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Ojala, the 50-seat eatery just opened last month and is ready to do it all: Lunch, happy hour, dinner and brunch are already in full swing! Photo credit: Ojala Diners in Clinton Hill have a new culinary destination to scout out: Ojala Cocina Mexicana

With more than 600 years of life experience between them, six centenarians were honored at NYC Health + Hospitals/ McKinney for Women's History Month. The centenarians and the McKinney staff who care for them.

Coming September, a temporary installation of Hillel Place Plaza will serve the community as a gathering place for cultural exchange and creative programming including performances and classes.

The stakes are high for working families in New York. Photo credit: CNN By Bart DeCoursis Many Americans are rightly anxious about the outsourcing of middle-class jobs and the widening gap between their earnings and expenses.

Most people do not know they have tuberculosis until they become sick, which is why it is critical for those at high risk for TB to get tested.

Kids, have your baskets ready - there will be plenty of eggs to hunt! Photo credit: Myrtle Avenue Partnership It's going to be "eggs-travagant!" New York City Council Majority Leader Laurie A. Cumbo and New York State Assembly Member Walter T.

Thousands of New Yorkers joined the "March For Our Lives" in solidarity with the victims of the Parkland shooting and to demand stricter gun laws Photo Credit: Margot Elise On Saturday, thousands of fired-up citizens took it to the streets to march f

Three authors tackled tough questions about the responsibility to heal their readers through their work. Andrea J. Ritchie, Desiree Cooper and Tai Allen sat on a panel to discuss writing and healing.

Last week's snowstorm delayed some of the events planned for the 14th Annual National Black Writers Conference at Medgar Evers College, but it couldn't put a damper on the conference's energy.

The DOE's plan proposes to merge two public schools in Bed-Stuy and to cut rooms from a GED program, to make space for a third, a charter school. Representatives of the Citywide Council on High Schools and the Citywide Education Council.