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Blue and red diamond-shaped signs in Korean, Spanish, English and Chinese urged residents to vote at the Saint Sebastian Parish polling station in Woodside, Queens.
The posters also were outside the Charles O. Dewey School in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, as well as hundred of other polling sites throughout the five boroughs – signs of the changing city.
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New Yorkers depend on immigrant businesses for many of the services they need and the goods they consume. But these entrepreneurs face many challenges – including language barriers, limited access to financing and a lack of understanding of the rules of doing business in the city.
Click here for Tanzina’s Vega’s multi-media report, and hear some immigrant entrepreneurs’ stories and listen to what the experts have to say about what can be done to help such businesses thrive.
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Enrique and three friends from Mexico needed two days to cross the arid mountain passes from the spartan border city of Tecate into California late in 1995 in search of work, with the guidance of a coyote and some canned food.
Enrique had high hopes he could save enough to return home shortly after and make life a little easier for his wife and eight kids in the rough-and-tumble Mexico City neighborhood of Chalco.
