NYC Parks & Recreation announces that New York City’s beaches will open to the public this Saturday, May 26.
As the unofficial start to summer kicks off this weekend with Memorial Day parades and barbecues, beach goers will be welcomed into the 2012 summer season with an opening day ceremony at Orchard Beach.
Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe and Borough Commissioner Hector Aponte will officially open the beach on Friday, May 25 on the promenade at Section 9 at 1 p.m.
Weather permitting and so far it is not. There were plans for several aerial displays involving low-flying helicopters today including: a demonstration at Forest Hills HS (Queens) from 10 -11:30 AM, an over-water rescue simulation at Staten Island Homeport Pier from 12-12:30 PM and a demonstration at Orchard Beach (Pelham Bay Park, The Bronx) from 2:30 - 4:30 PM.
For example photos of the aircraft involved, please follow the link below.
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The New-York Historical Society, located at 170 Central Park West, New York will be showing this exhibit until September 2, 2012.
Explore Gotham’s boozy past in this isntallation, which traces local beer production and consumption over the centuries.
Attendees will learn about New Amsterdam’s first tavern, established by the Dutch West India Company in 1640 to 1644, as well as how beer served as a vital source of nourishment to colonial residents. When you’ve absorbed your fill of local hops history, down a cold one in the beer hall at the end of the exhibit.
NYPD: COLD CASE SOLVED. 33 YEARS TO THE DAY.
Arraignment scheduled today for 51 year old Pedro Hernandez. The former New York City Bodega-store clerk is suspected of murdering Etan Patz. His photo appeared as a missing child on a milk carton in 1979.
HISTORIC SPACE STATION DAY. 250 Miles Above Earth.
SpaceX Dragon, the unmanned and privately built space capsule reaches the International Space Station with a half-ton of supplies. It is the first time a commercial cargo ship links up with this orbiting outpost.
NJ CLEARS NYPD. Muslim Surveillance Is Not Wrongdoing.
A team of UN observers are in Douma, an opposition controlled city in Syria, to initiate dialogue with activists on the ground.
“We want to get your guidance on all the priorities that we have to address,” the Deputy Head of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), Martin Griffith, told opposition members in Douma, located 10 kilometres north-west of Damascus.
Leonard Hawkins American Legion Post in City Island-Bronx, NY is proud to once again host City Island's Annual Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 28, 2012.
This private veterans parade, which attracts hundreds of military active duty, as well as veterans and City Island residents will begin at 2:30PM from Winter Street.
The Salesian High School Marching Band, along with Monaghan Bagpipe Band are expected to perform along City Island Avenue, with a ceremonies at Hawkins Park and at the monument near the City Island Bridge.
The new American Idol is PHILLIP PHILLIPS. This blues playing guitar man from Georgia received more votes than popular teen idol Jessica Sanchez.
http://www.americanidol.com/contestants/season_11/phillip_phillips/
EUROPEAN FINANCIAL CRISIS. New Proposals Emerge.
European Union officials wrap up early summit early with several steps for financial crisis repairs. Also planning for Greece to leave?
US GOVERNMENT WAR. Food Stamp Fraud.
Updated proposals are expected to demand explanations from recipients who request replacements cards, claiming the lost them, but are sold on the black market.
FIRE ON NUKE-SUBMARINE. Blaze Injures Six.
The sub's reactor wasn't operating during the fire that burned through the night at a Maine shipyard.
STATES PUSHING CONGRESS. New Highway Tolls.
Don't believe everything you read. Always, check it out!
Recently, City Island Images noticed a few mistakes made by The City Island Chamber of Commerce, which listed Focal Point Gallery with the wrong address and telephone number. They published Carman's Service Station telephone number, instead of Focal Point.
Today, we see that City Island Civic Website lists Adolfo Carrion as Bronx Borough President, when in fact it's really Ruben Diaz Jr.
What is going on here? Don't they have time to check these facts before posting them on an official Website?
Along with the City Island Civic Association, NYC Council member Jimmy Vacca will be holding a rally on Monday, June 4 at 7:30 PM at St. Mary Star of the Sea School Gym (580 Minnieford Ave on City Island) to address the proposed closure of City Island's only ladder company.
It appears likely that Ladder 53 will once again be on the City's budgetary chopping block, which would give City Island the worst first-alarm response time in New York City. Please join us and help make it loud and clear that this is unacceptable to our community.