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Warning sign on the Macombs Dam Bridge, originally uploaded by Eating In Translation.

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And if the 125th Street rezoning, a luxury boutique hotel chain, and Columbia’s expansion were not enough to seal upper Manhattan’s fate, brokers have coined a pretentiously trendy name to attract young people to the nabe: “SoCo.”
“South of Columbia University is Hot. SOCO,” reads a listing for a $349,000 studio on 103rd and Riverside Drive [...]

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I happened to come across the following video of Tyra Banks interviewing a gay teen named Richard, who lives in the PJs in Spanish Harlem. The clip that is posted below is of Tyra interviewing Richard and his mom in studio about his experience as a gay man in Spanish Harlem. The next [...]

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So, last year we found out that Harlem favorite, Amy Ruth’s, was going to be opening up another location in the old Gage & Tollner location on Fulton Mall. Some reported it was supposed to happen by the end of the year, while others reported February of this year. As of Tuesday, the [...]

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