Frequency Definition: (noun) The number of occurrences within a given time period. Synonyms: Oftenness Usage: The frequency of his seizures increased as he grew older.

Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918) Representing her native Netherlands, Blankers-Koen made her Olympic debut at the 1936 Berlin Games but failed to medal. Two years later, she set her first world record in track and field. Unfortunately for her, both the 1940 […]

Unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime. Still, from an artificial civilization have originated wants, vices, and false tastes, which occasionally become so powerful as to […]

Chairman Crowley Statement on Secretary Carson’s Proposed Rent Hikes on Millions of Americans (Washington, D.C.) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx) issued the following statement after U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson announced a […]

(Bronx, NY… April 24, 2018) …  On the steps of City Hall in lower Manhattan today, and at a ceremony held at the Dr. Katharine Dodge Brownell School in the Southeast Bronx, Alan Mucatel, executive director of what was formerly […]

On Tuesday, April 24th, the 80th assembly district went to the polls for the special election to fill my former assembly seat and voted overwhelmingly for my former chief of staff, and good friend, Nathalia Fernandez.   I have gotten […]

Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287) Mortimer was imprisoned in 1322 for opposing King Edward II, but he escaped to France. When Edward II’s queen, Isabella, came to France in 1325, Mortimer became her lover. Together they invaded England […]

Acknowledgement of one another’s faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)