NYC Council Members James Vacca and Dan Garodnick, along with other elected officials, are joining afterschool program advocates and parents in calling on the City to restore funding to seven Beacon programs that have been cut in the Mayor’s budget. The officials delivered hundreds of letters written by children from Beacons across the City to Mayor Bloomberg.
City Island Images is proud to announce tours of City Island and surrounding areas.
Our small tour groups will meet @ the last stop on the #6 SUBWAY, Pelham Bay Station. We will then take the #29 Bus to City Island, where we will begin our journey. Depending on the tour and dates, our stops will include Pelham Cemetery, City Island Historical Society/Museum, The Old Schoolhouse, PS 175, Yacht Clubs, Restaurants, Galleries, Shoppes, Orchard Beach, Pelham Bay Park, Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum. We will finish at the end of City Island Avenue and return to Pelham Bay Station #6 SUBWAY.
The President of the General Assembly, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser has expressed his disappointment over the lack of progress in ending the violence in Syria.
“To tell you frankly, I’m very disappointed,” Mr. Al-Nasser said in an interview. “The UN, the General Assembly, [and] the Security Council try very hard to convince the Syrian Government to stop the violence and start listening to their own people and reach out to them and try to come up with a plan.”
ASSAD HAS TO GO NOW. Must Leave Syria With His Brutality and Duplicity.
Against the backdrop of a new massacre in Syria, UN envoy Kofi Annan will propose global and key regional players develop a strategy to end the 15-month conflict.
ASSESSING THE DRAW-DOWN. Panetta in Afghanistan.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is in Afghanistan reviewing plans for military draw-down, as violence incidents increase. This is his fourth trip to that war zone.
REOPENING TALKS. Reconsidering New Route.
This week Bronx and Manhattan Borough Presidents joined NYC Council Members and approximately two hundred City Islanders to protest the proposed closure of City Island FDNY Ladder 53.
Unfortunately, this is the fourth straight year that a mayoral budget dance has proposed eliminating Ladder 53 on City Island. If this Ladder Company closes, it will take the next-nearest ladder company over ten precious minutes to respond to any emergency. That is if neither one of of those two drawbridges are raised.
President Obama signed into law H.R. 3413, legislation authored by Rep. Joe Crowley (Queens, the Bronx) to rename to the post office located at 1449 West Avenue in the Bronx as the “Private Isaac T. Cortes Post Office”. Private Isaac T. Cortes, an Army soldier and Bronx native, was killed in Iraq in 2007.
NYC Parks officials will present Katherine Daniels’ twelve large-scale weaving, entitled Ornamental Paths. Daniels is the second annual recipient of Parks’ Clare Weiss Emerging Artist Award.
The wisdom of colonoscopy screening seems obvious. The test enables a physician to examine the lining of the entire colon and to remove small, potentially precancerous growths called polyps during the exam. As a result, it has the potential not only to detect colon cancer early, but also to prevent new cases by removing polyps. It is generally assumed that colonoscopy saves lives because the procedure is good at detecting early disease.
It was 68 years ago today and veterans throughout The United State of America still remember one of the most significant days in world history - It is simply know as "D-Day".
City Islanders Russel Schaller and Robert Branizza both recall that fateful day. Branazza says he vaguely remembers watching it all from from the sky. However, Russel Schaller says his recollections of D Day actually began on June 4th, when his 33rd Photo Reconnaissance Squadron was restricted to the base. There were no evening junkets, or visits to the local pub allowed.
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. has written a letter to Mayor Michael Bloomberg outlining the potential damage the mayor’s proposed cuts to the Out of School Time (OST) after-school program would have on the Bronx. Diaz urges Mayor Bloomberg to commit to fully funding these critical programs.