The New York City Police Department is testing out surveillance cameras with sound sensors that have the ability to rotate and zoom to the area where it believes a gunshot originated, according to a published report.
Report: NYPD Tests Out Gunshot Tracing Cameras
Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:40:50 GMT
Date: July 2, 2011
Though he has gained renown for his funky, soulful and jazzy compositions, Roy Ayers' signature sound is the vibraphone, incorporated into virtually all elements of his music. With hits such as "Brother Green" and "Everybody Loves the Sunshine," Ayers set the stage for modern R&B artists over the course of his forty plus year career with his innovative use of synthesizers and modern production techniques. Widely considered to be one of the most sampled artists of all time, Ayers' music continues to engage and inspire audiences of all ages.
The Jazz Mafia Symphony, an intricately woven collective of jazz virtuosos, top MCs, singers, arrangers, and composers that include many of the San Francisco Bay Area's most innovative and prolific musicians, had a break-through year in 2010. Performing their critically acclaimed 45 piece symphony, "Brass, Bows & Beats" in front of tens of thousands at major festivals including the Montreal and Newport Jazz Festivals. They return to the road in 2011 to premiere the Jazz Mafia Symphony #2, "The Emperor Norton Suite." The Jazz Mafia Symphony is bravado post-modern orchestration, blistering solos, spoken-word, Latin poly-rhythms, boom-bap rhymes, and emotive ballads, all spun together with the spirit of improvisational jazz.
Start time: 7:00 pm
End time:
Contact phone: (212) 360-2777
Location: Rumsey Playfield (in Central Park)
AFRICA - A new trend of Chinese workers marrying African locals may be on the horizon. This rise of interracial matrimony is said to be a plausible solution to the overpopulation of males in China due to its cultural mandate of one child per household and strong proclivity for boys.
The Grio Reports:
Despite the growing trend of Chinese workers marrying local African women, predictably, many in their home country have a lot to say about it. On the Chinese culture blog, China Smack, one writer suggests that the "large-scale" marrying of African women could be the key to Chinese men finding love, but of course, only if they marry "high end black girls" without "greasy skin."
Harlem's Beverly Smith, former Vibe, Rolling Stone exec, hosts invitation-only ...
New York Daily News
Harlem's Beverly Smith has been bringing people together for as long as she can remember. It's what she does best, she said, but she always realize it. "I didn't know it was something you could be paid to do," said Smith, a former Rolling Stone fashion ...
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New York Daily News
'Crooked' street names in Harlem
New York Post
By PHILIP MESSING The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has begun a criminal probe to determine whether bribes have been paid to speed up "co-naming" Harlem streets in honor of prominent public and historical figures, The Post has learned. ...
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New York Post
Controversial Harlem Developer Agrees to Long-Term Affordable Housing
DNAinfo
By Jeff Mays HARLEM — A developer looking to build housing in East Harlem has agreed to enter four other area properties into long-term affordability agreements in exchange for a letter of support from Community Board 11 for the new project. ...
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Record Breakers
SLAM Online
Former Harlem Globetrotter Marques Haynes and his traveling basketball troupe, the Harlem Magicians, played at 1:15. And immediately following the exhibition, the Boston Celtics faced the Minneapolis Lakers; both games were scheduled for the afternoon ...
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Police hold Worcester man on murder charge
Worcester Telegram
Carl R. Larocque, 24, of 31 Harlem St., was arrested Friday afternoon at his home, and booked on the murder charge. He was held over the weekend and is being transported to the courthouse this morning to face the murder allegation. ...
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City Preacher Spreads Global Message Of Religious Freedom
NY1
A Bronx Baptist preacher who was born in Harlem is now a US ambassador taking her message of peace around the world. NY1's Cheryl Wills filed the following report. The Reverend Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook is a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker who is now one of ...
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NY1
Live Salute to Troops from Harlem Globetrotters
CNN (blog)
Big Easy Lofton, Dizzy Grant, and Flight Time Lang visited the Morning Express studio to send a salute to our military men and women. Submit a salute of your own by visiting the special Morning Express with Robin Meade Salute To Troops assignment page ...
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Musical Legends Fly in Harlem
JazzTimes Magazine
By Jeff Tamarkin Thirty-six banners spotlighting the diversity of culture in Manhattan's famed Harlem can now be seen flying on streetlight poles along the world-renowned 125th Street corridor. Six winning designs were chosen from among 41 submissions ...
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Two People Shot at 129th Street and Fifth Ave.
DNAinfo
Two people were injured during a shooting incident at 2 W. 129th St. Sunday night in Harlem. by Tuan Nguyen HARLEM — Police are looking for information about a shooting that left two people injured in Harlem Sunday night. The shooting occurred in ...
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Charter school advocates demand UFT apology but get debate
GothamSchools
Last month, a much larger group of protesters rallied outside the Harlem headquarters of the NAACP, which joined the UFT in the suit. Protesters chanted a series of slogans for nearly an hour, at one point shouting “UFT: Apologize” for more than three ...
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Rachel Brown at Red Rooster Harlem on July 14th
By mahir
Join us at Red Rooster Harlem on July 14th for a very special evening of music and culinary delight, featuring award-winning singer-songwriter Rachel Brown. Celebrating the fusion of cultures that are her roots, Rachel Brown's unique ...
Chef Marcus Samuelsson
June 27, 2011
By Amy Zimmer
DNAinfo News Editor
UNION SQUARE — Cheesemongers at Union Square's greenmarket say the state's new crackdown on rules banning them from slicing their product in public without a license stinks like Gorgonzola.
Under rules now being enforced by the state's Department of Agriculture and Markets, farmers are no longer allowed to slice and wrap their cheese wheels at markets in New York unless they have a license to process food. They can only get that license if they have, for instance, a three-basin sink and hot water heater.
"It eliminates the personal touch, the beauty or freedom, if you will, of the farmers' market," said Jody Somers, ofDancing Ewe Farm, which makes artisanal caciotta, pecorino and ricotta in Granville, New York.
"We try to do the right thing on the farm. We try to treat the animals well. We trudge four hours to get here," Somers added. "We're under everyone's thumb."
Cheese vendors say that the state will kill off their success at local greenmarkets by subjecting them to similar rules as delis or grocery stores — since it's impossible to get access to the same running water in their temporary stands as delis do at a store.
In addition, unlicensed cheesemongers are supposed to cut cheese samples with a disposable plastic knife, an impossibility with hard cheese, Somers said.
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SUNDAE SERMON RECORDINGS, BIKRAM YOGA EAST HARLEM, HARLEM CDC, UPTOWN/VIBE MAG, EXPERIENCE HARLEM AND MUSICAL DIRECTIONS PRESENTS
THE ANNUAL SUMMERTIME SERIES:
SUNDAE SERMON BY DJ STORMIN’ NORMAN & SPECIAL GUESTS
SUNDAYS ALL SUMMER LONG IN MORNINGSIDE PARK
New York, NY – June 21, 2011 – Sundae Sermon, Harlem’s very own feel good music & film series is back in Morningside Park this summer. Celebrating its fourth season, Sundae Sermon (founded by Norman McHugh aka DJ Stormin’ Norman) promises to be as inviting as ever with a wide-array of acclaimed international and local NYC DJ’s spinning positive vibrations by way of soulful house, disco, classics, Afro-beat, Latin tunes, and more that are sure to get those hips shaking. Put on your dancing shoes, pack up the family, and get ready to dance those sultry summer days away. There are also fun activities for children such as face painting, hula hoops, and ball games, so pack the kiddies too. The event is FREE. There are no food vendors within the park so be sure to pack food or visit one of Harlem’s local eateries on your way in.
Sundae Sermon was born with the Harlem community in mind. Harlem has a rich history and its residents offer a wealth of diversity, giving the enclave it’s influential, vibrant, and creative vibe. Sundae Sermon celebrates Harlem’s uniqueness and welcomes people of all ages. Through the spirit of music and independent film, Sundae Sermon aims to bring Harlemites, its friends in all 5 boroughs, and visitors to New York, a fun and uplifting experience that is rooted in good music and good people. Last year’s series saw over 6,000 visitors and 2011 expects to draw approximately 10,000 guests.
Norman McHugh, Sundae Sermon’s founder is a globally renowned DJ and producer (under the moniker DJ Stormin’ Norman), and 15-year resident of Harlem. Sundae Sermon is McHugh’s way of bringing the community he loves and works in together under the backdrop of Harlem’s Morningside Park, inviting a host of special guests along the way.
Mc Hugh adds, “Sundae Sermon is my way of giving back to the community. It is my vision to continue to grow the event, making it a summertime staple in Harlem that brings residents, visitors, community leaders, and commerce together year after year.”
Don’t miss Sundae Sermon at Morningside Park (Morningside Drive & 114th Street):
Sunday, June 26th, 3pm-7pm w/special guest Grammy Award Winning DJ’s Louie Vega and Kevin Hedge!
Sunday, July 10th, 3pm-7pm w/special guest DJ’s Kervyn Mark, Herbert Holler, and Stormin’ Norman!
Sunday, July 24h, 3pm-7pm Women’s Mentoring Day! w/special female guest DJ’s Kamala, Reborn, and Beverly Bond!
Sunday, August 14th, 3-7pm Small Business Day! w/special guest DJ Tommy Bones!
Sunday, August 28, 3-7pm Health & Wellness Day w/ DJ Stormin’ Norman & More TBA!
Sunday, September 11th 3-7pm, Remembering 9/11 w/DJ Stormin’ Norman & More TBA!
Sunday, September 25th, 3pm-7pm Season Finale w/ DJ Stormin’ Norman & Guests, plus special live performance TBA!
Sunday, September 25th, 7:30pm Sundown Film Series & Imagenation w/Mooz Lim
And Don’t Miss DJ Stormin’ Norman at these special events:
Tuesday, June 21, 7pm-10pm Make Music New York! 67 Orange (113th & 8th Avenue)
Thursday, June 23, 6:30pm-10pm 5th Anniversary of Shall We Dance! Columbia University / Rotunda Low Library (116th & Broadway entrance) *w/instructional Dance/Sambe & Belly Dancing
Friday, June 24, 7pm-9pm CityParks SummerStage/Red Hook Park, Brooklyn! Opening DJ set for Reggie Watts (@Otsego, Bay, Hicks, Lorraine, Court, Halleck Streets)
Thursday, July 21, 6:30pm Shall We Dance! Columbia University / Rotunda of Low Library (116th & Broadway Entrance) *w/instructional Dance/Bollywood & Waacking
For updates visit: www.sundaesermon.com
Sep 25, 2011: Sundae Sermon at Morningside Park
Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:01:28 GMT
Census shows whites lose US majority among babies (KIVI)
For the first time, minorities make up a majority of babies in the U.S., part of a sweeping race change and growing age divide between mostly white, older Americans and predominantly minority youths that could reshape government policies.
Bay Area Anti-Abortion Billboards Draw Cries Of Racism (CBS Local)
Images on a series of billboards appearing in Oakland and other Bay Area locations have caused some to say the anti-abortion message is blatantly racist.
North_Carolina_books_for_summer_reading0_1308095005.jpg (The Yadkin Ripple Incorporated)
Are there some North Carolina books in your summer reading book bag? If not, here are some possibilities from authors who will be featured on upcoming programs on UNC-TV's North Carolina Bookwatch.
Next Stop: Using Buses To Promote HIV-Testing Awareness (MediLexicon)
A University of Pennsylvania study will determine if public transit can convey more than people going from point A to point B. Video displays on public buses in Los Angeles will be used to help determine the efficacy of an innovative soap opera-like video program designed to increase HIV testing among low-income African Americans 14 to 24 years of ...
Starting on Monday, a dollar will no longer buy you the Post and the Daily News in the morning. The Post will jump to 75 cents from 50. The last time the tabloid attempted a price change was in 2006 when it jumped to 50 cents from 25, and the rival News dug into its readership with a temporary price drop at the same time. Don't be surprised if they try the same move this time around ... (The Post is the eighth-most-read paper in the country, running slightly behind the News, which is seventh.) [Adweek]
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Post to Raise Newsstand Price to 75 Cents
Chris Rovzar
Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:10:36 GMT
Doctors say the cocaine hitting the streets in New York and Los Angeles is now cut with a drug that veterinarians use to de-worm livestock, causing cokeheads' skin to rot off.
Cocaine laced with farm animal drug causing users' skin to rot off; blow hits NY, LA
PHILIP CAULFIELD, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:32:08 GMT
Prosperity-preaching TV evangelist Creflo Dollar is looking to expand to the Bronx, New York, by purchasing the Kingsbridge Armory.
Dollar made a proposal to finance the development of the5-acre facility.
Dollar “wants to turn it into a multi-use facility,” one source told the NYPost.com, “He’s got a huge following and needs an arena.”
Another source said that Dollar — who travels the nation in a Gulfstream jet and packs Madison Square Garden for weekend-long revivals — has virtually no chance of taking over the city-owned facility, even though his ministries are taking in $65 million a year.
Creflo Dollar Proposes To Build Arena-Sized Megachurch In NYC
NewsOne Staff
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:58:28 GMT
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| Three Men Are Indicted Under Drug Kingpin Law New York Times By COLIN MOYNIHAN Three men who the authorities say played key roles in a major cocaine trafficking ring that has been operating in East Harlem for about a quarter-century have become the first to be indicted in Manhattan under New York State's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Only Six Units Available At Harlem's Beacon Towers RealEstateRama (press release) by Jill Feldman NEW YORK, NY - June 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) — Halstead Property Development Marketing today announced that there are only six units left for sale at Beacon Towers, a Central Harlem cooperative development. ... See all stories on this topic » |
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15-year-old Juan Otero shot & killed in Harlem outside Peaceful Valley ...
New York Daily News
BY Matthew Nestel A Harlem teen was gunned down in front of a community garden next to his home, police said Wednesday. Juan Otero, 15, was shot once in the torso right outside the Peaceful Valley community garden around 9:30 pm Tuesday at E. 117th St. ...
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New York Daily News
Stevie Wonder parties with Questlove, Gabourey Sidibe, Robert De Niro at ...
New York Daily News
Stevie Wonder may hail from the Motown area, but he became a son of Harlem Monday night, when the Apollo Theater honored him at its annual spring gala. The singer-songwriter wowed the landmark theater's starry crowd with a number of his beloved hits ...
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New York Daily News
Neighbors Stunned by Stabbing of 82-Year-Old Woman
DNAinfo
Police are searching for Larry Brown, 57, on charges he stabbed his 82-year-old aunt in a Harlem apartment building. (NYPD) By Ben Fractenberg HARLEM — The man accused of stabbing 82-year-old Mazie Garris multiple times in her Harlem home on Monday ...
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Harlem man accused of stuffing grandma in closet is charged with murdering ...
New York Daily News
BY Melissa Grace AND Oren Yaniv A Harlem man accused of killing his grandma, stuffing her in a closet and taking a hooker into her bed has been charged with murdering a transvestite prostitute. Larry Davis, 22, was indicted in the August slaying of ...
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New York Daily News
Photo Release -- St. Aloysius School Names Thomas D. Harvey New President
TradersHuddle.com
St. Aloysius School is an innovative pre-kindergarten through eighth grade Catholic, Jesuit School located in Central Harlem. The School's mission is centered on educating at-risk inner-city children and teens from the greater Harlem community. ...
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MTA Shows Off Fulton Progress; Harlem Museum Delayed
Curbed NY
[Flickr/mtaphotos] HARLEM—We know the Museum for African Art well because it sits below 1280 Fifth Avenue. Here's something we didn't know about it: the museum has postponed its opening to late 2012, instead of the previously planned date of late 2011 ...
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Hudson Line adds express trains out of Poughkeepsie
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
New trains from Croton will leave at 3:37 and 6:37 pm, stopping at Ossining, Tarrytown, Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson, Yonkers, Marble Hill and Harlem-125th Street. "Both these trains previously were moved empty, so there is no cost associated with ...
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TALLAHASSEE — President Barack Obama has problems in Florida that he didn’t have when he won the prized state in 2008.
The state’s economy is worse than elsewhere. Foreclosures are high. Property values are low. As president, Obama could be blamed.
Voters’ shifting attitudes show the degree to which the atmosphere has changed since his first campaign. Florida Democrats made gains in 2008 with Obama on the top of the ticket, but the GOP won big two years later.
All that explains why Florida Democrats are redoubling their efforts to re-energize the rank and file, including at the state party’s Jefferson-Jackson dinner Saturday night.
And it’s why Obama’s campaign team has been on the ground training volunteers 17 months before the election and why the president has been such a frequent visitor to the Sunshine State.
Over the past 10 months, he has played mini-golf and hit the waves in Panama City Beach, eaten a corned beef sandwich at a Miami Beach deli, visited Cape Canaveral, addressed community college graduates in Miami and headlined fundraisers for Florida politicians.
He’s set to return in the coming week for three fundraisers.
Florida offers 29 electoral votes, more than 10 percent of the 270 he needs to win a second term.
“The president can win the White House re-election without Florida, but it’s certainly easier if he does win Florida,” said Steve Schale, Obama’s Florida director in 2008.
Florida’s unemployment rate was 10.8 percent in April, or nearly 2 percentage points higher than the national average. The state has been hit harder by foreclosures and loss in property values than most of the country.
After Florida Democrats made gains in 2008, voters went quickly in the opposite direction in 2010. Republicans won the governorship, a U.S. Senate seat and three other statewide offices, plus huge majorities in the Legislature.
Obama’s job performance rating in Florida has hovered between 44 percent and 47 percent, except for a slight increase to 51 percent in a Quinnipiac University poll after Osama bin Laden’s death.
The sluggish economic recovery is to blame.
“Things haven’t gotten better,” said Christian Ferry, a Republican who was Sen. John McCain’s deputy campaign manager in the 2008 presidential race. “And it certainly hasn’t gotten better in Florida. He’s got some big challenges to explain how it is that his economic messages, his economic plan is improving the situation in Florida for Floridians who are still struggling.”
For all the troubles, Republicans acknowledge it won’t be easy defeating Obama.
“The pendulum swings so fast now,” said Tallahassee-based GOP strategist David Johnson. “You can’t underestimate that guy. You do so at your peril.”
Plus, he added, “he’ll have the powers to come down here on that big blue plane, and that big blue plane excites people.”
Democrats hope that the GOP wave of 2010 is dissipating. They’re betting that voters will be turned off by the conservative agenda pushed by Republicans in Florida and Washington.
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2012 Troubles Ahead For Obama In Prized Florida?
NewsOne Staff
Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:21:37 GMT
Her name does not resonate like that of Rosa Parks, and she did not garner the kind of national attention that a group of black students did when they took seats at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., in February 1960. But Clara Luper was a seminal figure in the sit-ins of the civil rights movement.
Ms. Luper, who led one of the first sit-ins — at a drugstore in Oklahoma City 18 months before the Greensboro action — died Wednesday at her home in Oklahoma City, her daughter Marilyn Hildreth said. She was 88.
Ms. Luper was a history teacher at Dunjee High School in 1957 when she agreed to become adviser to the Oklahoma City N.A.A.C.P.’s youth council. The youngsters asked what they could do to help the movement.
On Aug. 19, 1958, Ms. Luper led three other adult chaperons and 14 members of the youth council into the Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City, where they took seats at the counter and asked for Coca-Colas. Denied service, they refused to leave until closing time. They returned on Saturday mornings for several weeks.
June 9, 2011
By Jeff Mays
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
HARLEM — The Department of Transportation has put up a speed board to show motorists how fast they are driving and will install crosswalk count down clocks along the length of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in Harlem to try and protect pedestrians on the deadly street where an 89-year-old woman was killed last week.
The changes are part of what will be a larger effort over the summer to develop a traffic-calming plan for the boulevard, which is more dangerous than all but 10 percent of New York City streets, according to the DOT.
"We want to work with DOT to figure out a solution to reduce speeding. We also want to work with the precinct to figure out proper enforcement," said Community Board 10 District Manager Paimaan Lodhi.
Leonia White, 89, who was wheelchair-bound and nearly blind, was killed when a pickup truck hit a livery cab, jumped a curb, and slammed into her at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and West 145th Street. Those who live and work in the area say the intersection is treacherous.
The day after White was killed, a minivan struck a motorcyclist a block away at West 146th Street.
"You are not safe here," Yvonne Lemell said as she waited today to cross Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and West 145th Street. "I feel in danger over here. The pedestrians don't have the right of way, we have to dodge between cars and they even ignore the red light."
Pedestrians and bicyclists also disobey traffic laws at the intersection, Lemell said.
"It's one of the worst corridors in the city and it has a long history," said Lodhi.
According to the DOT, between 2005 and 2009, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, which stretches from West 110th Street to West 155th Street has averaged 18 fatal or serious accidents per year.
DOT Manhattan Borough Commissioner Margaret Forgione recently told Community Board 10 that West 145th Street is one of five "high crash" corridors in Central Harlem and also ranks as more dangerous than only 11 percent of city streets.
A recent traffic study found that depending on the time of day, between 56 percent and 84 percent of vehicles tracked on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard were speeding. More than 50 percent of the vehicles on the roadway were speeding every time DOT studied Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.
"Even during rush hour you can find vehicles speeding in Community Board 10," Forgione said.
At Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and West 134th Street, kids from the fourth grade class at P.S. 175 Henry Highland Garnet School helped to get the speed board installed.
Six pedestrian injuries and 18 vehicular passenger injuries have occurred at the intersection — which is a block from the school — in the past five years. Motorists were clocked going as fast as 38 miles per hour during the day and 58 miles per hour in the evening.
DOT spokesperson Nicole Garcia said the countdown clocks will make it easier and safer for pedestrians to cross the street. But people who regularly travel in the area said yesterday that a lack of traffic enforcement combined with the lack of a left turn signal, for example, are the major problems.
A school crossing guard at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and West 145th Street who asked not to be named said there simply isn't traffic enforcement at the intersection.
The agent said the area has been dangerous for several years before last week's fatal crash and that there are multiple near-accidents every day.
"This avenue is wild. Before people with the light can even step off the curb a car speeds by," the crossing guard said. "I keep my head on a swivel. Sometimes my neck hurts when I go home because its so scary out here."
A man who sells newspapers at the intersection and identified himself as Michael said the intersection could benefit from a regular traffic agent.
"They do more than write tickets, they untie the traffic," he said. "But if the people in the neighborhood don't talk to their congressman and elected officials and demand a traffic officer, we aren't going to get anything but more crashes."
By Jeff Mays, DNAinfo.com
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June 9, 2011
By Jeff Mays
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
HARLEM — The Department of Transportation has put up a speed board to show motorists how fast they are driving and will install crosswalk count down clocks along the length of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in Harlem to try and protect pedestrians on the deadly street where an 89-year-old woman was killed last week.
The changes are part of what will be a larger effort over the summer to develop a traffic-calming plan for the boulevard, which is more dangerous than all but 10 percent of New York City streets, according to the DOT.
"We want to work with DOT to figure out a solution to reduce speeding. We also want to work with the precinct to figure out proper enforcement," said Community Board 10 District Manager Paimaan Lodhi.
Leonia White, 89, who was wheelchair-bound and nearly blind, was killed when a pickup truck hit a livery cab, jumped a curb, and slammed into her at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and West 145th Street. Those who live and work in the area say the intersection is treacherous.
The day after White was killed, a minivan struck a motorcyclist a block away at West 146th Street.
"You are not safe here," Yvonne Lemell said as she waited today to cross Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and West 145th Street. "I feel in danger over here. The pedestrians don't have the right of way, we have to dodge between cars and they even ignore the red light."
Pedestrians and bicyclists also disobey traffic laws at the intersection, Lemell said.
"It's one of the worst corridors in the city and it has a long history," said Lodhi.
According to the DOT, between 2005 and 2009, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, which stretches from West 110th Street to West 155th Street has averaged 18 fatal or serious accidents per year.
DOT Manhattan Borough Commissioner Margaret Forgione recently told Community Board 10 that West 145th Street is one of five "high crash" corridors in Central Harlem and also ranks as more dangerous than only 11 percent of city streets.
A recent traffic study found that depending on the time of day, between 56 percent and 84 percent of vehicles tracked on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard were speeding. More than 50 percent of the vehicles on the roadway were speeding every time DOT studied Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.
"Even during rush hour you can find vehicles speeding in Community Board 10," Forgione said.
At Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and West 134th Street, kids from the fourth grade class at P.S. 175 Henry Highland Garnet School helped to get the speed board installed.
Six pedestrian injuries and 18 vehicular passenger injuries have occurred at the intersection — which is a block from the school — in the past five years. Motorists were clocked going as fast as 38 miles per hour during the day and 58 miles per hour in the evening.
DOT spokesperson Nicole Garcia said the countdown clocks will make it easier and safer for pedestrians to cross the street. But people who regularly travel in the area said yesterday that a lack of traffic enforcement combined with the lack of a left turn signal, for example, are the major problems.
A school crossing guard at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and West 145th Street who asked not to be named said there simply isn't traffic enforcement at the intersection.
The agent said the area has been dangerous for several years before last week's fatal crash and that there are multiple near-accidents every day.
"This avenue is wild. Before people with the light can even step off the curb a car speeds by," the crossing guard said. "I keep my head on a swivel. Sometimes my neck hurts when I go home because its so scary out here."
A man who sells newspapers at the intersection and identified himself as Michael said the intersection could benefit from a regular traffic agent.
"They do more than write tickets, they untie the traffic," he said. "But if the people in the neighborhood don't talk to their congressman and elected officials and demand a traffic officer, we aren't going to get anything but more crashes."
By Jeff Mays, DNAinfo.com
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Rep. Anthony Weiner has been blasted for lying to his wife and having creepy sexual predilections. Many have been able to forgive his dishonesty, seeing sending kinky sext pics as treading a fine line, yet remaining on the right side of fidelity. And who hasn’t lied? To err is human, and Weiner’s crimes of the heart and underpants make him seem less like a political demi-god and more endearingly like us.
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Unless you consider his political history of using racially-motivated fear to win an election. Can we forgive Weiner for playing on his potential constituents’ fear of blacks in the wake of the Crown Heights riots to win his first office? Maybe… no.
Salon.com has uncovered the race-baiting techniques Weiner desperately employed to become a New York City council member:
He was not the favorite. Two other candidates with more name recognition, deeper ties to the community, stronger organizational support, and bigger bankrolls seemed to have the inside track: Michael Garson (the candidate of the Brooklyn Democratic organization) and Adele Cohen (the favorite of a progressive/labor coalition that backed candidates across the city in ’91). It was a low-profile race, but Weiner attracted positive reviews, aggressively campaigning and using his performer’s flair to steal the show at debates and candidate forums. But as the all-important Sept. 10 Democratic primary approached, the consensus was that he’d come up short and that, as Newsday put it in an editorial endorsing one of his opponents, he should “try again next time.”
It was at this point that Weiner’s campaign decided to blanket the district with leaflets attacking his opponents. But these were no ordinary campaign attacks: They played the race card, and at a very sensitive time. They were also anonymous.
Just weeks earlier, the Crown Heights riot — a deadly, days-long affair that brought to the surface long-standing tension between the area’s black and Jewish populations — had played out a few miles away from the 48th District. The episode had gripped all of New York and had been national news. It was just days after order had been restored that Weiner’s campaign distributed its anonymous leaflets, which linked Cohen — whose voters he was targeting in particular — to Jesse Jackson and David Dinkins, who was then New York’s mayor. It is hard to imagine two more-hated political figures in the 48th District at that moment. Jackson just a few years earlier had called New York “Hymie town,” and it was an article of faith among white voters in Weiner’s part of Brooklyn that Dinkins had protected the black rioters in Crown Heights — and thus endangered the white population — by refusing to order a harsh police crackdown. (Two years later, Dinkins would lose to Rudy Giuliani by an 80-20 percent margin in the 48th District.) The leaflets urged voters to “just say no” to the “Jackson-Dinkins agenda” that Cohen supposedly represented. At City Hall, Dinkins held up the flier and branded it “hateful.”
Anthony Weiner went on to admit that he was responsible for those leaflets — after he had won the election. We can easily see how this omission of information at the critical moment of delivery is very similar to the shaky relationship with integrity Weiner has recently displayed. His willingness to lie and manipulate facts in a range of situations ranging from the personal to the political is far worse than any common human error. The drive of his self-serving attitude shows that he is not fit to be a public servant, whose job is to put others before themselves.
Weiner might not be “up” to that challenge.
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Satoshi Kanazawa, the psychologist who caused a great deal of controversy with his article, on why African American women are unattractive has been fired from psychology today, where the article first surfaced. Huliq reports:
And now Satoshi Kanazawa’s lost his blog and his profile page has been deleted from Psychology Today’s website. His article and unqualified research on unattractive black women sent off a fury of protests online. 75,000 people blew up Psychology Today via email, Twitter and Facebook. Some even rang Psychology Today’s telephones off the hook.
When all was said and done, Psychology Today sent an email to ColorofChange.org and informed the largest online African American political organization that Kanazawa’s work won’t appear on their site any longer. Psychology Today even said they’ve instituted new rules to prevent inflammatory content in the future.
People who hadn’t heard of Kanazawa were sharing the text in question, their hurt, their ire and disbelief that Psychology Today endorsed the piece. They demanded Kanazawa be fired. Students at Kanazawa’s other day job, London School of Economics, have also called for Kanazawa’s resignation.
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NEW ORLEANS–Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendatnts of the landmark Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson have joined forces to highlight to fight for racial equality.
The 1896 trail cemented Jim Crow as the law of the land, upholding the then legality of racial segregation in the U.S.
The two launched the Plessy & Ferguson foundation last week as a way to celebrate the the historic case and as a symbolic gesture of reconciliation.
“The first thing I said to her,” recalled Plessy, “was, ‘Hey, it’s no longer Plessy versus Ferguson. It’s Plessy and Ferguson.’ ”
Her first reaction was to apologize.
“I don’t know why,” she said in an interview. “It’s just that I felt the burden of it, this great injustice.”
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June 6, 2011
By Jeff Mays
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
HARLEM — Community Board 10 wants to hear from neighbors before deciding whether to approve zoning changes for a developer planning to build two apartment buildings where a basketball court now stands.
L+M Development Partners plans a new 12-story residential 95-unit market-rate condo building with 20,000 feet of retail space on West 116th Street and a nine-story, 100-unit housing affordable housing rental building with 9,000 feet of community facility space on West 117th Street.
Both developments will be located between Lenox and Fifth Avenues.
Residents of 1482 Fifth Ave. told the board that the developer did not speak to them about the loss of thebasketball court and an adjacent parking lot.
"There has never been any communication with the tenants about the project," said Ade A. Rasul of the nearby mosque. "When you change the zoning this is not a minor issue."
One woman said the loss of the court would have a negative effect on area children, who she said were already at risk. She estimated that more than 100 children lived at 1428 Fifth Ave.
"You are pushing our children from the back yard into the street and into jail," said the woman who has lived at 1428 Fifth Ave. for 28 years.
