The new face of Broad Avenue

By HASIME UKPERAJ PALISADES PARK – Situated in between a natural food store and the municipal parking on Broad Ave, sits a Korean run supermarket adorned in Korean and English signs and advertisements.  More than 30 years ago, the Pae family of Tenafly, N.J. opened “Onion Cellar,” a small fruit store marking one of the first Korean owned businesses located on ...

Immigrants old and new risk danger for opportunity

By HASIME UKPERAJ and STEPHANIE NODA - Regina Perez had always known the dangers associated with trying to cross the American border. These dangers didn’t become a reality to her until her life was on the line. “I came through Mexico by car,” said Regina Perez, a Guatemalan immigrant, through a translator. “People came to me to take me over the border; ...

CCJ students map their adopted beats

They will cover the Japanese in Fort Lee, the Egyptians in Paterson, the homeless in Bergen County and the African-Americans in Newark. These are some of the cross-cultural beats that students in the Cross-Cultural Journalism Senor Project Spring 2011 class will cover as their adopted beats. The first step in covering a new beat is to research the people and ...