5 Reasons It’s Time For “It’s Showtime” To End On The NYC Subway
Everyone has their own special flower inside them. The creativity of dance is a wonderful way for one to…
July 29, 2013-
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Yoga and Dining “Take Root” In Carroll Gardens
Last fall, Anna Hieronimus and Elise Kornack were all set to open their new restaurant/yoga studio, on a quiet,…
July 9, 2013 -
The Texas Archives War
The statue in the photo above is of Angelina Eberly. I’d never heard of her until I read Gail Collins’s column Wendy and the Boys in Wednesday’s New York Times. The column focuses on Texas State Senator Wendy Davis’s filibuster that succee…
June 29, 2013
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SUNY To LICH – ‘Drop Dead’
Update: The Times reports that Judge Johnny Lee Baynes, who earlier issued a temporary restraining order against SUNY’s attempt to close LICH, today, in response to complaints that SUNY was denying LICH essential medical staff, ordered that SUNY “should maintain staffing on par with what it was before SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which operates it, […]
June 19, 2013
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There Goes The Neighborhood: A J. Crew Grows In Brooklyn
I have never been a pioneer. By that, I mean I’ve never been the type to move somewhere “up and coming”. I’d gladly forego a remodeled kitchen to live in a pristine neighborhood. I’m not the girl in the loft on the wrong side of the tracks. And though I see the promise and fiscal ease of living somewhere on the verge, the thought of said lifestyle makes me on edge.
June 7, 2013
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SUNY Sustainability Plan: Sell or Close LICH
SUNY has released its Sustainability Plan, which focuses on preserving its teaching function at University Hospital of Brooklyn while seeking to share or transfer health care responsibilities with or to other Brooklyn hospitals and clinics and to home health care. According to The Wall Street Journal.
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May 30, 2013
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The Daily Show Ponders Dov Hikind Poor Purim Costume Choice of Blackface
The New York Observer covers the reaction of the Daily Show to NYS Assemblymember Dov Hickind’s “black basketball player”…
February 27, 2013 -
Michael Simmons & Slewfoot, "Instant Forget" (NSFL).
Michael Simmons has been busy lately. A few days ago he sent me a link to an article claiming Elvis was Jewish. Now he provides a video (best viewed in full screen mode) by Thelma Blitz (aka clairedelune49) “made…without my knowledge or consent” (th…
February 27, 2013
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Court Puts Brakes On LICH Closure
According to this NY1 story, a court has issued a temporary restraining order that blocks SUNY Downstate from implementing its just issued plan to close Long Island College Hospital. The judge who issued the order has scheduled a further hearing for March 7. Petitioners in this case are unions representing nurses and hospital workers; however, […]
February 21, 2013
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Denis Hamill on LICH: SUNY “is going to kill people.”
In a Daily News piece, “Long Island College Hospital merged to death”, Denis Hamill retells an ambulance driver’s account, told to Hamill at Thursday evening’s community forum, about picking up a man in cardiac arrest on Hamilton Avenue, administering first aid, taking an EKG that was forwarded to LICH electronically, and getting the patient to […]
February 17, 2013
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