Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska

With Greece’s economy reeling and its unemployment rate about 18 percent, some Greeks are trying their luck in the U.S. — especially true in the stronghold of Astoria, Queens, where Greek stores, restaurants and travel agencies dot Ditmars Boulevard and 31st Street.

Read It was the only homicide in New York City recorded on September 11, 2001. And it remains unsolved. Ten years later it’s hard to reconstruct Henryk Siwiak’s last day and even h...

For most New Yorkers, pigeons are considered one of the city's foulest pests. But for a small group of folks, the birds are cherished for their grace, intellect and, most importantly, their speed. Those who race pigeons — a small segment of the population that nearly vanished as gentrification threatened the hobby — fawn over their flocks and help keep the longstanding tradition alive. 

For many immigrants in the union, working on political campaigns is sometimes the first time in their lives they’ve been engaged in the democratic process.

Dan Donovan, 53, the Republican candidate for New York attorney general, may have an Irish last name, but according to his 84-year-old mother he looks Polish and his gray eyes and...

Attorney General candidate Richard Brodsky has been courting the Russian-speaking community like no other candidate in the AG race. A dispatch from Little Brooklyn's “Little Ode...

Chopin turns 200 this year, and thousands of events are planned to honor him.

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This year fans of classical music are celebrating the 200th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin’s birth. Thousands of events honoring the composer are planned around the world, many of them in renowned New York venues, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Carnegie Hall.

But one immigrant ...

Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, reporter for Feet in Two Worlds and for Nowy Dzienik/The Polish Daily News, talks about the changing demographics of Polish immigrants.

Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, reporter for Feet in 2 Worlds and for the Polish Daily News, talks about immigrants returning to Poland because of the economic downturn.

Bo Lipari, executive director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting speaks about voting problems--and what voters can do about them--in New York and elsewhere.

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Bob Hennelly, WNYC reporter, talks about the races in New Jersey--and why he thinks the Garden State is at a ...

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The troubling economic times here are making some immigrants think about going home. Nineteen years after the collapse of communism and four years after joining the European Union, Poland is booming and young Poles in the United States want to profit from these changes. They're ...

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The troubling economic times here are making some immigrants think about going home. Nineteen years after the collapse of communism and four years after joining the European Union, Poland is booming and young Poles in the United States want to profit from these changes.

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Georgia Congressman John Lewis talks about the civil rights movement in the context of this year's convention and previews Obama speech tonight.

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Convention time means party time. Nancy Watzman heads up the Party Time project of the Sunlight Foundation. She dishes the details about the premiere ...

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The recent fire at the Deutsche Bank building and the controversy that followed has reminded people once again of the environmental hazards that were left behind after September 11th. While for many awareness of these problems has just been reawakened, thousands of workers who participated ...

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The immigration bill being debated in Congress will have huge consequences for millions of New Yorkers. For residents of Greenpoint , Brooklyn, the proposed revisions are only one of several changes they’re dealing with. For years Greenpoint, was like a Polish village of ethnic stores, ...

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Fighting loneliness is one of the biggest challenges facing new immigrants. Today we present the final report in our series "Feet in Two Worlds: Immigrants in a Global City." Our story is about recent Polish immigrants living in Brooklyn. They have managed to recreate the ...