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Migrant Artists Find Light in the Darkness at Brooklyn Shelter

Venezuelan artist Roger Miranda had some of his recent work displayed at a makeshift gallery inside the Hall Street migrant shelter.

Marcos Ferreira Batista, 44, hadn’t sketched in more than a decade. But as he settled into a new city while living at a sprawling migrant shelter in Clinton Hill, he felt compelled to draw again, tormented by the faces of migrants whose paths he’d crossed on his two-month long journey from Chile to the United […]

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Rochester repurposing pay phones to provide phone service for people who can’t afford it

There’s an effort in Rochester to get phones made available to people who can’t afford them. The initiative to provide this free phone service began when local photographer and Assistant Professor at RIT/NTID Eric Kunsman was doing a project several years ago to document the dwindling number of pay phones locally. He said that as […]