After Venezuelan migrant Marlimar Gomez bundled up her 4-year-old daughter, two older children, and herself against the frigid southeastern Brooklyn cold, they set out from the tent shelter at Floyd Bennett Field for the walk — more than 4 miles — to the nearest neighborhood, where she hoped to find food, warmer clothes, and, perhaps, toys for the children.
Every day of his 45-year NYPD career, former Chief of Department Joseph Esposito put on his uniform and went to work eager to serve the people of New York. Even during the city’s darkest days, such as 9/11 and its aftermath, he was on the front lines.
For a long time, Joseph Fox wondered if any current NYPD cop was wearing his father’s old shield number, 10956. When he started trying to find out in 2017, he got the chance to enjoy a little piece of his dad’s Police Department history.
For retired NYPD Chief Joseph Fox, Feb. 17 is a very special date. In fact, it’s one of the most important dates in the history of his family.
Bushwick’s Hispanic Catholic community braved snow flurries and frigid weather to celebrate the Epiphany, or Three Kings Day, on Jan. 7. Hundreds streamed into All Saints Catholic Church and Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii to commemorate the visit of the Magi — and in doing so, reinforced a sentiment voiced by Bishop Robert Brennan.
When Sister Elizabeth Ogbu visits her hometown in Nigeria, she especially enjoys going at Christmas. “That’s when I catch all the fun,” she said. “It’s a happy time, I tell you.”
Santa Claus does have a fanbase in the Dominican Republic, but not as strong as the Baby Jesus, the Three Kings, and La Vieja Belén.
The family of Pasqua Gaudiuso Cama, who in 1951 immigrated to Brooklyn from Bari, Italy, honored her on Sunday, Dec. 17, when they donated, in her name, a statue of St. Nicholas of Bari to Sacred Hearts & St. Stephen Parish, Carroll Gardens.
Matthew Chicoine joined Instagram eight years ago in response to a tragedy. The death of an unborn child, compounded with the demands of his job as a Catholic school teacher, compelled him to turn to writing on his website (www.thesimplecatholic.blog) and Instagram (@thesimplecatholic) to “grapple with the stress and grief” of that year.
Estevao Neitzke carefully drops the figurine of St. Joseph into place. Jacob Chavez mixes sand and clay to represent the landscape of the Holy Land and applies it to the plywood base. Juan Jose Luna places animal figurines on a three-foot-high cardboard mountain.
