New York City
In wheelchair, Queens man still has hoop dreams
Twenty years into his playing career, Long Island City resident Mark James, 41, is still starring on the wheelchair basketball scene.
A healthy stop in the South Bronx
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.
African braid shops bring competition to Bed-Stuy neighborhood
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
Some in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, are finding one-way tickets back to Poland a more promising investment.
