Category: Lower Eastside
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Efrain & Isabella Oliva: Father, Daughter, World Cup @ ALIFE
A Father/Daughter Story: I met up with Efrain and his daughter while they were watching the world cup at ALIFE. He loves San Francisco. She loves NYC. His favorite team is Ivory Coast. Her favorite team is Brazil. Isabella shares with us her favorite books and what she wants to be when she grows up…and…
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Dinosaur Hill Toy Store: South Dakota, Pre-School, East Village & Butterflies
A NEW Small Story: Pamela founded NYC’s Dinosaur Hill Toys Store 27 years ago. From South Dakota to NYC, from preschool teacher to founder/owner of a toy store. Pamela has got to be one of the kindest people NYC I have met. Remember, I randomly walk into small businesses in NYC. Dinosaur Hill has been…
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Dusty Wright: William Morris, Wild Pitch, Creem Magazine, Culture Catch & NYC
A NEW STORY: I stop by NYC’s STILL LIFE hats to film the owner Frenel’s story and he is busy with customers as usual. But he says you 2 should meet “you’re both into the same thing”. Meet Dusty Wright. Dusty is the former editor-in-chief of Creem and Prince’s New Power Generation magazines as well…
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Hakim Green: Young Genious, Hip-Hop Education, Newark Entrepreneurship & LIFE
A NEW JERSEY STORY: Meet East-Orange,NJ born Hakim Green. A former School Teacher, Member of Channel Live. and now Executive Director of The FOR LIFE INITIATIVE . I spent the day with Hakim in Newark witnessing his passion to stem gang violence.
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Joan Morgan: Poetry, Salsa, Jamaica & 3 Interpretations
A New Story: Meet Joan Morgan. Entrepreneur. Writer. Mother and loved and admired by many including yours truly. Joan was one the first people I met in NYC back in June 1992. This is a story about Joan filmed at her Spur Tree Birthday soire from the interpretation of 3 of her girlfriends. “Joan Morgan…
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Dr. Art: A NYC (Blues Loving) Street Vendor
He is a “doctor” and “art” is his “medication” to his “patients”. Im not sure of his real name. Let’s call him Dr.Art. A talented street artist I randomly came across while taking a stroll down avenue A in NYC’s east village.
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The Anonymous Collective: A New York City Art Scene
(Closed Summer 2010) Collective Hardware, housed in a rundown building between Broome and Delancey streets that used to be Weiss Hardware, has nothing to do with wrenches. Instead, its a five-floor party-studio-gallery-music space filled with a never-ending parade of pretty people, downtown artists and hangers-I can give an unknown artist an opportunity to show in a…
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NYC SMALL STORIES I: Gus’ Pickles, Kixclusive & Lilliput Kids
Gus’ Pickles has been serving up pickles to New Yorkers for over 50 years, Kixclusive is the hot online sneaker destination with their new store in NOLITA and Lilliput Kids has 2 Soho locations.
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SPUR TREE: Jamaican-Asian cuisine, Chinatown & Micro-credit
A Day In The Life with Spur Tree restaurant/bar owner Sean John. We take a walk thru Chinatown (NYC) shopping for the night’s menu, discussing Jamaican-Asian cuisine and how small businesses are looking out for each other in Chinatown..and his Mother just happen to be in town from Jamaica, thus, last wise words in the…