by Daniel P. Tucker Fifteen minutes by car from Manhattan’s east side, a thriving Hindu temple in Elmhurst, Queens, is keeping customs alive for three generations of Indians in New York City. And while people in Midtown East have been complaining...

By Teresa Tomassoni Cars were double parked for two blocks along a normally quiet tree lined section of Rugby Rd. Saturday as dozens of Cambodian families piled into Watt Samakki Dhammi Karam to pay homage to their dead ancestors. For over 25 years,...

By Anastasia Economides & Igor Kossov One kind of storefront dominates Utica Avenue near the 77th precinct in Crown Heights. These “shops” don’t sell any products, but that does not stop scores of people, many of them Caribbean immigrants, from...

By Daniel P. Tucker Ramadan’s sunrise-to-sunset fasting is meant to remind the Muslim faithful of the suffering of others, but some Muslim businesses in Jackson Heights were feeling some torment as the holy month began on August 22. “Business is...

By Megan McGibney “It is the month of opportunities, reforms, rejuvenation of faith,” says Tahir Kukiqi. “It is the month of reestablishment of family and relationships. It is the month of discipline, it is the month of testing the will. This is a...