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Notification issued 3/16/14 at 1:35 PM. The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City is accepting contributions to assist the individuals, families, and businesses affected by the building collapse that occurred at 116th Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan on Wednesday, 3/12. Those wishing to contribute or gain additional information about the Mayor’s Fund may visit http://www.NYC.gov/fund or call 311.

El Fondo de la Alcaldía para la Promoción de la Ciudad de Nueva York está aceptando contribuciones para colaborar con las personas, familias y empresas afectadas por el derrumbe de edificios ocurrido en 116th Street y Park Avenue, Manhattan el miércoles 12 de marzo. Las personas que deseen colaborar u obtener más información sobre el Fondo de la Alcaldía pueden visitar http://www.NYC.gov/fund o llamar al 311.

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SANKOFA
Sun, 16 Mar 2014 20:53:00 GMT

Fine arts show coming to Harlem

Fine arts show coming to Harlem

The Harlem Fine Arts Show — an annual five-day art extravaganza — kicks off Thursday at the historic Riverside Church with nearly 100 visual artists, not to mention former Washington Redskins linebacker Andre Collins.

Fine arts show coming to Harlem
BETH STEBNER
Sun, 26 Jan 2014 07:30:35 GMT

The Freedom Dance Party with special guest Cameo

The Freedom Dance Party with special guest Cameo

Date: July 2, 2013

Join The Freedom Dance Party as they celebrate 10 years of weekly parties with a huge live performance with Funk and R&B legend, Cameo!

The Freedom Dance Party is the longest running, weekly, Friday-night party in NYC history. Winner of Papermag's highly coveted award for “Best Party (People's Choice)” and runner up in URB magazine's “Best Party” (nationwide), Freedom was created in 2003 by Herbert Holler, DJ Cosi and Marc Smooth to provide a party for people from all walks of life to dance and be free. Today, it is a bona fide nightlife institution and takes place at Le Poisson Rouge. Playing an incredible mix of danceable, soulful hits from the 60s through today, including Rap, House, Disco, R&B classics, Rock, Reggae, 80s, Electronica, Latin, Afrobeat and more, Freedom continues to fill its dance floor each week with fun, beautiful people from all over the globe looking to have an unforgettable, true NYC party experience.

Selling more than 17 million albums worldwide, Cameo is one of the most popular Funk/Rock and Soul bands of its era. For nearly four decades, Cameo has maintained its core funkiness and has been churning out trailblazing hits that have permanently marked major turning points in music and set the standard that many have tried to duplicate and follow.

Start time: 6:00 pm

End time: 10:00 pm

Contact phone:

Location: Rumsey Playfield (in Central Park)

The Freedom Dance Party with special guest Cameo
Sun, 30 Jun 2013 04:00:03 GMT

City Council passes 2 bills to rein in the NYPD's use of stop and frisk

City Council passes 2 bills to rein in the NYPD's use of stop and frisk

Defying Mayor Bloomberg and his top cop, Raymond Kelly, the City Council passed two bills Thursday morning to rein in the NYPD’s use of stop and frisk.

City Council passes 2 bills to rein in the NYPD's use of stop and frisk
ERIN DURKIN
Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:24:42 GMT

Bill de Blasio Cuffs Chris Quinn To NYPD Boss Ray Kelly In New Anti-Stop And Frisk Web Ad

Bill de Blasio Cuffs Chris Quinn To NYPD Boss Ray Kelly In New Anti-Stop And Frisk Web Ad

Bill de Blasio anchors frontrunner Christine Quinn to NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly in a new web ad focused on the top cop's contention that African-Americans are "understopped" by police. Public Advocate de Blasio, along with Quinn, former Comptroller Bill Thompson and ex-Councilman Sal ...

Bill de Blasio Cuffs Chris Quinn To NYPD Boss Ray Kelly In New Anti-Stop And Frisk Web Ad
The Daily Politics
Fri, 03 May 2013 15:26:55 GMT

FBI busts State Sen. Malcolm Smith in mayoral election rigging plot

FBI busts State Sen. Malcolm Smith in mayoral election rigging plot 

The FBI busted Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith of Queens Tuesday and was set to haul in City Councilman Dan Halloran on charges they conspired to rig the 2013 mayoral election by buying Smith a spot on the Republican ballot, sources said.

FBI busts State Sen. Malcolm Smith in mayoral election rigging plot
Greg B. Smith
Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:50:21 GMT

Rats Invade Subway While MTA Chases Its Tail

TWU: Rats Invade Subway While MTA Chases Its Tail

• ‘IT’S ABOUT TIME’

  

  The Chief-Leader/Michel Friang

  ‘IT’S ABOUT TIME’: Local 100 Steward and Train Conductor Scott Harris collected signatures from riders at the Jamaica Center subway terminal. One woman, while signing the petition urging the MTA to deal with the growing rat problem, said, ‘For real, one ran across my foot!’

Posted: Monday, September 26, 2011 5:00 pm | Updated: 4:55 pm, Mon Sep 26, 2011.

By FLORA FAIR |

A straphanger was bitten by a rat on a subway platform earlier this month, and transit workers say that unless the Metropolitan Transportation Authority takes action, it won’t be the last time.

The young woman said she was waiting for the J train at the Chambers Street station during morning rush hour when the rat scurried out from under a bench and bit her foot. But the problem, according to Transport Workers Union Local 100 officials, isn’t a rogue rodent—it’s the increasing aggression of a growing rat population in the city’s subway stations, exacerbated by conditions that the union has repeatedly asked the MTA to fix.

City Doesn't Have To Subsidize Rent For Homeless, Judge Rules

 

When Governor Cuomo passed his belt-strangling budget back in April, one of the things that ended up on the cutting room floor was funding for the city's Advantage program, which helped 15,000 households with working family members by subsidizing up to $1,100 a month toward rent for up to two years. The state formerly paid $65 million toward the program, which has a budget of $140 million (out of which the feds pay $27 million and the city pays $48 million). With that money cut off, the city decided to scrap the whole thing, and now, after a court battle, a judge has give the Bloomberg administration the green light to do so. [ more › ]

City Doesn't Have To Subsidize Rent For Homeless, Judge Rules
John Del Signore
Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:05:00 GMT

Food Truck Crackdown Shuts Uptown Vendors

Food Truck Crackdown Shuts Uptown Vendors

July 25, 2011 7:33am | By Carla Zanoni, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — A recent crackdown on illegal food trucks has left uptown vendors uncertain when they will serve their next round of burgers, fried pork rinds and fruity juices.

Police joined the Department of Health (DOH) in an inter-agency inspection of four Dominican-style food trucks that operate along Amsterdam Avenue in the 170s last week, leaving only one on the streets.

According to DOH, the trucks were confiscated for a variety of reasons.

The first was seized for violations including “cold food above 41 degrees Fahrenheit, inadequate lighting, no proof of the truck being serviced and an unclean cart.”

Police towed the truck when the vendor was unable to start the vehicle when asked to move, a DOH spokeswoman said. Trucks must be maintained in mobile condition.

The second was removed after inspectors found it did not have a permit decal, the truck was deemed unclean and “excessive propane tanks were found,” according to the DOH.

The third truck was confiscated with no owner present, as it appeared “abandoned” with no permit decal and “excessive propane tanks and unattended food on the truck.”

The fourth truck passed the inspection and has been slinging chimis, a Dominican burger, all week.

“We have all of our paperwork and licenses,” said a worker at El Primo pointing to a decal on the side of the truck. “We pay a lot of money monthly to make sure everything is in order.”

Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/20110725/washington-heights-inwood/food-truck-crackdown-shuts-uptown-vendors?utm_content=blackcotton212%40gmail.com&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Food%20Truck%20Crackdown%20Shuts%20Uptown%20Vendors&utm_campaign=First%20Day%20of%20Gay%20Marriage%20Deeply%20Personal%20for%20UWS%20Couplecontent#ixzz1T8csCvqS

Rastafaride

Rastafaride

By Anonymous

Created 04/25/2011 - 12:11pm

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 12:11pm

Date: 

Sunday, May 8, 2011 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Location: 

Washington Square Park (under the arch), Manhattan.

Punky Reggae Rastafaride celebrating the life, vision of Bob Marley and everything else green in New York City.
Ride your bike around NYC listening to reggae hits and punk rock. Rastafaride to end at the Yippie! Museum Cafe!

http://times-up.org/calendar/detail.php?calendarid=3127

MISSING PERSON

On the morning of Feb. 9, Shaun Eliot boarded the M101 bus on Amsterdam Avenue at 160th Street, a few blocks from home.

He had $10, a MetroCard with a day or two of rides left on it.

He wore a black leather jacket and blue jeans; his hair was braided.

His face, a recent picture shows, is that of a man who looks much younger than 32. He stood 5-11 and weighed 255 pounds.

He vanished.

It’s Bullets Over Broadway as New Benches Are Unveiled

Upper West Side - Upper West Side to M.T.A. - Please Don’t Change the Furniture - NYTimes.com

Upper West Side

It’s Bullets Over Broadway as New Benches Are Unveiled

Librado Romero/The New York Times
Benches along the Broadway malls are being torn up to make way for redesigned seating to the dismay of some residents.


By GREGORY BEYER
Published: August 24, 2008

ONE way to pass a long summer afternoon would be to stroll the length of Broadway from 60th to 168th Streets, and note that the wood and iron benches on the center malls all look pretty much the same. Modeled on the bench designed for the 1939 World’s Fair, they are sturdy, stately and, unless one objects to the slight flourish of circular armrests, generally unobjectionable.
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The Curious World of the Last Stop

The Curious World of the Last Stop - NYTimes.com

The Curious World of the Last Stop

Richard Perry/The New York Times
Outside the end of the L train in Canarsie, Brooklyn.


By ANDY NEWMAN
Published: August 22, 2008

At the end of the line, the subway creaks to a stop a few yards short of the yellow crash bumper. A few stragglers, or a lurch of homebound commuters, head for the street.

Train cleaners wielding worn-sided corn brooms and generic spray bottles marked “lemon” or “Windex” amble onto the cars, rousting any sleepers and drunks unmoved by the conductor’s voice grating through speakers:

“This is the last stop on this train.”

Beyond the station gates, a priest dreams of a vineyard. A car bursts into flame. An ancient sign in a boarded-up window opposite the platform reads “Wrestling Weight.” A stuffed bear mans a betting window in a struggling OTB parlor. The dead lie in rows uncounted, and the living mourn and wait and work and love and strum guitars on the front stoop, annoying the neighbors.

There are 24 stops on the New York City subway system past which you can ride no farther. For those who get off somewhere else — almost everyone — the end is just a sign on the train. New Lots: wonder what that’s like. Dyre Avenue? Sounds kind of grim. Middle Village — what is that, a jousting park? As it turns out, the end of the line, like most ends, is a place of abiding mystery.

At the city’s often-threadbare fringes, there is an inescapable sense of lonesomeness. There might be a Last Stop Deli, a forlorn bar, a maintenance yard populated mostly by rows of empty trains. There is, surprisingly often, a cemetery.

Yet to visit all the system’s extremities is to see that the last stop is not a single, monolithic place. There are subway lines that end, logically, where the city runs out of land; lines that end, anticlimactically, where builders ran out of money; even a few that fetch up in bustling downtowns of one sort or another. From the marshy lowlands of Tottenville to the lush hills of Riverdale to the ceaseless clangor of Flushing, the end of the line manages to take in the entire breadth of the city beyond Midtown Manhattan.

No. 4 to Woodlawn; M to Middle Village

For this survey, every last stop was visited, though not all those visits will be included here. Nor will the last stops on lines like the C and the G, whose endpoints occur along other lines.

What better place to begin the tour than at the end of life itself?

At the turn of the 20th century, Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx was doing fine, really, as a resting place of the wealthy and powerful. But the cemetery fathers smelled action when they heard that the Jerome Avenue subway line might be extended.

“From the earliest point in 1910,” says Susan Olsen, the cemetery’s historian, “our board of trustees are recording in their minutes about their activities with the folks who are building the subway: ‘We want that last stop here; we want people to be able to go.’ ”

Woodlawn was linked to the rest of the city on what is now the No. 4 line in 1916, and business exploded. A sales office opened at the south end of the cemetery to greet the subway traffic. “We’d meet with you here,” Ms. Olsen says at an old wood table beneath the gaze of cemetery presidents in musty gilt-framed portraits. Woodlawn became the cemetery of the Harlem Renaissance, permanent home to Duke Ellington and W. C. Handy, father of the blues.

Woodlawn was hardly the first cemetery to recognize the benefits of mass transit. In the pre-subway era there were a Calvary Cemetery line, a Holy Cross Cemetery line and a Green-Wood Cemetery line. In Middle Village, Queens, at the end of the former Lutheran Cemetery line, now known as the M, stands the Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery.

“We still trust God at All Faiths,” a sign there says. Another sign notes that the State Division of Cemeteries has pronounced All Faiths “exceptionally well-operated and maintained.” A robin perches proudly atop it.

A few quiet blocks away, the bad boys of Middle Village assemble on Bartholomew Sciacca’s stoop. Mr. Sciacca, 25, a deliveryman for the health department, picks out chords on an acoustic guitar. His friend Jordan Carfagno, 23, Newport tucked behind ear, fiddles with a lighter. Their band is called Starting Last. Their nemesis is the old lady across the street. She is, they say, driven mad by the guitar’s unamplified tinkle.

“She doesn’t really say anything to us,” Mr. Sciacca says. “She just calls the police.”

“That’s Middle Village,” Mr. Carfagno says. “People try to be nice.”

N and W to Ditmars Blvd.

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[Courtesy of: nytimes.com]

Harlem Football Coach Sues B.O.E.

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Sunday, August 17, 2008

Harlem Football Coach Sues B.O.E.

HARLEM, N.Y. -- The city has booted Harlem's only high-school football team, the Hellfighters, from its home in retaliation for the coach speaking out about a racial incident at a Staten Island game last year, according to a lawsuit.
Duke Fergerson, the coach who filed the suit, slammed the Department of Education and the Public School Athletic League, which oversees the program.

"It's been the most hostile environment that I've been in in my life," he said.

On Oct. 13, just before a game with McKee-Staten Island Technical School, the Harlem players noticed the words "Ya n---a's SUCK from MSIT" scrawled on the visiting team's bench.

Fergerson -- who played in the NFL in the 1970s -- claimed that after school and DOE officials refused to act on the vulgar graffiti, he alerted police and the media, according to the suit filed last week in Manhattan Supreme Court.

The Hellfighters are made up of students from schools without football programs. They practice in city parks and travel to other schools for all games. The team's equipment was kept at its headquarters, at the Wadleigh School on 114th Street in Harlem.

Fergerson claims his call to the press resulted in Wadleigh's principal at the time, Karen Watts, immediately barring him from the campus and evicting the team at the end of the season.

Without access to his mail, office or equipment, the coach said he's unable to recruit players for next season.

The DOE claims the Staten Island incident was "entirely unrelated" to the expulsion.

"Three separate principals asked this coach to leave their schools," said DOE spokeswoman Debra Wexler. "The DOE is currently working with several Harlem schools to find a home for a football team in the community."

Fergerson claims in his suit that $2,000 in PSAL money for the Hellfighters has been withheld for the past three years, and that the league pressured a donor to redirect to the league another grant earmarked for the team.

The suit seeks a release of the funds and for school officials to allow the team to "compete on a level playing field."

Story by Janon Fisher.
Posted by The Sports Almanac.. at 3:00 PM

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NYPD BlueTube

NYPD BlueTube

Big Brother wants to
watch you. Actually, the New York City Police Department wants to watch
what you see and video-record if it contains evidence of criminal
activity. Very soon, they’ll make it very easy for people to upload
videos and text, direct to 911. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly
says this will increase the flow of information which in turn will help
law enforcement and make New York a safer place to live and work. As
most sports fans know, video replay of a close play can eliminate doubt
and bring the truth to light. In that light, this is a good
program. Evidence will help protect the rights of the innocent and to
obtain justice when necessary; depending on the camera angle, of
course. It remains to be seen whether or not police receive many
spiteful videos from neighbors filming neighbors littering or not
cleaning up after their dogs. This new system may become an invasion of
privacy for some but may ultimately prove to "make better neighbors"
than Benjamin Franklin's fences.

Posted on www.NEWYORKCITYonline.com

African-Flavored Summer Festivals in New York

African-Flavored Summer Festivals in New York

Published by admin August 13th, 2008 in Featured and News & Hot Shots.

By Sirak Getachew

Published: Wednesday, August 13, 2008

New York (Tadias) - Here are but a few of the African-flavored summer festivals in New York.

AUG. 16TH, UNIVERSAL HIP-HOP PARADE, BROOKLYN, NY


All roads lead to Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon, August 16th for the annual Universal Hip-Hop Parade held in honor of Marcus Garvey’s birthday. This year’s theme is “The Message, The Movement, The Progress! Hip-Hop for Social Change”. Learn more at: universalhiphopparade.com for more details.

AUG. 17TH, THE BLACK STAR BOAT RIDE, NEW YORK, NY
From the promoters of Rooftop to Forward Reggae Fridays and others in between - Bintou with Stakamusic and Stateside Revolution, has brought nothing short of fun and flare back to the dance. This year Conscious Music will host the 1st Annual Black Star Liner Boat Ride on board the Paddlewheel Queen (at 23rd and FDR), and will be serving a great complimentary selection of quality Caribbean and African cuisines. The artist roster includes Jamaica Stateside Revolutions and Sirius Radio host DJ Gringo. And DJ Sirak from Ethiopia blends African Vibes from Fela Kuti to conscious hip-hop and on the rooftop Live African Drumming. Plus free after party with ticket stub at Revival Reggae Sundays at Lox Lounge. Sponsored by: Moshood,Nicholas/Nubian Heritage, Tadias Magazine, Eastside Pleasure, VP Records, Those Brothers, Fusicology, Brooklyn Moon Cafe, Harriets Alter Ego, Strictly Roots Restaurant. Admission: $40 Tickets

AUG. 20TH, THE ETHIOPIQUES REUNION, NEW YORK, NY

Come and enjoy a historical night of the grooves of Ethiopia. The vibes of Extra Golden include performances by Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete with The Either/Orchestra, and Gétatchèw Mèkurya with The Ex at Lincoln Center Out of Doors free concert. Time: 6pm. Location: Damrosch Park Bandshell. This event is hosted by the Lincoln Center in cooperation with WFMU and Ethiopiques/EthioSonic.

AUG. 24TH, THE AFRICAN DAY PARADE, HARLEM, NY

The African Day Parade Inc. is proud to announce The 2nd Annual African Day Parade (ADP) which will be held on Sunday August 24, 2008 in Harlem, NYC. The theme for this year is Family & Tradition. This event is signed to celebrate and unify the Beauty and Richness of Black & African Culture. Parade route begins at 126th Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard ( 7 Ave) to 116th street and 8th Avenue. Time: 1pm. Gathering starts at 10am. To sponsor this event please contact 6463167644

AUG. 31ST, BLACK AUGUST, NEW YORK, NY

This year’s Black August event goes down August 11 at Nokia Theater in NYC. Performances by Immortal Technique, EPMD, Black Moon and others. The Black August Hip Hop Project strives to promote human rights though supporting and influencing the global development of Hip Hop culture. By facilitating exchanges between international communities where Hip Hop is a vital part of youth culture, we promote awareness about the social and political issues that affect our global communities. Internationally, Black August has facilitated 8 international delegations of artists and activists to Cuba (1998, 1999, 2000, and 2003), South Africa (2001), Tanzania (2005), Brazil (2004, 2006 and last year to Venezuela (2007). Time: 8pm to 1am. Location: Nokia Theatre Times Square, 1515 Broadway Ave. Admission: $30
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Events Calendar brought to you by Sirak Getachew, Creative Director of Eastside Pleasures

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