Make Music New York, a one-of-a-kind annual festival featuring more than 1,000 free outdoor concerts, music lessons and jam sessions in public spaces throughout the five boroughs, returns today, June 21, from dawn until dusk.The day-long musical celebration on the Summer Solstice brings people of all styles, ages and skill levels together to make music on streets, parks, plazas, porches, […]
WCS’s Queens Zoo Welcomes Pudu Fawn
A southern pudu fawn (Pudu puda), the world’s smallest deer species, was born at the WCS’s (Wildlife Conservation Society) Queens Zoo. The Queens Zoo has seen substantial success with its pudu breeding program in recent years having produced four fawns in the last five years. The species is classified as Vulnerable by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature […]
Kim, Urban Upbound Celebrate Fifth Year Of Free Tax Prep
Assemblyman Ron Kim held a private appreciation luncheon on June 16 with volunteers and staffers from Urban Upbound to celebrate the conclusion of a successful 2017 partnership in providing free tax services. The Assemblyman’s district office had partnered with the Urban Upbound for a fifth straight year to provide free tax preparation services throughout this year’s tax season. Founded in […]
I On Politics
GIANARIS TAPS WEALTHY FOR $2 M, 3-YEAR TRANSIT PLAN: Don’t look for the lights in the State Senate and Assembly to be dimmed tonight (Wednesday), indicating the 2017 session has concluded. In fact, with the session nearing a conclusion, the lawmakers will likely be working late tonight to tie up the many loose ends that always pop up when the […]
Maloney Calls For Data Collection To Help Save LGBT Lives
Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, member of the LGBT Equality Caucus and original cosponsor of the Providing a Requirement to Improve Data Collection Efforts (PRIDE) Act, released the following statement on June 13 after joining members of the Equality Caucus at a press conference to announce the reintroduction of the bill and call for passage. “We are woefully lacking critical data […]
Constantinides: Community Supports Funding To Transform Hallets Peninsula
NYC Councilman Costa Constantinides, on June 16 announced a Fiscal Year 2018 discretionary capital budget allocation of almost $7.5 million for capital projects on Hallets Peninsula. Representatives from community organizations and city agencies, including NYCHA Queens Borough Director Carolyn Jasper, Queens Library COO Lew Finkelman, Astoria Houses Tenants Association President Claudia Coger, Urban Upbound CEO Bishop Mitchell Taylor, and Friends […]
No Such Thing As Summertime Blues
Summer’s finally here! Today, June 21, is the official first day of summer, according to the calendar and the planets, which indicate it is the Summer Solstice. (Check out the Summer Solstice Celebration at Socrates Sculpture Park today, starting at 5 p.m. until sunset–obviously.) It is finally the time to go out and enjoy all our fabulous borough has to […]
Letters to the Editor
Gateway Not Funded To The Editor: Recent news that the Gateway Development Corporation is now looking for private developers to help pay for the $24 billion new Hudson River Gateway Tunnel as part of a joint public/private partnership is no surprise. President Trump has included no funding for this project in his proposed new budget. It confirms that the proposed […]
Electeds Urge Continuation Of Mayoral Control Of City Schools
Mayoral control of the city’s public schools expires on June 30 and the leaders of all five boroughs agree they do not want to return to a failed system. In a joint letter “on behalf of students, parents and communities” addressed to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, and Independent Democratic Coalition Leader Jeffrey […]
Appeal For Vetrano Scholarship Support
In April, Archbishop Molloy High School announced plans to celebrate the life of Karina Vetrano, an alumna of the school who lost her life on August 2, 2016, after she was senselessly attacked while jogging near her Howard Beach home. Molloy will honor Vetrano with an evening and overnight relay walk/run this month, beginning June 23 and concluding June 24. […]