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Mariachi singer Veronica Robles channeled the loss of her daughter into the creation of a cultural center that fortifies Boston’s immigrant community.

A pandemic year in the life of a New York City block “Is this going to be like this forever?” An oral history of fear, endurance, and hope in Sunset Park. People gathered for a “Unity March Against Hate” in Sunset Park in Brooklyn on March 14. Gabriela Bhaskar for Vox Jesús Delgado and three of his employees are making tortillas like they’ve been doing every day for the past month. One feeds a giant ball of fresh masa into the metal mouth of a tortilla machine, while two more stack the puffy, steaming rounds that roll out onto a conveyor belt. A fourth man weighs and packages the s...

. Flora Pérez, a produce vendor in Queens, has been trying for weeks to get a vaccine appointment for her 82-year-old father. “It’s really, really hard — none are available,” Ms. Pérez, 58, said as she wrapped tomatillos in plastic bags at her stand in the Corona neighborhood. She does not have time to spend hours online or calling the state’s hotline, she said, so she and her siblings have been taking turns. “I’m waiting and waiting,” she said. Corona, where Ms. Pérez and her father live, is one of the New York City neighborhoods that have been most devastated by the pande...

Logistical hurdles, fear and misinformation are threatening to leave some of New York City's immigrant communities behind as the vaccine rollout ramps up.