Death of the Good Samaritan?

By Jonathan Kaplan, Ph.D.
Last week, a homeless man, Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax, intervened to stop a physical altercation between a man and a woman in Queens.  A few hours later, he was found dead on the sidewalk as a victim of multiple stab wounds.  According to surveillance video, the man collapsed on the street a couple [...]

“People helping other people” mindfulness: Spontaneous acts of caring in Gotham

By Irene Javors, LMHC
On one of those bitterly cold Sunday afternoons that NYC has endured over the last month, I decide to get a cup of something hot at the nearest coffee shop. I manage to find a window seat and set myself down to a serious half hour of people watching. People are rushing [...]