Brooklyn café becomes protest site after coffee chain bans Rep. Dan Goldman over Israel stance

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A group of people holding American and Israeli flags and protest signs outside a New York City coffee shop.
A group of pro-Israel demonstrators gathered outside a Williamsburg Poetica Coffee on Wednesday morning.

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Inside a family-owned Brooklyn bakery where they've been hand rolling cannoli the same way for 50 years

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Making 300,000 cannolis a year by hand

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Fortunato Brothers Bakery has been hand-making cannolis, cookies, and sfogliatelle in Brooklyn since 1976, using the same recipes the founders brought from Naples, Italy.

Inside Brooklyn's Little Italy pasta shop that uses a machine over 115 years old

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Ravioli Machine

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The ravioli king of Brooklyn making nearly $2 million a year

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George Joseph Switzer III runs Queen Ann Ravioli, a Brooklyn pasta shop founded in 1972. Inside, vintage machines produce thousands of pounds of pasta each week, including up to 2,000 boxes of ravioli a day.

How one factory supplies NYC's corner store delis

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Bodegas are one of New York City's oldest and largest neighborhood institutions, with more than 10,000 spread across the city's five boroughs. But this century-old industry is fighting to stay alive under rising rents, cutthroat competition, and Zohran Mamdani's city-run grocery initiative.

A new Brooklyn shelter offers unhoused families with kids a chance at more stability

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A playground that's part of the Westhab Family Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
The Fort Greene Family Center, a Brooklyn homeless shelter, has 105 units for families with kids.

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Forget booking a sightseeing tour. I lived in New York for 20 years, and this $4.50 ferry is the best way to see the city.

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A NYC Ferry traveling on the East River with the Manhattan Bridge and skyscrapers in the background.
As a longtime local, I think the NYC commuter ferry is the best way to sightsee in the city.

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Ken Griffin owns NYC's priciest condo. Mamdani wants to hike his property taxes — and others'.

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220 Central Park West

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A thoughtful teacher helped me and my twin after I hesitantly told her we were late to school because we were homeless

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A teacher helps her students working on an assignment.
A teacher helps her students work on an assignment.

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