From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Outside Purnima Kapur’s office, the spires and towers of downtown Brooklyn sparkle in the early fall sunlight.
“Everything we create here is for people to live and work in,” says Kapur, 45, wearing a smart black suit and …
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
“We agreed we wanted a life that had an open home,” says Jodi Samuels, co-founder of Jewish International Connection New York, a nonprofit organization that provides a home away from home to immigrant Jews from around …
By HEATHER ROBINSON
A survivor of domestic violence and rape, Katarina Tepesh has spent much of her adulthood trying to forget.
But after Sept. 11, the 58-year-old Croatian, who immigrated to New York at 17, started trying to remember.
An upper …
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
“My mother told me, ‘My heart is broken to be separated from you, but you will find family in America,’” says Morris Sheriff. “That never left my mind.”
Nattily dressed in a tan suit and a red and …
From The New York Daily News
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
In the early 1980s, Mohammed Saleh got a break that changed his life. He was working as a pharmacist, raising a family in New York City and struggling to get ahead.
A Muslim originally from Bangladesh, Saleh heard about a …
From The New York Daily News
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
On a blustery afternoon in late March, Jimmy Bissan guides a visitor around his neighborhood.
In the distance, the Cyclone roller coaster, a Coney Island landmark, stands dinosaur-like above a terrain filled with souvenir shops and pizza places.
Solid, …
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
March 5, 2008
“When you look at the news, they don’t talk about different African communities in the U.S. unless something bad happens.”
On the third floor of the Harlem State Office Building, groups of young Africans and African-Americans sit at …
From The New York Sun
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
July 23-25, 2004
On the New York City nightclub scene, Walter Monheit is a fixture, an icon even.
Since the days of ballroom dancing clubs in the 1950’s, this now-78-year-old man has been clubbing two to three nights per week from …
From The New York Daily News
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
December 19, 2007“
When I first came to Sloane-Kettering, a small glass cabinet held all the cancer drugs that were known,” recalls Dr. Yashar Hirshaut. “So I’ve seen the transition from a very primitive time till now, where …
From The New York Daily News
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
November 27, 2007
“This is the mother, who has leprosy, [and] this is the son,” says Adeboye Subuloye, looking down at a photograph of a woman and a tall young man. “We bought a sewing machine for him.
“We decided to empower the children,” he …