Deborah Baldwin

Aug 10, 2024 | westsiderag.com | Deborah Baldwin

By Deborah BaldwinAll it took was a photo and a brief story a few weeks ago in West Side Rag to bring out frenzied foodies anticipating the opening of the next great cult grocery store in the neighborhood. “Sooo excited! Love Wegmans,” wrote one reader; “This is by far the best grocery store I’ve been to,” said another.

Mar 23, 2023 | passblue.com | Kourosh Ziabari |Dawn Clancy |Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch |Deborah Baldwin |Mona Khalil

Billed as the first of its kind in a generation, the United Nations is holding a heavily attended water conference in New York City this week, drawing attention to countries' needs for sustainable water resources and sanitation facilities, especially in places where the world's most important asset is shrinking from increasing consumption and pollution as well as global warming.

Mar 16, 2023 | passblue.com | Deborah Baldwin |Marzia Babakarkhail |Richard Ponzio |Nudhara Yusuf |Banjo Damilola |Foteini Papagioti

There's nothing like a rousing debate over gender equality to pique one's appetite. Luckily, the United Nations sits along one of New York City's secret gastro-arteries, a stretch of First Avenue, from 50th to 57th Streets, curiously crammed with sweet things to eat. Call it Sugar Town.

Mar 8, 2023 | passblue.com | Banjo Damilola |Dawn Clancy |Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch |Deborah Baldwin |Mona Khalil

Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari opposes the general perception that Islam represses women while ignoring various negative indices regarding women in his own country. "Islam was the first religion to give rights to women," he declared in a session on "Women in Islam," held at the United Nations and led by Zardari as chair of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's Council of Foreign Ministers.