Environmental officials recently opened four “green” spaces on Dean Street near the Gowanus Canal in an effort to absorb water during heavy rainstorms. The rainwater usually results in the sewer systems overflowing into the waterway. The $16,000 drainage ditches, located in Park Slope near Fourth Avenue, are filled with mulch and shrubs capable of absorbing…
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Memorial Events to Commemorate 9/11
As September 11 approaches, the list of tenth anniversary memorial events seems to grow longer. Beginning to today and continuing until Sunday and beyond, here are presented just a small summary of the options for remembering on of New York’s most excruciatingly painful moments. September 6, Tuesday • White ribbons will be tied by the…
Trash Cans in Red Hook Only for the Rich, Study Finds
Great Trash Can Divide in Red Hook Six high school seniors spent hours after school counting trash cans and observing trash to discover that the more gentrified part of the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn is incomparably cleaner than the poorer, residential areas. The students’ efforts were done with the backing of the community group…
Bronx Street Re-Named For Fallen Soldier
Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo was on hand last Saturday at the corner of 156th Street and Courtlandt Avenue to honor fallen soldier Sgt. Jose Velez as a street in the Bronx was renamed in his memory. Family and Friends On Hand For Ceremony Joining the councilwoman was Sgt. Velez’s mother Rosa, his son, 16…
Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Mogul Dies at Age 89
Murray Handwerker, the son of the Nathan, the man who opened the original Nathan’s Famous hot dog stand in Coney Island, died on Saturday in Florida at the age of 89. Son Murray Helped Dad Nathan Expand Nathan Handwerker opened his hot dog stand in the middle of a bustling Coney Island back in 1916,…
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…
60-Foot Replica Stars at New Dino Exhibit
The American Museum of Natural History staff has been working for over two years on its newest exhibit entitled “The World’s Largest Dinosaurs.” The star of the exhibit is a Mamenchisaurus, a life-size replica of a female sauropods created by more than one hundred people. The figure is eleven feet tall and sixty feet long,…
Christina-Taylor Remembered with Beam from WTC
Christina-Taylor Green was born on September 11, 2001, the infamous day when New York’s World Trade Center was destroyed, the Pentagon in Washington DC was targeted and damaged, and a third terrorist attack was thwarted when the passengers on-board United Airlines Flight 93 tried to retake control of the hijacked plane and crashed near Shanksville,…
Mendel Goldberg Exclusive Fabrics: A Unique Lower East Side Tradition
When Mendel Goldberg arrived in America in 1890 from Poland he decided to open a shop on New York’s Lower East Side specializing in selling tailoring supplies, a trade which was popular at that time. Mendel’s son, Alexander took the store in the direction of selling fabric, and his son Samuel, became a key supplier…
Pork Only Food on Menu on Flight from Israel
Beginnings are never easy, and in the case of the UK’s latest budget airline, easyJet this beginning was especially embarrassing. Passengers en route from Tel Aviv, Israel to London were given a meal choice between ham melts and bacon baguettes, both containing pork products, one of the forbidden foods for both Jews and Muslims who…
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