Sybil's, a small family-run restaurant chain based in Jamaica, offers Guyanese immigrants a taste of homeland cooking, Barry Paddock, Fritzie Andrade, and Kathryn Lurie report.
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While women's boxing has gained popularity through movies like "Million Dollar Baby" and professional fighters like Laila Ali, the gender gap hasn't closed much when it comes to purse money, Emily Mayer reports.
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Spa owners are seeing a downturn in business as the economy falters, reports Vinita Singla.
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Former St. John's standout Sharif Fordham's hopes for an NBA career died after an injury and a brush with the law that put him behind bars. Khadijah Cole reports on how Fordham pieced his life back together -- and is living another kind of hoops dream by helping teens at a youth center.
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Local students, many of them first time voters, are getting involved in the Obama and Cinton campaigns leading up to Super Tuesday, Stephen Pacer reports.
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New York City is the top tourist destination in the United States, with more than 44 million visitors in the last year--a record. While Manhattan is still the hub, many of the visitors are now adding Brooklyn to their intineraries, Sebastian Bednarski reports.
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The Queens Economic Development Corporation reports that immigrant business niche markets make Queens the borough most resilient to economic recession. Dominican immigrant Flor Diaz, owner of a popular dress shop in Corona, exemplifies these findings, Tyler Mitter reports.
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Bar and club owners are preparing for New York City's new noise code, which will enforce stricter policing and penalties Starting in July, Chika Osaka reports.
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In March, 2008, Guillermo Montero, a cabbie for more than 30 years, bought his first hybrid taxi.
Montero's Toyota Camry is now among the 1,020 hybrid cabs in New York City -- about eight percent of the medallion fleet. Officials hope the whole fleet will go green in the next few years, Mathew Warren reports.
Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist churchgoers are split on whether spiritual leaders should endorse political candidates, Djenny Passe-Rodriguez reports.
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A rapid rise in Japanese restaurants in Staten Island may soon make it as well known for its sushi as its pizza, Megan McGibney reports.
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"Cool" J.C. Rocwell hawks his poetry on the subway and in the streets, as reported by Roisin O'Connor-McGinn.
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The city plans to relocate a 16-ton pile of snow-removal salt from the banks of the Harlem River to an enclosed spot closer to housing. That's rankled some East Harlem residents, who cite health concerns and are upset trees will be uprooted to accommodate the pile, Angela Hill reports.
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Christopher Zambakari, a 22-year-old student living in Manhattan regularly wires money to Uganda to support 15 relatives. He and others who send money home to help loved ones have watched helplessly for months as the U.S. dollar's value has declined, Adeola Oladele reports.
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The side of a building on 125th Street and Broadway has become a focal point of AIDS awareness in Harlem, Djenny Passe-Rodriguez reports.
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Laser surgery is being used to help control diabetic retinopathy, a progressive eye disease that could lead to blindness, Megan Kelty reports.
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With the sixth anniversary of 9/11 looming, the state launched an ad campaign to encourage Ground Zero workers suffering health problems to file for worker's compensation benefits. The registration deadline has been extended to Aug. 14, 2008, Jego Armstrong and Chika Osaka report.
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Residents along Pennsylvania Ave. in East New York have long contended with speeding vehicles and damage to parked cars that lose sideview mirrors, thanks to reckless drivers, Abimbola Ishola reports. Now the city wants to reduce parking on the strip. But that's infuriated local car owners who have proposed their own solution: adding bike lanes.
Sanitation Worker Tom Neve started Reaching Out Community Services, a volunteer-run food pantry in Bensonhurst that provides meals to 1,400 Brooklynites every month, AnnMarie Costella and Mellissa Seecharan report.
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Photographer Anke Michaelson took time-exposed pictures of darkened Staten Island church interiors for her series Midnight Churches, creating scenes that can't be seen by the naked eye, Emily Mayer reports.
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The organic food market, in spite of rising costs, is a fast-growing segment of the food industry, with sales up more than 20% last year, Tyler Mitter reports.
Sen. Barack Obama's presidential bid has drawn the interest of African immigrants -- including those from Kenya, where the candidate's father was born, Adeola Oladele reports.
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