Author: Neha Banka (Neha Banka)

In 2009, while doing research for a book on Iran, Journalist Roxana Saberi was falsely accused of espionage, detained without the knowledge of her family and sentenced to eight years in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. Saberi, who was born in the United States, traces her Iranian roots to her father’s family and her Japanese heritage...

Zuccotti Park was less crowded on Wednesday, but Occupy Wall Street members insisted that the movement is not losing steam as they prepared several dramatic gestures for Thursday in protest of Tuesday’s early morning police eviction and a court order banning tents and sleeping bags in the park. Only a few dozen protestors were milling...

Brooklyn Bridge Park in the DUMBO neighborhood appears to be the first to have Wi-Fi service cover the entire park, according to Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. The project in Brooklyn Bridge Park is a joint venture between DUMBO Industrial District, Two Trees Management Company and NYC Wireless.

When St. Vincent’s Hospital, a private institution, in Manhattan closed its doors amid a citywide uproar in April 2010, medical technician Grace Fuller thought she and other qualified employees would quickly find new jobs. She was wrong.

Residents of Crown Heights walked together on Thursday evening in a peace march to end gun violence, but also to call attention to increased safety in the neighborhood in recent years.