TENTATIVE AGREEMENT WITH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE WORKERS, BRINGS OVER 97 PERCENT OF CITY WORKFORCE UNDER CONTRACT NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced that the City of New York has reached a tentative contract agreement with DC37 Locals 2507 […]
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW Why shouldn’t the spotlight be on public offenders, too? By Senator Rev. Rubén Díaz You should know that there is a debate raging in the New York State Legislature about eliminating the statute of limitations on […]
Assembly Speaker Heastie Meets Former NFL Greats Jim Kelly and Vinnie Testaverde Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie met with former NFL quarterbacks Jim Kelly and Vinny Testaverde. The two former NFL pro quarterbacks were in the Capitol to lobby on […]
After a 4-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates Tuesday night at Citi Field, the replica of last season was more apparent.
In the U.S., the first roller coaster opened this month in 1884 at Coney Island, New York.
New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R,C-Canandaigua) (right) met with former Buffalo Bills quarterback and National Football League Hall of Famer, Jim Kelly, on Tuesday at his office in the Capitol. Kelly, who was in Albany discussing […]
Silver Alert issued 6/14/16 at 9:10 PM. The NYPD has issued a Silver Alert for the disappearance of Doris J. Dunbar, a 76-year-old Black female with dementia. Ms. Dunbar was last seen 6/14 at approximately 11:05 AM in the Citadel […]
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
enervating Definition: (adjective) Causing debilitation. Synonyms: debilitative, enfeebling, weakening Usage: The air of the place, so fresh in the spring and early summer, was stagnant and enervating now.
Karl Landsteiner (1868) Landsteiner was an Austrian-born American medical researcher who was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the four basic human blood groups—A, B, O, and AB—which enabled the first successful blood […]
BP DIAZ, COUNCIL MEMBERS TORRES & VACCA & LGBT LEADERS UNITE FOR VICTIMS OF ORLANDO TERROR ATTACK Bronx, New York: Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Council Members Ritchie Torres and James Vacca, The Bronx Academy of Arts & […]
Brad Lander’s ‘Spouse Donors’ | Seth Barron Brad Lander of Park Slope raised eyebrows recently when he called backers of Yungman Lee, who is challenging Nydia Velazquez in the Democratic primary, “scumbags.” Lander refused to retract the insult, saying […]
The Juneteenth holiday is Sunday, June 19, and it commemorates the official end of slavery in 1865.
The first commercial computer, the 13-ton UNIVAC I, began its 12 year — or 73,000-hour — career of number crunching for the bureau in this date 65 years ago.
The American dream of owning a home got a lifeline on this date in 1933 with passage of the Homeowners Loan Act.
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