New York City

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In wheelchair, Queens man still has hoop dreams

December 08, 2009
By Dean Myers

Twenty years into his playing career, Long Island City resident Mark James, 41, is still starring on the wheelchair basketball scene.

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A healthy stop in the South Bronx

December 08, 2009
By Dan Fastenberg

A newly opened and first-for-the-area health food restaurant in the South Bronx offers mixed green salads and sugarless organic peanut butter — dishes more traditionally associated with Washington Square Park than Walton Avenue.

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African braid shops bring competition to Bed-Stuy neighborhood

December 06, 2009
By Tammy Mutasa

Chiefly owned by immigrants from Senegal, Guinea and Ivory Coast, hair braiding businesses along Fulton Street are slashing prices to attract customers.

In foundering economy, Polish immigrants head back home

November 20, 2009
By Monika Plocienniczak

Some in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, are finding one-way tickets back to Poland a more promising investment.

Never Fear,
The New York Review of Magazines is here!

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    Check out the 2010 New York Review of Magazines and feel the love.

Vibrations
The Changing Languages of Deafness in the Age of the Cochlear Implant

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    A Digital Media master's project explores how cochlear implants continue to change what it means to be deaf.

The Obama Agenda

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    An examination of various aspects of  the president's major policies

How nonprofits won special treatment in lending bill

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    The first in a series of articles on student lending by the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism in partnership with the Huffington Post Investigative Fund

Digital Media Newsroom:
The Big Hurt

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    In multimedia profiles, everyday New Yorkers describe how they've coped through the worst recession in 70 years.

World Cup sparks Steinway Street split

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    Queens Rules reports on the tensions between Algerian and Egyptian soccer fans in Astoria as they watch their teams compete for a spot in next year’s World Cup.