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Spa opens NYC location, the second after Jersey City
By Cristina DC Pastor Only five months in Jersey City, Glossy Rejuvenating Spa is adding another location, and it is in the heart — and belly — of the Filipino community in Woodside, Queens. The new salon to open in January is on 5nd Street, next to Payag Restaurant, and within walking distance from Tito […]
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From NYC dreamer to Hollywood new leader: ‘Life is beautiful no matter how hard it gets’
By Tiara Camille Teruel When The FilAm asked me to write about my experience being named “One of Hollywood’s New Leaders” by Variety Magazine, I could not help but think about the pain, the sacrifice, and the reality of what it took to even be recognized. What it took to be able to accept it […]
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From Elvie’s to BAGO: A daughter’s journey to bring mom’s cooking from ‘turo-turo’ to Yelp
By Cristina DC Pastor This article is being published as a project of the Business Reporting Fellowship of the Center for Community and Ethnic Media at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. “Where’s Elvie?” Carla Cinco is amused. What her mother’s loyal customers are really asking is: Where’s the turo-turo? Elvie’s Turo-Turo, the first Filipino […]
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In sale of Manhattan co-op apartment, owner Encarnacion Singh puts faith on broker who is also FilAm
By Cristina DC Pastor Generous rooms. Gracious entry foyer. River park views. 24-hour doorman building. In January, retired UN employee Encarnacion ‘Bubut’ Singh put her home on the market, parting with the Riverside Drive co-op apartment she had shared with her husband and two children for 50 years. Widowed since 1999, Bubut has gone back […]
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Josie Natori lends support against domestic violence, human trafficking
By Maribelle Biscocho-Omar The New York Asian Women’s Center celebrated 33 years of unifying and empowering women in combating domestic violence. The organization presented the Phoenix Awards to fashion designer and CEO Josie Natori of The Natori Company at a gala event on October 6. “Asian women really end up getting the short end of […]
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How about a Filipino consortium to flex our buying power as a community?
By Eduardo Pena I grew up with many community leaders and have witnessed some of the many events that they have organized. Unfortunately, they are all relatively the same and nothing differentiates one dinner gala from the other except each organization’s effort to provide special program of entertainment. Double Tree, Astoria World Manor, Renaissance, Newark […]
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First Filipina worker-owned cleaning cooperative launched
More than two years after Rina Hernandez was rescued from human trafficking from a Middle Eastern family, life has quieted down a little bit for this former school teacher. She now lives in Queens secure in her resolved immigration status and has worked job to job to get by. Some days are hard because her […]
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Mentorship program between NYC and young FilAms explored in meeting
Consul General Mario L. De Leon, Jr. on September 11 made a diplomatic visit to the office of Maria Torres-Springer, who was recently named president of New York City’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC). Torres-Springer is the first woman — and first Filipino American — to be appointed to lead the EDC, which serves as the […]
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Kabayan restaurant opens right beside Tito Rad’s: Awkward!
By Cristina DC Pastor Tito Rad’s Grill has been lording it over that forked corner of Queens Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue for nine years. And then about two months ago Kabayan restaurant opened next door, prompting some in the FilAm community to wonder how the two eateries are getting along. The situation has been described […]