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When Janice Ruize Guo got her first look at the Hoowa Supermarket that her new student friends had been telling her about, she was disappointed. Even with aisles, shelves and coolers devoted to spiky pink dragon fruit, long cream-colored lotus roots, dumplings, dried mushrooms, noodles, sauces, tea, sweet crackers sprinkled with seaweed and shrimp-flavored chips, […]

By WSJ Staff A woman visiting from Japan was shot and injured when a police officer’s gun accidentally discharged, sending a bullet through the floor and into the living room where she was sleeping. Police were searching an apartment at 3003 Clarendon Rd. in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood on March 29 when the shot was fired. […]

Looks like they’ll be getting an upgrade. ATT employees recently presented a check for $110,000 to Junior Achievement of New York (JA New York), a group that works to proliferate financial literacy and entrepreneurship education among New York City students. This contribution, made annually as a combined effort from more than 300 ATT employees since […]

Prop and costume artist Zoe Morsette’s love affair with the theater began when she was a kid growing up in the ’60s in Cape Cod. Sitting in her Long Island City studio, Morsette recalled the moment when an actor forgot his lines smack in the middle of a summer performance of “Iolanthe,” put on by […]

PHOTO COURTESY NYC COUNCIL Leading women honored 1 Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer is joined by honorees Ebony Young, second from left, Moitri Savard, Patrice Lee and Sherilyn Sabba; as well as Niall, left, and Justin Costello, who accepted the proclamation on behalf of Jean Clancy. Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2012 12:00 pm Leading women honored […]

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Long Beach (9309MF) (9309MF), New York (STONY1) (STONY1), the Long Island city whose credit rating was cut five levels in December, plans to borrow as much as $6 million in the next few weeks to avoid firing workers. The City Council approved the plan last night. Long Beach is facing a $10.3 million deficit, about […]

Enlarge this image Print this story Facebook this Tweet this Digg this Del.icio.us Email to a friend Astoria lawmakers said they were disappointed by the new congressional and state Senate district lines, which splits the neighborhood across two districts. “The maps are horrible,” said Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria). “They divide communities that should not be […]

Acumen Capital Partners, which bought the nearly eight-acre site from Pfizer last year for $26 million, has begun leasing space to several local food businesses. Among them are McClure’s Pickles, Brooklyn Soda Works, Steve’s Ice Cream and Madécasse, which makes chocolate bars. The news that jobs are returning to the factory, which borders the public […]

Fear of deportation stops many immigrants who are victims of crimes or trafficking from reporting to authorities what happened. Trafficking survivors, in particular, are so wary of coming forward that the pool of 5,000 special T visas available to them each year go largely unassigned. Just 557 were approved last year. Officials believe thousands more […]