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Attica Burning, Athens in Danger
View of a high point in Athens. Smoke from the wildfires nearby blankets the city. By Anastasia Economides As I walked out to the balcony of an Athens home, the smell of something burning caught my...
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FivePointz: World Renowned Graffiti Landmark, Hidden in Plain Sight
7 train commuters passing by the graffiti covered walls of 5 Pointz, may not realize just what they’re looking at. In the world of urban art, the walls of this industrial building are...
View ArticleLive-Blog: Dismantling the Cradle to Prison Pipeline
The Children’s Defense Fund’s New York chapter is holding a one-day summit in Central Brooklyn called “Connecting the Neighborhood Dots: Promoting Solutions to Dismantle the Pipeline to Prison.” Hosted...
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Liveblog: Sharpton protests preferential treatment for Madoff
12:25 pm Five minutes from now, the Rev. Al Sharpton is scheduled to lead a rally outside 133 64th St. in Manhattan, at the corner of Lexington Ave., the building where accused securities fraudster...
View ArticleOne semester later, and we still have no recycling program.
At the beginning of the semester, I wrote a blog post about the lack of a recycling program in our Journalism School. I was dismayed by the lack of one, but optimistic that a program would eventually...
View ArticleHidden Soup Kitchen in Hollis, Queens
New Greater Bethel Ministries has a Soup Kitchen/Food Pantry in Hollis. It is a storefront with a sign in the window that is hard to see from far away, whether driving or walking along Hollis Avenue...
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Chanukah Musings
FLUSHING, NY: With an evening job awaiting me, I did not have the luxury of spending the first night of Chanukah at a party, or with my wife. She spent it with her father and his friends. I chose to...
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It's Madonna, darling.
The crowd doing the wave at Madonna’s concert at MSG on October 6, 2008 – taken with an iPhone. I neglected to mention that I saw Madonna in concert this past fall, at Madison Square Garden. A...
View Article[untitled] Walk Project
On a recent trip down Wall Street, I came upon a fabulous group called [untitled] Walk Project. This is why I love New York – unexpected discoveries of different thinking. Click here to view the...
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