Meet Charles Innis, the manager of Mystic Wisdom Tea and Bookshop! Located at 610 Dundas Street, Mystic Wisdom Tea and Bookshop is a one stop shop for your esoteric needs. Mystic Wisdom is actually the merging of two separate businesses; Wisdom Tea and Mystic Bookshop. The bookshop was opened in the mid to late 90s, with the tea shop opening in the early 2000s. “The shops were further apart and over the years, have moved closer together,” Innis says. “We're trying to maintain

Meet LIFE*SPIN, a non-profit organization focused on helping low-income families throughout the year and one of the Old East Village BIA’s Associate Partners! LIFE*SPIN started out in 1989 as a group of sole-support mothers trying to do what they could to help alleviate poverty within the community. “They found pooling resources really helped each other get ahead,” says Meagen Ciufo, co-executive director of LIFE*SPIN. “One person had a car, they could car share. One person h