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1 month 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months ago | 
thecity.nyc | Haidee Chu |Haidee ChuReporter
The CITY partners with Open Campus on coverage of the City University of New York. The country’s largest private funder of biomedical research has cut its funding for a program at Queens College that had focused on making science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive and engaging for students of diverse backgrounds, the college confirmed to THE CITY.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
thecity.nyc | Haidee Chu |Haidee ChuReporter
As a school bell rang on a recent March afternoon, students at Bayside High School in Queens began to descend the building’s main staircase, which has not changed much since two City Hall characters attended the school together in the late 1970s. The first is Eric Adams, the incumbent mayor who lived with undiagnosed dyslexia while at Bayside and struggled in school — and who is currently facing corruption charges while seeking re-election in a crowded mayoral primary in June.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
thecity.nyc | Haidee Chu |Haidee ChuReporter
Samy’s garage in Manhattan is usually empty in the afternoon, while the 30 food carts that park there are on city streets offering halal food, hot dogs, peanuts and Icees. But that changed the week before President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Most of the carts remain inside now as owners and workers, the vast majority of them undocumented, sacrifice their incomes rather than risk potential run-ins with law enforcement that could drag them into deportation proceedings.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
thecity.nyc | Haidee Chu |Haidee ChuReporter
It was New Year’s Day on Coney Island, where the annual Polar Bear Club Plunge drew out some of the city’s more daring characters: a group of friends dressed as rubber duckies, a couple in Spiderman and Wonder Woman costumes and Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, who donned a $30 business suit he had bought the day before from one of his constituents’s thrift stores on Steinway Street in Astoria, Queens. “I’m freezing … your rent as the next mayor of New York City,” Mamdani said to the camera.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
thecity.nyc | Haidee Chu |Haidee ChuReporter
One of the first things retired jails guard Gloria Murli tells Rikers visitors is to watch where they walk. “Just be careful,” she says, “They leave you little presents.”These presents are from the feral cats that live in alleys between trailers, under crawlspaces and inside emptied jail complexes across the island’s 413 acres. As Murli drove by on a mid-December morning, two cats watched from outside a handbuilt shed, their four front paws sharing a cinder block.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thecity.nyc | Haidee Chu |Haidee ChuReporter
CUNY chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez on Wednesday laid out a roadmap for expanding the university in the year ahead while reflecting on the enrollment growth at the 25-school system over the last year. At a state of the university address at the City College of Technology Wednesday, Matos Rodríguez pointed out that university-wide enrollment is up for the second year in a row, with 3% more students matriculating this year than last — contributing to a 15,000-student gain over the past two years.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
thecity.nyc | Haidee Chu |Haidee ChuReporter
Cheryl Motley, 62, rises at around 5 a.m. every weekday to make her two-hour commute from Far Rockaway, Queens to her office in Brooklyn on the A then R train. Come the new year, though, she will have to wake up even earlier as an upcoming service outage to the A train is set to shake up her routine.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
thecity.nyc | Haidee Chu |Jonathan Custodio |Gwynne Hogan |Haidee ChuReporter
Support for the Republican presidential candidate grew in every borough and in nearly every neighborhood this year and declined even more dramatically for his Democratic counterpart. While 94,611 more New York City voters cast ballots for former President Donald Trump on Tuesday than in 2020, 573,618 fewer did so for Vice President Kamala Harris than had voted for President Joe Biden, according to unofficial election results with 97% of scanners counted.
