Tag Archives: Religion
Botanicas refocus from love to money
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Almudena Toral.
By Almudena Toral Botanicas may be some of the few businesses in East Harlem that are thriving during the economic recession while other stores around the neighborhood face financial concerns. But those who run the shops, which sell religious items to Catholics and Santeria practitioners, say the downturn has shifted their costumers’ focus from romance […]
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Saved: Notorious Nightspot Becomes a Church
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Roman Espejo.
by Roman Espejo A downtown evangelical church in search of a home has found unlikely quarters at a former dance club in Tribeca. “You have to learn the ‘I don’t care’ dance,” Pastor Dan Stratton of Faith Exchange told his congregation during a recent Sunday service. In front of a makeshift pulpit and full band […]
