This Strange Thing Called Prom
Ever since 2003, when a leggy Muslim girl from Senegal named Hawa Kebe immigrated to Brooklyn, in the eighth grade, she has dreamed of going to her senior prom. READ MORE
The Rainbow Runway
Goose-pimply in a turquoise string bikini and silver heels, Stacy Wang stepped up to the microphone in a back room of East Manor, a dim sum restaurant in Flushing, Queens, and breathed deeply. READ MORE
The Changing of the Guard
In her 19 years as a corrections officer on Rikers Island, Barbara Williams has been trapped in a mess hall with rioting inmates and thrown against an iron gate by a man twice her size who left her with a fractured shoulder. READ MORE
Island Girls
For Staten Island women, dating a Manhattan man is like having a long-distance relationship. READ MORE
Fortune’s Sisters
There is an ancient Chinese myth that people who are destined to meet are connected from birth by invisible red thread. READ MORE
Awaiting God’s Decision
''In Case of Emergency'' was the topic of a recent Sunday morning sermon at Canaan Baptist Church of Christ on West 116th Street in Harlem. READ MORE
Ariel and the Silver Car
The keys were in the car door. That much Ariel Guadalupe remembers telling the police on the September day in 2004 when she was nabbed for stealing a 1999 silver Ford Crown Victoria in Queens. She was 14. READ MORE
The City / NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: MIDTOWN
At the Algonquin Hotel there is a popular saying: "Dogs have owners. Cats have staff." In the case of a fleecy, blue-eyed Birman named Matilda II, the hotel's current cat-in-residence, that staff now includes a ghostwriter. READ MORE
