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City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is teaming with kickstarter to help boost business ventures.

Public artist Leon Reid IV got official approval Thursday to dress up a statue of George Washington in Union Square to look like an average New York City tourist.

Seth Caplan will install sound boxes around Union Square to see how people react when they hear stories about encounters with strangers.

The Uni, a new open-air, mobile reading unit, will debut at the New Amsterdam Market on Sunday.

The Parks Department nixed his 'Tourist in Chief' public art installation . Now, Brooklyn-based public artist Leon Reid IV is planning to plead his case to Community Board 5.

The Pop-Up Co-Up hopes to locate in an abandoned West Harlem bodega, and provide jobs and skills for former foster kids.

"New York, Phew York: A Scratch-N-Sniff Adventure" is on track to hit the shelves in mid-November after author Amber C. Jones reached her goal of raising $20,000.

A former social worker hopes to open an employee-owned co-op selling organic vegetables on 128th Street.

The team behind a new film, four of whom live in Upper Manhattan, turned to social media to fund their film "American Falls" with actors Denis O'Hare of "True Blood" and Vincent D'Onofrio.

Designers launched a Kickstarter campaign to begin testing a "big strainer" for pools in the East or Hudson rivers.

Pianist Colin Huggins tickled the ivories Saturday.

An Upper East Side film student begins shooting "Thunderstruck," about an AC/DC cover band, this month.