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Francisco Useche, owner of Irca Metal Spinning, demonstrates his craft at the Greenpoint Manufacturing & Design Center

Valerie Lapinski — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:43:05 +0000

Mr. Useche has worked in the building for 32 years and creates custom metal work that can be found throughout the city, including street lamps in Central Park.

Visitors in Prospect Park, Brooklyn enjoy the peak fall colors and warm weather

Valerie Lapinski — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:32:48 +0000

A child waits to run around inside an inflatable plastic ball at the New Island Festival on Governors Island

Benjamin Fractenberg — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:21:25 +0000

Dressed in classic Michael Jackson threads, two fans strike iconic poses at Michael Jackson’s 51st Birthday Bash

Maya Pope-Chappell — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:30:52 +0000

The event held at Prospect Park, Brooklyn was hosted by Spike Lee and drew thousands of fans.

Earlier this month, Brazilian graffiti artists Os Gemeos finished their new mural at Houston Street and Bowery, and dedicated it to their recently deceased friend and fellow artist, Dash Snow

Jenni Avins — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:45:06 +0000

Jenni Avins wrote about Os Gemeos and their latest piece for New York Magazine’s Intelligencer.

A washing machine falls toward the ground after workers pushed it off the fourth floor of 491 Myrtle Avenue, as a hose sprays the building to counteract the dust.

Jim Flood — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:55:51 +0000

The city ordered the building taken down after it sustained damage from the June 21 collapse of 493 Myrtle, at right.

The Local, a blog by The New York Times about Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, has been covering the building collapse extensively.

Mark Henegan, left, co-owner of South African restaurant Madiba, talks dining room seating strategies with one of his staff members.

Kristen Joy Watts — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:53:37 +0000

Henegan opened the restaurant in Fort Greene on DeKalb Avenue ten years ago, and it’s been a cultural center for South Africans in the city ever since.

Click here to read more about the way that a community has grown around Madiba Restaurant in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

For more reporting on immigration across the borough by students at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, view Brooklyn Bridges Cultures.

Performers dance above the audience at the Daryl Roth Theater’s show Fuerza Bruta.

Benjamin Fractenberg — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:43:08 +0000

The dancers splashed around in a Mylar pool filled with water, which was lowered over the audience. For more information on the show, visit the Fuerza Bruta website.

Below street level on Coney Island Avenue table tennis contests rage on the tables of the Brooklyn Table Tennis Club.

Tim Persinko — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:10:36 +0000

Managed by Nison Arinov, a table tennis champion from Tajikistan, the club hosts players, many from former Soviet republics, late into the night, six days a week.

For immigrants, sports can maintain a link to an identity and a culture left behind in another country. Click here to read more about the way that a community has grown around table tennis in southern Brooklyn.

For more reporting on immigration across the borough by students at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, view Brooklyn Bridges Cultures.

A chalkboard sign advertises the daily specials at Meal O’bama, the recently renamed food cart located on the corner of W39th Street and 7th Avenue.

Heather Chin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:09:12 +0000

Other fast-food chains, such as Obama Fried Chicken in Harlem and Brownsville, have gained media attention in recent weeks for changing their name to reference President Barack Obama.

This vendor stand does not seem to be attracting controversy, though. It is supervised by Mr. Muhammad Rahman, famous for formerly being a chef at the Russian Tea Room, who owns and operates a small chain of food vendor carts called Kwik Mart throughout Midtown.

A day-in-the-life timeline of the workers and cooks who operate the Kwik Mart vendor chain, of which this cart is a part of, can be found on the NYC eatery blog, Midtown Lunch.