“Embrace the New”: Home Aides Speak Out At First NYC Hearing
February 27, 2026
Home care workers gathered at a meeting room near City Hall on Wednesday, February 18, to support a bill that would place restrictions on 24-hour
Home care workers gathered at a meeting room near City Hall on Wednesday, February 18, to support a bill that would place restrictions on 24-hour
Forget the icy palisades that will tower on our sidewalks for the next few days; that year, a snowdrift in Gravesend supposedly measured 52 feet tall.
By Jacqueline Cardenas | news@queensledger.com BUSHWICK — As neighbors settled into tables draped in red plastic tablecloths at the Hope Garden Senior Center for Brooklyn Community
By Adeline Daab & Tashroom Ahsan | news@queensledger.com “Happy Valentine’s Day guys. Are there any couples out there? Yeah, this is for everyone else.” These words
Willis Hodges, the founder of America’s first Black-owned newspaper, was a prominent figure in Williamsburg. GEOFFREY COBB | gcobb91839@Aol.com Author, “Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past When people think
Pete McGuinness left an indelible mark on the neighborhood he loved. GEOFFREY COBB | gcobb91839@Aol.com Author, “Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past Greenpoint, Brooklyn today is an area of
A section of Jackson Avenue was renamed ‘New York Irish Center Way’ in honor of the generations of Irish that have called NYC home.
The Sunset Park West Child and Family Center aims to address a shortage of child care providers in the neighborhood, with beautiful murals and holistic
When it rains, it pours: after years of relative deadlock, home care workers are gaining ground at both the state and city levels as they
By Jack Delaney | jdelaney@queensledger.com RED HOOK — Last fall, the city pushed ahead with its plan to transform the vast dockyards south of Brooklyn Bridge
Home care workers gathered at a meeting room near City Hall on Wednesday, February 18, to support a bill that would place restrictions on 24-hour
Forget the icy palisades that will tower on our sidewalks for the next few days; that year, a snowdrift in Gravesend supposedly measured 52 feet tall.
By Jacqueline Cardenas | news@queensledger.com BUSHWICK — As neighbors settled into tables draped in red plastic tablecloths at the Hope Garden Senior Center for Brooklyn Community
By Adeline Daab & Tashroom Ahsan | news@queensledger.com “Happy Valentine’s Day guys. Are there any couples out there? Yeah, this is for everyone else.” These words
Willis Hodges, the founder of America’s first Black-owned newspaper, was a prominent figure in Williamsburg. GEOFFREY COBB | gcobb91839@Aol.com Author, “Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past When people think
Pete McGuinness left an indelible mark on the neighborhood he loved. GEOFFREY COBB | gcobb91839@Aol.com Author, “Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past Greenpoint, Brooklyn today is an area of
A section of Jackson Avenue was renamed ‘New York Irish Center Way’ in honor of the generations of Irish that have called NYC home.
The Sunset Park West Child and Family Center aims to address a shortage of child care providers in the neighborhood, with beautiful murals and holistic
When it rains, it pours: after years of relative deadlock, home care workers are gaining ground at both the state and city levels as they
By Jack Delaney | jdelaney@queensledger.com RED HOOK — Last fall, the city pushed ahead with its plan to transform the vast dockyards south of Brooklyn Bridge
