When asked what a typical day in his life is like, Masbia’s executive director, Mr Alexander Rapaport tells me that “if it were typical, it would not be Masbia.” According…
Maria Rodriguez, a Christian native of Venezuela, is standing on a street corner here one recent windy afternoon, eagerly describing the familiar type of chicken she eats regularly seven-tenths of a mile down Coney Island Avenue in a small quasi-restaurant in the heart of Flatbush, a heavily Orthodox…
At least 60 migrants are now sleeping at the Sunset Park Recreation Center in Brooklyn after City officials opened a respite site there on Thursday families were lining up for the pool this morning with towels and floaties as volunteers set up a tent welcoming migrants with food and toiletries. Alexander Rappaport is the executive director of Masbia a non-profit soup kitchen and food pantry…
Outside the sunset park recreational center migrants from Venezuela take in some night air as of this weekend this has become their new Temporary Home inside Sunset Park he says he and these men are glad to be here especially after hearing the horror…
Brooklyn residents are pushing back on the city’s latest effort to house asylum seekers. The city is now allowing room for around 80 migrants in the Sunset Park Recreation Center, as well as the McCarren Recreation Center…
Varias carpas afuera del centro recreativo de Sunset Park fueron traídas al vecindario por voluntarios. La comida y los productos de primera necesidad los trajeron los vecinos al cumplirse un año de la llegada de los primeros buses trayendo…
Neighbors have set up a makeshift welcome center outside the Sunset Park Recreation Center, one of the newest locations housing asylum seekers in New York City. Volunteers on Sunday were distributing clothes and personal care items…
The new respite center set up for migrants at the Sunset Park Recreation Center has sparked debate between volunteers and concerned neighbors. The tent was set up on Friday by Masbia, a local network of soup kitchens, to provide asylum seekers with bags full of toiletries…
The opening of a new respite site for recently arrived migrants at the Sunset Park Recreation Center is drawing mixed reactions on Sunday morning from local residents. At least 60 migrants were sleeping on cots inside the building as of Saturday night…
As New York City runs out of room in shelters to house the tens of thousands of asylum seekers that have poured into the city in the last year, Jewish groups are scrambling to up their resources and help find temporary shelter.