There are moments that make us pause and reflect on the wonder underlying the celebrations and rituals of the season. As is the case every year, this holiday season gives us a reason for hope and belief in brighter, better days to come. Whatever your faith, whatever your religion—if, indeed, you follow one—however you celebrate, we wish you joy at […]
Cellphones Can Be Lifesavers
The school shooting that took place December 14 in Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School still leaves our nation baffled and appalled. In a country that has unfortunately been affected by numerous school shootings in the past years, this was by far one of the worst, targeting children as young as five years old and leaving 26, including teachers and faculty, […]
Letters to the Editor
ABCs Not PCBs To The Editor: Recently, I proposed that New York City issue Green Apple Bonds to get the thousands of toxic PCB-carrying light fixtures out of our public schools. PCBs are known carcinogens that are contained in the outdated light fixtures that hang over the heads of our students, teachers, and school employees. A product of a bygone […]
Bayside Library Branch Closing For Renovations
Queens Library at Bayside, 214-20 Northern Blvd., will close at the end of business on December 29 for renovations. Re-opening is expected in the summer of 2013. A mobile library will provide limited service several days a week. The renovations will include a complete interior makeover. New features include fast RFID self-service check out and 24/7 check in of materials; […]
CB 1 Hosts Post Sandy Meeting
After several meetings were cancelled due to the fallout caused by Hurricane Sandy, all was back to normal on December 13, when the first to address the gathering at Kaufman Astoria Studios was Kellie Phelan of Hour Children. Among those who followed her were speakers from AHRC, (an association for the developmentally disabled), Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC), charter schools […]
Internet In Bloom For The Layperson
Ho ho ho! If former U.S. CIA Director, General David Petraeus, can have his e-mail hacked into, how safe do you think your personal or business desktop computer, laptop, netbook, tablet or smartphone is online? This includes Mac users. For example, this year in the U.S. alone, 80 percent of malware attacks were redirects, mostly from legitimate Web sites that […]
Mayor Revs Up Gun Control Debate
The wanton killing of 20 school children in Newtown, Connecticut last week has brought the gun control issue back into the headlines again and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, perhaps the most ardent advocate to get the weapons out of circulation, took to the airwaves on December 16 and took aim at President Barack Obama, charging he has done nothing to deal […]
Mayor Revs Up Gun Control Debate
HALLORAN PRAISES MTA: Councilmember Dan Halloran (R–C–Whitestone) had high praise for the MTA’s Bridge and Tunnel (B&T) division for “accommodating the concerns of the community” recently when they announced they would be closing the 3rd Avenue exit on The Bronx-Whitestone Bridge on Monday, January 7, to all traffic as part of a $109 million reconstruction project. The 3rd Avenue exit, […]
Bloomberg Launches Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications Commissioner Rahul N. Merchant and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot today launched the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge, a competition to rally urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and virtual prototypes that imagine the future of New York City’s public pay telephones. The goal of Reinvent Payphones […]