Posted on 22 October 2009.
by Lauren Kirchner
October 22, 2009
Photo credit: Lauren Kirchner
Asante Kahari is a bestselling author who would not recommend his books — especially if you are a teenager looking for something new to read. Kahari, author of Hustler’s Paradise and Homo Thug, writes in the emerging genre “urban lit,” pulp paperbacks published locally and then sold from tables on the streets of Manhattan.
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Posted on 08 October 2009.
By Lauren Kirchner
September 20, 2009
About a dozen senior citizens sat in a circle of chairs at a senior center in West Harlem, leaned back, and laughed for five minutes straight. This “laughter meditation,” as their yoga instructor Badra Om, calls it, usually starts with Om herself letting out a loud, high-pitched cackle. The huge sound coming from such a petite woman is surprising, and the laughter is infectious. Soon the whole class joins in: first tentatively, then with feeling.
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Posted on 08 October 2009.
By Lauren Kirchner
October 8, 2009
Photo credit: Lauren Kirchner
For David Adamczyk, a 22-year-old student at the Manhattan School of Music, the wide stone plaza in front of Grant’s Tomb means a quiet place to doodle in a notebook while he thinks about his latest composition. For Corey Kilgannon, a writer for The New York Times, the sloping lawn in back is the perfect place to practice his trumpet scales every morning without bothering his neighbors on West 108th Street. At night, cab drivers park in the quiet lot and get out to stretch their legs. On the weekends, families spread picnic blankets while the members of The New York Unicycle Club wheel around nearby.
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Posted on 01 October 2009.
By Lauren Kirchner
October 1, 2009
A group of people holding colorful pieces of numbered paper waited patiently on the basement steps of Our Lady of Lourdes Church on West 142nd Street at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. They were lining up early; the food pantry below the church wouldn’t start giving out bags of food until an hour later. Inside, 50 grocery bags of food had been placed on a long wooden table. Everyone who came in would receive the same thing: cereal, milk, dried lentils, canned beans and tomatoes, tuna, dry pasta, fresh collard greens, onions, sweet potatoes, bananas and bread.
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