If Life’s Going Well, How About Coaching Others?
A city characterized by its overachieving and career-driven population, New York’s need for life coaching—both in private and corporate settings—is on the rise. For those individuals looking to put their good listening skills, patience and nurturing to use, programs at NYU, Columbia and other educational institutions offer programs in this relatively new, increasingly popular field.
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Learning How to Sell Real Estate
By Alan Krawitz
As a profession, real estate has typically drawn New Yorkers from all walks of life, from professionals to career changers, investors and those seeking to earn extra income in their spare time.
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The Many Tastes of Spain
Northern regions are rich with red variety
By Josh Perilo
There is a common understanding now among foodies that there is no such thing as “Italian food” as such. Thanks in large part to Mario Batali, the understanding of Italian food is of a cuisine that digs into what is local and available and makes the absolute best possible food from those resources. The idea of a homogenous Italian identity has become passé and quaint.
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Click And Learn
Educational Apps That Inspire Curiosity And Learning
In today’s fast-paced, tech-driven world, savvy parents have turned to mobile apps to entertain (read: occupy and distract) children. However, apps can also serve as learning tools. In the spirit of on-the-go enrichment, we’ve come up with our top 15 educational apps for children.
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East Side Makes Room for the West
With P.S. 151 opening, hopes rise for new school in church space
Upper East Side schools are learning to do the shuffle. As the school year approaches, the Yorkville Community School, P.S. 151, will be moving out of its temporary home at the Our Lady of Good Counsel school and into its brand new facilities. At the same time, the neighborhood is preparing to host the West Side students of P.S. 51, the Elias Howe school, who normally go to school across the park about 45 blocks south. They eventually hope to see a brand new elementary school spring up in the very same spot.
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The Good, the Bad and the Oblivious
I can only forgive some people who block the way when I walk
Combine one part self-absorption, one part 21st-century apathy and one part urban burnout and what do you get? You get a way-blocker.
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Broadway Closing Leaves a Hole
Bygones to H & H Bagels, beloved bookstores & others
There’s an old joke about how a city living veteran might give directions. The old-timer says: “You go four blocks north until you hit where the coffee shop used to be, then head west, three blocks past where the department store was, and then just keep going until you get to the intersection where the gas station once sat.” Live here long enough and the old joke is no joke at all.
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Design Engineering School to Include More Women & Minorities
By John C. Liu
The mayor’s recently announced plan to build a government-sponsored engineering and science campus in New York challenges us to deliver training and jobs to the many talented young men and women of color that our economy has left behind. It is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss.
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Our Town Goes Downtown
To the Readers:
Hello, uptown residents of Manhattan! Manhattan Media, our parent company, announced last week that they are bringing back Our Town Downtown, a newspaper focused on all of the arts, news and culture happening below 14th Street.
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Bless Their God-Fearing Hearts
Beth Grant leaves no prop unturned in a dark new Southern drama
By Mark Peikert
Some critics may accuse Tony Georges’ new play Tricks the Devil Taught Me, set among the kind of serious churchgoers who buy protective cases for their Bibles in a West Texas town, of going over the top. As a refugee of churchgoing Texans myself, I can attest that the sugary trash-talkers of Georges’ first act are all too real—and he even steers clear of the usual stock phrases like “The higher the hair, the closer to God.”
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