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Tastes like Peru: How a business grew from an immigrant’s viral TikTok
Piero Tasaico immigrated from Lima five years ago, at 18, and went into business with his father, selling traditional Peruvian food out of a cart on 97th Street and Roosevelt Avenue. Tasaico’s only experience cooking was in prep work: peeling potatoes for an aunt’s business in Lima. But he wanted to learn. So Tasaico took…
How one bilingual bookstore bridges culture and community in Bushwick
For Becca Ramos, moving from Portland, Oregon to New York City in January 2020 was rough. The pandemic shutdown was a scary time to be away from home, so finding community was crucial. Googling for volunteer opportunities, she found Mil Mundos (in Spanish, “a thousand worlds”), a bilingual bookstore and community center in Bushwick. “It…
Hidden juice bar at the George Washington Bridge is your tropical escape for smoothies, sandwiches and smiles
At the George Washington Bridge Bus Station, one food vendor adds color to the Greyhounds and grayer concrete trusses: GWB Juice Bar, a Washington Heights kiosk that doles out cool Caribbean drinks like soursop smoothies and classic Dominican morir soñando, a creamy concoction of milk, sugar, and orange juice. Owner Luis Perez also serves hot…
Discover the heritage-infused tacos revolutionizing Queens’ food scene
Fernando Ruiz grew up visiting family on Mexico’s eastern coast nearly every summer. It was important to his mother that he embrace his heritage. At the schools he attended throughout New York — whether Brooklyn Heights, the Upper West Side, East New York, or Bensonhurst (the family moved a lot) — Ruiz was often the…
Meet the Bronx beautician who is shaping the future of lashes
Paola Brito loves being a business owner but admits this wasn’t in her plans. “I didn’t have the typical business startup story,” says Brito, a 25-year-old Dominican woman born and raised in the Bronx. “I actually didn’t have this in mind for myself at all just because I know how hard it is to start…
The club helping Black and Latina girls and women design their own sneakers
On a Thursday evening in May, the corner room at the East Elmhurst Community Library was filled with Pumas and Nikes — blank canvases, or partly painted ones. Their designers: Latinas who took adult English classes for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) at the library, as well as their daughters and nieces, Black female artists,…
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