SNOW STORM AHEAD

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NOAA HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WATCH FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT.

* LOCATIONS...INTERIOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY AND SOUTHWEST CONNECTICUT.

* HAZARD TYPES...SNOW...MIXING WITH SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN LATE SATURDAY NIGHT.

* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 6 TO 10 INCHES...ALONG WITH AROUND A TRACE OF ICE.

* WINDS...NORTHEAST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH.

CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN 12 Days....

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Since the beginning of The 20th century, many small villages, large cities, medium size towns, and more department stores than you can count with all your fingers and toes have taken it upon themselves to put up public Christmas trees for everyone to enjoy.

In 1948 Macy's Great Tree, Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, or Victoria Square's Christmas Tree.
The National Christmas Tree in Washington DC has been lit each year since 1923 on the South Lawn of the White House. The lighting of the National Christmas Tree is part of what has become a major holiday event for the nation.

DANGEROUS FOOD

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Many common food items have been scientifically shown to increase cancer risk, and some of them substantially. Here are the most unhealthy, cancer-causing foods that you should stay away from:

Genetically-modified organisms (GMOs)

Volunteer Holiday Giving

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For this holiday season, City Island Images suggests you too can find opportunities to help nonprofits that need skilled professionals. Skill-based volunteering is a great way to make a positive impact, gain new skills, and open doors for your career. Here are a few suggestions in NYC.

City Island Nautical Museum
Bartow Pell Mansion
NY Botanical Gardens
The Bronx Zoo
Taproot Foundation
VolunteerMatch
Hope Sings
Greater New York City Area

12 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS...

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Tomorrow, City Island Images will start to celebrate this special holiday to be jolly and to share our seasons greetings. City Island Images - www.cimages.me will begin our countdown of the 12 days till Christmas by showing a Christmas tree photo and asking our readers if they know, or are able to guess the location of the said tree.

The participating winners will receive a prize from IMAGINUS www.imaginus.biz

Send us your guesses, or answers with the date to: admin@cimages.me

You may also mail us your answers:

IMAGINUS
PO Box 147 City Island Station
NYC, NY #10464

MORE MILLIONS FOR TUTOR PERINI

Tutor Perini, the building construction company that has been awarded the City Island Bridge project, today announced that its Civil Group has executed a contract with Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group for construction of a platform structure at Hudson Yards in midtown Manhattan. This portion of the Hudson Yards Development project is valued at approximately $510 million.

The platform, which will be constructed of structural steel frame and feature a reinforced concrete deck, will bridge the active Long Island Rail Road eastern rail yard located south of West 33rd Street between 10th and 11th Avenues, and will serve as the foundation for future buildings at Hudson Yards. Construction of the platform will be closely coordinated with the Company’s work already underway on the Amtrak concrete tunnel box (Gateway right-of-way preservation) project at the same site.

Pre-construction activities related to the platform began in mid-2013. Construction related to the platform has already begun and is expected to be completed in 2016. The contract value will be included as part of the Company’s reported fourth-quarter backlog.

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“Saving Mr. Banks”

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OK, so just to get this over with since everyone I see is already asking me: YES, I will go see Saving Mr Banks. And I am sure it will be nice. And as it shows some of the people I remember from my childhood with tremendous respect and affection, specifically Don DaGradi and the Sherman Brothers, and I hope my grampa, I'm sure it will be fun. But I will eat my hat if this review is not right on the mark. What my family's business has done is to dumb down and middle-ify and oversimplify (ok, ok DISNEYFY) so much, and while that has rightly and admirably brought a lot of pleasure--joy even-- to a lot of people who needed it given that life can be hard and pleasure hard to come by, it has also encouraged that most grim and American tendency to gloss over the untidy complexities of life, sometimes at great cost to the lived experiences of many others. Were we as a people, for instance, more inclined to welcome stories involving moral complexity and nuance we might not be so quick to accept the ever increasing and frequent invitations of our presidents to jump in with both feet to "defend our freedom" in far away places we know nothing about at great cost to innocent people who couldn't give less of a shit about our freedom and don't even understand why we think they are a threat to it.

VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE - 1531

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Today is the Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Saint of The Americas. The opening of the New World brought with it both fortune-seekers and religious preachers desiring to convert the native populations to the Christian faith. One of the converts was a poor Aztec Indian named Juan Diego. On one of his trips to the chapel, Juan was walking through the Tepayac hill country in central Mexico. Near Tepayac Hill he encountered a beautiful woman surrounded by a ball of light as bright as the sun. Speaking in his native tongue, the beautiful lady identified herself:

NYPD CRIME MAP

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The crime data used in the map is reported seven major felony crime as defined by the NYS penal Law as of the date a computerized crime complaint record is created. The data is updated on a monthly basis for both the year to date accumulation and the previous year accumulation. The crime data is preliminary and subject to change as a result of investigative follow up and may not match earlier published statistics.

HISTORY FORUM

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The Huntington Free Library and Reading Room is pleased to announce The East Bronx History Forum will hold its last meeting of the year on Wednesday, 7:30pm December 18th 2013.

The East Bronx History Forum meets to discuss Bronx History and held its first meeting on June 16, 2005. December will be the Forum’s 86th meeting. All meetings are free and open to the public at The Huntington Free Library and Reading Room, located at 9 Westchester Square, Bronx, NY.

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