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  June 19, 2025 Queens Chronicle

  Celebrating Queens’ nonprofit ‘Helping Hands’

  The Fortune Society, based in Long Island City, has a range of services but focuses on a specific clientele

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  June 19, 2025 Queens Chronicle

  Fortune has hope in humanity

  LIC nonprofit assists formerly incarcerated people with reentry into society

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  June 17, 2025 Le Figaro

  “It’s a pressure cooker”: Rikers Island, New York’s cursed prison, riddled with drugs and violence

  The problems reached such a level that federal authorities took control of the notorious prison complex from New York City. Slated for closure, it still holds nearly 7,000 inmates.

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  September 25, 2022 New York Daily News

  Fighting illness, out of Rikers

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  April 08, 2025 NYC Parks

  The Fortune Society’s Arts Festival

  Celebrate community, liberation and healing through the Arts with the Long Island City-based non-profit dedicated to building people, not prisons.

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  March 31, 2025 Broadway World

  Photos: David Rothenberg Hosts Book Launch With Christine Ebersole, Jim McGreevey, and More

  On March 30, theater publicist David Rothenberg celebrated the release of his new book, Manhattan Mayhem, with a release party at Fortune Society’s Castle Gardens.

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