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Budget retailers like Target and H&M have been teaming with high-end designers to create affordable fashions. Payless Shoe Source is the latest to jump on the trend, featuring ready-to-wear brands like Abaete, Alice and Olivia.
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Workers at an Associated supermarket in Bushwick are pushing for the backpay they’ve been awarded after years of collecting illegally low wages. The current owner says store’s former owner is responsible for the bill.
Meanwhile, an advocacy group called Make the Road by Walking is calling for a boycott of the supermarket – and is trying to help workers unionize.
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The city is cracking down on folks who swipe recyclables left on curbsides, increasing fines to $2,000 from $100, putting more sanitation officers on the streets and impounding vehicles used in thefts.
Still, scrap metal theft goes on – particularly in Brooklyn, home to the Sixth Street Iron & Metal recycling plant.
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Artist Dread Scott’s latest exhibition tackles politically charged topics, including Hurricane Katrina and the war in Iraq, with such frank images as a black baby doll, face down in a tank of water, and five shallow graves.
But he’s drawn the most fire for his depiction of police brutality in the form of shooting-range silhouettes abutting motorized police batons striking a coffin.
The piece, titled, “The Blue Wall of Violence,” is featured his “Welcome to America” exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts.
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Public high school musicians from around the five boroughs rehearse long hours with the All-City concert group, whose gigs include an annual show at Lincoln Center.
Even as the program struggles with funding issues, the band plays on.
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Flowers, fruit, clothes and jewelry — along with thousands of worshipers — flooded America’s oldest Hindu temple to celebrate Shivratri.
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The city’s rising cost of real estate and gentrification have forced some well-known music clubs to go silent. The Bottom Line, Wetlands, Fez, Tonic, and Sine-e are now gone. Mo Pitkins is the music scene’s latest casualty. While venues come and go, bands are always able to find new places to play. And, from jazz to rumba to rock and roll, there’s always an audience in New York City. More »
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According to a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Washington, DC-based Urban Land Institute, New York City ranks as the top domestic market to watch in 2008 because of its strength. Although the city continues to have one of the tightest real estate markets in the country, some neighborhoods, such as Jamaica, Queens are being hit hard with foreclosures. More »
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Over the next twenty years, the city predicts that one in every five New Yorkers will be 60 or older. This will be the first time in the city’s history that older New Yorkers will outnumber school age children. As New Yorkers are aging their lifestyles are changing. Online social networking and blogging are creating new internet neighborhoods.
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The US dollar has steadily depreciated against major currencies in the last five years. Recently, the decline has been even sharper. In early November, the US dollar hit its lowest level against the euro since that currency’s debut in 1999. The value of the British pound is the highest its been to the US dollar in 26 years.
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