Eliza Shapiro

3 days ago | nytimes.com | Eliza Shapiro

In the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, a pastor is devoting his time to building affordable housing for his congregation. On one of the coldest mornings of the year, David K. Brawley stood on the roof of a new home for seniors he had helped create, his coat fluttering in the wind. He surveyed his domain. He pointed to the left, toward the hazy outline of the Manhattan skyline, to the rows of rental apartments below that he had helped develop.

5 days ago | seattletimes.com | Eliza Shapiro

On a Thursday morning in March, my family needed to accomplish three things at exactly the same time. My husband had to board a plane to return from a business trip in London. I had agreed to moderate a panel discussion about how the cost of child care in New York City is harming the local economy.

2 weeks ago | twincities.com | Eliza Shapiro

On a Thursday morning in March, my family needed to accomplish three things at exactly the same time. My husband had to board a plane to return from a business trip in London. I had agreed to moderate a panel discussion about how the cost of child care in New York City is harming the local economy.

3 weeks ago | thestar.com.my | Eliza Shapiro

On a Thursday morning in March, my family needed to accomplish three things at exactly the same time. My husband had to board a plane to return from a business trip in London. I had agreed to moderate a panel discussion about how the cost of child care in New York City is harming the local economy. And someone had to sign our daughter up for a first-come-first-served preschool programme that typically fills its seats within 90 to 120 seconds of their online release at 10am.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Eliza Shapiro

Does a product that promises to "externalize the primary caregiver's brain" actually work? Credit... hitandrun Does a product that promises to "externalize the primary caregiver's brain" actually work? On a Thursday morning in March, my family needed to accomplish three things at exactly the same time. My husband had to board a plane to return from a business trip in London. I had agreed to moderate a panel discussion about how the cost of child care in New York City is harming the local economy.