Haidee Chu

1 week ago | thecity.nyc | Haidee Chu |Haidee ChuReporter

Inside a classroom at the Center for Family Life in Sunset Park on a recent Monday morning, teacher Julian Colón was busy setting out notebooks, folders, pens and crayons on a table. Outside in the hallway, a sign taped to a wall reads “CLASES DE INGLÉS POR ESTE CAMINO” — English classes this way. It was the first day of the spring semester in this predominantly Latino corner of the Brooklyn neighborhood, where Colón was expecting about 30 students in class.

2 weeks ago | thecity.nyc | Haidee Chu

On a recent Wednesday, the line began to form around the corner of 116th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard by 3 p.m., an hour before the Food Bank for New York City Pantry and Community Kitchen opened for a free dinner. “What time is it?” chef Sheri Jefferson, 60, asked just after 4. Calmly but swiftly, she began assembling hundreds of plates of curried potatoes, corned beef, salad and cornbread she had spent the afternoon preparing, placing each plate on a black serving tray.

2 weeks ago | thecity.nyc | Haidee Chu

On a recent Wednesday, the line began to form around the corner of 116th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard by 3 p.m., an hour before the Food Bank for New York City Pantry and Community Kitchen opened for a free dinner. “What time is it?” chef Sheri Jefferson, 60, asked just after 4. Calmly but swiftly, she began assembling hundreds of plates of curried potatoes, corned beef, salad and cornbread she had spent the afternoon preparing, placing each plate on a black serving tray.

3 weeks ago | thecity.nyc | Haidee Chu |Haidee ChuReporter

The city Department of Transportation has launched a pilot program to deter commercial trucks from parking illegally in residential areas — but those efforts will not reach many neighborhoods most affected by the issue, according to a data analysis by THE CITY. That irony was not lost on the residents and elected officials of Southeast Queens, who on Thursday gathered along a truck-lined street in Springfield Gardens to urge the transportation department to make them a part of the pilot.

1 month ago | chalkbeat.org | Lori Higgins |Haidee Chu |Erica Meltzer |Reema Amin

Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. A new report by Wayne State University researchers has found that the Detroit Public Schools Community District has a much higher than average rate of teacher retention compared to its peers in suburban school districts and city charter schools.