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After 16 Years Of Service, A Firefighter Faces His Biggest Fear Yet: COVID-19
It started around 3:30 a.m. Blaring sirens breaking the silence of night. Flashing lights invading people’s homes. A heavy fog of smokiness violating the clean, early morning breeze. The fire was so immense it
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Meet Hunter’s Pulitzer Fellow, Colleen Digney
Before Colleen Digney began asking questions, she’d spend hours watching someone else answer them. If she liked a celebrity, she’d watch them in an interview. Then another. Soon she fell down a rabbit hole,
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A Beautiful Accident
Photography came as a beautiful accident for Raul Tovar. Now 29, Tovar sits in an office on the sixth floor of the WeWork building on 5th Avenue, wearing a black blazer with a dress shirt, dark
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Trans Hair Stylist Lives Out Her Dreams
Lupe’s Hair Salon in the Bronx’s Soundview neighborhood is far from the typical beauty shop. The majority of the stylists are transgender or transsexual, including its owner, Guadalupe Gonzalez, who created the salon and
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Ukrainian Roots, Reaching Higher
It’s easy to be gravitated towards Boris Litvin, a 20-year-old college sophomore born in Ukraine and raised in Brooklyn. His pale complexion emphasizes the dark circles under his light forest green eyes. His smile,
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Young Hip-Hop Soul From Queens
His earliest memory was when he would carry around a black marble notebook writing down sample raps or singing and moonwalking to Michael Jackson’s classics. That was when he was just five years old.
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How One Woman Used Instagram to Launch a Career
The sweet smell of chocolate and peppermint filled the air as Julia Choi kneeled to open her oven door, revealing a pan of brownies with pieces of red and green peppermint candy scattered on
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