Arun Venugopal

6 days ago | gothamist.com | Arun Venugopal |Samantha Max

New Yorkers and tourists flocked to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan on Thursday afternoon to celebrate the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago, the first American pope. Prevost, 69, who took the name Pope Leo XIV, addressed a cheering crowd outside St. Peter’s Basilica shortly after white smoke billowed from a chimney over the Sistine Chapel, signaling to the world that a new pope had been selected.

1 week ago | gothamist.com | Arun Venugopal

Jose and Yaya recently settled into the latest of what they call their “safe houses,” a Bronx apartment furnished with candles and other religious items. The couple says they have been on the move in recent months, prompted by daily headlines about immigration enforcement, and fears that Jose, an asylum applicant from Venezuela, could be put into detention by federal immigration officers without warning – or worse, removed to another country entirely.

2 weeks ago | thecaliforniacourier.com | Arun Venugopal

Members of New York’s Armenian community called on Mayor Eric Adams to break his silence on the Armenian genocide and give it official recognition as mayor on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. The allegation that Adams agreed to a Turkish government official’s request not to make any statements about the Armenian genocide in 2022 was part of a series of charges against the mayor, which were dropped after the Trump administration asked a federal judge to dismiss the corruption case.

2 weeks ago | gothamist.com | Arun Venugopal

Members of New York’s Armenian community called on Mayor Eric Adams to break his silence on the Armenian genocide and give it official recognition as mayor on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. The allegation that Adams agreed to a Turkish government official’s request not to make any statements about the Armenian genocide in 2022 was part of a series of charges against the mayor, which were dropped after the Trump administration asked a federal judge to dismiss the corruption case.

3 weeks ago | gothamist.com | Arun Venugopal

DoorDash workers claim the food delivery company is withholding pay and wrongfully deactivating workers, despite a recent multimillion-dollar settlement announced earlier this year. “We’re seeing how these app delivery companies are literally stealing workers' wages by denying the last week of pay or the last pay before they’re deactivated,” said Ligia Guallpa, the executive director of the Workers Justice Project.