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Trying to put two daughters through college is a difficult task. It becomes even harder when your business decreases by 40 percent over the course of a few weeks.
Such is M. Singh Gill’s dilemma, he says, thanks to the installation of the new bike lane on Ninth Avenue between 16th and 23rd Streets in Chelsea.
When the city Board of Health voted to ban trans fats from city restaurants in December 2006, many small business owners had no idea what the transition would entail.
Now the city is sponsoring a series of free workshops for restaurant professionals intended to ease the burden of figuring out how to comply and cook without partially hydrogenated fats.
On October 2, 30 food professionals gathered in the Bronx, all with the same goal: to learn how to make their restaurants trans fat free.
Click here to hear one food professional’s experiences. Click here for a slide show of the Bronx training session.
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Darnell Finisterre and three of his classmates at the School for Arts and Business in Corona have a bright future in advertising - and public safety.
Their ad about the dangers of reckless driving beat out entries from 24 other city high school teams last week to win the fourth annual Advertising Futures competition, which pairs students with local firms to create public service ads targeting teens.
The city plans to relocate a 16-ton pile of snow-removal salt from the banks of the Harlem River to an enclosed spot closer to housing. That’s rankled some East Harlem residents, who cite health concerns and are upset trees will be uprooted to accommodate the pile, Angela M. Hill reports.
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They are the ghosts of East Harlem: Amid the construction of luxury condominiums and renovation of tenements are makeshift memorials to two murder victims slain on the same block. Candles and fresh flowers accompany photos. Messages on paper or on walls bid farewell. Alejandro Almonte became the latest victim Dec. 1 when a junkie slashed his throat after the hard-working porter refused to give him money, authorities said.
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The mostly teenaged audience at The Point pondered Martin Luther King’s message of non-violence on the Friday before the civil rights martyr’s birthday.
The young men and women greeted “Ain’t Easy,” a multimedia theater piece created and performed by the Bronx-based Mass Transit Theater and Video, with laughter at times and with somber silence at others.
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