Scenes like this have long been commonplace 69th Street near Broadway and 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens, where scores of day laborers gather most days. But ever since Oct. 21, when the police arrested 10 laborers at the intersection, a feeling of unease has reverberated among the men.

Published by New York Times on November 15, 2008.

Police officials said that they had arrested the men, all of them day laborers, after repeated complaints from residents near the Broadway and 37th Avenue, one of several intersections in Jackson Heights where scores of laborers gather every day hoping to be chosen for work.

Published by New York Times on October 23, 2008.

...a Garcia, 59, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who waits for work every day at Roosevelt Avenue and 69th Street in Queens, said he was trying to make just enough money to buy a plane...

Published by New York Times on October 20, 2008.

Even before the migration back to Poland began, the Polish community in Greenpoint was fracturing under the pressure of gentrification, which drove up property values. Young families, new immigrants and those of modest means have in turn settled in nascent Polish communities in the city, including Maspeth and Ridgewood in Queens, and Borough Park in Brooklyn, while others have moved out of the state.

Published by New York Times on September 21, 2008.

Wong, 56, made life a living hell for single dad San Martin, 39, from the moment he moved into her Elmhurst apartment building in February 2006.

Published by New York Daily News on September 21, 2008.