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 […]

If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

dieresis Definition: (noun) A mark ( ¨ ) placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate that they are to be pronounced as separate sounds rather than a diphthong, as in naïve. Synonyms: umlaut Usage: The presence of […]

Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter (1816) Reuter, founder of the Reuters news agency, was a pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting. In 1849, he started a post service to bridge the gap in a telegraph line between Germany and Belgium. […]

BRONX DA AND NYPD ANNOUNCE TAKEDOWN OF GUNRUNNERS WHO SOLD 50 FIREARMS—INCLUDING AN ASSAULT RIFLE—TO UNDERCOVER DETECTIVE “Family Business” Based in Bronx Building Trafficked Weapons from Pennsylvania; Plotted to Bring Big Cache from Texas   Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. […]

Observation is an old man’s memory. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

telamon Definition: (noun) A figure of a man used as a supporting pillar. Synonyms: atlas Usage: The portico of the Hermitage Museum in Russia features ten enormous telamones carved from granite.

Petrarch (1304) The “Father of Humanism,” Petrarch was the greatest scholar of his age. He traveled widely, visiting fellow scholars and searching out manuscripts, and wrote numerous lyrics, sonnets, and canzoni. His awareness of the classical past as a source […]