Along Roosevelt Avenue, men yell, "Chicas!" and hand out cards with pictures of scantily clad women. For Kika Cerpa, those cards bring back memories of her harrowing ordeal as one of those "chicas."
Madiba restaurant in Fort Green has been a cultural center for South Africans in the city for the last decade.
Pedicabs aren't just for tourists anymore: Beginning in June, people in Harlem can come on and take a free ride.
Prohibition ended 75 years ago. But a handful of New York bars -- like Bill's Gay 90s, where illegal booze was stashed behind a brick false wall -- still have remnants of their heydays as speakeasies.
From the streets of Harlem to Times Square to Bedford-Stuyvesant, to living rooms to church basements to bars around the the city, New York marked the election of the country's first African-American president with reactions ranging from horn-honking and cheering to prayers of thanks and tears of joy.
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