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Portraits & interviews

Home Away From Home: Stop and smell the Coxinha

Written by Emily Barnard Each installment of the series “Home Away from Home” will feature a young woman immigrant and the place in New York City that reminds her most of her home country, providing comfort and easing the stresses of starting life in a new country. Steps from the 36 Avenue N-Train station in Astoria, Queens, there is a Brazilian market that Santos (São Paulo state) native Nara Roberta calls her home away from home. Rio Market sells the...

Features & analyses

How to relieve stress in a new city

Written by Daria Kurdyukova As a New Yorker, you can feel the speed of this never sleeping city — and the stress that comes with it. Being a new resident — not only to New York, but to the United States — can add a whole new level of stress to your life, especially if you do not have the proper work permit or are in the process of looking for a job. It’s easy to get discouraged, but creating...

Portraits & interviews

Home Away from Home: Borsch is good for the soul

Written by Emily Barnard Each installment of the new series “Home Away from Home” will feature a young woman immigrant and the place in New York City that reminds her most of her home country, providing comfort and easing the stresses of starting life in a new country. Five years ago, Anna emigrated from St. Petersburg, Russia, to the US looking for a new start and new opportunities. She spent several years in Los Angeles, but in 2015, when she began to...

Features & analyses

Bilingualism: The driving force of NYC

Written by Edil Cuepo Any block you turn onto or bar you enter in New York City, chances are good you’ll encounter people speaking a language other than English. The variety of languages spoken by residents of NYC is estimated to be as many as 800 — 176 of which are spoken in the city’s public schools. We live in a vibrant city full of tourists and foreign-born residents; a melting pot of different cultures and languages. According to Census...