HOW and WHY to Read BAR CODES… Many more toys, food, and pet products now come from China, which is experiencing an economic expansion too great for their regulatory and safety system to keep apace. This has led to some tragic and well-publicized results. In addition, labor organizing is illegal in the People’s Republic of [...]
Today I am in DC to participate in a reception for the induction of the HBO Black List still photos into the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) – which is really special because of all the amazing Black Americans who participated in the 3-part series (I was in Black List vol 2); and it’s even more [...]
I am getting an award from the “Down State” Young Dems/Speaking Mon PM. http://tiny.cc/g3mts Funny review from Village Voice: http://tiny.cc/66bvg Fellow Honorees: John Liu, NYC Comptroller; Matt Titone, Staten Is. #LGBT Assemblyman. Venue: http://tammanyhallny.com/ #LES I am very pleased that A) these are “young” Democrats and hopefully not set in their “liberal” ways; and B) that John Liu, [...]
Monday AM: US Senator Kristin Gillibrand’s 1st Annual: Women’s Economic Empowerment Summit Gillibrand’s half-day summit begins at 8:30 am with a keynote discussion between Senior Advisor to President Obama, Valerie Jarrett, and WABC News Anchor, Diana Williams. TODAY Show Co-Host Savannah Guthrie will moderate a 9:30 am panel with Senator Gillibrand, Editor in Chief, Semi-Homemade [...]
Tomorrow night, I will be speaking at a fund-raiser for Brooklyn Speaks, and it has me thinking about real-estate development – as I begin to enter the field as a practitioner myself. When the Court of Appeals, approved “eminent domain” to seize private property in the Atlantic Yards footprint in 2009 it made an increasingly [...]
http://www.healthyschoolfood.org/events.htm Tomorrow night I will be giving some brief remarks at the Coalition for Healthy School Food – see website above for location/time/tickets The evening is hosted by Howard Stern’s long time Co-Pilot: Robin Quivers Special Guests: Jayni Chase, Joel Fuhrman, MD, and Russell Simmons…and me 20 of NY’s healthiest caterers and restaurants will be [...]
Hi – below is an opportunity to learn about a field that is dear to me. As recently as 2007, it was very difficult to get our City to take green-infrastructure seriously, despite our data and anecdotal evidence that it helped people, reduced storm-water management costs, mitigated Urban Heat Island effect, and produced accessible jobs [...]
This 2minute piece aired all over, but maybe not here in the US. Work that i started a decade ago on the South Bronx Greenway is still progressing. When a $1,25M Federal Dept of Transportation Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) planning grant i applied for back in 2000 won approval, our work began. We [...]
Really pleased with how this project turned out. We’ve seen lots of new faces in the neighborhood (tourists!) who are heading back to where they are from with a new and different idea of what the South Bronx is and who we are because of the positive attention JR has helped focus in on us. [...]
After hearing JR’s TED Prize presentation in Long Beach this past March, I was moved to invite him to my hometown from the audience! To my happy surprise, he and his amazing team were very pleased to join me in helping America see that problems of poverty and inequality exist here in our cities and [...]
