Flushing community center was inspired by holding hands; Staten Island restaurant employs grandmas instead of chefs

• The new community center for Asian Americans for Equality in Flushing follows the concept of holding hands in interweaving fingers to express the group’s mission of helping others. [ArchDaily]
• Staten Island’s Enoteca Maria staffs its kitchen with a fleet of “nonnas” from around the world, cooking the cuisines of their native countries. [Gothamist]
• The Bronx’s Arthur Avenue is named one of the American Planning Association’s five greatest streets in America. [Fox 5 NY]
• And here’s a look at why 23rd Street is becoming “the buzziest street in NYC.” [NYP]
• On this day in 1927 the first full-length motion picture with sound premiered in NYC. [Untapped]
• What it’s like inside Dream House, Tribeca’s trippy, hidden meditative art space. [Thrillist]

Images: Center for Community and Entrepreneurship by JCJ Architecture and Leong Leong (L); the grandmas of Enoteca Maria via Simon & Schuster (R)