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This came our way through Speaker Quinn’s office. Some tips from the NYPD. Below are some important tips from the NYPD on how to stay safe and what you can do if you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted on the subway:
Do not be ashamed or afraid to report the offense to [...] One of the undiscussed issues in the Second Amendment debate is that privately owned firearms are not physically chained to the zip code in which they were purchased. That may seem trivial, but since guns are easily portable (and carry a significant street-value) they tend to travel from places where guns are cheap and plentiful [...] This is a bit of old news, but here’s the details from the NYTimes.com Day after day, night after night, Francisco Hernandez Jr. rode the subway. He had a MetroCard, $10 in his pocket and a book bag on his lap. As the human tide flowed and ebbed around him, he sat impassively, a gangly 13-year-old [...] …Just 16% of voters statewide believe the State Senate is doing either an excellent or good job in office, and nearly a majority — 48% — thinks the legislative body is performing [...] Santa (or a reasonably affordable facsimile) will be stomping down Third Avenue this friday. As part of a promotional campaign..”Santa will stop at designated locations along Third Avenue to give out gifts for the children and a guide to local merchants offering Shop Brooklyn bonus deals.” Check out the schedule (and some more details), bring out [...] Bitov reads from his latest book “Prepodavatel’ simmetrii” (“The Symmetry Instructor”). A novelist, writer, geologist, Bitov was born in Leningrad in 1937. Bitov first became well known internationally through his novel Pushkin House. This program is presented in Russian. Please RSVP for tickets at 718-230-2222. Limit 2 per [...] The Merchants of Third Avenue Civic Improvement Association, a non-profit serving the Third Avenue retail corridor for over 30 years is conducting a study, an in-depth survey of local residents that will help: –Understand the buying habits and desires of the community; –Gain insight from local consumers [...] Open and Closed: A case for the life of a small business in Bay Ridge Written by Rosalie Drago
Any Bay Ridge resident who strolls the avenues knows that every few weeks a new business opens while another vacant storefront, with skeletal remains of shelves and [...] Best explained by Andrew Hawkins of New York Capital News (how does CUNY keep turning out so many good journalists?– pls note the bold area… way to nab a memorable quote. My favorite this year.) To hear the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee tell it, two-term Staten Island Democrat Janele Hyer-Spencer is responsible for all the dysfunction [...] According to NewsLI.com, a “Legislative Task Force on Reforming the New York State Juvenile Justice System” is trying to get to the bottom “increased rate of violence at state-run and licensed juvenile homes”. Local quotable handshaker, State Senator Marty Golden had the following statement. “I strongly believe that we must make it a legislative priority to eradicate the presence of violence amongst the youth of our society. Youth violence does nothing more than destroy our families, our schools, and our neighborhoods. I look forward to working with my colleagues and the task force to address the rise in such violence and reverse this trend. We must create opportunities for our youth to get help right away so as to prevent them from falling off of New York’s radar and being lost within society forever.”” For more on the story, check out the wonderful coverage offered on this story at [...] |
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