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Your Story, Our Story
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Zooming In Zooming Out
I looked to see if the population had two or more races to determine how diverse the area was. I heard that the Michael Lau’s pharmacy got mostly Asian (specifically Korean and Chinese) customers. Thus, I wanted to understand how … Continue reading
Zooming Out, Zooming In
The El Barrio Deli Superette, a sizable bodega in East Harlem, just a few blocks from the Lexington 116th street station, sells everything imaginable from sandwiches to paper towels. On our uptown visit for the first round of interviews, Rafa … Continue reading
The Enclave
Success in America after immigrating from a different country is based primarily on a combination of the familiarity of the language and culture and readily available financial opportunities of an ethnic enclave. Similar to Portes and Bach, I believe that … Continue reading
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Your Story, Our Story: Stamp and Inkpad
http://yourstory.tenement.org/artifacts/business-stamp-and-inkpad The text on this wooden stamp reads “Lecturer/Dept of Elect, and Electronic Eng/B.I.T Khulna”. The ink pad and business seal were given to my father upon working at his first job as a university lecturer in Bangladesh in 1987. … Continue reading
Your Story, Our Story – Chopin Collections
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Your Story, Our Story
When my parents, my sister and I immigrated from India in 2001, we couldn’t bring everything that everything that we wanted to. We only brought certain items because it had a use when we started a new life the United … Continue reading
Enclaves, Eyesores, and the Willets Point Repair Shop Response -Ariane Marchese
The government is there to represent the people and act according to its needs. Thus, it does have a responsibility to protect the poorest and dirtiest of parts of the region and the people residing in them. The Willets Point proposal … Continue reading
Your Story, Our Story: The River Rock
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Your Story, Our Story- The Wok
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