Tag - Queens

Surfers

Making waves in the Rockaways: Surfers defend their turf

September 23, 2009
By Hanny Hindy

From water testing to advocating for deposits on water bottles, local wave riders join a national movement of activist surfers.

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An art asylum within an asylum

September 23, 2009
By Nathan Erlich

The "Living Museum'' offers psychiatric patients creative expression and catharsis

Skateboarders

Skateboarding in Queens is picking up momentum among West Indian teens

October 14, 2009
By Scott Sells

While many Queens residents from Guyana and the Caribbean are busy playing their national pastime, cricket, some West Indian teens are also embracing the half pipe and the perfect “ollie.’’

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Guyanese in Queens listen for a different kind of tweet

October 20, 2009
By Scott Sell

In Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens, “bird racing” is a passion

A living language

  • Yiddish

    Yiddish in New York City is more than just ordering a bagel with a shmear and kvetching about traffic.

Lucha Libre NYC

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    The moves in Mexican-style professional wrestling are high-flying and death-defying. And the masks are cool, too.

Delivery City

  • Cycle
    Inside the world of New York City's bicycle delivery workers and the policy debate swirling around them.

Right now on Uptown Radio

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    Gorging on grasshoppers, and other dishes, on the latest broadcast 

The Obama Agenda

  • Obama

    An examination of various aspects of  the president's major policies

Vibrations
The Changing Languages of Deafness in the Age of the Cochlear Implant

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    A Digital Media master's project explores how cochlear implants continue to change what it means to be deaf.