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José A. Alvarado Jr.

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José A. Alvarado Jr. (b.1989) is a Puerto Rican photographer dedicated to documenting class inequality, civic engagement, and contemporary issues in Puerto Rico and New York City. He works primarily in long-form storytelling,... read on

Location: New York

Focus: Photographer, Photojournalist, Writer, Politics, Travel, Sports, Still Life, Photo Assistant, Documentary, Photography, Portraiture

Skills: Translator, Image Archiving, Digital Printing, Sports, Lighting Tech, Audio Recording, Photo Assisting, Color Correction, Film Scanning, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premier, Apple Final Cut Pro, Book Layout/Design, Photo Editing, Black & White Printing, Web Design, Exhibition Design, Photojournalism, Film Processing, Film Photography

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for The New York Times: The Nights When New York Felt Alive Again

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / City of New York — By 9 p.m., a blanket of darkness settles over the city. Dance parties begin in living rooms and voices..

Aug 11, 2021

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for Chalkbeat: "˜Literally chaos"™: A Newark mom reflects on surviving COVID, virtual learning and more

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / Newark — After falling ill with COVID-19 and isolating indoors with her children for weeks, Coyotecatl says the..

Aug 3, 2021

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for Chalkbeat: Schools and families weathered the pandemic together. Will the partnership last?

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / Newark — At Roseville, and schools everywhere, the pandemic has toppled the walls separating school and home...

Aug 3, 2021

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for Chalkbeat: "˜How do we rebuild a sense of community?"™ A Brooklyn school seeks to find joy and connection after a devastating year

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / City of New York — Milagros Reyes’s husband was in the first wave of New Yorkers to succumb to the coronavirus, taking..

Aug 3, 2021

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for The New York Times: Why Top Democrats Are Listening to Eric Adams Right Now

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / City of New York — When Eric Adams won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, his supporters in Congress were..

Aug 3, 2021

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for Chalkbeat: "˜It was a roller coaster"™: A job running a Brooklyn after-school program transformed into triage during the pandemic

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / City of New York — Yasirys Pichardo was excited to start a new job in late February 2020 overseeing the after-school program at..

Aug 3, 2021

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for Chalkbeat: De Blasio keeps mask rules for New York City schools despite CDC changes

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / City of New York — New York City schools will stick with universal masking for now, despite new federal guidance that OKs..

Aug 3, 2021

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for The New York Times: In addition to Covid, more children are getting a respiratory virus more commonly seen in winter.

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / City of New York — U.S. health officials have expressed concern over a simultaneous rise in Delta infections and cases of..

Aug 3, 2021

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for The New York Times: "˜Welcome to the Mesh, Brother"™: Guerrilla Wi-Fi Comes to New York

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / City of New York — NYC Mesh, a band of a few dozen tech volunteers, takes on Verizon and the big “incumbent..

Aug 3, 2021

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for The Wall Street Journal: New York Police Interventions With Emotionally Distressed Students Have Increased

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / New York City — New York City school police responded to more than 12,000 incidents between July 2016 and June 2020..

Jul 12, 2021

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for The Wall Street Journal: Remember Last Year"™s 7 p.m. Cheer? Some New Yorkers Are Still at It.

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / manhattan — Early in the pandemic, New Yorkers began cheering for essential workers every evening at 7. From..

Jul 12, 2021

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for The New York Times: Monthly Payments to Families With Children to Begin

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / manhattan — If all goes as planned, the Treasury Department will begin making a series of monthly payments in coming..

Jul 12, 2021

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for The New York Times: A Landlord Says Her Tenants Are Terrorizing Her. She Can"™t Evict Them.

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / Queens — For more than a year, Vanie Mangal, a physician assistant at a Connecticut hospital, called relatives to..

Jul 12, 2021

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for The New York Times: Who"™s Happy About In-Person Summer School? N.Y.C. Parents.

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / East Harlem — There were sparkly unicorn backpacks, Pokémon baseball caps and brightly colored hair bows among the..

Jul 8, 2021

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for The New York Times: 125,000 Absentee Ballots Will Likely Decide New York"™s Next Mayor

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / City Hall Park, New York — Fresh off a vote-counting debacle that caught national attention, the chaotic New York City Democratic..

Jul 3, 2021

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for NPR: Change.Org Workers Form A Union, Giving Labor Activists Another Win In Tech

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / manhattan — Late last year, Erni Poché took a temporary job with the petition website Change.org. The gig..

Jun 30, 2021

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for The Wall Street Journal: New York Mayoral Candidate Maya Wiley Is Gaining in the Polls

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / New York City — Former Chair of NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board and New York City mayoral candidate, Maya Wiley, in..

Jun 21, 2021

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for The Wall Street Journal: Ray McGuire Says New York City Doesn"™t Need a Politician as Mayor

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / South Bronx — When Ray McGuire resigned as vice chairman at Citigroup Inc. last fall, he left as the first Black man to..

Jun 15, 2021

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for The Wall Street Journal: Kathryn Garcia Says She Knows How to Manage New York City

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / Park Slope — Kathryn Garcia’s first job in city government was at 22 years old as an intern in New York..

Jun 15, 2021

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for Chalkbeat: "˜Una gran familia"™: How WhatsApp helped a small Brooklyn school remain a big family in the face of isolation and grief

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / cypress hills — The messages pinged at all hours, pleas from parents frantically trying to keep up with remote learning as..

Jun 11, 2021

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for Chalkbeat: Pandemic 360: A comprehensive look at COVID"™s impact on school communities

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / New York City — Anxiety. Depression. Cabin fever. Isolation. These words appeared over and over when we asked our..

Jun 11, 2021

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for The Wall Street Journal: Scott Stringer Says He Is "˜the Comeback Kid"™ in New York City"™s Mayoral Race

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / Central Park, New York — When New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer announced last September he was running for mayor, he was..

Jun 3, 2021

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for L'OBS Magazine: Navi Radjou: "The big change of tomorrow will be to reconnect your mind with your body

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / Central Park, New York — By his slight accent, he is assumed to be American, especially since he is moving from Brooklyn to Manhattan..

Jun 3, 2021

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for The Wall Street Journal: Andrew Yang Says He Can Transform New York City"™s Politics

By José A. Alvarado Jr. / Financial District — As a candidate for president, Andrew Yang, who spent years building support for his universal-basic-income..

Jun 3, 2021

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