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, POLITRICKS, tagged Bush administration, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Government, Greenhouse gas, Supreme Court, United States, United States Environmental Protection Agency on Friday, July11, 2008 | Comments Off
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EPA Won’t Act on Emissions This Year – washingtonpost.com
EPA Won’t Act on Emissions This Year
Instead of New Rules, More Comment SoughtBy Juliet Eilperin and R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 11, 2008; Page A01
The Bush administration has decided not to take any new steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the president [...]
Posted in COMMUNITY, GENERAL, HARLEM, tagged CNN, HARLEM, Soledad O'Brien, United States on Monday, July7, 2008 | Comments Off
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Greetings!
A MUST SEE!
Importance: High
Unbelievable! And some of us really think we have arrived (been fully
accepted). Not! Be sure to mark your calendars.
Did you know that companies in the US have said they would hire a white man with a felony record and no high school education BEFORE they would hire [...]
Posted in GENERAL, tagged HARLEM, United States, New York, Adam Clayton Powell, Inez Dickens, Cotton Club, Apollo Theater, Lenox Avenue 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 125TH STREET, tagged Airline, American Airlines, United States on Saturday, June21, 2008 | Comments Off
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United Airlines to require minimum stays from October:
United Airlines to require minimum stays from October THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Friday, June 20th 2008, 6:32 PM United Airlines said Friday it will start requiring minimum stays for nearly all domestic coach seats beginning in October. It is also raising its cheapest fares [...]
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 Absentee ballot, Campaigns and Elections, Election, Politics, Registration Act, United States, Voting, Voting Systems on Monday, June2, 2008 | Comments Off
News on Notice
Last week, A554, a bill known as the Voting Rights Notification and Registration Act (VRNRA), passed the New York Assembly. . . again. The bill, which was introduced by Rep. Keith Wright, would provide systematic notice about voting rights to those convicted of felonies during sentencing and again when they become eligible to [...]
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 [...]
Posted in GENERAL, tagged Abyssinian Baptist Church, Baptist, Christianity, City of New York, HARLEM, Oliver Sacks, Religion and Spirituality, United States on Monday, May19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Oliver Sacks and The Abyssinian Baptist Church Choir Team Up to Discuss the Impact of Music on the Brain
BUSINESS WIRE
Oliver Sacks, the best-selling author and neurologist who has been described as “the poet laureate of medicine,” will appear with Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church Choir in an event entitled Music and the Brain, [...]
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