When Vincent Hyland’s great-grandmother, Catherine, died in 2004, he took a stack of old photographs from her house on 127 ...
Nestled along a residential stretch of Seagirt Boulevard in Far Rockaway, the Seagirt Boulevard Community Garden has been a green fixture in this Queens neighborhood for over two decades. Watch Restoring the Rockaways on PBS. See more from Need To Know. A photograph of the space from 2009 reveals row after row of neatly planted [...]
From NY1 News this afternoon: U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said Friday that the government is setting up a program that will allow victims to put off their mortgage payments for up to a year while doing repairs.
Watch Songs for Biology: Students Write Hip-Hop to Learn Science on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
Teachers in New York are using rap to teach complex science. PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Ray Suarez reports on the effectiveness of this strategy and interviews hip-hop legend GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan.
Homes ripped apart by Sandy are proving to be magnets for bargain hunters—but not everyone is getting a good deal. (via Climate Desk)
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