AUGUST 2016 Live Music by the FDR Drive Band Sponsored by Senator Jeffry Klein Tuesday, August 9th Owen Dolen Park Starts at 7pm Enjoy a night of your favorite 80s and 90s Pop Tunes. Rain Date: August 12th Salsa Fest Saturday, August […]

An important and timely interactive community panel discussion on relations between the Police and the Community will take place at the St. Helena School gymnasium, 1315 Olmstead Avenue, on Friday, July 29 from 4-6PM. The discussion is entitled: “Community and […]

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., State Senator Jeff Klein, Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz and City Council Member Andrew Cohen have announced $2 million in new funding allocations to relocate the Van Cortlandt branch library to a new, larger home. […]

On Friday, June 24, 2016 Regional Aid for Interim Needs, Inc. (R.A.I.N.), at the Tolentine Center, Bharati Dance Academy and The Bharati Foundation teamed up for the Inaugural Bollywood Celebration, an event showcasing a “Taste of Indian and Caribbean Culture”, […]

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Jane Austen (1775-1817)

recant Definition: (verb) Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure. Synonyms: abjure, forswear, retract, resile Usage: The dissident refused to recant and was imprisoned.

Emma Lazarus (1849) Lazarus was an American Jewish poet. She became an impassioned spokeswoman for Judaism after the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, writing many essays and a book of poems, Songs of a Semite, which contains her best work. […]

You are Invited To “1st Annual Make A Wish Come True!” The Surf Club On The Sound Wednesday, September 14th, 6:00pm-11:00pm To Benefit the Make a Wish Foundation To Register for this Event, Please Visit: wwwmakeawishcometrue.org     1st Annual  […]

Local basketball tournament works to build police-community relations   BRONX, NY – State Senator Jeff Klein (D-Bronx/Westchester), joined the New York City Housing Authority, Throggs Neck Residents’ Council, New York City Fire Department, Police Service Area #8, NYPD Housing Bureau, […]

Beginning tomorrow, July 19, some large-scale commercial food-generating establishments will be required to separate their organic waste (food scraps, food-soiled paper) and arrange for its proper management through methods that include composting or aerobic/anaerobic digestion.   The rules require establishments […]

Former DDC Intern Managed Project – Now His First Project as a DDC Resident Engineer     (Queens, NY – July 15, 2016) A $1.8 million project to install new storm sewers and replace existing sewers and water mains in […]