Bill de Blasio Archives - Page 50 of 51

Council Approves Security Guards for Private Schools From Harlem to Hollis

Citizens Union reports that the City Council on Monday passed a controversial bill to provide public funding to private and religious schools to pay for security guards. Continue reading

NYC Plans $3 Billion Homelessness From Harlem To Hollis

New York City, in what will mark the single biggest investment of the de Blasio administration to fight homelessness, plans to create 15,000 additional units of housing that will be paired with social-service support, an initiative estimated to cost about $3 billion.Continue reading

Rest In Peace Harlem Tech Man Hank Williams

By Danny Tisdale Hank Williams, 50, was hospitalized for over a week while battling pneumonia and myocarditis, which can be caused by a viral infection of the heart.Continue reading

New York City And Paris Launch Business Exchange

The Harlem and France relationship is deep, from the Harlem Hellfighters fighting for France in WWII, Pastry Chef Moha Orchid at Jolie Patisserie, to Chef Alain Eoche, of Chéri at the French Bistro on Lenox Avenue and in 1815, Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother, moving in to the Claremont Inn in West Harlem.Continue reading

Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church Cut From $3.1M

Abyssinian Development Corp., the sprawling housing and social service arm of Harlem’s most influential black church, was cut off from $3.1 million in city contracts two weeks ago after it failed to submit three years of overdue tax filings and independent audits to the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services, the Daily News has learned.Continue reading

New HSA President Eric Pryor On Harlem World Radio

Get some tea, and turn on the radio for a conversation with Eric Pryor. Eric Pryor has been appointed as the new president of the Harlem School for the Arts (HSA) in Harlem.Continue reading

Mayor de Blasio And Chancellor Fariña Announce Improved Exams

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña today announced that students have continued to improve in the third year of the Common Core-aligned State English and math exams in school from Harlem to Hollis, Queens.Continue reading

Op-Ed: The Bilingual Advantage

By Carmen Fariña NYC Schools Chancellor

I grew up speaking Spanish with my parents, who fled their native Spain during its Civil War and settled in Brooklyn. I didn’t know any English when I started kindergarten and the teacher marked me absent for six weeks because I didn’t understand her mangled pronunciation of my last name. Continue reading

Harlem School of Arts Names Eric Pryor New President

The Harlem School of Arts announced Thursday that Eric Pryor has been appointed as president of the school.Continue reading

Seitu’s World: At The Bronx Democratic Committee Gala 2015

By Seitu Oronde Sietu was at the annual fundraising dinner on Thursday, July 16, 2015 with the Bronx Democratic Committee Gala 2015 at the Marina Del Rey in the Bronx, New York. Continue reading

Uber Gets ‘Community Leaders’ Support In Harlem

For months, the clash has seemed inevitable: the professed disrupters of municipal transportation policy and the chief executive of the country’s largest city government, tussling over who should rule the roads of New York City.Continue reading

The Studio Museum To Construct New Building In Harlem

The Studio Museum in Harlem today announced that it will construct a new home on Manhattan’s West 125th Street, replacing its current facility with a structure designed expressly for its program by architect David Adjaye.Continue reading

Salters Scene: Police Show Solidarity With Fallen Officers

[caption id="attachment_46458" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Atmosphere[/caption] By Udo Salters The funeral for New York City Police Officer Ramos was held on Saturday December 20^th at the Christ Tabernacle on Myrtle Avenue. Ramos and his Partner Police Officer Wenjian Liu were shot in their police car in Brooklyn.Continue reading

HW Pick: New York City’s Slave Market

On a recent NYPL blog post it stated that on June 27, a plaque marking the site of New York City's main 18th-century slave market was unveiled in Lower Manhattan by Mayor Bill de Blasio.Continue reading

Rents One-year Leases Are Frozen From Harlem To Hollis

New York City's Rent Guidelines Board took an unprecedented step Monday, voting for the first time to freeze rents on one-year leases for tenants in rent-stabilized apartments.Continue reading