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Bucket List: The PATRIOT Act, Pulitzer Winners, and Political Change
Bwog
Feb 06Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for this week are below and the ful... »
South Bronx gives up on absent banks
Crain's New York Commercial Real Estate
Jan 29Upending years of popular wisdom, some community groups in the Morrisania section of the South Bronx have given up on urging low-income residents to open bank accounts.“Why should we encourage low-income individuals to open a bank account when we don't... »
Where Art Thou?
Bwog
Jan 26Classes just started, assignments can wait, and midterms merely hover in the distance like a deathly faraway land. Helping you eschew menial amounts of reading that you weren’t going to do anyway is 2012′s first installment of Where Art Thou, a collect... »
Jane Chafin: More on Artists and the Future of Books: An Interview With Kirk Pedersen, Founder of Zero+ Publishing
HuffPost New York
Jan 19The good news is that the future of books, having lost their monopoly as conveyors of information, lies in aesthetics. There will always be a market for interesting, beautiful books -- and artists are, of course, leading the way. »
Union opposition won’t stop school changes, city officials vow
GothamSchools
Jan 18“Everything you ever do, there’s going to be days where it just doesn’t work,” Mayor Bloomberg told a group of high school students today. “There’s going to be days where somebody says something you don’t like or something goes the wrong way.” Bloomber... »
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Applications for 20 MPH Zones Pour in From the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens
Streetsblog New York City
Feb 02The city's first 20 miles per hour slow zone, in the Claremont neighborhood of the Bronx, uses "gateway" treatments to slow drivers entering the zone. Neighborhoods across the city want to be the next to get the new safety treatment. Photo: Noah Kazis ... »
Adding Neighborhood 20 MPH Zones Isn’t a Zero-Sum Game
Streetsblog New York City
Jan 24An exhaustive report published in the British Medical Journal found that traffic injuries declined in London's 20 mph zones and, to a lesser but still significant extent, on the streets immediately adjacent to the zones. Image: British Medical Journal ... »
Jane Chafin: More on Artists and the Future of Books: An Interview With Kirk Pedersen, Founder of Zero+ Publishing
HuffPost New York
Jan 19The good news is that the future of books, having lost their monopoly as conveyors of information, lies in aesthetics. There will always be a market for interesting, beautiful books -- and artists are, of course, leading the way. »
Hazmat Response, 212 Claremont Road, Ridgewood
The Ridgewood Blog
Jan 17Photo credit: Boyd A. LovingHazmat Response, 212 Claremont Road, Ridgewood01/17/2012by Boyd A. Loving 3:05 PMLeak from truck spraying foam insulation into home under renovation spilled into two (2) storm drains on Claremont Road in Ridgewood. Materia... »
The Beautiful Bronx
brad's blog
Jan 09My mom and dad have a wonderful gift coming to them this week. Yesterday evening I read The Beautiful Bronx 1920-1950 and The Bronx: It Was Only Yesterday, 1935-1965. Well – I mostly looked at the pictures and read the descriptions of the pictures, as ... »
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