When she opened Karma Kids Yoga 10 years ago, Shari Vilchez-Blatt’s West Village studio offered eight children’s yoga classes. A decade later, her studio now hosts 100 classes, employs 36 instructors and provides yoga lessons to 17 schools throughout the city. Across Manhattan, a growing number of yoga enthusiasts are enrolling their children in yoga 
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The sound of live guitars, harmonicas and crooning voices drift from the closed door of Conte’s Market in Yorkville around 10 a.m., bringing back memories of yore for Upper East Side old-timers and a stream of steady business in this small butcher shop. Owner Nick Conte pretends he doesn’t like the crowd in his shop. 
The Upper East Side appears to be a perfect incubator for ambitious young politicians seeking to move up the ranks of New York City politics. Both City Council members Jessica Lappin, representing Roosevelt Island and the eastern portion of the neighborhood, and Dan Garodnick, who represents the western portion bordering Central Park and south to 
Jamal Joseph attended a protest in Harlem the night Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Though the protest was mostly peaceful, looting and rioting broke out. Cops began clubbing and shooting at the protesters, making no differentiation between looters and those simply shouting phrases like “The King is dead.” The police chased Joseph, a 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art acts not only as a home for a plethora of works of art showcasing the human condition, its outdoor plaza serves as one of Manhattan’s favorite hangout places. Backed with funding by industrialist David Koch, The Met plans to redesign its outdoor plaza so it can accommodate the crowds of 
In the consistently crowded neighborhoods of the Upper East Side, every school seat is precious and every potential school space is a gold mine. But parents and the Community Education Council are wary of clashing with the Department of Education over how to allocate the valued space about to open up at P.S. 158. The 
