The Mayor has found a smelly way to relieve traffic congestion in the city: Put trash on the train.
Today, along with Sanitation Commissioner John J. Doherty, the Mayor announced that 2,100 tons of daily residential and municipal waste from the Bronx will now be shipped for final disposal by rail, rather than by Read More
On July 5, 1520 Sedgwick Avenue was recognized by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation as the “Birthplace of Hip-Hop.”
The tenants and supporters of the affordable housing development in the Bronx are now hoping that the recognition will help them avoid being booted from their homes.
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Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui mailed out a disturbing video to NBC News in which he says things like, “You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience.”
Reactions to the late-term-partial-birth abortion ban from the 2008 candidates was quick and broke along party lines.
Hillary Clinton’s favorable ratings sunk Read More
9:30 a.m. The U.S. Department of Labor will hold an Equal Employment Opportunity Awards program at the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, at 1 Bowling Green.
10 a.m. The Food Bank for New York will launch a backpack program to address childhood hunger at home at the Citizens Advice Bureau, Read More
Saturday
Noon. Councilman Charles Barron will march with a family alleging police brutality at 684 Thomas Boyland Avenue, between Blake and Sutter avenues, to the 81st Precinct on East New York and Thomas Boyland avenues, in Brooklyn.
1 p.m. Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum will deliver Easter baskets to homeless families at Teresa’s House shelter, 1975 Read More
8:30 a.m. A Way of the Cross procession will start at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, East 47th Street between First and Second avenues, and proceed along 42nd Street to Eighth Avenue.
10 a.m. A Way of the Cross procession will start at St. James Cathedral-Basilica, 250 Cathedral Place in Brooklyn, then proceed over the Brooklyn Bridge, Read More
In metro reporting, it’s important to get someone’s occupation and location of residence right. Today, The Times Alan Feuer goes to great lengths not to let the reader down. The piece begins:
A Bronx martial arts instructor from the Bronx pleaded guilty today to a charge of “conspiring to provide material support or Read MoreHere’s Assemblyman and Bronx Democratic leader Jose Rivera on Eliot Spitzer, and on the mistakes he thinks the new governor may have made during the budget process.
“He got elected to govern with this legislative body,” he said, “not with you guys and the editorial writers.”
– Azi Paybarah
9 a.m. Columbia University will host an African Economic Forum at the Columbia University Kellogg Centre, 420 West 118th Street.
10:30 a.m. Asian Women in Business and Rep. Gary Ackerman will hold a free workshop for Asian American owned businesses in Queens and Nassau County at the Korea Village Open Center, 150-24 Northern Boulevard in Read More
The Daily News on Wednesday lays out a convincing argument that the foreclosure wave sweeping parts of the United States may drench the outer-boroughs as well. The argument uses numbers from a study by the nonprofit Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project–and the numbers are sobering:
In some areas of South Jamaica and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Read More
