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June 12th, 2009

7th Precinct Report – Captain Nancy Barry Takes Command

Commanding Officer, Captain Nancy Barry, handing out awards to Police Officer Lugo and Police Officer Ducreton Wednesday night.

Newly arrived Commanding Officer, Captain Nancy Barry, was introduced on Wednesday night at the 7th Precinct Community Council Meeting. It's a homecoming of sorts. She got her start as a police officer in 1981, in the 7th. [...]

June 12th, 2009

Weekend Arts & Activities

Highlights of this weekend's avant-garde Vision Festival: Tonight's tribute to Albert
Ayler starring trumpeter Roy Campbell; a quartet led by the drummer Milford Graves tomorrow night; Spontaneous River with violinist
Jason Kao Hwang on Monday. See the complete schedule here.

Drummer Milford Graves

The Met's Summer Recital Series takes place tonight in East River Park at 7. [...]

June 12th, 2009

Students Joined By City Council Members Rally To Save After School Funding

As we reported earlier, Mayor Bloomberg has decided to cut 100% of the city’s after-school youth programs supported by OST2. These cuts will affect 88 programs and almost 11,000 students city-wide, leaving many disenfranchised youth without a safe place to go after school. We’ve been following the efforts of The Educational Alliance to fight the [...]

June 12th, 2009

Friday News Notes

As Albany turns. The governor pretty much summed up the week: “The dysfunction and chaos in the Senate has wasted an entire week of the people’s business.”

The City Council wants to require NYPD traffic cops to snap a photo every time they write a ticket.

The Daily News reports more than 2600 employees of the [...]