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Fight for $15? NYC ethnic communities respond to minimum wage proposal
Posted on 07 October 2015.
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A Nepali Night on the Town
Posted on 03 December 2014.
Hot oil sizzles up from the frying pans that Rekha Shrestha pulls on and off the six burners in front of her at Bhims Café, where she fries up Nepalese rice doughnuts.
Posted in Arts and Culture, Business, Featured, Nepali, Queens0 Comments
Queens Food Court Reopens After Cleanup
Posted on 03 December 2014.
The oily scent of potato and onion samosas fills the air as soon as a customer pushes through the glass doors to the Jackson Heights Food Court. “Apake dina kaise ho raha hai (How is your day going)?” a customer asks, as an Indian man in a dark blue apron and baseball cap carefully spoons orange-tinted potato and cauliflower curry into a styrofoam cup.
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Dominican Wine Bar Brings Community Together
Posted on 23 October 2014.
In Corcho Wine Room, Benlly Polanco hoped to create a place where people from his mainly Dominican neighborhood in Inwood could enjoy wine, food, art, music and a nice conversation, and could “feel at home.”
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Are Esrogim the Perfect Fruit?
Posted on 20 October 2014.
Italian-born Rabbi Leizer Rodal opened shop in Crown Heights to sell esrogim, traditional fruit for Sukkot.
Posted in Arts and Culture, Brooklyn, Business, Featured, Religion0 Comments
Shabbos App: Jewish World Debates Smartphone Application
Posted on 17 October 2014.
A software developer is planning an app that would allow observant Jews to use their smartphones during the Sabbath. But the very concept has been met with skepticism and concern how it would get around religious prohibitions on using electricity.
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East Harlem Prepares for Fight Against Luxury Development
Posted on 09 October 2014.
Many East Harlem residents are protesting a luxury high-rise development at the site of a shopping center in their neighborhood.
Posted in Business, Communities, Featured, Manhattan, Mexican0 Comments
Mayoral Agencies Get Low Grades on Hiring Women and Minorities
Posted on 02 October 2014.
Two-thirds of New York City mayoral agencies were graded “D” or “F” for their lack of success in hiring minorities and women-owned businesses, in a report card system unveiled on Wednesday by Comptroller Scott Stringer.
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Councilman Helps Recruit for Driving Jobs in the Bronx
Posted on 02 October 2014.
On an overcast Wednesday morning, down the street from the Gun Hill housing projects, Councilman Andy King was offering something very different from his neighbors, the check cashing store and the pawn shop – he was offering jobs.
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Liberian Business Development Slow in Immigrant Community
Posted on 23 January 2014.
Staten Island is home to the largest population of Liberians outside of Liberia itself, but it’s rare to find Liberian owners among the borough’s storefronts.
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