Posted in GENERAL, HEALTH, tagged Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn, HEALTH, Lower East Side, Madison Avenue, New York, NY Times, Tuck School of Business, United States on Monday, July14, 2008 | Comments Off
The City Visible
Suddenly, a Sculptor
By FRANCESCA CAO
Published: July 13, 2008
IN New York State, a person with AIDS is eligible to receive food stamps and housing assistance, along with a small daily stipend. Eleven dollars is what Wayne Starks, who is 52 years old and lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, receives every day to improve the quality [...]
Posted in GENERAL, tagged Adam Clayton Powell, Apollo Theater, Cotton Club, HARLEM, Inez Dickens, Lenox Avenue, New York, United States on Sunday, June29, 2008 | Comments Off
A community Conversation to Save and Preserve Income-Target
Properties in Crisis
Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Time: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Place:Oberia Dempsey
Multi-Center
127 West 127th Street
Between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Blvd.
Invited Guest Include:Hon. Scott Stringer,
Hon. Keith LT Wright, Hon. Bill Perkins, Hon. Inez Dickens, HPD Representatives
of TIL, DAMP and HDFC units, UHAB, The HDFC [...]
Posted in GENERAL, THE NEWS ROUNDUP, tagged Daisy Dukes, Hunts Point, Manhattan Bridge, New York, New York City, New York City Subway, SHOPPING, THE BRONX on Monday, June9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dreams and Desperation on Forsyth Street – NYTimes.com
Dreams and Desperation on Forsyth Street
By SAKI KNAFOIT began in 1998 with a routine act of bureaucracy, a decision by the city’s Department of Transportation to put up a pair of red and white metal signs in the eastern section of Chinatown, on a desolate block in the [...]
Posted in GENERAL, tagged Burger King, David Dinkins, Long Island, New York, The New York Times, United States, University of Connecticut, USA Today on Thursday, June5, 2008 | Comments Off
CITY’S GIANT INSECT ORGY
By JEREMY OLSHAN
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June 5, 2008 — Cicadas are succumbing to the 17-year itch.
The last time the giant, but harmless, insects visited New York, David Dinkins was mayor and the subway fare was $1.15.
But after living six inches underground since 1991, millions are about
to come to the surface across the Northeast: [...]
Posted in GENERAL, tagged 125TH STREET, Adam Clayton Powell IV, ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN, LAW, LAW ENFORCEMENT, New York, New York City, United States on Thursday, May29, 2008 | Comments Off
**EMERGENCY COMMUNITY MEETING**
State Office Building 2nd Floor Art Gallery
(163 West 125th Street, New York, NY 10027)
Friday, May 30, 2008
6:00 PM -7:30 PM SHARP!
IN WAKE OF THE RECENT SHOOTINGS AND RISING CONCERNS FROM THE COMMUNITY
ELECTED OFFICIALS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS ARE CALLING FOR SOLUTIONS
TO
***ADDRESS GUN VIOLENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY***
STATE SENATORS BILL [...]
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