The NYC Department of Education’s Public School Choice program has allowed thousands of disadvantaged students to leave low-performing inner-city schools for elite institutions of higher learning. But what happens to the schools they leave behind?
The Adler Youth Group is an outreach program through “The Stella Adler Studio of Acting” that offers a select group of NYC high school students the opportunity to train in a free year-long program.
A new documentary “Quest,” provides a vivid look at race and class in America, and delivers a testament to love, healing and hope. We have your preview.
A new plan aims to help Puerto Rico not only recover from Hurricane Maria, but to also make the island stronger and more self-sufficient than ever before.
A startling study reveals significant racial inequality and income disparities in northern Manhattan. We have the details.
We’re headed Upstate to Sharon Springs, New York, where children will have after school programing for the first time in a decade.
Portraits of immigrants and stories of tolerance – meet an artist who set out to change America’s perception of immigration through stories of tolerance and "Portraits of Immigrants."
As a part of our multi-platform public media initiative, “Chasing the Dream: Poverty and Opportunity in America,” we take you inside Monmouth University’s academic exchange program where students get an education on mass incarceration inside a maximum security prison.
For some New Yorker’s, choosing between buying a meal or getting to work is a way of life. Should our most needy neighbors have their commutes subsidized? Their stories, and the debate over half priced fares ahead.
Once notorious, the site of the now shuttered Spofford Juvenile Detention Center in Hunts Point will become “Home Sweet Home” to some New Yorkers and a whole lot more to others. New York City Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen joins us…