“This city needs to acknowledge that we Latinos don’t just put hot sauce on their tostadas but we also bring our music, hard work, pay taxes.” Latino New Yorkers spoke to El Diario about the biggest contributions the community makes to the city.
Could the Melrose branch of today nurture a similar life of ideas?
Nepali Bhanccha Ghar, a Nepali restaurant in Jackson Heights, won the annual food event, which aims to showcase the neighborhood’s South Asian communities and cultures, Everest Times reports.
Gallery A.R, known as one of the few places to regularly exhibit art by Polish and Polish-American artists, hosted its final exhibit in August after six years in the neighborhood.
Among those who did come to the Brooklyn neighborhood from overseas, there are feelings of deep vulnerability.
The group is looking for 10 public housing residents to serve on the council, in hopes of preventing long-time community members from being shut out amid a spate of luxury redevelopment in the neighborhood.
The artist who designs a replacement piece will determine whether to remove the pedestal. But that idea will have to pass a vote by an ‘artist selection panel.’
‘Most people wander in here because they think it’s a bathroom or the subway.’
‘What makes a healthy dance is often the same thing that makes a healthy relationship. Communication, patience, equity — without those a dance falls apart.’
The Lower East Side boasts a rich artistic past and present cut off from traditional cultural support. A program for area youth hopes to change that.
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