In changing LIC, stores struggle to keep up
By INGRID CURTIS Clara Robles is glad that in the new Long Island City, customers still come to the old drugstore where she works. Vernon …[read more]
Month: May 2014
Brooklyn’s Little Pakistan grows; young adults stay
By FARAZ T. TOOR Two girls of Pakistani descent walk into Raheela Beauty Parlor at 1117 Coney Island Ave. They’re teenagers, and are dressed differently …[read more]
Shakespeare & Co. Closes The Door In Brooklyn
Empty bookshelves line the walls at Shakespeare & Co.’s store on Hillel Place and Campus Road. The long-time bookseller found it’s impossible to compete with …[read more]
Dining With Tablets
Technology will change the way you dine at your favorite Applebees. The restaurant chain plans to add 100,000 tablets for customers to use when they …[read more]
Day Laborers Wait for Rescue From Low Wages and Abuse
[Photo: Ligia Guallpa speaking at meeting with day laborer/members of Bay Parkway Community Job Center.] By Rebeca Ibarra Despite the rain, the meeting began promptly …[read more]
Superheroes from All Walks of Life
By JOANIE MARTINEZ The Canyon of Heroes may be in Lower Manhattan but the so-called Military Island in Times Square was the venue Tuesday for …[read more]
Musicians Vie to Soothe Savage Straphangers
By KATIE MILANI Under the gold Beaux Arts chandeliers, hanging from the 48-foot ceilings in Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall, a cast of colorful musicians pursued …[read more]
Crooked Investment Guru Sent to Prison
BY MELISSA WALKER & CONNOR SYRACUSE The party is over for the charming Vero Beach bartender and former Manhattan investment advisor Glenn Schwarzkopf as he …[read more]
Downtown Activists Vs. Luxury Housing on Public Land
By LYRIXS RICKETTS Local activists in Chinatown and the Lower East Side proposed on Tuesday rezoning their neighborhoods to limit luxury development and promote the …[read more]
Hook-Handed Terror Defendant Fences with Prosecutor
By KIRAN SURY The defense rested after hours of verbal fencing Tuesday in the trial of the Egyptian-born cleric allegedly behind the 1998 Yemen kidnapping …[read more]