Emily Brady

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Takeout on Euclid Avenue

The Village Voice

Even in East New York, where the pop and bang of gunfire is common background noise, the shot was impossible to ignore. Emilio Batista, an unemployed warehouse worker, heard it as he lay in bed just before midnight.

The Year of Living Nervously

The New York Times

Mr. Tikum, who hoped to be granted political asylum in the United States, was by his own account running from many things: a Cameroonian jail, torture by his nation’s police, his work in the Anglophone secessionist movement, and the death of his father.

After the Accident

Columbia Journalism Review

Five years ago this month, New York City sanitation workers made a gruesome discovery. While emptying garbage cans in the streets of Harlem, they spotted a tiny arm sticking out of the heap of rubbish in the back of their truck.

In the Projects, Hope and Hard Knocks

The New York Times

Drugs and guns may have loosened their grip on Cypress Hills Houses, but for the ordinary people who live there, the everyday drama is still about making do.

Maria Duran’s Endless Wait

The New York Times

As the fifth anniversary of the conflict in Iraq nears, a mother in Queens experiences a particular anguish over the fate of her missing son.

A Chance to Be Mourned

The New York Times

After the death of one of its own, a homeless group seeks easier ways to grieve for New York’s nameless and unclaimed dead.

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May 27 2009
The Village Voice

See Dick Pay Jane: Chaste Dating for Cash

Three unemployed women in their mid-twenties set up this business earlier this year to provide men with an unusual service: platonic female company for a price.

May 3 2009
The New York Times

36 Hours in Oakland, Calif.

For visitors willing to give the city a chance, the rewards are plenty: Art Deco architecture, stunning views and a beautiful mix of cultures.

Mar 20 2009
Star Weekend Magazine

Hunger in the Hills: A Journey Through the Chittagong Hill Tracts

The price of rice doubled in 2007 in Bangladesh and across the globe, forcing the hundreds of millions of poor families who depend on the grain as their main food source to make do with less.