Parking Hikes Raise Mom & Pop Shop Ire
Shop owners are fighting City Hall's plan to raise parking meter rates 25 cents an hour, fearing a drop in business.
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via New York Daily News
Lunch Lessons at East Harlem School
An executive chef was tapped to create a new cafeteria menu using only fresh ingredients.
Last Tag Looms for 5Pointz
5Pointz, a Queens-based haven for graffiti artists, could be shuttered to make way for development.
Finding Redemption, Nickel by Nickel
Sure We Can bills itself as the city’s only licensed, homeless-friendly can-and-bottle redemption center.
Putting ‘Cycling’ in Recycling
Thomas Porter of Porter Cycles pieces together old bicycle parts into custom-made new two-wheelers in his Bushwick shop.
via City Limits
Workfare Cuts Could Dash Job Hopes
Transitional job programs for welfare recipients are expected to be scaled back, due to budget woes. That could leave James Graham (center) out of work.
via New York Daily News
Local Help for Ivory Coast
A Harlem mosque is leading efforts in New York to aid those in the strife-torn West African nation.
via New York Daily News
Snapshots of Lives in Progress
Intimate glimpses of life in the Manhattanville Houses were captured in pictures snapped by residents as part of a new program slated to expand to other city housing developments.