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Happy 225th Birthday, John James Audubon!
The Riverside Oval Association is throwing naturalist John James Audubon a birthday party. The group will celebrate his birthday and the new Audubon Park Historic District near the site of his former home at the Riverside Oval on W. 156th Street and Riverside Drive on April 24 at 4 p.m. Admission is free. If it is raining the event will be in the Grinnell Building at 800 Riverside Drive.
When 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, a celebration unlike anything before it was held in Union Square. Fourteenth Street was blocked off for a big, homegrown festival where thousands of New Yorkers gathered to show support for the growing environmental consciousness of the time.
Low income students received free computers at an event on April 10.
by Zully Ramirez
Sixth grader Ivy Nuñez doesn’t have to do her homework in the library anymore. She has her own computer.
“I can just be home and do my homework, instead of walking all of way over there,” she said.
Isaiah “Obie” Bing knows the danger of asbestos. One of his lungs is scarred from working around the toxic dust.
Seventeen volunteers from Inwood Community Services canvassed Inwood on April 10 handing out fliers encouraging people to fill out their 2010 census forms.
The vagina. One anatomical word evokes so many meanings.
As he leaned slightly forward from his wheelchair to address the hundreds of Little Leaguers in front of him, Ted Buczek’s voice broke.
“My son was a ballplayer, just like you,” he said into the microphone.
Editor’s Note: The following is Community Board 12’s response to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed 2011 budget.
Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the mayor’s proposed preliminary budget for fiscal year 2011. Community Board 12, Manhattan seeks city funding and the City Council’s political support for its longstanding and as ‑ yet unmet needs repeatedly articulated in our capital and expense budget requests, year after year. We hope that we will finally obtain definitive and affirmative responses to our requests.
Hands dusted with the mountain climber’s chalk he brought from home, Chad Canter slowly pushes through the crowd to take his seat at the center bench. As he lines up his grip and settles under the bar, nearly a hundred men watched in anticipation. They radiate out from all angles, some perched high on a leg press machine; others standing atop a dumbbell rack to get a better view. With help from the official spotter Leo Pereira, wearing long tribal tattoos down his broad arms, Canter’s first attempt at 305 pounds falls flat. His second attempt does as well, despite the encouraging yells from the crowd.
The winter of 2009 was the worst season Inwood Real Estate Agent Andrew Shell has had 11 years in business. Expecting more of the same, this year he took a long vacation to wait out the typically dead winter market.
Company and conversation always makes a meal better, even if it’s with strangers.
Artist: Marcia Annenberg
Title: “Oh Say, Can You See?” 2009
Exhibited: “News/Not News” Exhibition, Boricua College Gallery (4th Floor), 3655 Broadway at W. 151th St.
The Wing Fong Trading Company on Spadina had a plain, brick exterior below a dull yellow sign, and as aunts started filing in Lou realized she had probably passed it dozens of times and never took note. She’d probably paused at the garish storefront next door, a store that featured decorative umbrellas, beach balls, gloves, plastic swords, 23- and 60-minute blank tapes, battery-operated stuffed animals that chased their own tails, and all sizes and colours of Tupperware in outdoor wire racks. And in associating that corner of Chinatown with the cheap novelty goods found on every corner, she’d missed the secluded enigmas of Chinese tradition next door.
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