Email Author Kelly McEvers

2005 Stories by Kelly McEvers

• Close-Up on Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

  published October 11, 2005

  In many ways, the story of Boerum Hill is the story of Brooklyn. It was settled more than three hundred years ago by Dutch farmers. By the... More >>

• Close-Up on Two Bridges, Manhattan

  published August 23, 2005

  Once Dutch farmland located outside New York City limits; later the province of powerful Irish immigrants and the home of famed New York governor... More >>

• State of Siege

  published August 2, 2005

  BESLAN, RUSSIA—Nearly a year after the deadly siege at School No. 1 in this North Ossetian town that killed more than 300... More >>

• Close-Up on Koreatown

  published July 12, 2005

  Like most of the city's so-called ethnic neighborhoods, this one wasn't planned. But unlike other enclaves, Koreatown hasn't become a caricature... More >>

• Close-Up on Brighton Beach

  published May 3, 2005

  It's been said that to live in New York is to have the ability to visit any country, any time. Never is this truth proved as effortlessly as on a... More >>

• Close-Up on the Lower East Side

  published March 1, 2005

  Jacob Riis wasn't the first whitey-European to be obsessed with the Lower East Side, and from the looks of the neighborhood, he's not the last. A... More >>