NEW YORK — In the early 1980s, beatboxers backed up rappers when drum machines were unaffordable. Today, the art form remains largely underground and misunderstood. Some people dismiss it as a gimmick.
NEW YORK — When Emily Elliott moved to New York from North Carolina almost 12 years ago, she handed out résumés and slept on her sister’s couch. Weeks went by and no one hired her. Just as she was starting to feel desperate, Colors, a new restaurant cooperative in NoHo focusing on fair wages and equality, offered her a job as a line cook.
NEW YORK — The conversation had just turned to night life in the city when Louis Boria, an administrative assistant at Mount Sinai Hospital, groaned. He sat in the back of the yarn shop, String Thing Studio, in Park Slope, Brooklyn, knitting the beginnings of a yoke sweater.
NEW YORK — Four years ago, Eric Kinariwala woke up with a throbbing headache from a sinus infection. So he did what most New Yorkers do. He called his doctor, got a prescription for a Z-Pak and walked to the Duane Reade pharmacy near his apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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