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The Hair Room reopens
The Jersey City hair salon reopened this week after a three month shutdown.
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Backyard music lessons
As long as the Seattle weather permits she plans to continue this way, leaving a hand sanitizer pump at the student’s piano and wiping down instruments after each lesson.
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Babies amongst the opioid crisis
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome is the fate of many babies born addicted to opioids.
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Staten Island paints “Black Lives Matter” on Richmond Street
It was the borough’s way of marking the commemoration of Juneteenth yesterday.
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My trip home during the pandemic
“I am taken onto an ambulance, without anyone explaining anything to me. I don’t know where it is taking me to.”
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Artists share virtual support for Black Lives Matter protests
Created both by amateurs and professionals, a vast collection of artworks rapidly spread on social media with hashtags such as #blacklivesmatter, #georgefloyd, #icantbreathe, #saytheirnames and #BLM.
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Popular India Square “won’t be the same again”
In phase two of reopening, restaurants are allowed to have only outdoor sitting . None of the restaurants at India Square have outdoor space so they will continue to have to depend on takeouts and deliveries.
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On the frontline of two deadly viruses
Ghanaian biomedical scientist, Seth Agyeman, who worked on the frontline during the deadly Ebola outbreak in Liberia and Sierra Leone in West Africa, is now tackling Covid-19 in Ghana.
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Bronx fish market struggles to stay afloat during pandemic
All of the vendors at the nearly two centuries-old market, is currently facing a threat unlike anything he’s seen in his 10 years as a wholesaler.
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Venezuelans leave behind a country in crisis only to encounter a new crisis in New York
Venezuelans who have migrated to New York in the past two or three years have had to confront two crises in a short time frame.