottery will be only one step among others the Board must take to eliminate discrimination in District 3. more>

Owners of a score of homes built by South Bronx Churches allege that the group is keeping a tight rein on control of the properties, and trying to make the owners continue employing a maintenance and management company they do not want. more>

A contract worth almost $1 million to train teachers in bilingual programs was challenged yesterday during a public hearing in the City Council. Besides the whopping cost to NYC taxpayers for a contract awarded to a California nonprofit, the dismal results adds insult to injury. more>