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Midoriya
Japanese, Food and Drink
Midoriya is a Japanese mini-mart in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They sell all kinds of Japanese foodstuffs, kitchen items, and other miscellaneous useful things. It is clean, bright, and cheerful—one of the tidiest little stores I have ever seen in New…
Rocket French
French, Multimedia
Headquartered in New Zealand, Rocket Languages offers products for multiple languages. I didn’t use Rocket French enough, or recently enough, to rate it, but I liked my brief encounter with it in April 2011 well enough to consider trying…
Älskling
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, General, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Shopping, Kids
Älskling, which means “darling” in Swedish, sells baby clothes online in dozens of languages. When I first encountered this product in an Upper West Side shop some years ago, I was fortunate enough to be given a tour by…
Larousse Pocket Spanish-English/English-Spanish Dictionary
Spanish, Books, Dictionaries
The Larousse Pocket Spanish-English/English-Spanish Dictionary is a robust pocket dictionary, not one of those super-mini ones. I didn’t use it much, but it worked well for me when I did.
Little Brazil, Manhattan
Portuguese, Neighborhoods
Little Brazil in New York City is little. It lies on 46th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues, and there are on this particular block enough other languages/countries represented in the retail establishments that in the past, when walking…
Koninginnedag (Queen’s Day)
Dutch, Fairs/Festivals/Parades
Koninginnedag, meaning Queen’s Day, is a national holiday in the Netherlands that is also celebrated with great energy in New York and other places around the globe. It falls on April 30th, unless that happens to be a Sunday,…
Borough Park, Brooklyn
Hebrew, Yiddish, Neighborhoods
The majority of Borough Park’s residents are Orthodox Jews. In fact, this neighborhood is one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside of Israel. In a 2010 New York Times article, Gregory Beyer wrote, “Religious tradition and…