Priya Patel

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• Brooklyn Parents and Electeds Collide Over School Co-Location Plan

  City education officials propose sharing space between an existing high school and a new charter, igniting months of back-and-forth in community board meetings.

  Politics · Priya Patel · May 1, 2026

• Harlem Gospel Choirs Expand Into Afternoon Community Concerts

  Gospel ensembles are staging daytime performances in churches and parks to reach older audiences and daytime cultural crowds.

  Entertainment · Priya Patel · March 20, 2026

• Revisiting Hudson River School Sites as Pilgrimage and Protest

  Artists and activists are using historic landscape locations to stage performances and debates about conservation and land use.

  Culture · Priya Patel · January 10, 2026

• Staten Island Ferry Faces Winter Staffing Crunch

  Rising overtime and a wave of retirements are forcing schedule cuts that could disrupt thousands of daily cross-Hudson commuters.

  NYC · Priya Patel · December 9, 2025