CD 9: Barrels-full of Hope
Caribbean-born New Yorkers long have sent barrels filled with food and other necessities to loved ones back home. But the recession is slowing the flow.
Caribbean-born New Yorkers long have sent barrels filled with food and other necessities to loved ones back home. But the recession is slowing the flow.
Some first-generation Arab Americans in Brooklyn, like Norhan Basuni, are swimming against the secular current, immersing themselves in Islam.
Bensonhurst’s 86th Street hasn’t been the same since the days of "Saturday Night Fever." But one thing never changes: Lenny's Pizza.
Bangladeshis, one of the city's fastest growing immigrant communities, are developing diabetes at an alarming rate.
For immigrants, sports can maintain a link to an identity and a culture left in another country. In southern Brooklyn, two distinctively non-American sports maintain avid followings: pingpong and cricket.
Women in the vibrant Pakistani-American community centered along Coney Island Avenue face tough decision about whether to continue such traditions as arranged marriage.
Immigration can put a strain on marriages, often because of cultural clashes over gender roles.
Zhu Xuerong longs to bring her young children from China to America – but not to Brownsville, where she is among a small number of Asian immigrants living in the Van Dyke Houses.