Local Voices

By: Kim Council, Candidate for Brooklyn Borough President A little over a year ago, I lost my father to COVID. He was taken to the nearest hospital in Brooklyn by ambulance.

By: Rita Joseph, District 40 City Council Candidate If you meet two New Yorkers, you're guaranteed to hear at least three opinions from them.

More than half of New York City’s 1.1 million students will be going back to the same overcrowded, under-resourced schools they left behind in 2020.  

New York City has taken homelessness prevention for veterans seriously, and it shows.

This year has demanded that all New York City families and students do so many things differently

Tuesday, May 25, 2021, is the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.

By: Moro Salifu, MD, physician and chairman of the Department of Medicine at SUNY Downstate ; Mathieu Eugene , NYC council member ; and Carla Boutin-Foster, MD, associate dean, Office of Diversity Education And Research at SUNY Downstate Over the pas

By: Kenya Handy-Hilliard, City Council candidate for the 40th District Mothers are struggling now, more than we've seen in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic did not create our struggle.

By: Merida Bourjolly Dialysis Patient Citizens Board Member Living with kidney disease, undergoing dialysis, and ultimately traveling out-of-state to receive a kidney transplant provided me with a harsh lesson in how challenging life with End-Stage R

By: Trisha Ocona The housing crisis brought on by the pandemic is an issue that affects everyone. Whether you're renting, owning your home, or making a living as a landlord, these times have been extremely challenging for all of us.