Articles by: Kristen Watts

Alfonso Gonzalez, originally of Mexico, looks over his adopted home of Queens while on the 7 train platform on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009.

Gonzalez is a day laborer who is suffering from the lack of work available to immigrants.  Click here to watch American Dream Delayed, an audio slideshow on Latinos in Queens who are struggling to find work.

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Record turnouts had many voters in the city waiting up to two hours to vote

Andrew Lutsky reads The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture while waiting in line to cast his ballot for Ralph Nader outside William Alexander School in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn on Election Day.

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A new day at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Amid extensive renovation projects of the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s historic structures, energy efficient buildings like this are being built.  Wind turbines and rooftop solar panels symbolize the green future of one of Brooklyn’s last remaining industrial zones.

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