Freddie Gray demonstrations around the country

... A pickup truck serves as a podium for Freddie Gray supporters as they gather under the Friendship Archway in Chinatown in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. The crowd started here, about a mile from the White House, then headed toward the executive ...
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Phoenix Society adds Asian voice to FDNY ethnic societies

Members of the Phoenix Society of the Fire Department of New York carry their banner during the 2015 Lunar New Year Parade in Chinatown. [Photo by RICK WOEHRLE / FDNY] David Lin, a training coordinator for the grueling physical test required of Fire Department of New York prospects, said Asian candidates would often ask him if there was an FDNY society that represented their heritage.
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Irvin Berlin asked God to bless America

... Square, he would plug songs at Tony Pastor's Music Hall and when he was 18 in 1906, he was a singing waiter in Chinatown at the Pelham CafA . When Beilin was not serving drinks, he was teaching himself to play the piano. After the bar closed ...
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Debate over saving small NY stores

Looking for a "Seinfeld"-style coffee shop? It's sharing the city with 280 Starbucks and more than 530 Dunkin' Donuts. A good neighborhood deli? It's competing with some 460 Subways.
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Murder suspect will be brought back from NY

The Dougherty District Attorney is now working to bring an Albany murder suspect back from New York. We learned Albany Police Officers tipped the U.S. Marshal's Fugitive Task Force in Manhattan that Marquel "Chad" Culpepper was hiding out in Chinatown in New York City.
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PNCA to lease space in long-empty Old Town building

An Old Town Chinatown building that's been a money pit for a series of owners has finally found a tenant. The Pacific Northwest College of Art will lease space in the building at 321 N.W. Glisan St. , a 1926 warehouse at the foot of the Steel Bridge that's been converted for office use.
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In NYC, debate over saving small shops amid chains' rise

This Tuesday, April 14, 2015, photo shows the Pearl River Mart store on Broadway in the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan. New York is increasingly becoming chain store city.

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Will Mayweather extend career long enough to open new MGM arena?

WBC/WBA welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. has his hands wrapped by Bob Ware on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, at Mayweather Boxing Club in Chinatown. Mayweather will face WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao in a unification bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 2. Floyd Mayweather Jr. was walking through the retail shops at the Bellagio when a piece of jewelry caught the fighter's eyes.

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In NYC, debate over saving small shops amid chains' rise

This Friday, April 17, 2015, photo shows two national chain restaurants to small businesses lining Seventh Ave in midtown Manhattan. New York is increasingly becoming chain store city.

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In NYC, debate over saving small shops amid chains' rise

This Friday, April 17, 2015, photo shows two national chain restaurants to small businesses lining Seventh Ave in midtown Manhattan. New York is increasingly becoming chain store city.

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In NYC, debate over saving small shops amid chains' rise

This Friday, April 17, 2015, photo shows two national chain restaurants to small businesses lining Seventh Ave in midtown Manhattan. New York is increasingly becoming chain store city.

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In NYC, debate over saving small shops amid chains' rise

Looking for a "Seinfeld"-style coffee shop? It's sharing the city with 280 Starbucks and more than 530 Dunkin Donuts. A good neighborhood deli? It's competing with some 460 Subways.

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The Preeminent Guide Service in the Wonderful City Of New York

New York is the center of everything, with LaGuardia airport limousine you can travel easily, LaGuardia is a great place, where you hire LaGuardia limousine, LaGuardia limo for events. New York is one of the capitals of purchases and for this you can go to Downtown, Broadway, Greenwich, Chinatown, Tribeca and Soho to find the best bargains and creations of young fashion designers.

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Bond no. 9 Park Avenue South ~ fragrance review

... are being dwarfed by sleek new glass towers of luxury condominiums. Bond no. 9 used to release fragrances like Chinatown and Broadway Nite; now we get Park Avenue South. That's progress for you. Bond no. 9 Park Avenue South sells as 50 ($200) 100 ml ...

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Five Totally Unique Burger Chain Outposts in New York City

... that the BK Whopper Bar is no longer ). 106 Liberty Street, Financial District Anyone who's spent any time in Chinatown will be familiar with the Bowery McDonald's. This is the McDonald's that looks like a bright red pagoda, tucked back into the ...

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Datebook: Experimental photography, stitched portraits, night of stories

L.A. artist Nery Gabriel Lemus tackles issues of identity, division and solidarity in a new series of works at Charlie James Gallery in Chinatown. Seen here: "The Meeting of Corky and Bunchy, 2015."

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Murder in Hell's Kitchen: New York's Underbelly Through Weegee's Lens

It's hard to imagine New York City without the tourists bustling through Times Square or the skyline increasing in height every time you look up, but it wasn't always like this. Cast your imagination back to the 1930s and '40s when life was still photographed in black and white, crime was rampant, there was glaring social divide thanks to the Depression Era and you'll find it was most likely captured on film by the infamous Weegee.

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169 Bar Fights Back Against Underage-Drinking Claims

This week, New Yorkers learned that Chinatown favorite 169 Bar - which has been open for over 100 years - is in danger of closing . The city filed a lawsuit against the establishment, claiming that it permits underage drinking, but owner Charles Hanson has some serious issues with the way the police conducted the investigation.

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Marchers Across Country Protest Police Killings

Demonstrators took to the streets in dozens of cities across the country Tuesday to protest police officers killing unarmed black men.The protesters referr... -- When Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 young girls from their school in northeastern Nigeria last year, international outrage fueled a social media campa... "Thank you Mr. Chairman and good afternoon. This is the first subcommittee hearing we have held this Congress, which means this is my first hearing as Subcommittee Ranking M... Three down and four to go in the Kristen and Patrick Maag house.

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Staff Recommendations: Spring spots

Having just finished our East River Park photo shoot for Fringe, we are practically experts on all of the fun activities that the park has to offer. Teenagers can be seen running through the park with sticks between their legs, optimistically trying to recreate the wizarding world of Harry Potter in the series' classic game of Quidditch.

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NYC's Golden Buddha

One of my favorite places in NYC's Chinatown is the Mahayana Buddhist Temple. From the outside, this former movie theater turned temple might not appear to be anything out of the ordinary, but the interior is definitely worth a visit.

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A Photographer's Favorite Locations to Capture the City, Every Person in NY

... are fine with it. Get close, watch them play, and take a couple photos in a respectful manner. Columbus Park, Chinatown Diamond District , 47th between 5th and 6th: Many people here are a little wary of being photographed, but the mix of people on ...

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Young NYC fashion designers to watch

... and tracks along the 1, 2, 3 lines in and near the 14th Street station. On any given day, CW Pencil Enterprise in Chinatown offers 250 different pencils ranging from new-carves to 100-year-olds, priced from 25-cent Musgrave Bugles to $70 vintage ...

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Pearl River's 'Goddaughter' Reflects on Store's History

... of a victim of its own success," Chen told WNYC. "It started out as kind of a Maoist emporium in the middle of Chinatown and was very much into building friendship between the U.S. and China and of course that mission is a bit obsolete these days." ...

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Auctions, Galas, and Ten-Gallon Hats: A Preview Look at Dallas Art Week

Dallas may initially make you think of oilmen and cowboy boots and rodeos and the like, and that's fine, but-surprise!-it's also a world-class, super cosmopolitain capital of contemporary art. The Dallas Art Fair-and the constellation of museum opening, galas, auctions, performances and general rowdiness that accompany it-has gotten bigger each year, with more New York galleries coming down than ever.

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Pearl River Owner Hopes Investor Can Help Store Hang on Despite Rising Rent

... Pearl River does, and "find a new niche for Pearl River in this era." Chen and her husband opened Pearl River in Chinatown in the 1970s with the help of some "more established" Chinese immigrants who invested in the business. She and her husband are ...

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Pearl River Mart Set to Shutter After Mammoth Rent Hike

... furniture and art to those seeking their own slice of Chinese culture, has had three different homes; starting in Chinatown on Elizabeth Street in 1971, the store then moved to the corner of Canal and Broadway before coming to its latest 30,000 ...

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Soho retailer Pearl River Mart shuttering Broadway store

The 44-year-old business will shutter its location at 477 Broadway, its home since 2003, when its lease expires at the end of December, Crain's reported. Pearl River Mart currently pays more than $100,000 a month in rent - a figure that would increase fivefold if the company opted to renew its lease, president Ching Yeh Chen said.

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NYC's Pearl River Mart leaving its SoHo location at end of year due to massive rent increase

... the ground, second and basement levels of 477 Broadway, between Grand and Broome streets. Though it started in Chinatown on Elizabeth Street in 1971, it has moved twice before--first to the corner of Canal and Broadway and then to its current SoHo ...

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Best-Kept Secrets of NYC from the City's Savviest Celebs and Insiders

... leave you standing in Times Square with your pockets turned inside out. "Sunday dim sum (dumpling) brunch in Chinatown at Dim Sum Gogo . It is my favorite place to stuff myself on these delicious morsels." - Patricia Field , fashion designer, ...

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Manhattan's Lower East Side: LES is more

It's known as LES and it's the up-and-coming New York neighbourhood. Or should I say "up and came"? Because the gentrification of Manhattan's Lower East Side has been so rapid in the past few years that it would be unrecognisable to the European immigrants who colonised its tenements in the 19th century.

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Mott 32

Transforming the basement of the Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong into the restaurant Mott 32 was the greatest challenge to date for local designer Joyce Wang. "We fought for that project because the site was so difficult," she says.

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