Akiva Freidlin’s maternal grandparents came from Warsaw and most of their family was killed in the Holocaust. So when the 30-year-old non-profit staffer saw subway posters “demonizing” Muslims last December, his “historical memory” kicked in. Alongside an image of the blazing Twin Towers, the ads attributed this quote to the Koran: “Soon shall we cast…
As New York prepares to say good-bye to Ed Koch, he’s even getting his own Manhattan subway station. On the day of the ex-mayor’s star studded funeral, Rep. Carolyn Maloney announced the renaming of the subway station at East 77th Street and Lexington Avenue will be called “Mayor Ed Koch subway station,” according to the…
New York authorities have made a big push for normalcy after megastorm Sandy, but for many residents dealing with water-logged homes, power outages, gasoline shortages and painfully slow commutes, things are far from that. Officials have moved quickly to try to jump-start business and tourism after the storm. The New York Stock Exchange reopened after…
New Yorkers awoke to the rumble of subway trains for the first time in four days on Thursday in one sign of recovery from Sandy’s devastating blow. But elsewhere in the storm-struck U.S. Northeast, gasoline shortages persisted and emergency teams struggled to reach the worst hit areas and restore power to millions of people. At…
Millions across the U.S. Northeast stricken by massive storm Sandy will attempt to resume their normal lives on Wednesday as companies, markets and airports reopen despite grim projections of power and mass transit outages around New York for several more days. With six days to go before the Nov. 6 elections, President Barack Obama will…
A Jewish man was attacked and rendered unconscious in a Paris metro, a local watchdog reported. The 52-year-old victim entered the subway directly from his synagogue but wore no markings that would identify him as Jewish, according to a report on the late September incident by the National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA,…
A Jewish group and a Christian group are hanging ads in the New York subway system urging tolerance. The ads being placed by Rabbis for Human Rights – North America and Sojourners, led by the Christian author and social-justice advocate Jim Wallis, will go up on Monday. The ads are being hung to counter a…
Four more activists were arrested for defacing controversial New York subway ads branding Muslims as ‘savage.’ The four were caught trying to cover up an ad on a station in midtown Manhattan, the New York Post reported. The activists, identified as Leena Widdi, 19, Sherry Wolf, 47, Kenneth Chan, 22, and Emmanuel Pardilla, 21, were…
100% of profits support our journalism
