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Made In New York

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Secret Life of a Seven-Year-Old Instagram Star

Haileigh Vasquez has 129,000 followers and a runway show at New York Fashion Week—that is, if her second-grade teacher lets her out of class on time.

Crossing the Bridge

Through horseplay along the Harlem River, threats of ethnic gang clashes, and a Mickey Mantle meltdown, a seventy-year-old New Yorker recalls the Bronx of his youth.

Life and Death in Lefrak City

In a bleak apartment complex beside the Long Island Expressway, three families struggle to protect their children from a cycle of violence that proves inescapable.

Bringing the Music Back

A decade after the Boys Choir of Harlem’s scandalous fall from grace, its adult alumni are determined to revive its legacy and restore its name.

The Kardashians of Queens

How a cheeky community college dropout and his unsuspecting family became neighborhood celebrities—and YouTube’s next big thing.