Say that you're roaming downtown, needing a sugar fix, and you want to be a do-gooder, too. The easiest thing to do is visit Sweet Things Bake Shop and start indulging. Since 1990, the store's been operated by the Lower East Side Girls Club, where a dozen teenagers participate in a job-training program supervised by a pair of local community mothers with long ties to the club (one being a former member) and impressive gastronomic backgrounds (including training at the Institute of Culina... More »
