For the past year the largest utility in New Jersey, the Public Service Electric and Gas Company, has been installing solar panels across the state, to a mixed reaction from the public. New Jersey a Leading State in Renewable Energy Usage The installation of the New Jersey solar panels is the first and largest of…
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Keeping Hawk Eyes on Manhattan’s Birds
Everyone seems to be getting into the action, keeping their attention on a pair of unlikely lovers. For quite a few months now, President John Sexton of New York University and those who visit his office have been admiring two red-tailed hawks. They have made their home on a window ledge outside the President’s office…
Brooklyn BIDS Resisting Takeover
Downtown Brooklyn power brokers are making moves to take over the merchants group whose members, small-business owners in the MetroTech business district, are nevertheless, fighting back. A group called the “Downtown Brooklyn Partnership” is positioning itself to digest the MetroTech Business Improvement District. This BID overseas taxing property owners and in return provides security, street…
Great Eating For Chinese New Year in New York
Looking for something special to do in celebration of this week’s beginning of the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Rabbit? One great way to celebrate is by partaking in a fantastic, authentic and delicious meal in Chinatown. You might think about checking out a family-style, three course New Year’s feast at Tyler Kord’s…
Kiryas Joel is a Poor Village with a Rich Culture
According to the strict numbers, of the 3,700 US villages, towns and cities with populations over 10,000 there is none more impoverished than Kiryas Joel, New York. This town, about 50 miles northwest of New york City, is a quiet community composed of mostly town houses and garden apartments, and yet about 70% of its…
Passover, Freedom and Quinoa
This past Monday evening Jews all around the world celebrated an event which happened about 4,000 years ago: the Hebrew slaves in Egypt leaving their bondage and heading for a life of freedom as they made their way through the desert on their way to the Promised Land. The celebration takes the form of an…
Power and Discomfort with the Off-Broadway “Marie and Bruce”
At the moment, the Acorn Theater’s Off Broadway production of Wallace Shawn’s “Marie and Bruce” is making audiences squirm. While there is no nudity, violence or other unsettling action for the eyes, the plot of the play and the lack of a way “out” is leaving audiences with an unsettling feeling. Conveying the Message Cleary,…
Fred Hersch and Fazioli Shine at Spring Jazz Concert
Ordinarily Fred Hersch, beloved jazz pianist who has been nominated for three Grammy awards, performs on a Steinway piano to audiences of between 400 and 800 appreciative listeners. But in what was the first of four jazz concerts to be conducted at the Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway, New Jersey, Mr. Hersch performed…
IDT Energy – Choose an ESCO with Green Energy!
(Got an email asking us to post this information – I hope it’s useful!) IDT Energy is a top supplier of gas and electric service for homes and business. Moving from your current electricity and gas provider to IDT Energy couldn’t be smoother. All you need is a recent utility bill – everything you need…
MTA Buses Cause Madness
MTA buses are causing trouble. The East Side block (East 57th Street between 3rd and Lexington Avenues) is now completely overwhelmed – on a nightly basis – by these buses just “hanging around.” They are double parking, making noise and just sitting idling around, causing total bedlam. Well, the buses may be sitting idly by,…
