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A Kefi Cafe in ‘Burg?
  • Aaron Short - YourNabe.com
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  • March 11, 2010
Is popular Greek chef Michael Psilakis, of the Upper West Side institution Kefi (505 Columbus Avenue and 84th Street), looking to bring warm feta salad, pork souvlaki, and walnut ice cream to Williams...
Anastasi Calatzis, to be buried on Friday, remembered fondly
  • Demetris Tsakas, Stavros Marmarinos and Ch. Tripoulas
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  • March 11, 2010
NEW YORK - The Community was left stunned by the suicide of 38-year-old Anastasi Calatzis. The Greek American from Queens, a top salesman for Lexus of Queens, was despondent over his ill mother and po...
Greek tragedy, as father pays for son's sins
  • A.G. Sulzberger - The New York Times
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  • March 11, 2010
The phone call came from jail, a son’s plea for help that would sorely test a father’s judgment. The son begged his father to retrieve money from a safe that the son said contained tens of thousand...
President Obama Hails Greek Philotimo in White House Tribute to Greek Independence
  • Christopher Tripoulas
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  • March 11, 2010
NEW YORK -- Greece - which has been weathering an economic firestorm in recent months - received a moral boost on Tuesday from the mouth of President Barack Obama himself. The President pledged that "...
Remarks by President Barack Obama Honoring Greek Independence Day
  • TNH staff
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  • March 10, 2010
President Barack Obama hosted the official government celebration of Greek Independence Day at the East Room of the White House on Tuesday evening, March 9, 2010. Below are remarks by President Obama:...
Reservist accused of attacking priest won't be charged
  • Tom Brennan - Tampa Tribune
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  • March 09, 2010
TAMPA - Prosecutors will not pursue charges against a Marine reservist accused of beating a Greek Orthodox priest with a tire iron. Reservist Jasen Bruce, 28, said he was only defending himself fro...
Employer and colleagues grieve for Anastasi Calatzis, Funeral Request Sent to Archdiocese
  • Demetris Tsakas
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  • March 09, 2010
NEW YORK -- Anastasi Calatzis' office at the Lexus of Queens auto dealership has remained empty ever since he took a leave in August 2009 to visit his ailing mother in Greece. The dealership's General...
A Grateful Community Bids Farewell to Fr. James Moskovites
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • March 08, 2010
NEW YORK - There was not a cloud in the sky on the day when family, friends and brother clergy, led by Archbishop Demetrios of America, gathered at the Church of the Evangelismos/Annunciation to bi...
Young Greek American leaps to his death over mounting bills, foreclosure
  • Stavros Marmarinos & Christopher Tripoulas
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  • March 07, 2010
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Eight Decades Later, The Struggle for Imvros and Tenedos Continues
  • Eleni Kostopoulos
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  • March 06, 2010
NEW YORK – In 1923, the Hellenic diaspora communities of Constantinople, Imvros and Tenedos, were ceded to Turkey by the Treaty of Lausanne, though more than eight decades later, many of the legal str...
Four Greek Americans sue firm over harassment, discrimination
  • TNH staff
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  • March 05, 2010
Four Greek Americans are accusing LPL Financial Corp. over discrimination and harassment based on their ethnicity and religion. On Monday, March 1, a group of New York brokers who worked for Indepe...
Sexual harassment suit against George Delis settled by city
  • John Marzulli - New York Daily News
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  • March 04, 2010
The city has paid a $98,000 settlement to a former female staffer at Community Board 1 in Astoria who had claimed in a federal lawsuit that she was sexually harassed by former Board 1 district manager...
Father James Moskovites Falls Asleep in the Lord
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • March 02, 2010
Members of the Evangelismos Church in Manhattan, friends, and the many spiritual children of Rev. James G. Moskovites, 64, are mourning the passing of their beloved spiritual father. Funeral services ...
Father James Moskovites, Beloved Priest, Falls Asleep in The Lord
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • March 02, 2010
NEW YORK - Members of the parish of the Annunciation - Evangelismos in Manhattan, along with the friends and the spiritual children of Rev. James G. Moskovites from throughout the New York Metropolita...
Greek restaurant owner convicted of extortion
  • Laura Italiano - NY Post
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  • March 01, 2010
It's 15 years in prison for a Greenwich Village restaurant owner, sentenced today after threatening his building manager with pliers, a hammer, a fake gun, and getting sodomized by a large Eastern Eur...
Wealthy Greek Australians wary of bailing out motherland
  • Rick Feneley - The Syndey Morning Herald
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  • March 01, 2010
Australia has some very rich Greeks. Many have built fortunes from nothing in a generation or two. So they might baulk at a bold request from the mother country: send cash to rescue Greece from its de...
Greek Parade on Fifth to be shortened by new city rules
  • TNH staff
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  • February 24, 2010
A new round of budget cuts in New York City will affect the way that parades will be organized. New restrictions on the length of routes and the duration of parades means that this year's Greek Parade...
2010 Cyprus - U.S. Chamber Job Fair a Success
  • Constantine S. Sirigos
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  • February 22, 2010
NEW YORK – A strong trend within the Greek and Cypriot American community that is transforming its organizations into powerful vehicles for networking, support and mutual assistance continued on Thur...
Young Greek American restaurateur charged in New Jersey double homicide
  • Christopher Tripoulas & Demetris Tsakas
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  • February 21, 2010
A young Greek American businessman has been charged by New Jersey police in the double murder of two men, which occurred late last week. Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli announced on Sat. F...
Winter Coats No Longer the Fashion for Fig Trees
  • Fernanda Santos - The New York Times
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  • February 17, 2010
Stavros Pando will tell you that the ideal spot to plant a fig tree in New York City is in the corner of a walled-off backyard where the walls serve as buffers from the cold winter winds. But he lives...
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