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The club helping Black and Latina girls and women design their own sneakers
The Sneaker Girls Club helps designers and sneaker store owners who are women gain the recognition they deserve. It also helps young girls design shoes.
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LGBTQ elders are returning to the closet. Affordable housing can keep them out
There are currently two affordable housing complexes geared toward LGBTQ older communities in New York City: Stonewall House ...
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Beatrice Glow: Excavating new narratives
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New Covid variant: What you need to know about FLiRT, symptoms and a possible summer surge
A new Covid-19 variant is now the dominant strain: KP.2. It’s part of a subset of variants nicknamed “FLiRT,” and a close ...
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Meet the esthetician who went from doing beauty services on her front stoop to running her own business
From the front stoop to her own studio, Shondrea Harrod followed her passion for taking care of others’ skin and aches.
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A better approach on migrants
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The NY Indian Film Festival’s can’t-miss movies
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Author Archives: Felipe De La Hoz
This week, Gothamist reported that NYC is readying a program to help migrants who’ve been put up in hotels in Buffalo to exit those hotels and receive an array of […] ...
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Author Archives: Ambar Castillo
When Shondrea Harrod was growing up in Long Island, she was always plucking friends’ facial hair and giving them shoulder massages. They were “pro bono” clients on her front stoop […] ...
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Why certain NYC neighborhoods endure longer power outages than others after severe weather
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What’s really going on with NYC crime
In this Q&A, Epicenter NYC co-founder and publisher S. Mitra Kalita asks reporter Felipe De La Hoz to help her understand crime, specifically why stats say the city is safe but sometimes it just doesn ...
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Your housing questions answered: The Section 8 voucher process
Sign up for our Civics newsletter! Understand civics-related issues better and learn how the government can work for you. Out every Thursday. The Section 8 waitlist ...