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Stop and swap your reusable and wearable items at the Stop 'N’ Swap event at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center located in the Lower East Side on March 21st from 11 am to 3 pm. It’s the perfect opportunity to get rid of unwanted items, find free items, and prevent unnecessary waste.
Borough President Stringer and the Executive Director of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy and Bedford-Stuyvesant food justice advocate Mark Winston Griffith discuss the crisis of “food deserts” – local communities where it’s hard to get fresh, healthy food – and what’s being done to improve the way New Yorkers eat. More on the Borough President’s FoodNYC: a Blueprint for a Sustainable Food System report here.
Listen to the entire WNYC radio interview here:
Photo Credit - Joan Vollero
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer joined, Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn several distinguished actors, and many supporters at a groundbreaking ceremony for the theater’s “Going Public Campaign”, which marked the launch of renovations and expansions to the over 150 year old building in which the theater is housed.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer joined City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Aging Committee Chair Jessica Lappin, and State and Federal Legislation Committee Chair Helen Diane Foster today to announce the launch of the Save Our Centers campaign to protect New York City’s senior centers.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, in partnership with Ariva Inc, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, State Senator Daniel L. Squadron, Assemblymember Brian P. Kavanagh, Council member Margaret Chin, and Councilmember Rosie Mendez, and other community organizations, will be hosting free tax preparation services for low income residents of Lower Manhattan at the Henry Street Settlement on March 6th. Federal and NY State Tax Returns as well as services in English, Chinese, and Spanish will be provided by IRS certified volunteers.
Borough President Scott Stringer joined PS 41 principal Kelly Shannon, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Jonathan Rose of Jonathan Rose Companies, and a crowd of excited parents and students at the launch of the schools’ new “Greenroof Environmental Literacy Lab (GELL),” the first of its kind.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer announced the fellows selected for the third year of the Civic Leaders of Tomorrow Public Policy and Advocacy Program today. The five students, Muzna Ansari, Mariely Sanchez, Marie Therese Toure, Stella Ma, and Giovanna Romero Gil, were selected from a pool of educated and civic-minded young people from within the five boroughs.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer joined Mayor Bloomberg, City Comptroller John Liu, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, other elected officials and Kao Jen-chuan, the director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, at the installation ceremony for Jack Eng, the new president of the New York Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) today.
Baruch College’s President Stan Altman, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Dean of the School of Public Affairs David Birdsell, , Director of the Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management Jack A. Krauskopf
(Photo Credit - Eric Lugo)
Marvin Scott of “PIX11 News Closeup” interviewed Borough President Stringer today, and the topics included a discussion about the future of St. Vincent’s Hospital.
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