Mrwa Abbas

New story for @healthbeat.org! Thoroughly enjoyed reporting this one.

NYC senior care provider loses federal funding over its programs that help immigrants feel at home India Home operates five senior care centers serving South Asian and Indo-Caribbean immigrants in Queens, New York. A Trump executive order impacting culturally sensitive programs has eliminated $1 mi...

My first story with @healthbeat.org

A senior care center serving South Asian elders in NYC is losing federal funding for the very programs that help them connect to their culture and community. Read more here:

Its a Race Against Time to Protect a Bushwick Community from Flash Floods President Trump’s executive orders leave the city’s climate change projects facing uncertainty.

Reported and wrote this with my colleagues at CUNY Journalism School on how this Bushwick community is still feeling the impacts of Hurricane Ida almost four years later.

www.nycitynewsservice.com/2025/05/21/i...

Clarisa Alayeto Hopes To Take Her Advocacy From Patterson Houses to City Hall Clarisa Alayeto is the only District 8 City Council candidate from the South Bronx.

My first profile! I wrote about Clarisa Alayeto's run for City Council District 8, which spans both East Harlem and the South Bronx.

www.nycitynewsservice.com/2025/05/16/c...

City Child Poverty Rate Jumps to 26 Percent, Nearly Twice the National Average The end of pandemic-era support programs has made things more difficult for some New York families.

I had the opportunity to speak to CUNY journalism's @mrwaabbas.bsky.social about the recent @povertycenter.bsky.social report on child poverty in NYC.

www.nycitynewsservice.com/2025/04/29/n...