Clarence Leonidas “Leo” Fender (1909) Few people in recent history have transformed popular music—rock and roll in particular—the way Leo Fender did. A self-taught radio repairman, Fender began inventing electronic instruments in the 1940s and is responsible for the first […]

Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)    

outlast Definition: (verb) Live longer than. Synonyms: outlive, survive Usage: Naturally dried flowers will outlast a bouquet of fresh blooms.    

STATEMENT FROM BOROUGH PRESIDENT DIAZ RE: Updated Hurricane Maria Death Toll in Puerto Rico “It has been crystal clear since just days after Hurricane Maria that we were not getting the complete story when it came to the death toll […]

Pamela Lyndon “P. L.” Travers (1899) Australian-born British actress, journalist, and novelist P. L. Travers is best remembered for her series of fictional children’s books about the prim, vain, imperious, acerbic, and mysteriously magical nanny Mary Poppins. The books were […]

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be […]

garrulity Definition: (noun) The quality of being wordy and talkative. Synonyms: loquacity, talkativeness Usage: With the confidential garrulity of a man who has dined too well, he plunged into his darling topic, and I looked past him at the clock. […]

Empire City Casino Partners with New York Blood Center in Response to Emergency Blood Donation Appeal; Hosting Local Blood Drive August 17 in Casino’s Good Time Room   Public Urged to Help the Cause Pre-Register Available at NYBloodCenter.org   (Yonkers, […]

Matthew Alexander Henson (1866) Orphaned in his youth, Henson went to work on a merchant ship at the age of 12. After nearly a decade at sea, he met American explorer Robert E. Peary and became his valet and assistant […]

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly […]

protuberant Definition: (adjective) Swelling out from the surrounding surface. Synonyms: bellying, bulgy, bulbous Usage: The huge and protuberant stomach was amply supported by wide and massive hips, and the shoulders were broad as those of a Hercules.      

John Heathcoat (1783) Heathcoat was not the first person to invent a lacemaking machine, but his apparatus was the first to produce an exact imitation of handmade pillow lace. Patented in 1809, it was the most complex textile machine then […]

Men’s lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease. George Eliot (1819-1880)  

morganatic Definition: (adjective) Of or being a legal marriage between a person of royal or noble birth and a partner of lower rank, in which it is agreed that no titles or estates of the royal or noble partner are […]

Elected leaders will provide over $1.2 million to fund new skate park and fitness equipment Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and City Council member Andrew Cohen announced today that they have allocated a combined $1,249,000 in capital funding for […]