Anita Abedian
Village Voice
New York, NY, United States
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Bronx Residents Say Another MTA Fare Hike Would Be Devastating: 'Do I Buy Groceries or Buy a MetroCard?'
For Love Andujar, a single mother in the Bronx, facing the latest MTA fare increase means struggling to choose between buying a gallon of milk for her two children, or putting money on her MetroCard to get to work. Andujar, who recently lost her job, is currently enrolled in a... → Read More
Can NY Really End the AIDS Epidemic by 2020? Five Experts Weigh In
This past Thursday was World AIDS Day, and the city unveiled a new memorial to honor those who lost their lives due to complications from AIDS at the site of St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village, which was once home to the city's first and largest AIDS ward. There was also... → Read More
Creature Comfort: Post-Election, New Yorkers Turn to Pet Adoption to Cope
The day after the election, Andie Markoe-Byrne got a call from the East Village's Social Tees Animal Rescue about a dog named Ethan. The single mom and her six-year-old daughter, Riley. had applied to adopt him months earlier, but after the alarming conclusion to eighteen months of campaign stress, Markoe-Byrne... → Read More
Gracie Mansion Gets Haunted for Halloween
Hundreds of little witches, goblins, and ghouls from around the city gathered at Gracie Mansion on Saturday as Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray hosted their third-annual Halloween party. A gruesomely haggard butler welcomed nearly 5,000 New York City children and families, some from homeless shelters and... → Read More
Lawyers Vow to Watch Trump's Poll Watchers on Election Day
Donald Trump has spent the last few weeks loudly proclaiming the election is rigged, suggesting ominously that voter fraud on a massive scale will occur, and that his supporters need to show up and stand watch at polling sites. “You've got to go out, and you've got to get your... → Read More
Tribes of New York: Tidal Fest
October 15. Barclays Center. The benefit's theme was access to good schools. David Saltzman, director of Robin Hood, said that ‘the will raise money for the most effective poverty-fighting tool there is: education.’ The second annual Tidal X: 1015 concert was a party with a cause. Held in support of the Robin Hood Foundation, an organization combating poverty in New... → Read More
30,000 Children Are Living In NYC Shelters: 'The System Is Beyond The Breaking Point'
As the rate of homelessness in New York City has reached a record high with around 60,000 people living in shelters, the effects on the 30,000 children living in the system are devastating. Students often move multiple times on short notice, and because the system is so stretched, they’re housed farther... → Read More
Ethics Investigation Into Mayor de Blasio's Nonprofit Grows
As part of a continuing investigation into Mayor Bill de Blasio’s now-defunct political nonprofit, a state ethics panel has served City Hall with a broad subpoena for communications linked to the organization including correspondence between donors, aides, private consultants, and the mayor. According to a report in the Times, the New York... → Read More
NJ Transit Train Was Speeding Into the Station Before Fatal Crash
Authorities are still trying to determine why the New Jersey Transit train that crashed into the Hoboken Terminal yesterday morning was traveling so fast when it entered the station. The incident occurred at 8:45 a.m. when the train, traveling at a high speed and carrying 250 passengers, plowed into a... → Read More
Two Suspects Arrested in Bronx Explosion That Killed FDNY Chief
Two suspects have been arrested in connection to an explosion in the Bronx that killed an FDNY battalion chief on Tuesday and that authorities say was caused by a marijuana grow operation. Garivaldi Castillo, 32, from Washington Heights, was taken into custody Wednesday and is being held on marijuana possession... → Read More
Bronx Explosion Kills FDNY Chief, Injures 20 More
An FDNY battalion chief was killed and 20 other people were injured after a building exploded in the Bronx on Tuesday morning. Michael Fahy, the battalion chief, was one of the firefighters responding to a call of a reported gas leak on West 234th Street in the Kingsbridge neighborhood at... → Read More
Low-Income Tenants May Soon Have the Right to an Attorney in Housing Court
When charged with a crime, the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution ensures that you have a lawyer, even if you cannot afford one. When taken to housing court by your landlord, tenants are on their own. Today, community leaders, homeless policy experts, council members, and other tenants, called for the City... → Read More
Officials Offer Few Details on Motives of Chelsea Bombing Suspect
Authorities have arrested the man they believe is behind Saturday's bombing in Chelsea, an unexploded pressure cooker found in Manhattan, and at least eight other pipe bombs found in New Jersey. But at a press conference at NYPD headquarters Monday afternoon, they revealed little else about the possible motives of... → Read More
Report: Suicides Surpass Homicides in NYC
A man killed himself by jumping in front of a moving subway train. An off-duty cop used her service weapon to shoot herself in the head. A 36-year-old hurled himself from a hotel window, falling to his death. On Thursday morning, a man intentionally leaped in front of an uptown 1... → Read More
Police Say Off-Duty Cop Assaulted MTA Conductor, Causing Massive Delays On J/M/Z
A subway conductor pulled the emergency brake on a southbound J train at Essex and Delancey Streets in Manhattan during this morning’s rush hour after being assaulted, according to the MTA. The incident, which occurred at 9:15 a.m. resulted in a chaos and mass confusion for the morning commute, as... → Read More
Assault on MTA Conductor Snarled This Morning's J/M/Z Train Commute
A subway conductor pulled the emergency brake on a southbound J train at Essex and Delancey Streets in Manhattan during this morning’s rush hour after being assaulted, according to the MTA. The incident, which occurred at 9:15 a.m. resulted in a chaos and mass confusion for the morning commute, as... → Read More
NY Attorney General Is Investigating Trump's Charitable 'Re-Giftings'
A Washington Post’s examination into Donald Trump's charity revealed that nearly all contributions made by the Donald J. Trump Foundation come from other charities. He takes donors’ money and gives it away as if it’s from his own pocket. The Post report also cited tax records showing The Donald stopped... → Read More
MTA Pinky Swears the Second Avenue Subway Will Be Finished Before 2017
After decades of delays, and nearly a century in the works, the Second Avenue subway line mega-project that’s been “under construction” since 1920 will finally be up and running by the end of the year MTA officials announced on Tuesday. MTA Chairman Thomas Predergast reaffirmed the December 31, 2016 opening... → Read More
How NYC Is Commemorating the 15th Anniversary of 9/11 This Weekend
Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and New York City’s official commemoration events will honor those who lost their lives that day. Here are some remembrance ceremonies and memorials occurring around the city from Friday through September 11... → Read More
Graffiti Complaints Are Down City-Wide, but The City's Taking Longer to Clean It Up
The early 1970s through the late 1980s are commonly regarded as the “golden years of graffiti,” a time when murals, tags, and spray-painted designs were ubiquitous in the city—a time before anti-graffiti task forces scrubbed clean the layers of Krylon. The war against graffiti may be may be slowly working... → Read More