Rainy days are slow days for bike shops. With few customers willing to brave the elements, employees need to find ways to keep themselves busy. One bike store employee spends the rainy day attempting a different sport in the depths of the store.

Bike Shop Postcard

Big City, big dreams. New York is full of dreamers trying to make it. Jeff Williams is one of them.

stage dreams

It is well known by now that smoking kills. But Minas Polychronakis owes his life to a cigarette.

shoe repairman

Stravinsky's doodle

How do we educate our kids? Is it by making them memorize certain facts? Or is education a process that happens by experiencing and engaging with the real world? These are questions that educators have grappled with since before John Dewey. The trend now, in New York City schools and across the nation, is to use standardization to measure students' achievement. But a pioneering program at a high school in Brooklyn is attempting to balk the trend. A farm grows in Bushwick, and it exposes students to experiences that can't be measured.

Bushwick Campus Farm

Danny Waits, food truck worker at Rickshaw Dumpling Truck, delivers food to Rockaway, Queens, on Wednesday, November 14.

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