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.
Tag: New York City
A Dropout Tries to Defy Statistics
Tony Flores, an 18-year-old high school dropout and father, is struggling to get his life back on track. The young Bronx man is part of a troubling trend of high dropout rates among Latinos.
A Deliveryman’s Brush With Death
Ricardo Gonzalez barely escaped with his life after being struck by a car. The accident highlights the dangers facing the largely immigrant workforce of bicycle-riding couriers.
Coffeehouse Faces Swan Song
The Uptown Coffeehouse, which has brought folk music to Riverdale for 24 years, may be nearing its final curtain.
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.
via The Queens Courier
Gas Vent Fears in Queens
Outraged Jamaica residents say a development company may be putting the community in danger with plans to pave a driveway too close to a gas vent.
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.