Dante Ramos Fung Wah deserves one more chance

Fung Wah, the Chinatown bus line with the rock-bottom prices and high-profile safety troubles, hasn't made it easy for anyone to rally to its defense. But let's give it a try, shall we? Federal regulators shut the company's schedule bus service down two years ago, after inspectors in Massachusetts identified cracks in the frames of some of the company's vehicles.
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NYPD looking into shuttered Chinatown travel agency after customers lost $1M, possible suicide

NYPD detectives have been looking into the case of a Chinatown travel agency that suddenly closed its doors last week, allegedly costing its customers up to $1 million and possibly prompting one suicide, according to a prominent community leader and a law enforcement source. On Thursday private attorneys spoke with a number of customers and explained possible legal action, including criminal referrals, in a case that may have victimized more than 400 people in New York and other states.
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Review: Fresh Off The Boat

... Evan (played by Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler and Ian Chen respectively). The family moves from Washington DC's Chinatown to Orlando where Louis has opened a new restaurant. Jessica isn't happy because they don't know anyone there; plus, the humidity ...
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N.Y. Police Shooting Case Divides City's Asian-Americans

... about how he will be prosecuted in court. Hundreds of protesters walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan's Chinatown in April to call for a fair trial. Tom Lai of Queens, N.Y., pointed to Liang's lack of experience at 27 years old and with ...
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Chinatown's Fung Tu Finally Comes Into Its Own

The highly valued deciduous tree known as toona sinensis is commonly found in parts of China, North Korea, and at least one backyard in Yonkers. The thin branches are burned as incense in Buddhist temples for its pungent aroma.
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On songwriter Irving Berlin's 127th birthday, easy to overlook...

... of those Pell Street days for Berlin. Berlin had been a struggling street musician when Salter took him in. Chinatown at the time was like Paris' demimonde -- a place of opium dens, prostitution and shady characters -- Bergreen said. The upper ...
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Could ancient laws help us sue the internet?

A medieval law could help us bring to book all those responsible for algorithms that run - and ruin - our livesa THIS century's next great legal challenge will be to make those responsible for complex systems accountable for their actions, says Kate Crawford, who works for Microsoft Research. If a bunch of unrelated algorithms, interacting in unforeseen ways, puts you under heightened surveillance, blocks your credit or stunts your kids' life choices, who do you call? Who will make redress for such unforeseen, unintended automated wrongs? There are no clear answers to these questions, which is why Crawford wants to resurrect the deodand, an obscure legal term from the 11th century.
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Jlin's strange sounds beguile; Shelby Lynne produces fantastic country

Jlin, "Dark Energy" . For reasons known only to Rahm Emmanuel, R. Kelly and Chance the Rapper, Chicago has generated some curiously weird sounds.
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Could ancient laws help us sue the internet?

A medieval law could help us bring to book all those responsible for algorithms that run - and ruin - our livesa THIS century's next great legal challenge will be to make those responsible for complex systems accountable for their actions, says Kate Crawford, who works for Microsoft Research. If a bunch of unrelated algorithms, interacting in unforeseen ways, puts you under heightened surveillance, blocks your credit or stunts your kids' life choices, who do you call? Who will make redress for such unforeseen, unintended automated wrongs? There are no clear answers to these questions, which is why Crawford wants to resurrect the deodand, an obscure legal term from the 11th century.
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How I Create a Recipe: Street Prophets Sunday All Day Brunch

... Francisco Bay Area. I lived in San Francisco itself for a few years. I loved the almond cookies I could get in Chinatown and wanted a recipe that had a light and airy texture like my favorites in San Francisco. Decision number one was what type of ...
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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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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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