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AMAAD Institute offers sense of community to LGBT people

ByRhodesia Muhammad and Bryan 3X Crawford,Contributing Writers @TheFinalCall

“Ya basta!” Estela Reyes-Lopez pleaded, which means “enough” in English.

“Twenty lives were taken from us because of some young man filled with so much hate, so much ignorance, so much hostility toward people he doesn’t even know,” said Ms. Lopez, the media and public information officer for Centro De Salud Familiar La Fe, the center for faith and family health, a non-profit social justice organization based in El Paso.

It was a hail of bullets that sent families who were back to school shopping, screaming and running for their lives, when a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, around 10 a.m. Aug. 3, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than two dozen.

According to authorities, Patrick Crusius, the 21-year-old White male identified as the shooter, drove nearly 10 hours from his hometown of Allen, Texas, about 30 miles north of Dallas, to carry out an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime against the Hispanic community. Mr. Crusius surrendered to police shortly after his reign of terror, leaving many baffled as to why he didn’t take his own life like many mass shooting suspects.

A manifesto apparently posted on social media by Mr. Crusius outlined his intentions and his racist and anti-immigration views, said authorities. Perhaps he surrendered that he wanted to be heard.

Just 12 hours later, another gunman opened fire in a crowded bar in Dayton, Ohio, early Sunday morning, on Aug. 4. Connor Betts, 24, killed nine people, including his own 22-year-old sister, in less than a minute, authorities reported. Thirty-one other people were reported injured. The suspect was eventually shot and killed by police. Authorities are saying the two shootings are not linked.

During an Aug. 5 press conference, President Trump said the nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and White supremacy. “These sinister ideologies must be defeated,” he added. “Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart and devours the soul.”

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the shootings were clearly, at least in part, a result of Mr. Trump’s divisive, racist rhetoric and condemned the president’s proposed legislative fix for strong background checks for gun users and tougher immigration laws. Many questioned why Mr. Trump connected the two issues, especially since the shooting suspects are U.S. citizens.

Many social media users’ disdain for the U.S. government, including the president for hesitancy and refusal to call these mass shootings what they really are hate crimes and domestic terror.

Student Minister Abel Muhammad, Latino representative of the Nation of Islam, said, “President Trump’s rhetoric has emboldened and lit fire to many extremist groups. There is a hesitancy and a slowness in labeling this in what seems to be apparent to every one of us. So many of our Black and Brown brothers and sisters are being killed for far less. Yet, somehow these extremists who take the life of our people somehow always makes it safely to be arrested without incidence. But our people unarmed can’t seem to make it out of a traffic stop.”

“It’s absolutely a sign of the times as the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has been warning the American people for years now, that the injustices within the country create an imbalance and if not addressed the results of ignoring and not trying to create a remedy would be acted out in acts of violence. We see that coming into existence more and more as the times are getting darker,” Student Minister Muhammad said.

“After a tragedy like this, there is a time to be sad and there’s a time to mourn. But this situation that we are living right now in our community, this has been building for a long time,” said Ms. Reyes-Lopez, who shops at that same El Paso Walmart with her family. “These clouds have been circling. This thunder has been building and this lightening have struck. And we’re very angry about it. Many of the people I’ve spoken to in the last 24 hours have told me, friends, activists, people that have had their feet on the ground for a long time, said, we are talking about voting, we’re talking about legislation, and gun control.”

These mass shootings are happening more often. On February 14, 2018, 17 people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a high school in Parkland, Florida. On May 18, 2018, 10 people were killed at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas. On November 5, 2017, 25 people were killed at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. On October 1, 2017, 58 people were killed when a mass shooter opened fire from a hotel room at the Harvest Music Festival, at a Las Vegas strip in Nevada. On June 12, 2016, 49 people were killed at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

On June 17, 2015, 9 people were killed at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Dr. Abdul Haleem Muhammad, southwest regional student minister of the Nation of Islam in Houston said, God loved us so much, he set up a military structure and security apparatus for his servants, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Minister Farrakhan, and the Nation of Islam in anticipation of the current dark days. “If we love our people as much as Allah (God) loves us, we will be found teaching and training our people to make our neighborhoods and institutions safe places to live, work, play, learn, and pray. Offering thoughts and prayers or finger pointing is not sufficient today,” Dr. Haleem Muhammad stressed. “Love is a verb. We must show and prove the unequaled wisdom Allah has taught us through his Christ and Messiah.”

Student Minister Abel Muhammad agreed that this is not the time for finger pointing. “This is what has angered me, the response has been politicized, where Democrats are pointing at Republicans now trying to win the Latino votes by saying, ‘oh look what they’ve done, they’ve allowed this to happen because of their gun laws’ when for eight years the Democrats had charge of the Congress and the presidential office and they were not able to fix anything in terms of immigration or in terms of those things which ill-affect our people.”

Dee Woo, operations manager of KTEP FM, El Paso, a public radio station, commended the residents of El Paso for being a strong community that bands together in times of need. She believes parents are the root of the hatred that leads to mass shootings. “Parents need to stop teaching racism and hatred at home. And, they need to address it with their children as early as two and three years old, because as we’ve seen, children will play with other children because they want to play with other children and for no other reason but to have fun. And it doesn’t matter who it is or the color of their skin. So, stop teaching the children racism and prejudice and instead start teaching them universal love, which is respect for one another and being able to help one another,” she told The Final Call.

Others say separation is the only solution. That there are already two Americas, one White and one non-White.

Jay Hernandez, a resident of El Paso, noted, “Some in the Latino community in El Paso may have been injured but didn’t seek treatment because of their lack of citizenship and I think that’s hurtful and disgraceful. This is America, yet we don’t have the freedom to shop for school supplies for our children.”

“I think it’s a wakeup call,” added Student Minister Abel Muhammad. “I hope ultimately, the only good that can come of this is that perhaps our people will awaken to the fact that these people do not see us as their brothers, they do not see us as their equals. They have no desire for truth, or fairness, or equity or justice with us if they’re not in a position of superiority, not based on truth or goodness, but simply on their Whiteness and we as subordinate and subservient to them. They don’t even want us alive in their presence. Hopefully, as harsh as that may be, I think it’s waking up people to understand and to look at what is it that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan are offering, which is the best and only solution, separation from these people.”

There has been an average of one mass shooting every 12 days in 2019, with the total so far being 18.

All told, as many as 102 people have been killed this year in mass shootings, with many of them being committed by White men; all of whom adhere to and embrace the ideology of White nationalism.

Compounding the issue is the reluctance to paint these men as what they are: domestic terrorists.

The emergence of Donald Trump on the political scene in America has brought feelings of White pride mixed with concern about Whites acting out in public spaces every day. Videos capture White men and women berating, harassing, insulting and even calling the police on Blacks and other non-White people. Social media is flooded with clips showing the differences in the way law enforcement treats White perpetrators of crime, versus treatment of non-White people who don’t have to be committing a crime to be forcibly attacked—or even killed at the hands of police officers.

All of this could, and should, be very easily categorized as acts of terrorism. But in a society where the thought appears to be only Muslims can be terrorists, White domestic terrorism gets softened to “mental illness.”

“No one is safe. And the days of thinking something like this can never happen to me are pretty much over,” political commentator and activist Mark Thompson, told The Final Call. “[White people’s] fear of genetic annihilation, as Dr. Frances Cress Welsing described it, is enabled by Donald Trump. He can dismiss these mass shootings as mental illness. But White supremacy is a mental illness. To believe that you are a superior race that is supposed to be separate and distinct above every other race, is a form of mental illness.”

“In America, the dangerous are seen as endangered,” Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, wrote in an op-ed for The Atlantic. “Leaders treat white-nationalist terror, not as a broad social ill, but as a fringe problem that will become extinct on its own. To portray white terrorism as an outlier is to ignore America’s entire racial history, not to mention its present.”

Technology and media are part of the phenomenon with White terrorists able to amplify their views through mainstream and social media. And on these platforms, the idea that only Black and Brown people are dangerous can spread like wildfire.

An FBI bulletin disseminated through the agency’s office in Phoenix, Arizona, found conspiracy theories, like people from South America are invading the United States, can contribute to domestic terrorist threats.

“The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts,” the memo read in part.

“White folks are upholding a slavery amendment—the 2nd Amendment—that was meant to use violence to keep Black and Brown folks in check. But the 2nd Amendment is now being used in the killing of White folks themselves,” Mr. Thompson explained, adding, “Firearms are an instrument of White supremacy and the enforcement of racist oppression.”

In May, testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee, officials from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department, that there are more than 850 open cases of domestic terrorism in the United States; 40 percent of them have involved racially motivated violence. However, there is no law on the books in America against domestic terrorism. Perpetrators of these crimes, who are labeled as homegrown terrorists, are often prosecuted using other statutes. This makes it extremely difficult to even prosecute someone as a domestic terrorist in this country.

Thus, charges can be left to the whims of prosecutors dealing with those who commit acts of extreme violence.

After the most recent tragedies, the possibility of making mass shootings, which authorities describe as shootings with four or more victims, capital crimes was raised.

Source: https://blackpressusa.com/amaad-institute-offers-sense-of-community-to-lgbt-people/

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Dec. 27

Lost or late...? (Or maybe really early.)

Photo in Tompkins Square Park this morning by Derek Berg...

Source: http://evgrieve.com/2018/12/dec-27.html

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What became of 5 tenements on Elizabeth Street

What a difference 107 years make on the tenement block of Elizabeth Street between Prince and Houston Streets.

In the first photo, taken in 1912 by Lewis Wickes Hine, trash is strewn on the uneven Belgian block pavement. Broken-down carts line the sidewalk; boys huddle in the doorway of a bar bearing a sign for the Kips Bay Brewing Company, founded in 1910.

Kids run around, men stand by storefronts, and laundry hangs from fire escapes laden with pots, pans, and other household items.

It’s a Little Italy street of poverty—but it’s also a hive of human activity, rich with the unpretty details of daily life.

Amazingly, the string of tenements at 260 to 268 Elizabeth Street still stand. They’ve been cleaned up and repainted, and the fire escapes are uniform and clean, almost elegant.

Expensive boutiques and a roasting company occupy the storefronts. The Kips Bay bar is gone, as is the tenement across Houston Street. The block is still and tidy, absent of human energy.

But the little 1820s Federal-style house with the dormer windows on the corner still hangs on. (It was once Colonial Cafe, RIP!)

[Top photo: LOC]

Tags: 260-268 Elizabeth Street, Elizabeth and Houston Streets, Elizabeth Street tenements, Little Italy Elizabeth Street, Nolita old photos, Old photos Elizabeth Street

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Source: https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2019/03/04/what-became-of-5-tenements-on-elizabeth-street/

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Crump, NAACP, NNPA to Demonstrate after Police Brutality Incident in Florida

A cell phone video captured Broward County Sheriff’s deputies pepper-spraying, tackling and punching a group of teens last week outside a McDonald’s near the school.

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia

The Broward County Chapter of the NAACP will lead a march and rally to demand the termination and criminal prosecution of two Florida sheriff deputies who were caught on video punching a 15-year-old African American student and repeatedly slamming the child’s head against concrete pavement.

The weekend rally – a peaceful demonstration – will include the teen’s attorney, famed civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump, National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., Westside Gazette Publisher Bobby Henry and Broward County NAACP leaders.

“We cannot become desensitized to the brutality visited upon our young black men and women,” said Chavis, who’s also a civil rights activist who worked under Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“In addition to reporting news, the NNPA, a trade association representing the 215 African American newspapers and media companies around the country, is also a voice for civil rights,” Chavis said.

Further, as the trusted source for news and information in the African American community, the NNPA should be at the forefront in informing its readers about all that affects them, Henry said.

“It’s important for us to remember where we came from and this is galvanizing and communicating on a level where we are all involved and this is such an important issue,” said Henry. “We need to realize that this concerns us, and we should not wait for the white media to tell us about our community and when something happens, they should be coming to us for that information,” he said.

Delucca “Lucca” Rolle, a student at J.P. Taravella High School, was accused of aggravated assault against an officer, but the charge made “no sense,” prosecutors said.

A cell phone video captured Broward County Sheriff’s deputies pepper-spraying, tackling and punching a group of teens last week outside a McDonald’s near the school.

The video shows deputies take Rolle down, with one deputy banging Rolle’s forehead into the pavement and punching him in the head, while another deputy helped restrain and handcuff him.

Rolle, one of two teens who were arrested, reportedly suffered a broken nose in the encounter.

Deputy Christopher Krickovich and Sgt. Greg LaCerra were both suspended by the Sheriff’s office after the video was released, though, originally, they were placed on restricted assignment.

The Broward State Attorney’s Office said it has begun investigating the deputies’ actions and prosecutors decided not to file charges against Rolle.

Rolle’s family also has hired Crump, who said he wants the deputies involved to face criminal charges.

Crump noted that the two arrested teens are black, while all three deputies seen in the cellphone video are white.

“Rolle was a teen beaten by deputies after he picked up a cellphone that fell out of the pocket of a black boy who was being arrested,” Crump said.

“In response, the deputies “pepper-sprayed, brutally beat, and arrested him,” said Crump, who represented the family of Michael Brown, a 17-year-old African-American, who was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Mo.

Crump also represented the family of Trayvon Martin, who in 2012 was killed by George Zimmerman, a white neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla.

The encounter between Rolle and the deputies happened outside McDonald’s, a frequent after-school hangout spot.

At one point, Krickovich and LaCerra went to arrest a student — not Rolle — who had been warned not to trespass at the shopping center, according to a Sheriff’s report.

Crump said “Starting now, we will seek justice through every avenue possible for Lucca and his family. The actions on the video by the officers against Delucca are unconscionable.”

The hashtag #JusticeForLucca has been trending on Twitter.

Rolle’s supporters plan a peaceful rally Saturday afternoon at Hampton Pines Park in North Lauderdale, with attendees encouraged to wear red. Rolle was wearing a red shirt on the day of his arrest.

“We need to make sure we convey the message that the only crime committed on that day was not from the young man, the black children that were there, but from the two deputies and the way they manhandled those kids,” said local NAACP President Marsha Ellison.

“Police brutality and what we consider child abuse will not be tolerated, certainly with our kids who are equally as important as those in other communities,” Ellison said.

She’s also calling for the termination and prosecution of the deputies.

“We want the sheriff to hold them accountable and for them to be terminated, meaning they don’t have the opportunity to do this to anyone else while in a [sheriff’s] uniform,” Ellison said.

“We are wary of the state Attorney’s Office in their investigation. It could be one year sometimes two and they’ll try and wait until this dies down and close the case,” she said. “That’s not good enough. A suspension is not good enough. These children are traumatized, emotionally damaged. The 2020 election is coming where we get to choose a new sheriff and new states Attorney. We’re tired of this. Enough is enough.”

Source: https://www.blackpressusa.com/crump-naacp-nnpa-to-demonstrate-after-police-brutality-incident-in-florida/

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Saturday 181013 – Beginner

Strength A1. Ring or Box Support 3×30 seconds A2. Turkish Get Up 3×3/side, building A3. Parallette L-Sit/Tuck Hold 3×20-30 s

Conditioning For time: 50 Toes to Bar 50 Ab-Mat Sit Ups 50 Calorie Row

Time Cap: 15 minutes

Here’s what’s on tap for Sunday’s Beginner classes:

Strength A1. Single Arm Ring Row, 3×8/side (31×1) A2. Reverse Grip Bent Over Barbell Row, 3×10, across A3. Paloff Banded Press Hold, 3×30 s/side

Conditioning 2 rounds for time: 40 Air Squats 20 Push Ups 600 m Run

Time Cap: 16 minutes

Source: https://crossfitnyc.com/2018/10/13/saturday-181013-beginner/

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ANCIENT ADS REVEALED, EAST NEW YORK

ForgottenFan Marc A. Hermann chipped in on Twitter with a couple of venerable ads revealed by a teardown of an electronics store at East New York and Rockaway Avenues in East New York. On the first one, painted over wood slats, you can see a number of mostly unintelligible lines, but the one on the bottom points to a 5th Avenue and 9th Street location in Park Slope.

The second one is similarly hard to read but on the bottom, you can just barely make out the word “Castoria.” This is Fletcher’s Castoria, a mild stomach remedy originally marketed to kids. Castoria ads, with florid inscriptions, were rendered with paint that faded only slowly in the sun and so, several can still be made out around town, though more disappear every year. Fletcher’s Castoria is still available in some markets.

This is the corner in question on Street View in 2018. The entire corner building is gone, so the ads, which are from 1880-1910, are at least temporarily visible.

Next door to the old ads, on East New York Avenue, is the venerable 65th Precinct building. It was constructed in 1909 as the 65th but later became the 73rd. The old stationhouse has sat abandoned since 1985, when a new 73rd was built nearby.

The 73rd figured into the so-called Career Girl Murders of 1963 in which local resident George Whitmore was arrested and interrogated here and subsequently convicted of the Upper East Side murder of two young women. He was later exonerated. The case became the basis for the KOJAK pilot “The Marcus Nelson Murders.” — Matthew X. Kiernan

Check out the ForgottenBook, take a look at the gift shop, and as always, “comment…as you see fit.”

4/12/19

Source: https://forgotten-ny.com/2019/04/ancient-ads-revealed-east-new-york/

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Events, Programs, Sales, Free Cookies + More!

We’re hard at work loading in listings to our events calendar for Independent Bookstore Week NYC. There are fantastic literary programs happening throughout the city, plus some special sales, promos, special displays and events for kids too. Beginning this Wednesday, November 11, we will post highlights on this blog each day detailing what is happening at indies around the city. If you want to plan ahead, click here to view a listing of all events already scheduled.

And don’t forget to join us at powerHouse Arena this Wednesday night from 7-10 pm for the kick-off party! Details for the party are here and RSVP suggested here (Facebook) or to [email protected]

What’s this week all about anyway? Here’s some info:

For the first time, New York City booksellers unite to celebrate Independent Bookstore Week November 15-21, 2009, a citywide event highlighting the diverse cultural contributions made by indie bookshops across the five boroughs. Featuring special author appearances, events, promotions and in-store displays, the week will kick off with a party at powerHouse Arena and conclude on America Unchained Day. A special poster designed by New Yorker cartoonist Bruce McCall will be on display in participating shops and available for sale.

“Indie bookstores are a great cord in New York City’s cultural fabric. This week is an opportunity to thank consumers for keeping indie bookstores thriving,” says IBNYC board member Chris Doeblin, owner of Book Culture. “We want to celebrate and recognize the unique qualities of the stores, and thank everyone for choosing to shop independent.”

Despite the gloomy predictions about the fate of the printed word and its retailing, bookselling in New York has demonstrated considerable resilience in the past year, as well as signs of new life. While veterans like St. Marks and Three Lives remain landmarks in their neighborhoods and prove customer loyalty has not slipped, established bookshops such as Book Culture, Book Court, and Posmans are actually expanding in size. But most inspiring is the arrival of young entrepreneurs not afraid to open new shops in underserved communities: Greenlight (in Ft. Greene), Idlewild (in Midtown Manhattan), WORD (in Greenpoint), and the forthcoming Boulevard Books (in Dyker Heights).

As Amazon and Wal-Mart battle over the price of just ten commercial titles, New York independents remind readers that they have hundreds of thousands more books at their disposal. Providing personal service and recommendations lost on the big box and chain level, locally-owned, community-supported booksellers are New York’s most reliable literary curators.

Indie Bookstore Week NYC ends on Nov. 21, America Unchained Day, a national campaign to encourage consumers to “unchain” for at least one day, boosting their local economy by shopping, dining out and conducting other business transactions at neighborhood establishments.

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Source: https://ibnyc.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/events-programs-sales-free-cookies-more/

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American Girl in America!

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FDNY responds to report of 'unstable wall' at 301 E. 10th St.

Emergency responders are on the scene at 301 E. 10th St. between Avenue A and Avenue B... where there's a report of an "unstable wall" in the building...

Manhattan *All Hands* Box 0452. 301 E 10th St, . Bn-6 using All Hands for an unstable wall in a 5 story 25x50. Buildings Dept & OEM requested.

— NYCFireWire (@NYCFireWire) February 26, 2019

It's the building here with the sidewalk bridge...

Currently, 10th Street is closed off between Avenue A and Avenue B.

Will update when there's more to report. And thanks to Steven for these photos!

Updated 5:42 p.m.

Per NBC 4...

A number of buildings in the East Village were evacuated after a wall inside a townhouse partially collapsed, the FDNY said.

The department received a call reporting a partial wall collapse inside of 301 E. 10th St., across from Tompkins Square Park, at 3:36 p.m. Tuesday, it said.

Updated 9 p.m.

Public records show that No. 301, built in the late 19th Century by architect Joseph Trench, sold for $8 million in December 2016.

The buyer, listed as Kamo Associates LLC, were in the process of renovation the building. There are approved plans on file with the city for a "horizontal rear extension."

No. 301 is currently occupant free during the gut renovations.

Source: http://evgrieve.com/2019/02/fdny-responds-to-report-of-unstable.html

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New York City lawyer charged in series of sex assaults beginning in 2014 - Fox News

A New York City lawyer who claims he’s “no stranger to the courtroom” ended up back in the courtroom to be arraigned on sex assault charges for incidents dating to 2014.

Rashaun Kelley, 35, of Brooklyn, was arrested Friday on several charges including sex abuse, attempted rape and burglary. Kelley is accused of attacking several women between 2014 and 2015 by following them into buildings and groping them before fleeing the scene. In one incident he pulled down a woman’s pants, police said.

Kelley's alleged crime spree began in December 2014, when he followed a 19-year-old woman into an elevator at an apartment building in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood and grabbed her buttocks and breasts, police said. Kelley allegedly tried to kiss the woman before she managed to break free and flee the elevator.

The second incident came a day later when he approached a 20-year-old woman, covered her mouth and began touching her back and buttocks, police said.

In the third incident in January 2014, Kelley is accused of pulling a woman’s pants down. He then fled the scene when the 31-year-old screamed, police said.

Surveillance video at the time of the attacks showed a man wearing a Yankees cap.

Authorities also linked Kelley to two other incidents that occurred in December 2014, although he does not face charges for those attacks as of Saturday. He is expected back in court on Jan. 10, NBC New York reported.

Kelley described himself on his LinkedIn page as an attorney focused on business, corporate and securities law.

“No stranger to the courtroom, Ra’Shaun represents clients in commercial and securities litigation in federal and state court,” his LinkedIn page stated.

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-city-lawyer-charged-in-series-of-sex-assaults-beginning-in-2014-police-say

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Gounardes Pushing 750 Speed Cameras With Expanded Hours — A Direct Challenge to Cuomo’s Paltry Proposal

New York City would be able to deploy speed camera systems at 750 schools — and have them in operation from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. — under a just-unveiled bill that would dramatically expand the effectiveness of a proven lifesaving tool that Governor Cuomo is seeking to only slightly expand.

New State Senator Andrew Gounardes (D-Bay Ridge) and veteran Assembly Member Deborah Glick (D-Manhattan) submitted the bill on Thursday, more than double the 290 school-zone cameras that Cuomo had proposed last year and more than five times the current 140 school zones. More important, the proposal would allow the speed cameras to operate well beyond the current restriction of only during school hours — and they would remain on all summer long, enforcing speed limits when neighborhood streets fill with vacationing kids. The cameras could also operate within a quarter-mile radius of schools instead of merely one-quarter of a mile from the school building itself.

Glick has proposed such legislation in the past — though prior years’ version of the bill allowed for speed cameras at all of the city’s 1,700 schools — only to see such bills die in the then-Republican-controlled Senate. But the Senate is not only controlled by Democrats, but last year’s election infused the chamber with a slate of younger politicians who are critical of car culture, including Zellnor Myrie, Julia Salazar, Jessica Ramos and Gounardes, who defeated speed-camera opponent Marty Golden. Carrying this bill represents a campaign promise fulfilled for the first-year lawmaker from Bay Ridge.

Transportation Alternatives’ interim Co-Director Marco Conner called the bill “tremendous.”

“We were pushing for a half-mile radius and camera operation for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but we are very pleased,” Conner said.

It is unclear what will happen next: The Assembly and the Senate will likely pass the bills, setting up a clash with Cuomo, who hasn’t agreed to more than the 290 that he proposed. Police unions have opposed speed cameras in the past, saying that cops are better suited to punish lawbreakers of all stripes because speeders may also have committed other crimes.

But in the five years that they have been in operation, New York City’s tiny number of speed cameras, operating during school hours, have issued five million speeding tickets. By comparison, tens of thousands of NYPD officers issued roughly one-tenth that amount.

The bill would take effect 30 days after being signed by Cuomo — and would expire on July 1, 2022.

That sunset clause will bring to mind bad memories of last summer, when the State Senate allowed New York’s speed camera system to expire without setting in place a new one. Golden came under particular fire from street safety advocates because he had suggested he would push for more cameras, but then backed off — a flip-flop that became a critical issue in his subsequent defeat by Gounardes in November.

Source: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/03/07/gounardes-pushing-750-speed-cameras-with-expanded-hours-a-direct-challenge-to-cuomos-paltry-proposal/

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Every Bowery Boys: New York City History podcast in chronological order by subject

Twelve years ago (officially on June 19, 2007) we recorded the very first Bowery Boys podcast, appropriately about Canal Street, the street just outside our windows.

We cannot have possibly imagined on that hot June night, wielding only a bad microphone, a new laptop and some reasonably interesting information about a terribly polluted water source, that would still be doing this, stronger than ever.

Thank you listeners and readers for helping us celebrate almost four hundred years of history in the past twelve. We have so many exciting things on the way for 2019.

Here’s a new way to experience our old podcasts. Below is our entire list of shows, placed in a particular chronological order, based on a critical date in that subject’s history.

Viewing our back catalog of podcasts in this fashion, we hope that you can really start seeing the entire history of New York City emerging. Naturally there are some blatant holes in our coverage that we hope to close up in future shows.

So enjoy! And thank you all again.

You can find our podcasts anyplace. Read here for more information on where you can find our shows.

DUTCH AND ENGLISH PERIOD

#206 The Lenape: The Real Native New Yorkers (Pre 1609 inhabitants)

#83 Henry Hudson and the European Discovery of Mannahatta (1609 – Hudson sails into the harbor)

#272 Life in New Amsterdam (1624 First permanent European on Manhattan Island)

#212 Bronx Trilogy: The Bronx Is Born (1639 Jonas Bronck sets up a farm on what would be called the Bronx River)

#267 Broadway: The Story of a Street (1642 First mention of the street in Dutch documents)

#273 Peter Stuyvesant and the Fall of New Amsterdam (1647 Stuyvesant arrives)

#22 Staten Island (1680 Conference House built)

#228 The Pirate of Pearl Street: The New York Adventures of Captain Kidd (1690 Kidd moves to New York)

#97 Trinity Church (1698 First Trinity Church opens)

#149 John Peter Zenger and the Power of the Press (1735 Zenger trial)

#90 Columbia University (1754 King’s College established)

#115 African Burial Ground (Mid 18th century — Burials begin in area south of Collect Pond)

REVOLUTION

#121 Fraunces Tavern (1762 Samuel Fraunces opens tavern)

#266 New York City During the Revolutionary War (1776-1783)

#201 GOWANUS! Brooklyn’s Troubled Waters (1776 Battle of Brooklyn)

#191 The Great Fire of 1776 (1776 Fire at the Fighting Cocks Tavern)

#157 Early Ghost Stories of Old New York (1778 Mohican tribe fighting for the Continental Army slaughtered)

NEW YORK IN THE NEW NATION

#220 George Washington’s New York Inauguration (1789)

#221 New York: Capital City of the United States (1789-1790)

#63 New York Stock Exchange (1792 Buttonwood Agreement)

#240 Ghosts of Greenwich Village (1797 The area of today’s Washington Square becomes a potter’s field)

#112 Archibald Gracie and His Mansion (1799 Mansion constructed)

#138: St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery (1799 Chapel opens)

#239 Murder at the Manhattan Well (1799 Elma Sands is murdered)

##65 Spooky Stories of New York (1799 Featuring the ‘ghost story’ version of the tale above, among other tales)

#41 New York Post (1801 Alexander Hamilton establishes the paper)

#19 Washington Irving (1802 Irving begins writing)

#169 DUEL! Aaron Burr vs. Alexander Hamilton (1804 The infamous duel between Burr and Hamilton)

# #185 Adventures in Governors Island (1807 Castle Williams constructed)

#258 Tales from Tribeca History (1807 St. John’s Chapel and the first ‘upscale’ neighborhood are created)

#31 Battery Park and Castle Clinton (1808 Castle Clinton constructed)

#9 St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral (1809 Cathedral begins construction)

#50 Canal Street and Collect Pond (1811 Collect Pond is filled)

# #163 South Street Seaport (1811 Schermerhorn Row counting houses constructed)

# #93 City Hall and City Hall Park (1811 City Hall constructed)

#40 Union Square (1815 Union Place opened)

#145 Bicycle Mania! From Velocipede to Ten-Speed (1819 First bicycle on the streets of New York)

NEW YORK, NEW WEALTH

#152 Bellevue Hospital (1821 Hospital opens)

#52 DeWitt Clinton and the Erie Canal (1825 Canal opens)

#230 Before Harlem: New York’s Forgotten Black Communities (1825 Seneca Village founded)

#7 Washington Square Park (1826 City buys potter’s field to create a military parade ground)

# #70 The Bowery Files (1826 – Bowery Theatre opens)

#252 The Underground Railroad: Escape Through New York (1826 David Ruggles moves to New York)

#58 Delmonico’s Restaurant (1827 First restaurant opens)

#142 New York University (NYU) (1831 College founded on Washington Square)

#193 St. Mark’s Place: Party In The East Village (1831 Hamilton-Holly house constructed)

#241 Edgar Allan Poe in New York (1831 Poe moves to New York)

#91 Haunted Tales of New York (1832 Merchant’s House built)

#171 The Keys to Gramercy Park (1833 Gramercy Park enclosed with a private fence)

#94 Corlear’s Hook and the Pirates of the East River (1833 First tenement built in the Hook)

#140 Rockaway Beach (1833 Marine Pavilion opens)

#224 The Arrival of the Irish: An Immigrant Story (1830s)

#113 Niblo’s Garden (1834 William Niblo opens the theater)

#208 Great Hoaxes of New York (1835 The Moon Hoax runs in the New York Sun)

#78 The Great Fire of 1835

#211 The Notorious Madame Restell: The Abortionist of Fifth Avenue (1836 Ann Lohman begins work)

#222 Who Killed Helen Jewett? A Mystery By Gaslight (1836 Jewett murdered that Spring)

#59 Five Points: Wicked Slum (1837 Old Brewery becomes a slum)

#38 Tiffany & Co. (1837 Tiffany’s first opens)

#64 Green-Wood Cemetery (1838 Cemetery opens in Brooklyn)

#291 The Tombs: Five Points’ Notorious House of Detention (1838 Prison opens)

#82 Roosevelt Island (1839 – Lunatic asylum opens)

#242 New York and the Dawn of Photography (1839 John Draper and his sister Dorothy Catherine first work on the photographic process at NYU)

#130 Haunted Histories of New York (1841 – Most Holy Trinity in Bushwick constructed)

#46 Barnum’s American Museum (1841 Museum opens)

#66 Who Killed Mary Rogers? (1841 Rogers is murdered)

#143 Water for New York: Croton Aqueduct (1842 Croton Aqueduct opens)

NEW YORK: THE GROWING CITY

#133 Red Hook: Brooklyn on the Waterfront (1847 Atlantic Basin constructed)

#37 Henry Ward Beecher and Plymouth Church (1847 Beecher moves to Brooklyn)

#281 The Treasures of Downtown Brooklyn (1848 Brooklyn City Hall constructed)

#289 Blood and Shakespeare: The Astor Place Riot (1849 Riot erupts outside Astor Place Opera House)

#160 Tompkins Square Park (1850 Park opens)

#181 Park Slope and the Story of Brownstone Brooklyn (1850s Edwin Litchfield purchases parcels of land in South Brooklyn)

#75 Williamsburg(h), Brooklyn (1852 City of Williamsburgh)

#178: The Crystal Palace: America’s First World’s Fair (1853 Crystal Palace opens)

#92 Steinway: the Piano Man (1853 Henry Steinway opens first shop in Manhattan)

#117 Mark Twain’s New York (1853 Young Mark Twain first visits New York)

#60 Five Points Part Two: The Fate of Five Points (1953 New Mission replaces the Old Brewery)

#51 McSorley’s Old Ale House (1854 Tavern opens)

#25 The Original Bowery Boys (1855 Death of Bowery Boys leader Bill the Butcher)

#283 Walt Whitman in New York and Brooklyn (1855 Whitman first publishes Leaves of Grass)

#103: Case Files of the NYPD (1857 Infamous police riot between Municipals and Metropolitans)

#54 The Creation of Central Park (1857 Park opens)

#232 The Story of SoHo (1857 E.V. Haugtwout’s emporium opens)

#276 Murder on Bond Street (1857 Harvey Burdell is murdered)

#134 St. Patrick’s Cathedral (1858 Cornerstone laid)

#30 Peter Cooper and Cooper Union (1858 Cooper Union begins construction)

#23 Macy’s : the Man, the Store, the Parade (1858 Rowland Macy opens first store)

#129 Chinatown (1858 First Chinese resident of New York documented)

#268 The Astonishing Saga of the Atlantic Cable (1858 First communications made)

#126 Fernando Wood: The Scoundrel Mayor (1860 Wood becomes mayor of New York)

#139 Brooklyn Academy of Music (1861 Academy opens)

#285 Boss Tweed’s House of Corruption (1861 Construction begins on the courthouse)

#286 Uncovering Hudson Yards (1861 Abraham Lincoln first arrives in New York via the Hudson River Railroad)

#183 Orchard Street: Life On The Lower East Side (1863 Construction of 97 Orchard Street)

#127 The Civil War Draft Riots (1863 Summer of Draft Riots)

#10 Central Park Zoo (1864 Menagerie opens)

#128 Hoaxes and Conspiracies of 1864 (1864 Confederate fires set in November)

NEW YORK: BEGINNING THE GILDED AGE

The Bowery Boys Presents: The First Musical (1866 The Black Crook debuts)

#84 Prospect Park (1867 Park opens to the public)

#141 New York Beer History (1867 George Ehret opens brewery)

#102 Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach (1868 – First resort in Brighton Beach)

#274 Ghost Stories of Hell’s Kitchen (1868 Landmark Tavern opens)

#114 Supernatural Stories of New York (1869 – Hart Island first used as a potter’s field)

#131 The First Apartment Building (1869 Stuyvesant Apartments constructed)

#207 The First Subway: Beach’s Pneumatic Marvel (1869 Alfred Ely Beach builds under Broadway)

#161 Fire Department of New York (FDNY) (1870 City-funded fire team founded)

#238 Astoria and Long Island City (1870Long Island City becomes an official municipality)

#177 The Big History of Little Italy (1870s Italian immigrants began arriving in large numbers)

#86 Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall (1871 Boss Tweed arrested)

#45 Grand Central (1871 Grand Central Depot opens)

#198 Greenpoint, Brooklyn: An Industrial Strength History (1874 Faber Pencil Factory opens)

#270 Heaven on the Hudson: A History of Riverside Park (1875 Riverside Park first opens)

#116 American Museum of Natural History (1877 First portion of museum opens)

#215 Ghosts of the Gilded Age (1877 Mysterious body found in an abandoned Queens farmhouse)

#107 New York’s Elevated Railroads (1878 First regular elevated railroad in service)

#172 Ghost Stories of Brooklyn (1878 Reports of a ghostly doorbell in Clinton Hill)

NEW YORK: CITY OF INNOVATION

#99 Madison Square Garden (1879 First Madison Square Garden opens)

#8 Dakota Apartments and ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ (1880 Dakota begins construction)

#167 Cleopatra’s Needle and the Freemasons Secret (1881 Obelisk erected in Central Park)

#186 Hell’s Kitchen: New York’s Wild West (1881 Incident at Hell’s Kitchen tenement)

#225 P. T. Barnum and the Greatest Show on Earth (1881 Barnum and Bailey Circus formed)

#132 Electric New York: Edison and the City Lights (1882 Pearl Street Station opened)

#108 Cable Cars, Trolleys and Monorails (1883 New York’s first cable car system)

#29 Brooklyn Bridge (1883 Bridge completed)

#261 The Huddled Masses: Emma Lazarus and the Statue of Liberty (1883 Lazarus writes poem)

#89 Chelsea Hotel (1883-5 Hotel is constructed as a cooperative)

#79 The Whyos: Gang of New York (1884 Whyos list of ‘killing prices’ published)

#179 The Fight for Bryant Park (1884 Park renamed for William Cullen Bryant)

#275 Return to Tin Pan Alley: Saving American Music History (1885 First music publishers move to West 28th Street)

#81 The Puck Building: “What Fools These Mortals Be!” (1885 Puck Building constructed)

#34 Katz Delicatessen (1886 Deli opens as the Iceland Brothers)

#73 Webster Hall “The Devil’s Playhouse” (1886 Webster Hall completed)

#16 Statue of Liberty (1886 Statue dedicated)

#194 Nellie Bly – Undercover In the Madhouse (1887 Nellie goes to the asylum)

#269 Harry Houdini and the Golden Age of Magic in New York (1887 The future Harry Houdini moves to New York)

#148 Frozen In Time: The Great Blizzard of 1888 (1888 The blizzard hits)

#203 Nikola Tesla In New York (1888 Westinghouse licenses Tesla patents)

#216 Edwin Booth and the Players Club (1888 Booth forms the Players Club in Gramercy Park)

#169 The Tallest Building In New York: A Short History (1890 Construction of the New York World Building)

#213 Bronx Trilogy: The Bronx Is Building (1890 Construction begins on the Grand Concourse)

#256 DUMBO: Life on Brooklyn’s Waterfront (1890 Robert Gair invents the cardboard box)

# #57 Carnegie Hall (1891 Hall opens)

#120 NYC and the Birth of the Movies (1892 First Kinetoscope parlor)

#88 Ellis Island (1892 Immigration station opens)

#237 Columbus Circle: A Century of Controversy (1892 Columbus Circle opens)

#262 Secrets of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (1892 Work begins on the cathedral)

NEW YORK: CITY OF SCANDALS

#21 The Astors and the Waldorf-Astoria #244 The Rise of the Fifth Avenue Mansions (1893 Waldorf Hotel Opens)

#146 Herald Square (1894 New offices for the New York Herald)

#165 Ladies’ Mile (1896 Siegel-Cooper Department Store opens)

#87 The Kings of New York Pizza (1897 Lombardi’s Pizza opens)

#47 Grants Tomb (1897 Tomb completed)

#189 TAXI: History of the New York City taxicab (1897 first electric taxis)

#150 Consolidation! Five Boroughs, One Big City (1898 Five boroughs created)

#71 Saks Fifth Avenue (1898 Store founded)

#101 The Bronx Zoo (1899 Zoo opens)

#251 McGurk’s Suicide Hall (1899 – McGurk’s earns its grim nickname)

#219 Newsies on Strike! (1899 Strike freezes newspaper delivery)

#290 Bagels: A New York Story (1900s First bagel unions established)

#159 The Broadway Musical: Setting the Stage (1901 Florodora opens)

#184 The Flatiron Building: A Story from Three Sides (1902 Flatiron constructed)

#259 Crossing to Brooklyn: How the Williamsburg Bridge Changed New York (1903 Bridge opens)

#166 General Slocum Disaster 1904

#12 Coney Island: The Golden Age (1904 Dreamland opens)

#109 New York City Subway, Part 1: Birth of the IRT #253 Opening Day of the New York Subway (1904 — First subway opens)

#28 One Times Square (1904 New York Times opens new headquarters)

#118 Times Square (1904 – New York Times opens new headquarters)

#106 Staten Island Ferry (1905 – New York takes over private ferry service)

#188 The Murder of Stanford White (1906 White is killed at MSG)

#190 The Curious Case of Typhoid Mary (1906 Mary gets a job in Oyster Bay)

NEW YORK AT THE END OF THE GILDED AGE

#245 The Fall of the Fifth Avenue Mansions (1906 B. Altman’s department store opens on Fifth Avenue)

#69 The Plaza Hotel (1907 Hotel opens)

#74 The Ziegfeld Follies (1907 The first Follies)

#284 Scott Joplin in New York: A Ragtime Mystery (1907 Joplin moves to New York)

#279 A New Year in Old New York: From Times Square to Chinatown (1907 – first Times Square ball drop)

#98 Manhattan Bridge (1909 Bridge opens)

#280 House of Mystery: The Story of the Collyer Brothers (1909 The Collyer family moves to Harlem)

#180 The Chelsea Piers and the Age of the Ocean Liner (1910 – Chelsea Piers constructed)

#205 The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold (1910 – Dorothy Disappears)

#80 Pennsylvania Station (1910 – Penn Station opens)

#42: The Triangle Factory Fire (1911 Disaster occurs in March)

#17 New York Public Library (1911 Main branch opens)

#271 Counter Culture: Diners, Automats and Luncheonettes in New York (1912 — The first automat opens in NYC)

#147 Art Insanity: The Armory Show of 1913 (1913 — Exhibition debuts)

#110 New York City Subway, Part 2: By the Numbers (and Letters) (1913 — The Dual Contracts agreement inspired subway growth)

#158 Hotel Theresa: The Waldorf of Harlem (1913 — Hotel constructed)

#156 The Boy Mayor of New York (1913 – Mitchel elected mayor)

#76 Woolworth Building (1913 — Woolworth Building completed)

#249 Madam C.J. Walker: Harlem’s Hair Care Millionaire (1913 Walker opens her first salon in Harlem)

#39 New York Yankees (1913 Highlanders renamed the Yankees)

#263 Ebbets Field and the Glory Days of the Brooklyn Dodgers (1913 Ebbets Field opens)

#202 The Lower East Side: A Culinary History (1914 – Russ & Daughters opens)

#226 Beauty Bosses of Fifth Avenue (1915 – Rubinstein opens her first shop)

#199 Battle For The Skyline: How High Can It Go (1916 – Zoning Law)

#197 Danger In The Harbor: The Black Tom Explosion (1916 – Explosion Occurs)

NEW YORK IN THE JAZZ AGE

#223 The Algonquin Round Table (1919)

#264 The Landmarks of Coney Island (1920 Wonder Wheel opens)

#144 Mysteries and Magicians of New York (1920 – Joseph Rinn debunks spiritualists at Carnegie Hall)

#137 NYC and the World of Radio (1920 – First radio station)

#18 Ghost Stories of New York City (1920 Showgirl Olive Thomas commits suicide)

#243 New York In Neon: Signs of the City (1920s The first neon signs in NYC)

#265 Absolutely Flawless: A History of Drag in New York (1920s Harlem drag balls draw thousands of spectators)

#125 Sardi’s Restaurant (1921 – Sardi’s opens for business)

#196 Ready to Wear: A History of the Garment District (1920s – Moves from LES to Midtown)

#100 Robert Moses (1922 Robert Moses begins work on New York City parks)

#192 Haunted Landmarks of New York (1923 – John Campbell leases his Apartment in Grand Central)

#260 Journey to Grey Gardens: A Tale of Two Edies (1924 — The Beales move to the Grey Gardens estate)

#153 NYC and the Birth of Television (1925 – First television broadcast from Roosevelt Hotel)

#174 American Kicks: A History of the Rockettes (1925 – Dance troupe founded in St. Louis)

#233 The Roaring ’20s: King of the Jazz Age (1926 Jimmy Walker becomes Mayor of New York

#170 The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino (1926 – Rudolph Valentino dies)

#182 Mae West, “Sex” on Broadway (1926 – The play ‘Sex’ opens)

#204 The Cotton Club: Aristocrat of Harlem (1927 – Duke Ellington debuts)

#234 Queen of the Speakeasies: A Tale of Prohibition New York (1928 Texas Guinan arrested for operating a speakeasy)

#32 Museum of Modern Art (1929 Museum established)

#278: Newark vs. LaGuardia: A Tale of Two Airports (1929 Newark Airport opens)

#235 The Crash of ’29: New York In Crisis (1929 stock market crashes)

#11 The Chrysler Building (1930 Building completed)

#162 George Washington Bridge (1931 – GWB opened)

# #209 The Waldorf-Astoria’s Complicated History (1931 Hotel opens)

#250 The Empire State Building: Story of an Icon (1931 Empire State Building opens)

NEW YORK DURING THE DEPRESSION

#44 Rikers Island (1932 Jail opens)

#27 Radio City Music Hall (1932 Opening night)

#55 The Evolution of Central Park (1934 New York Parks Department created)

#15 The Apollo Theater (1934 Vaudeville house becomes the Apollo)

#53 Glamour and Gore: The Meatpacking District (1934 Elevated railway opens)

#135 The High Line (1934 Elevated railway opens)

#136 High Line Walking Tour (1934 Elevated railway opens)

#56 Randall’s Island (1936 Jesse Owens wins the Olympic trials)

#227 The Hindenburg Over New York (1937 The zeppelin crashes in New Jersey)

#187 Super City: New York and the History of Comic Books (1938 – Action Comics debuts)

#96 The Cloisters and Fort Tryon Park (1938 – Cloisters Museum opens)

# 49 LaGuardia Airport and Early New York Flight (1939 New York Municipal Airport opens)

#288 The World of Tomorrow: The New York World’s Fair of 1939

#72 Rockefeller Center (1939 Opens to the public)

#176 Billie Holiday’s New York (1939 – Billie Holiday sings “Strange Fruit”)

#24 The Copacabana (1940 Club opens)

#247 Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Golden Age of Broadway (1943 Oklahoma! opens on Broadway)

NEW YORK POST-WAR

#13 Coney Island: 20th Century Sideshow (1944 Luna Park damaged in fire)

#154 New York in the Golden Age of Television (1947 – Howdy Doody first broadcast

#124 Idlewild/JFK Airport (1948 — New York International Airport opens)

#246 Tales from a Tenement: Three Families on the Lower East Side (1950s — The Epsteins move to Orchard Street)

#20 United Nations Headquarters (1952 Building Completed)

#85 Shakespeare in the Park (1954 — Festival founded by Joe Papp)

#67 Guggenheim Museum (1959 — Upper East Side museum opens its doors)

#218 Lincoln Center and West Side Story (1959 — Groundbreaking and construction begins)

#77 Freedomland U.S.A.: New York’s Weirdest Theme Park (1960 – Park opens in the Bronx)

#61 Pan Am Building (1960 Construction begins)

RADICAL NEW YORK

#287 Greenwich Village in the 1960s

#200 Jane Jacobs: Saving the Village (1961 – The Death and Life of Great American Cities)

#254 The Destruction of Penn Station (1963 — Penn Station demolished)

#277 The New York Comedy Scene: A Marvelous History (1963 — Budd Friedman opens The Improv)

#119 The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (1964 – Bridge opens)

#33 The World’s Fair of 1964-65 (1964 World’s Fair opens)

#173 Ruins of the World’s Fair: New York State Pavilion (1964 – World’s Fair opens)

#62 Shea Stadium (1964 – Stadium opens)

#292 Sip-In At Julius’: Gay New York in the 1960s (1966 Mattachine Society engages in the ‘sip in’)

#217 Truman Capote’s Black And White Ball (1967 Ball is held at the Plaza Hotel)

#155 Sesame Street to Seinfeld: NYC TV 1969-2013 (1969 – Sesame Street on the air)

#231 The Stonewall Riots (1969 Riots erupt in the early morning hours)

#236 Times Square in the 1970s (1970)

NEW YORK IN THE MODERN ERA

#68 New York City Marathon (1970 The first marathon)

#104 CBGB & OMFUG (1973 Hilly Kristal opens club)

#43 Studio 54 (1977 Disco opens)

#5 Blackout (1977 Blackout occurs)

#214 Bronx Trilogy: The Bronx Was Burning (1977 Game 2 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium)

#282 Taxi Driver (Bowery Boys Movie Club) (1978 Taxi Driver opens in theaters)

#255 The Rescue of Grand Central (1978 The fate of Grand Central heads to the Supreme Court)

#248 Sitting Down with Roz Chast (1978 Chast begins working at the New Yorker)

#123 TRUMP (1978 — Trump develops Grand Hyatt Hotel)

#210 Digital City: New York and the World of Video Games (1978 Space Invaders takes New York by storm)

#111 Subway Graffiti 1970-1989 (1980s – Koch cracks down on subway graffiti)

#151 The Limelight: Church, Nightclub and Mall (1983 Limelight Club opens)

Hurricane Sandy Update (2012)

#175 Bowery Boys 2014 Year In Review (2014)

#229 LIVE IN BROOKLYN! The Bowery Boys: Ten Years of Podcasting (2017)

Pictured at top: That’s Midtown Manhattan! The American Horse Exchange at 1634 Broadway and 50th Street. Somebody did a great annotation of this photograph here

Source: http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2019/06/every-bowery-boys-podcast-chronological-order-subject.html

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