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USPS stamp unveiling ceremony in Queens honors the legacy of civil rights icon John Lewis

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Feb. 29, 2024 By Athena Dawson The United States Postal Service held an unveiling ceremony for a stamp of the late civil rights icon U.S. Rep. John Lewis in Saint Albans on Monday, Feb 27. The ceremony, held at the Robert Ross Family Life Center on Linden Boulevard, was a part of a Black History Month event USPS hosted with Rep. Gregory Meeks and Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado. Hundreds of people including community leaders, Divine 9 sorority members, clergy members and residents packed the center for the unveiling. Lewis, who was born in Alabama in 1940 when the south was…
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Flushing Town Hall welcomes traditional Irish and Quebecois music trio, along with Polka musician in global mash up series

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Feb. 28, 2024 By Rachel Butler Traditional Irish music and music from Quebec is the specialty of trio Grosse Isle, who will join New York city based accordion player Erica Mancini at Flushing Town Hall for a concert on March 2 as part of the venue’s global mashup series where different music disciplines come together for a one of a kind performance. The artists will also be joined by drummers Brian Chase and Michael Winograd, trumpeter Frank London and more at the one-time concert. Mancini is set to play traditional Polka music known as Polka Loca hailing from the genre…
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Students at Hillcrest High School undergo anti-hate program following anti-Semitic incidents

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Feb. 28, 2024 By Czarinna Andres In an effort to combat hate, the students at Hillcrest High School in Jamaica underwent the Simon Wiesenthal Center‘s ‘Combat Digital Hate’ program in February—prompted, in part, by a series of anti-Semitic incidents at the school. This initiative, funded by Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and spearheaded by Council Member…
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Op-Ed: The New York Privacy Act would put the squeeze on my smoothie shop

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Feb. 28, 2024 By Dawn Kelly One day in 2015, my corporate job was eliminated. I’d worked hard for over 30 years, and suddenly I didn’t know where my next paycheck would come from or what I should do with myself. It was a painful time, and I felt really down–but I decided I’d lift…
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Op-Ed: CUNY’s expanding nursing footprint fills big New York need 

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Feb. 28, 2024 By Félix V. Matos Rodríguez One of CUNY’s contributions to the vitality of New York City is our role educating nurses for the city’s health care workforce. Our nursing programs graduate 1,800 nurses a year, about half the new nurses hired by the city’s hospitals, clinics and medical facilities. It’s an impressive number but the growing demand for nurses in our city and state means CUNY needs to do more — and we are. This month, we opened a new $95 million Nursing Education, Research and Practice Center at Lehman College in the Bronx that will enable Lehman’s highly…
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Art show latest partnership between Cord Meyer Development Company and Bayside Historical Society

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Feb. 28, 2024 By Ethan Marshall Cord Meyer Development Company and the Bayside Historical Society have a long history of partnering together, with the current Bayside Historical Society Winter Art Show at the Bay Terrace Shopping Center being the latest example. This year marks the 23rd year for the show. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was held live at the castle at Fort Totten, where the Bayside Historical Society is located. With the pandemic preventing in-person shows, the 2021 show was arranged to be online. Cord Meyer Development had been looking for creative ways to enhance the Bay…
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