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A dessert category was added to the Vendy Awards held in at the Tobacco Factory in DUMBO this year. It was the fourth annual awards benefit judging the city’s best street food. The event raised $30 thousand for the advocacy group, the Street Vendor Project.

REPORTER: Finalist Ben Van Leeuwen parks ...

Edward Albee and other renowned writers will be reading the works of jailed Chinese writers tomorrow evening. It's part of an event organized by the Pen American Center to protest China's treatment of nearly 50 authors and journalists that the center says are imprisoned simply because of their writings.

Albee also ...

A band of mothers boarded the A train today with children and strollers in tow -- then began breastfeeding their infants and toddlers. The women were calling attention to what they say is a mother's right to nurse her baby when and where she wants to. Wendy Wicks picketed on ...

More than 50 companies applied, but it was the Birdbath Neighborhood Green Bakery that won the first Bike Friendly Business award today. General Manager Sarah Weeks-Dima says that her company's use of a bike delivery system between its shops in the East and West Villages is a model for using ...