In many parts of New York City, news and information content is limited to local events. That is because residents living in many Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island neighborhoods usually have several newspapers to choose from. However, The Bronx has a smaller variety of news and information outlets because it has struggled with poverty, high unemployment and crime rates over the past years.
Friday, July 20, 8 p.m.
Randy Niles
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SPECIAL EVENT:
'The Artist @...' Series
Saturday, July 21, 8 p.m.
An Evening with the Masters
Stuyvesant Yacht Club
10 Centre Street, City Island
(a few blocks from the Starving Artist)
$15
Jon Burr Band
featuring Lynn Stein
with John Hart and Jonathan Russell
The John Guth Trio
with Don Falzone & Rich Stein
More information above.
Sunday, July 22, 3 p.m.
Abby Adams
singer-songwriter
CD release party, "Pretty Little Face"
Elliott Glick "Once Upon A Time" CD
Live Webcasts from Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
Live webcasts from Jazz at Lincoln Center will continue this July on Thursday evenings at 9:30pm EST. If you can't make it in person, be sure to check out these live webcasts featuring Igor Butman and Phil Woods.
Click here to tune in: http://jalc.org/live/
TONIGHT!
Thursday, July 19, 9:30pm EST
Igor Butman & Moscow State Jazz Orchestra
Glen Rose, Texas is a small town about 40 miles
southwest of Fort Worth. It is home to some of the best-preserved dinosaur
tracks in the world. Starting this week a team of scientists,
researchers, students, and collaborators from across the world will
descend on the Paluxy Riverbed to document and study the footprints and
track sites. The team is led by James Farlow, professor of geology at
Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). The dig is
partially funded by the National Geographic Society.
“The Glen Rose Paluxy River site contains some of the best-preserved,
UN GETS SERIOUS WITH SYRIA. Security Council Meets To Increase The Pressure Today.
While government forces shell neighborhoods in and around Damascus following a bombing that killed three of its leaders member nations of UN Security Council meets today to consider a new resolution to diffuse with the increasing violence.
SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS ISRAELIS IN BULGARIA. Government Leaders Vow Payback.
The Balkan nation's prime minister says the suspected attacker carried a fake Michigan driver's license.
AND THE EMMY NOMINATION GOES TO. Stay Tuned And Wait For The Nod.
Expressing alarm over the intensifying violence in Syria, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemns today’s bomb attack at the National Security Headquarters in Damascus, according to his spokesperson.
A recent NY Time article:Why Can’t the Bronx Be More Like Brooklyn? http://nyti.ms/Ng8YTy
"The Bronx’s inability to catch up with the rest of the city’s phenomenal economic growth has been disconcerting. In the early 1970s, the Bronx and Brooklyn had similar average household incomes. Since then, though, the gap has grown significantly. The average Brooklyn resident is now around 23 percent richer than the average Bronxite; people in Queens are roughly 32 percent richer. (Manhattan residents are 265 percent wealthier; Staten Island residents, by the way, are 55 percent richer.)"
The storm which tore through City Island today brought with it lots of lightning which struck a boat, causing a fire at the Morris Yacht and Beach Club on City Island this afternoon.
According to sources, FDNY crews responded after black smoke was sen coming from the boat.
Emergency crews responded in force, with multiple trucks, as well as police and fire boats.
No injuries have been reported, and fortunately that blaze did not spread as the boat was anchored offshore when the fire broke out.
Today Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., together with FreshDirect and the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, hosted a job fair in the rotunda of the Bronx County Building, interviewing applicants for positions at FreshDirect’s current headquarters in Long Island City, Queens.
Prior to the job fair, the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation prescreened more than 200 applicants for positions with FreshDirect. More than 70 individuals moved on to the second round of interviews with the company.
As a result of the lousy weather and Con Ed's labor issues, the utility company reports thousands of scattered power outages all over the northeast Bronx.
To contact them: 800-75-CONED(26633). These thunderstorms and lightning may have been a factor that knocked out power to many areas.
http://apps.coned.com/stormcenter_external/default.html
Among the businesses that Con Edison is responding to as a result of these power outages is The IGA Supermarket on City Island avenue. Power is expected to return by tonight.