Stylish Clarity

Stylish Clarity

By Claudie Benjamin Style and optics technology merge in Optician Awilda Sosa’s approach to her career. She’s been at it for over 40 years, always with the enthusiasm of someone new to the profession. Her warm, engaging personality is part of her...
Sweet Celebration

Sweet Celebration

By Claudie Benjamin A celebratory dessert recipe for the holidays? Tiramisu tastes as good as it looks. It’s made of easy-to-find ingredients: eggs, sugars, lady-finger biscuits, mascarpone, coffee, and cocoa.  It promises and delivers an...
Adding Warmth to a Cold Season

Adding Warmth to a Cold Season

By Claudie Benjamin The Sabrina’s two marble lobbies, one very large at 240 West 98th Street, the other much smaller at 241 West 97th Street, provide a very lovely setting for holiday decor. Every year Christmas trees grace each of the lobbies. They are...
Succeeding on the “Wrong” Side of Broadway

Succeeding on the “Wrong” Side of Broadway

By Claudie Benjamin Everyone knows, according to Danny Koch, owner of Town Shop at 2270 Broadway, that there is a good side and a bad side of Broadway on the Upper West Side. His family business was located on the “good” west side of the avenue since...