Global City NYC

Maximino “Max” Vazquez, born and raised in New York, is almost the last vestige of Little Spain, a vibrant ethnic neighborhood that once dominated a stretch of West 14th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues.

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China’s one-child policy pushed some women to seek asylum in the U.S. The one-child rule was relaxed last month, but maybe not enough to affect any new asylum claims.

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  Every Saturday night 760 Rooftop, a venue in midtown Manhattan, is filled with a crowd of 20-somethings and 30-somethings dressed in suits and stilettos. Clubgoers pay $20 each—or as much as $500 for a table—before climbing four flights of stairs to see and be seen in the hip lounge and dance floor area. Among […]

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Amit Kantak is a 40-year-old immigrant from India who lives in New Jersey. Growing up in Mumbai, he spoke Konkani at home. It’s one of hundreds of languages spoken in India; globally, about 3 million people speak Konkani.

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New York is home to White Russians, many of whom are deeply nostalgic for a country they have never seen — the Russian homeland of their ancestors.

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After 64 years, the New York Transit Museum dug up a box buried outside the former New York City Transit Authority headquarters in Downtown Brooklyn, only to find that its contents had been ravaged by the elements.

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Global City NYC reporters explore religious, culinary and cultural traditions in the city’s ethnic neighborhoods — with a couple of side trips abroad, to Haiti and India.

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New York City is an ethnic mosaic, the adopted home to newcomers from around the world. Global City NYC reporters tell the stories of how a few of these New Yorkers immigrated to America.

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New York City Muslims want Eid holy days to become school holidays.

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Music spills onto the sidewalk from a barber shop in Astoria’s Greek neighborhood.

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