Monday, Mar 4, 2013
Details Emerge About Plan for Private Buildings on NYCHA Land
While some agree that the plan has financial merit, others fear the social costs of mixing incomes in NYCHA neighborhoods. The authority's chairman sees it as a win-win.
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Amid Court Fight, Formerly Homeless In Limbo
The end of the Advantage subsidy program leaves advocates battling to salvage a policy they criticized, the city bracing for more demand for scarce shelter beds and low-income families wondering what comes next.
Sales of HIV Meds Catch Lawmakers' Eyes
Prosecutors and legislators report an increase in illegal sales of HIV medication by people looking to feed their families or support drug habits. Will tougher criminal penalties slow the market?
Mixed Evidence of Methadone Crackdown
An advocacy group's survey says police harassment of methadone patients is common. Statistics suggest methadone-related arrests are rare.
Washington Heights Sees White-Collar Boom
Lured by low rents, corporations are seeking space in Northern Manhattan. The trend has complex implications for existing small businesses and nearby residents who are unemployed.
Amid Wave of Watering Holes, Hell's Kitchen Keeps Tabs on Bars
Community leaders know they can't stop every new bar. But they can try to impose rules—on everything from hours of operation to soundproofing—for watering holes to live by.
At Zuccotti Park, a People's Library
The library holds over 1,200 books from an array of genres, including politics, poetry, religion, gender studies, foreign language, and science fiction.
Occupy Wall Street Struggles with … Accounting?
Improving the accounting will help increase transparency and accountability for donors, an issue that several potential donors have complained about on the movement's blog.
The Revolutionary Kitchen Feeds Downtown Protests
Despite an all-volunteer, non-hierarchical structure, a seemingly messy but strangely efficient infrastructure has developed. Nowhere is the system more evident than the bustling kitchen in the center of the park.
Occupy Wall Street's Medical Center Preps for Cold Weather
There have already been at least seven cases of hypothermia. The article of clothing now deemed most valuable are socks, since trench foot and athlete's foot are big problems.
Protesters Get Media Coverage, But Distrust It
Some protesters bore visible signs of their animosity toward major cable TV outlets. One 19-year-old activist who wore a Guy Fawkes mask and called himself "Blood Bandit" said, "Have you seen Fox News around here? Guess what, we chased them away."
BLOG ENTRIES
Watch the Mayoral Debate on Low-Income Issues - Jarrett Murphy
Seven candidates representing four parties discussed wages, sick leave, stop-and-frisk and other issues—to cheers and jeers from the crowd, and occasional jabs from one another.
As NYCHA Seeks Flexibility, Tenant Advocates Concerned - Jarrett Murphy
The city's public housing agency wants rules relaxed to allow creative budgeting. But advocates for residents want stronger assurances that financial flexibility won't come at the cost of tenant rights.
Closing Schools More Poor, Less White - Jarrett Murphy
Schools the Bloomberg administration has targeted for closure have student populations demographically different from the average facility. And many had absorbed an increasing number of struggling students.
City Says New Bus Service Works; Job Numbers Dip - Jarrett Murphy
As the mayor unveils a scaled-back Select Bus System for 34th Street, a look at how bus experiments on 1st and 2nd Avenues have worked out. Plus, new city employment data and a look at City Councilmembers' human rights records.
March to Bring Communities of Color to Occupy Wall Street - Jarrett Murphy
Critics of Occupy Wall Street fault its lack of racial diversity on one hand, and the diversity of its political messages on the other. A march planned for Monday will challenge the first critique. A visit to Zuccotti questions the second.
MULTIMEDIA
Poverty in Manhattan: Block by Block
A block by block assessment of the percentage of people living below the federal poverty line in New York City's Manhattan borough.
Extreme Weather Events Cost Counties $1 Billion
67 percent of U.S. households were in counties hit by extreme weather events that cost over $1 billion in 2011-2012
City Rhythms
This video of a New Yorker at work during the AM commute will make you smile!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The 3rd Annual State of Young Black New York Conference
On Saturday, February 23, 2013, join global leaders in non-profit, corporate, government, health, and public service for the 3rd Annual State of Young Black New York Conference.
Seeking Professionals & Organizations for Student Conference
City Limits and the Colin Powell Center for Leadership and Service have partnered to increase interest among New York City college students in pursuing careers in public service.
EVENTS
Intro to Wet Plate Photography Workshop with Sam Dole
This workshop is a comprehensive look at the collodion process and its effective practice by the modern-day photographer. The predominate mode of photography from its invention in the early 1850's to its fall from prominence at the turn of the century, the collodion process was a relatively fast and inexpensive means of getting a direct to positive photograph on demand (thus the image was a mirror image, reversed horizontally). Its practitioners effectively make their own film through the coating of a glass sheet or metal plate with the collodion substrate, sensitizing it in a solution of silver nitrate and exposing this plate in-camera while still wet, hence its common moniker “wet plate”. Thus, the collodion process represents a highly sustainable form of emulsion- based photographic expression in the 21st century as the future of silver gelatin-based film risks fading into obscurity with more and more companies discontinuing their popular emulsions on a routine basis. Students will learn how to coat, sensitize, expose, develop and varnish their own plates over the course of the weekend, gaining valuable hands-on experience while learning the theory and fundamentals necessary to apply the process to their own work.
Wet Plate Shooting Night
This four-hour program is for shooting and troubleshooting the wet plate collodion process in a community setting alongside other students. This shooting night is for experienced wet plate practitioners who have taken a wet plate workshop and would like more practice. The maximum number of students at Wet Plate Shooting Night is six, and students should come prepared to work using the buddy system (taking turns shooting roughly every 20 minutes, and assisting the other student shooter in your pair during their shooting time). The purpose of this program is to practice the skills you have learned from previous wet plate instruction, bounce ideas off of other wet plate shooters, and expand your wet plate and alternative process community. Students can expect to leave with 4 varnished plates.* We provide the cameras, chemicals, tin & glass, and studio, you provide the inspiration. Students should not bring personal equipment- we will provide everything you need to shoot. Still life and portrait setups are possible. There will be no instruction, but a wet plate practitioner is available for questioning and assistance. There will be three cameras, which will be shared, and each participant is allowed to invite only one model for portrait sitting. Note: maximum plate size is 4 x 5. *Wet Plate Shooting Night is specifically designed for students to practice skills and develop an alternative process community. If you are looking for an opportunity to create a larger body of work, or work independently, please email us at info@capworkshops.org to inquire about Wet Plate Studio Hours. Wet Plate Studio Hours are for proficient shooters only. A darkroom monitor will be present, but there will be no instruction. Private Tutorials may be arranged if you would like instruction tailored to your learning goals.
Guardianship Workshop
When your child reaches his or her 18th birthday, he or she is considered to be capable of making legal, financial and other decisions by New York State. In this FREE workshop, a Guardianship Lawyer will address guardianship and special needs planning issues concerning how to meet the health, legal and financial needs of individuals with disabilities. You will also learn how to preserve government benefits eligibility for your child.
- Compliance Specialist The Bridge
- Residential Maintenance Director. Real Estate Management Co.
- Director of Housing Development Fifth Avenue Committee
- Clinical Social Workers (LMSW/LCSW) FEGS Health & Human Services System
- Social Worker - LCSW - School Based Manager FEGS Health & Human Services System
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- A Place at the Table
- Intro to Wet Plate Photography Workshop with Sam Dole
- DAMION SILVER and SCOTTY ALBRECHT
- Fête d'Afrique! – Memorial Day Weekend Jam
- Sweet Spot
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Potential Oil Boom In SE Wyo. Raises Water Questions
This report, from the Wyoming-based investigative think tank, Wyo File, talks about the implications of hydraulic fracturing in Southeast Wyoming, a process currently being considered in Upstate New York with huge implications for the drinking water of New York City
Who will take care of the interests of the Crimean Tatar people?
Over recent years the leaders of Majlis practically have come out against interests of Crimean Tartar People. Mustafa Dzhemilev and some other leaders of Crimean Tartars try to mistake their own group objectives for the interests of the whole national group. Herein, the actions of disobedience of Crimean Tartars, instigated by the noted persons, are used actively, allegedly, for the sake of defending of their rights, but in actual for the purpose of creation conditions for carrying out pressure on Ukrainian leadership. All mentioned above happens when the Ukrainian leadership does its utmost to improve economic and social situation of the Crimean Tartars even in the conditions of world financial crisis, which has appreciably worsened and added to difficulties of economic situation in Ukraine.
Study: Too Few Contracts to Minority, Women Biz
Council members behind study say much more can be done; mayor's office says study doesn't include subcontracts to minority- and women-owned enterprises.
New York Communities Take on Foreclosures
A commentary from Nation Magazine editor Katrina vanden Heuvel highlights the foreclosure problem in New York City.
Agencies Almost Always Have The Last Word
Courts have little power to overturn decisions by agency hearing officers — as two evicted public housing tenants recently learned.
New York's Recovery Is Stronger Than Nation's, But Still Uneven
New York City has weathered the recession far better than was feared during the financial crisis, but outside of Manhattan the view is often bleaker.
One Simple Path To A Degree
This article examines a proposal by a California state legislator that would require community colleges to provide students with a clear path on how to acquire their degree.
New Bronx Resource Guide for Family Caregivers
The Office of Community Health at Montefiore Medical Center has just released "Caring for Yourself While Caregiving," a new resource guide for Bronx-based family caregivers. Available in English and Spanish, the guide provides 32 pages of helpful, low-cost resources in six unique categories for people caring for an aging parent, spouse, partner, elderly relative, child with an illness or disability, or another person close to them. To order a copy, call (718) 920-6576 or email PCareSupport@montefiore.org.
100,000 Homes for 100,000 Vulnerable Americans
Invisiblepeople.tv's Mark Horvath posts the following article on the launch of the "100,000 Homes Campaign", organized by Common Ground.
Will The Gowanus Ever Be Cleaned Up
For nearly a year, residents, politicians, businesspeople and others battled over the EPA’s consideration of the 1.8-mile waterway for a Superfund listing.
Brownstones and Bodegas
New York photoblog created by Brooklyn based Crown Heights photographer William Hogg.
Peace Now
Peace, Community, City life
We Have Risen Above
Pete Mroz is an independent artist that found funding through the creative site kickstarter.com. Truly is amazing in these tough economic times that people still rise to the challenge of helping the arts!
NYC BLOG
Beautiful Spheres of NYC
Sweat Equals Success
Tough workouts, good eats and crazy adventure in our beautiful city and beyond.
Inside Kenmore Hall
a tenants' eye view of life in an allegedly supportive housing S.R.O. managed by H.S.I. - it's a ghetto in the middle of Gramercy Park, and is supposed to be better than homelessness, but the level of illegal drug activity and violence inside the building is higher than on the surrounding streets or in shelters.
Child and Parent Welfare-My Encounters With ACS
Accounts of carelessness and laziness of ACS and ACS contract agency employees.
Bronx Entrepreneurs and Business Network
a blog by, for and about Bronx entrepreneurs and businesses
Bronx Latino
a lifestyle
NYx2 with Chris + Amber
"The New York times WE have" He's Australian, she's Canadian, he's gay, she's straight - they come from two very different worlds, and live very different lifestyles in the same city: New York City. You just might find humour and entertainment in their perceptions and experiences of life as foreigners living in New York. Follow them each week as they navigate their way through life here in the city. If not, well... at least their moms will be listening.
