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Getting a ‘Headstart’ on his computer science coaching dreams

An AI-based startup is tackling the tough job market for software engineering students and recent graduates.  At Headstarter, 23-year-old co-owner Faizan Ahmed creates AI characters such as a clone of Lindsay Browning, a business leader and angel investor. Clients are mostly early-career people in the tech field looking to gain practice and confidence. They participate…

Film photography is alive and well

Kyle Depew stood in a yurt filled with pillows, his glasses fogging up a little from the cold, his fingers patting down his mohawk styled hair. Outside, a gentle flurry fell on a backyard already carpeted with soft snow. Years ago, he used this same yurt as his bedroom in an attempt to convert a…

Booking it in Richmond Hill since 1954

On a Saturday afternoon, at the back of the Austin Book Shop in Richmond Hill, owner Ray Harley is reading about Hollywood’s biggest flops. His business is on the opposite side of the success spectrum: Austin Book Shop is one of the few brick-and-mortar secondhand bookstores in the city that has thrived in a world…

SUPLMNT: Where urban culture meets hydration

Jairus Morris, a former sales rep, was trying his hand at e-commerce when he stumbled across the burgeoning water bottle industry (recall the recent frenzy over limited-edition Stanley cups at Target). Water bottles were, according to a sales app he was using, some of the top selling items on Amazon. They were also noticeably absent…

Bubbling over with dreams at Chashni

On a chilly Friday evening in January, a group of friends in their 20s found themselves craving a cold, sweet drink with the traditional flavors of their South Asian heritage. They entered Chashni Bubble Tea, a shop that opened in September on Coney Island Avenue, in a part of Brooklyn’s Midwood neighborhood known as “Little…

Bringing bones to the mainstream

Jon Pichaya Ferry held in his hand a small case that houses a mouse skeleton, perfectly preserved but very delicate. His father, James H. Ferry, who was a businessman, gave it to him as a gift when he turned 13. “Instead of presenting it as creepy, dark and scary, he showed it to me from…

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