NEW CITY ISLAND BUSINESS

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In case you had not noticed, there are moves underway for some new commerce on the avenue.

These are another laundromat and one more restaurant. Construction workers are very busy refurbishing the building, which is next door to Ruth Antiques and preparing the long abandoned structure which used to house a pizza shop for a new Chinese food establishment.

Both are new welcomed additions on City Island avenue on the corner of Fordham and City Island avenues is where you will find these next two businesses.

MASSIVE CHILE QUAKE

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Chile earthquake with a magnitude 8.2 earthquake triggered tsunami warnings, but thousands are now returning home as hundreds of aftershocks continue.

Seven persons are believed dead as the extent of damage couldn't be fully assessed yet. Military personnel including 100 anti-riot police have joined hundreds of soldiers deployed to prevent looting and round up escaped prisoners.

Thousands of people were evacuated from low-lying areas, but most began to return home as the tsunami alerts were gradually lifted in Chile's long coast.

JACKIE AND RUSSELL IN LOVE?

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While visiting her longest living friend on City Island, City Island Realtor and Broker Jacqueline Kyle Kall received an unexpected pleasant surprise kiss from her best friend and long time admirer, retired US Army Sargent Russell Schaller.

These two love birds were chatting up a storm and at one marvelous moment, Russell kissed Jackie and the two became an inseparable couple, as they began their long awaited courtship.

HOW DO YOU SPELL MONOPOLY?

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CABLE TV - I have the unfortunate experience of living in an area that is solely serviced by only one cable provider. This has been nothing but bad luck. Avoid them at all costs for the following reasons:

Expensive - Minimum charge per month just for wifi, whereas other providers charge significantly less for the same service.

ASSORTED INTERESTING EVENTS

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Event: Society of Professional Journalists – Region 1 Conference
When: April 25-26, 2014
Where: Georgetown University, 640 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.

BELDEN POINT PROJECT

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It's about time because it took long enough. But if you believe NYC Parks this time, City Island's Belden Point capital project will soon create a small green space and plaza at the southern end of City Island Avenue including new pavement, benches, bollards, and railings.

Bronx county allocated $170,000 for this project, and NY State secured an additional $170,000 grant. The project has been awarded to a contractor, and a contract was registered on March 10. They are currently negotiating a start date with that contractor.

UN CLIMATE CHANGE WARNING

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Human interference with the climate system is occurring and climate change poses risks for human
and natural systems. The assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability evaluates how patterns of risks and potential benefits are shifting due to climate change.

It considers how impacts and risks related to climate change can be reduced and managed through adaptation and mitigation. The report assesses needs, options, opportunities, constraints, resilience, limits and other aspects associated with adaptation.

If the people on earth do not cut pollution of heat-trapping gases, the already noticeable harms of global warming could spiral "out of control," according to warnings from a United Nations scientific panel.

Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" on Vimeo http://vimeo.com/89725715

St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site

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St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site 897 South Columbus Avenue, Mt. Vernon, NY 914-667-4116 www.nps.gov/sapa

Special free Programs in April 2014

Thursday, April 3, First Thursdays at St. Paul’s open from 1 to 9 PM
At 7 PM, join us for a presentation that chronicles the business and personal life of Alexander Masterton -- Scottish immigrant, master craftsman and successful proprietor of the 19th c. Eastchester marble quarries -- by

CITY ISLAND BOAT FIRE

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Although NYC Department of Environmental Protection claims our air is the cleanest it's been in 50 years, many City Island residents smelled the smoke filled air as a result of a Yacht fire near pilot street.

FDNY units and firefighters were in abundance and the fire in the boatyard was quickly placed under control. Even after the fire was extinguished, fire trucks continued responding. Luckily there were no reported injuries.

City Islander Raymond Reyes Jr was kind enough to share after he took this video:

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