JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY – Aswini Anburajan, FI2W reporter Only in New York City, and especially only in Queens, would this reporter find herself surrounded by three loqacious voters of such different origins — two Bangladeshi men and one Argentinean woman…
NEW YORK – Aswini Anburajan, FI2W reporter Throughout New York City there have been reports that voters have been asked to show identification, in violation of New York election law. Laura Matthews, a second year law student at the City…
JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY – Aswini Anburajan, FI2W reporter Coming from Manhattan, you can feel the difference as you step off the subway platform at 72nd St. and Broadway in Queens. A primarily ethnic community, Jackson Heights is home to, among many…
NEW YORK – Yan Tai, World Journal reporter On this Election Day, Chinatown in Manhattan is not hustle-and-bustle as usual. Stores see smaller crowds due to the closure of government offices and schools. The unlikely busy places turned out to…
ASTORIA, NY – By Suman Ragunathan, FI2W Consultant In Astoria, Queens, an ethnically diverse immigrant neighborhood just minutes away from Midtown Manhattan, Saeeda Nadeem was on her way to vote for the first time after 15 years in the U.S.Saeeda,…
NEW YORK – Aswini Anburajan, FI2W reporter Union Square is buzzing with vendors and election volunteers. There are even people from Comedy Central who are handing out buttons for the cable channel’s “Indecision 2008.” Some of the vendors have proclaimed…
Voting in Brooklyn, by Elisbrown/Flickr. NEW YORK, By Aswini Anburajan, FI2W Reporter Lexington Ave. Running through Spanish Harlem is pretty quiet this morning, it looks like almost any other day. But voters are lined halfway down the block at the community…
It took Ryszard Klimek seven years to register to vote. Since he became a citizen in 2001, American politics was not a subject of his interest. “Politics in my country is a parody. So I lost interest in it and…