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    Clothes Lined with Confidence

    Laura Vaillancourt

    Suiting thousands of women in business attire for their first day of work, Dress for Success is a non profit organization used to promote economic independence and career development for women to thrive in work and life. The company suits, accessorizes, develops careers, and lends advice to women of all backgrounds.

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    Fleet Week Attracts Veterans

    Alicia M. Cohn

    From May 26 to June 1, Pier 88 is the heart of Fleet Week in New York City, and the atmosphere of a festival takes over for the weekend of Memorial Day. Permanently docked at Pier 88 in Manhattan, the U.S.S. Intrepid became the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in 1982.

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    Glory in Acting

    John Bianchi

    If New York is the Capital of the world, Broadway is the capital of the Theatre industry. Every year millions of people attend Broadway shows. Shows like The Phantom of the Opera, Hair, and Mamma Mia have all seen multi performance success and each garner new fans every year.

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    Libraries fight funding crisis

    Sarah Einselen

    NEW YORK CITY—The city's libraries face a funding crisis. The New York Public Library system is confronting a $37 million funding cut in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed 2011 budget. The library system, which has long provided a number of free services to the New York community and to visiting patrons, will have to cut back on the programs it offers if the budget cuts are implemented, according to Jennifer Lam, senior press representative of the NYPL.

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    Memorial Day stickball tournament brings community together

    April Windham

    (NEW YORK CITY) – Every year, the stickball community joins together during Memorial Day weekend for the annual Steve Mercado Memorial Day Stickball Tournament in the Bronx. Teams from all over the country come to the tournament for a chance to win the championship.

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    New stadiums, new memories

    Andrew Smith

    NEW YORK CITY -- In 2009, a combined 131 years of New York baseball history were torn down and replaced.  Both the Yankees and Mets – the two New York representatives in Major League Baseball – built expensive new stadiums over classic old ones.

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    New Yorkers disagree about 34th St. pedestrian plaza

    Allison E. McLean

    NEW YORK CITY – After he maneuvered around the Broadway pedestrian plazas, taxi driver Ashish Sharma said he is not convinced that the Department of Transportation has the right idea. New York City DOT has transformed Broadway Blvd. into pedestrian plazas, closing off vehicular traffic to make way for thousands of pedestrian commuters and visitors.

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    Pro-Palestinian activists protest Freedom Flotilla attacks

    Jonah Taylor

    Chants of "Free, free Palestine!" and "End the occupation now!" swept through Times Square in New York City Monday. Protesters gathered to show their outrage of the Israeli military's recent seize on a fleet of ships carrying more than 600 pro-Palestinian activists to Gaza that left nine dead and several wounded.

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    Rough economy doesn’t stop New York tourists

    Trevor Normile

    MANHATTAN NY --With the advent of industry and information technology, the world grew smaller and pulled New York City to its center- a pure gravitation of culture and ideas. Today, the bustling and incessant rivers of denizens and business people flowing through the streets are peppered with foam Statue of Liberty helmets or "I love New York" tee shirts.

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    “Small church offers change and hope for New York City’s people”

    Kevin Bratcher

    NEW YORK CITY- In New York City in downtown Manhattan, a small new church is bringing a new comprehensive evangelistic approach to the streets. Operating out of a small building situated only blocks away from Ground Zero, where construction is ongoing, the Messiah Reformed Church is working on building a foundation of its own.

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    Stories shared from generation to generation

    Adrienne Belz

    Thousands of soldiers aboard ships along the Hudson Bay in Manhattan mingled with citizens in New York and allowed civilians onto the ship during Fleet Week. On Memorial Day, floods of people filled the ships along the coast. Inside the vast vessel, the USS Iwo Jima, construction mechanic Ronald Obrien stood at a table and showed off the military's artillery by helping hoards of tourists in line handle them.

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    Street game reaches across the country

    Catherine Rogers

    NEW YORK CITY—The smell of traditional Latin food, the sound of good music and the sight of friends dancing and cheering are the pleasures you can experience every Sunday from April to August on Stickball Blvd. in the Bronx. All this centers around a street game called Stickball that culminated this past weekend as the New York Emperors Stickball League (NYESL) hosted its 26th annual Memorial Weekend Stickball Classic.

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    Street performers make a living

    Timothy M. Meinch

    Artists use crystal balls, acoustic guitars, full-body paint and other creative expressions to entertain on the streets of New York City, and for many of them, street performing earns a living. Despite the common perception, many street performers are neither homeless nor uneducated but trained professionals who take their job seriously and survive off of their skill.

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    Trying to Keep it Real in New York City

    Kirsten Hall

    NEW YORK-- "You like Chanel?" The first thing we hear coming out onto Canal Street in Soho. "You, come with me." the small Chinese woman said to us. We followed her to the corner and were directed to walk down the street and told someone else would approach us.

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    Urban Art – A movement towards graffiti evolution

    Hannah Yanega

    NEW YORK -- Gangs, spray paint and destructive intent; all the stigmas of graffiti in the big city. If artists Jordan Betten and Sun Bae have anything to do with it, the associated terms will soon be eradicated and replaced with just one: urban art. White faces look out from a teal wall on 10th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.

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    Urban art: defacing or expressive

    Lana Douglas

    Graffiti is commonly viewed as a symbol of gang activity or vandalism.  Graffiti can make people feel unsafe and a location where graffiti is present tends to look more run-down. However, graffiti is evolving into a skill known as urban art. Urban art is a new form of art that is showing up in cities, but it isn't making its début in galleries or museums.