How the Owner of a Doggie Day Spa Spends His Sundays
Brian Taylor runs the business out of his home, but he has also started a mobile service, which has grown popular during the pandemic.
Brian Taylor grooming Teddy, a goldendoodle, at his home studio in Harlem. Credit.Kirsten Luce for The New York Times
By Alyson Krueger
April 30, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
When Brian Taylor grooms his canine clients, sometimes he transforms their fur into all kinds of colors and shapes. “It’s just like hair,” he said. “Artists can turn hair into anything people want, and that’s what I do for dogs.”
By Victor Omondi
Gentrification has been digging its roots deep in Harlem, an area originally earmarked for upper-class whites about a century ago but that ended up being predominantly populated by Blacks and other communities of color. Over the past few decades, something surprising is happening. The community of color is slowly being ruled out of the community, as gentrification takes the center stage. Affordable housing is becoming a seriously rare commodity.
For a community that’s not new to gentrification, all you can be sure of is that they’ll always watch out for anything that they believe questions or poses a threat to their dominance.
Thousands of 311 complaints have been logged in the city over outdoor dining setups since July
Outdoor dining may be here to stay in NYC permanently, but not all residents have been welcoming the structures dotting the city’s streets. The various outdoor dining setups have attracted more than 4,400 complaints via 311 in NYC since July, local news site Patch reports. According to the site, New Yorkers filed complaints for months over outdoor dining issues, including an apparent lack of ADA ramps built into roadside structures and dining areas spilling over onto sidewalk passages and into the street.
The volume of complaints skyrocketed in August, with 311 calls tallying over 1,000, according to Patch. As the weather got colder, the amount of complaints on a monthly basis tapered off, with 293 complaints filed in January.
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Several members of the Harlem community in New York City rallied on Saturday in support of a Black woman who was attacked outside of a liquor store on Jan. 18.
The 31-year-old woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, had entered a Harlem liquor store to make a purchase when three young men asked her to retrieve liquor for them, according to ABC News. After politely declining to do so, she was followed and subsequently attacked right outside of the store.
A surveillance camera captured the attack. The woman says she was punched, kicked and her face was bitten. “I was mauled, this is more than being bitten,” she said.