Wilfred Chan is a journalist based in New York City
January 2024
‘Seismic shift’: driving unaffordable for many in US amid push toward SUVs
Luxury vehicles, production cuts and soaring insurance prices have sent the cost of US car ownership out of control
December 2023
‘They’re playing dirty’: inside delivery apps’ pushback against tips after New York raises wage
City’s new law guarantees some drivers nearly $30 an hour but bosses are trying to reassert their dominance. I got back on my delivery bike to find out more
US risks ‘complicity in war crimes’, says Human Rights Watch – as it happened
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A protest against a top Israel-born chef was called antisemitic. Staff tell a different story
Michael Solomonov’s Israel-inspired restaurant empire has come under scrutiny by pro-Palestinian protesters, who accuse him of complicity in attacks on Gaza
November 2023
New Yorkers feel betrayed as police radio dispatches end: ‘You’d hear about nine shootings a day’
Could the FBI’s investigation send New York mayor Eric Adams to prison?
Has New York finally found a solution to its rat problem?
Millions of US homes are so overheated they open their windows in the winter. Why?
Hamas says 195 killed in two days of strikes on Jabalia camp – as it happened
‘The Palestine exception’: why pro-Palestinian voices are suppressed in the US
October 2023
‘We’re in a housing desert’: a month in, is New York’s Airbnb crackdown working?
Central Park warned a festival would ruin its lawn. New York went ahead with it
September 2023
‘I pulled my sock down and saw blood’: drivers for Amazon in US complain of dog attacks
Amazon considers its ‘Flex drivers’ independent contractors – meaning they’re not promised worker’s compensation after a bite
‘Obama’s education legacy needs to be questioned’: the scholar fighting for reparations for Black students
Bettina Love believes decades of victimization, brutalization and belittlement of Black students by the US education system should be rectified with $2tn in reparations
‘They’re big, bad bullies’: New York’s bitter fight over a 34,000-seat cricket stadium
The mayor wants to build a new international home for the sport. But local players and Bronx residents aren’t happy with the plan
August 2023
New York is building the world’s tallest jail in Chinatown. Can anyone stop it?
Planners say the facility will help heal the criminal justice system. But local residents see a brutal symbol of incarceration
Sunscreen socialism: AOC divides the left with call for better skincare options
Ocasio-Cortez’s video with a brand owner angered some who saw it as consumerist, while others backed her on health grounds
‘The police see us as disposable’: what life’s really like in New York’s maligned ‘red light district’
As rightwing media and the mayor target a Queens neighborhood, sex workers say they’re just trying to survive
July 2023
‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to serve alcohol
$7,000 a day for five catchphrases: the TikTokers pretending to be ‘non-playable characters’
