The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) and Photoville unveiled a striking new public art installation featuring the stories of immigrant New Yorkers at the Hunters Point branch of the Queens Public Library. The installation is part of NYIC’s second annual New York Proud campaign, a public art initiative that transforms subway stations, bus shelters and plazas to showcase the real people at the center of America’s immigration debate.

“New York Proud is a vital reminder of the role immigrants have played—and continue to play—in shaping all aspects of Queens and New York City,” said Murad Awawdeh , President & CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition. “By transforming public spaces with this installation, we hope to illuminate what the national debate has too often erased: that immigra

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