They called her “Screaming” Hurricane Maria on the island. Here, in New York and beyond, Diasporicans roar back with large and small acts of love, light and a reclamation of our Madre Tierra (Mother Earth).
Fighting Gentrification on Brooklyn’s Waterfront
Underneath the hum of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, crowds file past Third Avenue towards Sunset Park’s repurposed waterfront factories. No, they won’t be clocking in to the assembly line for an eight-hour day of union wages — they’ll be mixing with peers at a $75-a-head wine tasting then wandering Industry City’s open art studios, faces flushed with drink instead of sweat.