Like an untended bean pole, the tangled saga of a would-be community garden in Arverne just keeps growing...
In 2016, Andrea Colon was accepted to participate in the city’s Summer Youth Employment Program...
Lisa Dazzell’s story is just beginning. Everything she has done in her life has been done with intention...
The Rockaway Youth Task Force took over a half-acre patch of Rockaway Community Park in 2014...
The Department of Education is taking a new approach to safety this year, but police will still be roving...
The Rockaway Youth Task Force transformed an asphalt lot into a thriving garden to help residents gain...
The Rockaway Youth Task Force joined with Councilman Donovan Richards and representatives of the city’s...
The streets of Edgemere were almost quiet on a Monday afternoon in July. Aside from a few cars and buses...
Black and brown students are constantly being suspended, missing class, and no one asks...
Dozens of criminal justice reform advocates gathered on the steps of the Queens County Criminal Courthouse...
A coalition spent Martin Luther King Jr. Day criticizing Queens District Attorney Richard Brown and making...
Dozens of justice reform advocates spent much of Martin Luther King Jr. Day rallying on the steps...
Dozens of protestors gathered on the steps of the Queens Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday to rally against...
Urban Youth Collaborative and Rockaway Youth Task Force activist Andrea Colon, who graduated from Rockaway...
The economic model of working with community gardens in New York has been so successful...
City students called for more guidance counselors and fewer police in public schools at a spirited rally...
Jeffrey Canas vented his angst against school safety agents that continually vex him by forcing the 11th...
Some students in Queens rallied outside an elected official's office against increased policing in schools...
If history has taught us anything, it’s that young people will always lead the way...
Mayor de Blasio's post-Parkland student town hall on gun violence turned into a referendum on the...
A mass FOIL effort would force the police to divulge their policies when it comes to investigating gangs...
Flooding during Hurricane Sandy damaged much of Jose Velez’s New York City home...
The Rockaway Youth Task Force has a long waiting list of families who want spots in its community garden...
Cities and states have traditionally been incubators of reform—local policy experiments and innovation have...
More than 92 percent of students arrested in schools last year were black or Hispanic, according to a new...
The Fund for Public Housing, a nonprofit established last year to supplement the New York City Housing...
On Monday, the City Planning Commission (CPC) voted unanimously to approve the administration’s proposed...
A hot sauce company is using local community gardens to make a Queens-inspired hot sauce...
On June 22nd, a spicy new condiment launched to the public...
When students at a public high school in Park Slope, Brooklyn, recently came to school celebrating Trump's...
Coupled with threats of gentrification, communities are still recovering from trauma that accompanied...
A policing pilot program in the Rockaways in Queens is encouraging officers to mingle with residents...
Four garden groups are working to empower their communities, youth included, in an isolated New York City...
The Rockaway Peninsula is known for its beaches, but it could soon be known as a community gardening hub...
When the city brings permanent ferry service to the Rockaways next year, there's a plan in the works for a...
Dozens of youth and student organizations from across New York City convened outside of the office of U.S. ...
Six months into the initiative, residents have responded to the pilot plan with mixed feelings...
NY1 coverage of our 3rd Annual Day Service event celebrating our communities progress since Sandy...
On a recent afternoon in Far Rockaway, the six officers sat on couches in the second-floor office of the...
RYTF's community garden is growing fast and looking for more space to spread its roots...
When it first opened in 2013, there wasn't a guarantee that it would make it through a full season...
Last week Jazmine Outlaw, 20, defeated Victor Boamah, 24, in the election to become president of the 101st...
RYTF membership coordinator Jazmine Outlaw’s run for 101th Precinct Community Council president...
The garden, which is on Beach 58th Street and Beach Channel Drive, features plenty of planting beds, solar...
It’s been a long cold winter but that hasn’t stopped the Rockaway Youth Task Force’s recruitment efforts...
New York’s #BlackoutBlackFriday protest, organized by social justice group Million Hoodies and RYTF...
RYTF demonstrates how economic power is the root of racial justice...
Arielle Newton, Chief Innovation Officer, travels to Ferguson, Missouri in solidarity with Mike Brown...
Hurricane Sandy left many Far Rockaway residents devastated, but inspired some to do more...
RYTF joins State Senator Sanders & Councilman Richards at an emergency community meeting to address gun...
The RYTF began building a garden in an effort to help the community recover from the devastation of...
Destroyed by Superstorm Sandy almost two years ago the Beach 41st street community center's gym was left...
Milan Taylor and Councilman Donovan Richards speak at a panel in Paris on the importance of Youth...
The Rockaway Youth Task Force, partnering with Grow NYC, opens its Youth Market for the second year...
The Rockaway Youth Task Force (RYTF)is calling on the New York City Housing...
One year ago, a hurricane – the worst storm the Northeast had ever seen – touched land, wreaking havoc on...
The latest Queens People of the Week are the members of the Rockaway Youth Task Force who spend their...
Rockaway youth showed off their talents at an Open Mic Night hosted by the Rockaway Youth Task Force (RTYF)...
Last weekend one of the first spring cleanups on the peninsula took place as the Rockaway Youth Task Force...
Milan Taylor from Rockaway Youth Task Force and Theo Phillips, Field Director Police Athletic League...
The latest Queens Person of the Week is a Rockaway native who is inspiring young...
We've seen the agony caused by a storm named Sandy - Homes destroyed; Families left in the dark; Fistfights...
In anticipation of the 2012 election, the Rockaway Youth Task Force proudly registered about 350 18- to...
The Rockaway Youth Task Force is a youth empowerment group started in 2011...
A wise man once said that power is “the ability to have your will accomplished in...
Members of the Rockaway Youth Task Force held a voter registration drive in...
Saturday, September 29 the Rockaway Youth Task Force (RYTF) spent the day knocking on doors registering...
They shouted “Peace up, guns down” and “No more silence, stop the violence.” It was a community that had...
The Rockaway Youth Task Force led a cleanup on Beach 54 Street last Friday evening...
One of Rockaway’s leading youth advocates joined in a brainstorming session at Gracie...
Friday, December 2, more than 60 young people packed the Ocean Bay Community Center for an Open Mic Night...