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Councilmember Ritchie Torres and NYC DHS Announce Opening of New Homeless Shelter for LGBTQ Community
NYC DEPARTMENT OF HOMELESS SERVICES AND COUNCIL MEMBER RITCHIE TORRES ANNOUNCE OPENING OF NEW HOMELESS SHELTER FOR LGBTQ COMMUNITY Brand-new shelter model will provide targeted services for LGBTQ community NEW YORK—Today, the Department of Homeless Services and Council Member Ritchie […]
Profile America: DITY Direct-Dial Area Codes
Profile America — A key part of daily telecommunications is 65 years old this month, as direct-dial telephone area codes for transcontinental calling were introduced in 1951. The mayor of Englewood, New Jersey, made the first official call, picking up […]
Whose Birthday Is It? November 20, 2016
Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866) Landis was a US federal judge and the first commissioner of professional baseball. Named for a Georgia mountain where his father had been wounded during the Civil War, he practiced law in Illinois before serving as […]
Quote of the Day: November 20, 2016
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it’s grand and great. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
Word of the Day: November 20, 2016
Sundog Definition: (noun) A small halo or rainbow near the horizon just off of the parhelic circle. Synonyms: Mock sun, Parhelion Usage: The scientists concluded that the sundog’s rainbow-like appearance must be the result of the diffraction of light.
SENATOR JEFF KLEIN CELEBRATES ART CENTER OPENING AT HOWIE STONE ADULT DAY CARE
Bronx, NY — State Senator Jeff Klein (D- Bronx/Westchester) and AHRC NYC Executive Director Gary Lind unveiled a new art center on Thursday at Howie Stone Adult Day Care. They were also joined by the family of the late Howie […]
Thanksgiving Dinner Special at Applebee’s Grill & Bar
Start A Thanksgiving Family Tradition. Relax While We Do All The Cooking. Celebrate with Applebee’s Thanksgiving Dinner Plate.
No Garbage, Organics, Recycling Collection, or Street Cleaning on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 24
No Garbage, Organics, Recycling Collection, or Street Cleaning on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 24 The New York City Department of Sanitation announced that in observance of Thanksgiving Day, there would be no garbage, organics nor recycling collection, or street cleaning, […]
Profile America: Howard University
Profile America — One of the most renowned of America’s historically black colleges was founded on this date in 1866 as the Howard Theological Seminary. Named after Civil War general and post-war Freedmen’s Bureau Director Oliver O. Howard, the seminary […]
OPEN LETTER TO THE MAYOR, EVA MOSKOWITZ CALLS FOR CITY TO USE UNDER-UTILIZED BUILDINGS FOR SUCCESS ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLS
IN OPEN LETTER TO THE MAYOR, EVA MOSKOWITZ CALLS FOR CITY TO USE UNDER-UTILIZED BUILDINGS FOR SUCCESS ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLS City has only 13 working days left to make a proposal that could be approved in January New York, NY […]
Whose Birthday Is It? November 18, 2016
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901) Nordenskiöld was a Finnish-born Swedish geologist, mineralogist, geographer, and explorer who wrote several valuable books on geography, cartography, and travel. In 1858, he settled in Stockholm and became professor and curator of mineralogy at the Swedish […]
Quote of the Day: November 18, 2016
With Women, we speak of “love”, “duty”, “right”, “wrong”, “pity”, “hope”, and other irrational and emotional conceptions, which have no existence, and the fiction of which has no object except to control feminine exuberances. Edwin Abbott (1838-1926)
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