The Big Apple Turns Green

Green

New York City has taken on the ambitious goal of becoming the greenest city in America by 2030. As crowded as the City is, it seems almost impossible to turn a land of mostly concrete, steel, and smog into a green oasis. Many would think traffic and power plants are a major source of pollution for the region but surprisingly they are not. The City has over one million buildings, which currently produce 80 percent of the region’s carbon footprint due to energy use. The abundance of powerful, luxury corporate skyscrapers and older residential buildings populated throughout the city require vast amounts of power to operate and sustain. Green building and renovating on a larger scale can dramatically improve efficiency and reduce costs by an estimated three-quarters of a billion dollars a year.

The MJ Tribute Outside Apollo Continues

In Memory
From OneMicNite

A live video of outside the Apollo Theater in Harlem, NY, on 125th St. on Mon. 6.29.09 at noon. People paying homage to the King of Pop, all different ways. Vendors with Michael memorablilia.

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Soccer In The U.S. Is Still Waiting For Its Moment In Harlem

Sports

Another loss on a major stage: Brazil 3, United States 2.

This is the epitaph in the wake of a heartbreaking loss in Sunday’s Confederations Cup championship game.

Too harsh? Perhaps, considering the United States was facing a great Brazilian team. On the other hand, there must come a point in the discussion of soccer in the United States when the training wheels must be removed. Either this is youth soccer, in which the goal is to let everyone play, or this is the big time, in which second or third place is no longer acceptable.

The MJ Tribute Outside Apollo Continues

In Memory

From OneMicNite

A live video of outside the Apollo Theater in Harlem, NY, on 125th St. on Mon. 6.29.09 at noon. People paying homage to the King of Pop, all different ways. Vendors with Michael memorablilia.

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On The Horizon: In Harlem

Art

Memory Lane

July 16-Oct. 25

The forty-four-year-old British painter Hurvin Anderson, whose scenes of Afro-Caribbean immigrants in the fifties and sixties suggest a cross between Peter Doig and David Hockney, will exhibit his work at the Studio Museum in Harlem. (212.864.4500.)

NY Guard Brigade Gets New Chief In Harlem

News

The New York Guard brigade with headquarters in Harlem has a new commander.

Retired New York City Fire Lt. and New York Army National Guard officer George DeSimone assumed command Sunday of the New York Guard’s 88th Brigade.

The New York Guard is a volunteer, mostly unpaid force that helps the National Guard with homeland security and disaster response.

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New, Michael Jackson Filipino Prison Dance Tribute

In Memory
Michael Jackson mania continued over the weekend with tributes in Harlem and Hollywood. Over in the Philippines, the CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center showed their appreciation for Michael Jackson’s life the best way they know how: with another choreographed routine set to classic Michael.

This one was apparently set up [...]

Mayor, Gov Push Renewal Of Mayoral School Governance

Education

Demonstrators opposed to mayoral control of city schools rallied in Harlem yesterday, just a few feet from supporters of the law. The dueling protests took place outside a school, where the mayor, the governor, and other officials urged the State Senate to get its act together and renew mayoral control before it expires tomorrow.

But one person who is hoping the law will expire, is Josh Karan. He’s a member of the District six Community Education Council. Karan says the rush to renew the law does not allow for enough discussion about what aspects of the law work.

KARAN: So the expiration of the present law perhaps would allow that discussion to take place after the legislature finally decides how it will organize itself.

REPORTER: But Mayor Bloomberg says even a brief lapse would cause chaos and invite a flood of litigation.

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‘…Racist Assholes Killed Him’: Jackson’s Death Considered In Harlem

Harlem, especially the Apollo, is the media’s unofficial spot to get Black America’s reaction to Michael Jackson’s death. Matt Harvey dropped by last Friday and listened in on a conversation that was full of adoration and, yes, angry conjecture.

Hundreds of people – mostly black New Yorkers – are gathered outside of the Apollo Theater. It’s Friday afternoon and they’re paying tribute to Michael Jackson, the King of Pop. There are moonwalking teens and grown men singing to the Jackson 5′s bubblegum soul-ballad, “I’ll Be There.” People wave freshly minted mementos stamped with different portraits of Michael Jackson’s face: T-shirts, flyers for KISS FM and the day’s tabloids. And the triumphant scene is beamed across the globe by scores of TV cameras.

New, Michael Jackson Filipino Prison Dance Tribute

In Memory

Michael Jackson mania continued over the weekend with tributes in Harlem and Hollywood. Over in the Philippines, the CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center showed their appreciation for Michael Jackson’s life the best way they know how: with another choreographed routine set to classic Michael.

The NAACP: Celebrating 100 Years

Event

Mark your calendar for the NAACP Centennial Author Pavilion Celebration on July 13-15, 2009.
100 YEARS, 100 AUTHORS

Pols Keep Squabbling As Clock Ticks

The mayor, the governor, two borough presidents and union leaders all warned yesterday that “chaos” is coming to the public schools if the deadlocked state Senate doesn’t extend mayoral control of city schools.

Unless paralyzed lawmakers act by tomorrow night, power over schools will shift from the city Education Department to a defunct Board of Education.

“As of July 1st, It will spiral New York’s public school system and education process into chaos,” Gov. Paterson said.