Immigrant New York

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Roommates + Landlords
What undocumented tenants and apartment hunters should know about their rights in NYC
By Celia Young |January 31, 2025 - 1:00PM
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Live
Jackson Heights is home to a growing Nepali community
By Marjorie Cohen |October 19, 2017 - 9:00AM
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Neighborhood Intel
In Queens, Bukharian Jews keep their tradition and their community strong
By Marjorie Cohen |August 31, 2017 - 3:00PM
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Neighborhood Intel
Inside Sunset Park, the city's largest (and growing) Chinatown
By Marjorie Cohen |May 17, 2017 - 8:59AM
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Live
How immigration policies--and rezoning--are making businesses vanish in Willets Point
By Alanna Schubach |May 2, 2017 - 9:59AM
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Neighborhood Intel
Woodside's Little Manila offers a piece of the Philippines in Queens
By Marjorie Cohen |April 13, 2017 - 8:59AM
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Live
An undocumented immigrant talks about coming to America, living 'under the radar' in NYC, and life post-election
By Alanna Schubach |March 30, 2017 - 12:30PM
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Neighborhood Intel
Little Senegal on Harlem's 116th Street shrinks as gentrification takes hold

… In Brick Undergrounds newest column Immigrant New York we celebrate the immigrant … located on West 116th Street is no surprise The increase in rents are changing the demographics of the neighborhood  … Board to help address the reality that higher and higher rents are driving Senegalese from their homes and businesses …

By Marjorie Cohen |March 22, 2017 - 8:59AM