For years, creative professionals have been pushed out of Manhattan by gentrification. Now, one artist and entrepreneur is providing cheaper studios in East Harlem to keep the community of Latino artists there alive and encourage the public to discover and appreciate the area’s unique art.
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As city rents rise, artists flock to affordable neighborhoods for work space
Posted on 14 November 2015.
Posted in Arts and Culture, Business, Communities, Dominican, Featured, Manhattan, Mexican, Puerto Rican0 Comments
New hat business continues trend of community representation
Posted on 01 November 2015.
Young Dominicans in Upper Manhattan are making and buying hats that show “uptown pride.”
Posted in Boroughs, Communities, Dominican, Featured, Manhattan0 Comments
Straight talk about curls and corporate culture
Posted on 01 November 2015.
Long, thick, curly hair can hold back Dominican women in offices where “professional” means straight hair.
Posted in Business, Communities, Dominican, Featured, Issues0 Comments
One City, Many Cultures
Posted on 13 December 2014.
Global City NYC reporters explore religious, culinary and cultural traditions in the city’s ethnic neighborhoods.
Posted in Arts and Culture, Bangladeshi, Boroughs, Bronx, Brooklyn, Dominican, Featured, Haitian, Immigration, Indian, Jamaican, Manhattan, Mexican, Nepali, Polish, Queens, Religion, Russian, West African0 Comments
Coming to America
Posted on 08 December 2014.
New York City is an ethnic mosaic, the adopted home to newcomers from around the world. Global City NYC reporters tell the stories of how a few of these New Yorkers immigrated to America.
Posted in Arts and Culture, Bangladeshi, Boroughs, Bronx, Brooklyn, Dominican, Featured, Haitian, Indian, Jamaican, Manhattan, Nepali, Queens, West African0 Comments
Corona Immigration Clinic Offers Advice, But Little Hope
Posted on 05 December 2014.
Latin Women in Action partnered with the Queens Library to present a free legal clinic on immigration issues to approximately thirty Latinos from Corona, Queens.
Posted in Dominican, Featured, Immigration, Manhattan0 Comments
The Renegade Boy Scouts of Washington Heights
Posted on 18 November 2014.
Boy Scout Troop 729 thrives in Washington Heights.
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Far From Home, Beauty Pageants Remain Popular
Posted on 18 November 2014.
Every Saturday morning, Marcela Barrera of Jackson Heights hair sprays her daughter’s ringlets, helps her pick out an outfit appropriate for the season, and then brings her daughter to a modeling class at Super Star Dance Studio. It is there that Barbara, 6, learns how to strut, pose and shuffle her feet to the quick beats of a Bachata tune.
Posted in Arts and Culture, Dominican, Featured, Queens0 Comments
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.”
Posted in Boroughs, Business, Communities, Dominican, Featured, Manhattan0 Comments
Translating America: Bilingual Education in the South Bronx
Posted on 20 October 2014.
A bilingual program at a middle school in the South Bronx helps students from Spanish-speaking households transition to English fluency.
Posted in Bronx, Dominican, Featured0 Comments
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