April Showers Bring the Laughs to Empire City Casino As Comedian & Author Tom Shillue and Comedy Central Alum Aaron Berg Headline Wednesday Comedy Nights (Yonkers, NY) — Tom Shillue, who has appeared on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in the show’s […]
Chairman Crowley Advocates for Additional Funding to Make College More Affordable for Low-Income Students (Queens, NY) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY) announced today his request for additional funding for federal aid programs that benefit low-income college students […]
Ingest Definition: (verb) To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption. Synonyms: Consume, Have, Take in Usage: Chocolate can be lethal to dogs if they ingest too much of it.
Dorothea Dix (1802) Dix left an unhappy home at age 10 to live with her grandmother in Boston. By age 14, the resourceful Dix was on her own and working as a schoolteacher. In 1841, while teaching in a Massachusetts […]
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
Statement From IDC Leader Jeff Klein on NYCHA For years, members of the Independent Democratic Conference demanded an Independent Monitor, transparency and funding to fix the deplorable conditions in New York City’s most affordable housing stock, NYCHA. Today, we put […]
By William Coppola What a day in New York for baseball. With the weather still looking and feeling like the dead of winter, the possibility of going to either Yankee Stadium for a 4:30 game or to Citi Field for a 7:10 start was […]
By Ray Negron In 1976 Reggie Jackson played for the Baltimore Orioles. After that season he became a free agent. He also covered the World Series as a color commentator along with Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell. During one […]
By William Coppola Have you ever witnessed a major league no-hitter? It was always an amazing thing to see. I use the word ‘was’ because your chances of seeing a big league pitcher go nine innings to pitch one is […]
Chairman Crowley Advocates to Expand Affordable Housing for Seniors (Queens, NY) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY) announced today his efforts to provide a robust investment to expand affordable housing for seniors in Queens, the Bronx, and across […]
Jane Goodall (1934) Soon after finishing high school, Goodall fulfilled her childhood ambition of traveling to Africa, where she assisted British anthropologist Louis Leakey, who suggested she study chimpanzees. In 1960, she established a research camp in what is now […]
What one man can invent another can discover. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Follow Us