Brooklyn

Bulk food bins have been around for a while. But an entire store devoted to selling everything in bulk, eliminating packaging and asking shoppers to bring their own containers is relatively new. The Fillery, a new store due to open in Brooklyn later this year, wants to be that store.

Antoinette Martinez grew up in Sunset Park with her extended Puerto Rican family. But with real estate values skyrocketing, there’s no way she’ll ever be able to get her own place in the neighborhood.

There are pockets of Korean communities all over the US, places where food and culture make you think you’re in Seoul. Chef Deuki Hong and food writer Matt Rodbard set out on a journey across America looking for Koreatowns. They wrote a cookbook about these places and the cuisine made there.

New York has immigrants from around the world, including huge numbers who practice Islam. Many Muslim communities here faced heavy-handed law enforcement tactics after 9/11, but they’ve since worked hard to defuse tensions and improve relations with federal and local authorities. The rise of ISIS as some community advocates furious.

Synthetic biology is no longer limited to the worlds of giant research institutions and corporations. There is a growing movement to democratize biotech and put its tools into the hands of bio hackers, artists and hobbyists.