“We really try to accommodate people with that… I’d say that really differentiates us from other restaurants and businesses around here.”
“[Jersey City] is one of our top locations… We love the people. [Despite] different cultures [and] different backgrounds, everyone seems to love pizza,” Starobinsky laughed.
“… [As a kid] nobody wanted to be my partner… so that was really tough. [But] now you’ll have all girls wrestling practices, which is so cool. We’ll just have little girls beating up on the boys anyway, which is awesome too.”
“I encourage anybody out there as, as you climb, reach back as you get opportunities, work with students and people who wanna come up and show them how to do it. It’s a community thing… I’m so thankful for what Jersey City has given me.”
Photo by co-founder Adrienne J. Romero. Laszlo Danko likes his sweets. One day in Paris, Laszlo and his wife, Clemence, were out and they passed by a bakery. Laszlo insisted on going inside and buying a “chocopain!” Clemence, who is from France, questioned, “You wanna buy a what?” Laszlo, who
“Dominican food I always say it represents Dominican culture,” Antigua said. “We’re very lively and full of energy. I think [La Bodega] flavors represent that.”
Yugen Dance Project founder Gabriel Aniel and member John Victor told us how dance can become so important.
“With Zumba and ballroom I felt like my confidence went super high and ever since then I just feel unstoppable and I don’t care what people have to say about me. I know who I am and that is what I want to provide to everybody,” the West New York resident said.
What’s the importance of storytelling from a Black perspective? Here’s what the founder and head of editorial Black In Jersey said.
“You can be the people who graduate and serve our people. You don’t have to be someone who’s from out of town to come here and leave. You can be growing up in this community, in our system and come back full circle to be the person in leadership.”
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