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Bucks County Veterinary Hospital
Jan 14, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
Are you looking for a veterinary hospital that treats your pet like a furry family member? Are you seeking answers to questions or assistance with concerns about your pet’s health? At World of Anim...
Bucks County Veterinary Hospital
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Are you looking for a veterinary hospital that treats your pet like a furry family member? Are you seeking answers to questions or assistance with concerns about your pet’s health? At World of Anim...
Dentist Northeast Philadelphia
Jan 08, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
Here at Smile Maker, we are proud of our commitment to providing quality patient care and state-of-the-art dental services to the community of Philadelphia, PA, and the surrounding tri-state area. ...
Dentist Northeast Philadelphia
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Here at Smile Maker, we are proud of our commitment to providing quality patient care and state-of-the-art dental services to the community of Philadelphia, PA, and the surrounding tri-state area. ...
Dentist Philadelphia
Jan 08, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 220 220 recommendations | email to a friend
Here at the Philadelphia Dental Office of Dr. Renee Yurovsky, our doctor and her staff strive to provide the highest quality of service and best dental care possible for every one of our patients. ...
Dentist Philadelphia
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Here at the Philadelphia Dental Office of Dr. Renee Yurovsky, our doctor and her staff strive to provide the highest quality of service and best dental care possible for every one of our patients. ...
Immigration Lawyer Philadelphia
Jan 04, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 59 59 recommendations | email to a friend
The Philadelphia Immigration Lawyers at the Law Offices of Dizengoff and Yost help our clients to get lawful permanent resident status, and we also help our clients to get green cards for their fam...
Astoria Characters: The Vintage Queen
Jan 02, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Jade is the owner of Vintage Queens NYC. Text and photos by Nancy A. Ruhling Waitress. Seamstress. Photographer. Bartender. Screenwriter. Costumer. Carpenter. Actress. Int...
Astoria Characters: The Woman Who Brings History to Life
Dec 26, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 38 38 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Lynda works for the Intrepid museum. Text and photos by Nancy A. Ruhling Hal bursts into the back yard like a flying bullet, grabs a knit cap from the bag on the chair and...
“My Heritage Is Everything To Me.” An Exclusive Interview With Historian Stephanie Longo.
Dec 22, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 443 443 recommendations | email to a friend
  Interview by Tiziano Thomas Dossena Italian-American historian Stephanie Longo has dedicated her life to celebrating and focusing on her family’s heritage. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA, sh...

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Dr. Jake Deutsch, Cure Urgent Care
Dr. Jake Deutsch, a board-certified emergency medicine physician, experienced firsthand what it was like to battle COVID-19. Deutsch, who six years ago founded Cure Urgent Care, a boutique walk-in ...
Jun 17, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 528 528 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mike Budabin, CB11 Chair
Mike Budabin first joined Community Board 11 in April 2017. He started attending monthly meetings because they seemed like the place where local issues were always discussed. “I thought, ‘this was ...
Jun 10, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 535 535 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ed Heck, Pop Artist
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Brooklyn-based pop artist Ed Heck has used his talents to help hospitals, frontline workers and patients stay safe. Heck has been working with the New Jersey-based man...
Jun 02, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 563 563 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ling Tang, Teaching Artist
Ling Tang, a New York City-based dancer, educator and arts manager, has been teaching at Flushing Town Hall since 2013. In addition to offering Chinese dance and cultural workshops, Tang teaches af...
May 27, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 636 636 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chris Davis, NYC Parks
As the chief of recreation for Queens parks, Chris Davis’s role pre-coronavirus was to manage all of the borough’s recreation centers and programming. In a typically busy season, recreation centers...
May 20, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 636 636 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dr. Richard Liebowitz, St. George’s University
Dr. Richard Liebowitz is no stranger to Brooklyn. Growing up in the borough in the 1950s, he saw it evolve from “the lesser” sibling of the other boroughs into what it is today: a diverse place ful...
May 13, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 658 658 recommendations | email to a friend
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Iggy Terranova, State Senate Candidate
After spending 20 years at the Department of Sanitation (DSNY), Iggy Terranova is making a bid for the State Senate. Terranova, who last served as a citywide community affairs officer before recent...
May 06, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 686 686 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chris Carlsen, Iron Lion Performance
Five years ago, Astoria native Chris Carlsen opened a gym in the neighborhood called Iron Lion Performance. The facility offers individualized training to members to meet their fitness needs. With ...
Apr 27, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 717 717 recommendations | email to a friend
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Memory project documents life at pandemic’s epicenter
As New York navigates an unprecedented and disorienting juncture in time, a local community archiving program is creating a time capsule of the moment from the perspective of the county hardest hit...
Apr 26, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 738 738 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dmytro Fedkowskyj, CB5/CEC24 Member
Earlier this month, community leader Dmytro Fedkowskyj endured a health scare after contracting COVID-19 and landing in the emergency room. Fedkowskyj, a member of Community Board 5, Community Educ...
Apr 22, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 681 681 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rafael Espinal, Freelancers Union
When Rafael Espinal began his tenure as the executive director of the Freelancers Union in March, he saw the role as a great opportunity to continue the advocacy work he did as a member of the City...
Apr 15, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 731 731 recommendations | email to a friend
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Elizabeth Satterlee Ersenkal, Immigrant Families Together
When President Trump’s zero tolerance immigration policy was instituted, millions of activists across the country mobilized to push back. Astoria resident Elizabeth Satterlee Ersenkal was one of th...
Apr 08, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 736 736 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jonathan Forgash, Astoria Together
Four years ago, Astoria resident Jonathan Forgash teamed up with local foodies Joe DiStefano and Gabe Gross to start Queens Dinner Club. Their curated events showcased the diverse food scene in Que...
Apr 01, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 757 757 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stu Sherman, Candidate
Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, a pandemic specialist is throwing his hat in the ring for City Council in Brooklyn. Legal aid attorney and public health expert Stu Sherman is running for a term-limited...
Mar 25, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 756 756 recommendations | email to a friend
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John Liang, YNG
When John Liang first moved to New York, he and his wife would visit Flushing almost every weekend. “That was our weekly ritual,” he said. “We got haircuts, meals. We spent the whole day there.” Th...
Mar 17, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 786 786 recommendations | email to a friend
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