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In Queens Village, a family-owned bike shop rides on
Of all the changes in her Queens Village hometown over the decades, what Tesha Sewell misses most is seeing neighborhood kids play outside: the skid of skateboards, the roughhousing and the teens bustling into her family’s bike repair business with busted-up, suspiciously expensive bikes. Her grandfather opened Flash’s Bicycle Barn in 1980, in part as…
Saved by 800 neighbors, Word Up bookstore now feeds them
Last month, rain and a last-minute location change couldn’t keep more than 500 people from Uptown Kid Lit, one of Uptown Manhattan’s biggest family literary events. At the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, families learned about a dog that only speaks Spanish, a girl who finds her bachata beat and a swallow that croons outside the…
This Brooklyn-born food brand brought achaar to grocery shelves nationwide
Chitra Agrawal can still taste her aunt’s lemon achaar. As a child, she would suck on the lemon rind in the traditional South Asian pickled condiment. The achaars she grew up with reflected her family’s roots: mustard oil and root vegetables from her dad’s North Indian heritage, and sesame oil and sour ingredients such as…
A Ditmas Park arts hub is building community through theater and wellness
Somalia Seaton sees theater everywhere: the guy backing out of a parking spot on the busy street outside her business, the way neighbors gather and in the stories that bubble up in the streets of New York. “Community is saturated with that magic,” she said. “And it feels so important that at a time where…
This NYC dance club wants you to dance with strangers
Nina Cheng’s earliest memory of a dance party with her peers is from fifth grade, at one of the rare sleepovers her immigrant parents let her attend. While the other girls jumped around, she felt every bit the “quiet Asian girl,” the new kid on the New Jersey block. “I remember thinking, ‘Oh my god,…
How Christine Choy helped transform Asian American documentary filmmaking
Jeremy Chi’s clearest memories of Christine Choy were of her sharp eye and sharper tongue, both of which he observed from close at hand three years ago as a teaching assistant in her film class at New York University’s Tisch School. “This is so bad,” he recalls her telling a student. Choy went on to…
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