Putting the Negro Leagues in Play

clipped from www.nytimes.com Putting the Negro Leagues in Play By STUART MILLER The Strat-O-Matic Game Company, an old warhorse in an age of computer-driven fantasy leagues and high-tech video games, usually relies on detailed statistics to create ratings and tendencies for hitters and pitchers. But in creating a new 103-card Negro leagues set for its board game, Strat-O-Matic found that the data was not easy to come by. Coverage of Negro leagues games was spotty, especially because many black newspapers were weeklies. Although stories abound about Josh Gibson’s prowess or Satchel Paige’s wizardry, much of what has been handed down borders on folklore. Yet Hal Richman, who founded Strat-O-Matic in 1961, was determined. Enlarge This Image Strat-O-Matic After years of research and statistical interpretation, Strat-O-Matic has a new 103-card Negro leagues set.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/sports/baseball/08strato.html

George Wein & Newport All-Stars at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, 11/17-22

clipped from www.allaboutjazz.com George Wein & Newport All-Stars at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, 11/17-22 SOURCE: Carolyn McClair Public Relations GEORGE WEIN & THE NEWPORT ALL-STARS PERFORM AT DIZZY’S CLUB COCA-COLA NOVEMBER 17 – 22, 7:30 PM & 9:30 PM NEW YORK, NY – George Wein is a legend off the stage, but he’s made quite a name for himself on the stage as well. Catch a rare performance by the jazz impresario on Tuesday, November 17 – Sunday, November 22, at 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm when George Wein brings his Newport All-Stars to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th & Broadway. Joining Wein at Dizzy’s are Howard Alden (guitar), Winard Harper (drums), Jay Leonhart (bass), Randy Sandke (trumpet), Lew Tabackin (tenor saxophone) and some very special guests.

Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment launches our original Survival Guide

November 06, 2009

NY: Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment launches our original Survival Guide

Allied Sister and Brothers!!

I really hope you can come out and support! And, remember – if you can’t attend the event, you can still help us reach our goal of raising $5,000 to distribute this unique Survival Guide!

Imagine learning that someone you love has just been sentenced to prison – where do you turn? What should you expect? How do you keep yourself and your family together?

Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment launches our original Survival Guide, on November 14, 2009 – a unique reference created BY and FOR people with incarcerated loved ones. And now YOU have an OPPORTUNITY to make sure that information gets into the hands of those who need it most! Don’t miss this exciting event!

FREE! IS RAISING $5,000 TO DISTRIBUTE OUR “SURVIVAL GUIDE” FOR FAMILIES AND WE NEED YOUR HELP! IF 100 PEOPLE DONATE JUST $50 EACH WE WILL REACH OUR GOAL QUICKLY! ALL DONATIONS OF $25 OR MORE WILL RECEIVE ONE TICKET TO OUR SURVIVAL GUIDE LAUNCH PARTY AND YOUR OWN COPY OF OUR SURVIVAL GUIDE! (You can request that your copy be sent to a family member of your choice, or to a low-income member of FREE!)

The Survival Guide Launch Party will be held November 14th, 2009, from 4-7pm, at La Pregunta Arts Cafe, 1528 Amsterdam Avenue, Harlem, NY (btw 135th/136th Streets).

Featuring live entertainment, a Prison Art Auction by Inside Out Art, Inc., this event is also an opportunity to announce leadership transitions as our Founder and Acting Director, Kym Clark, steps aside, and we welcome Marion Rodriguez back into the Organizer position, and other members step forward to carry various torches of our work! Bid farewell to Kym, Happy Birthday to Cheri, Kym and Denise, and make your very first donation to Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment – FREE!

Go to: www.freefamilies.us and click on the CHIPIN widget to donate, or to http://survivalguide.chipin.com/free-survival-guide-launch-party. BE SURE TO INDICATE THE NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE LAUNCH PARTY TICKET AND GUIDE when you donate!

DON’T WANT TO DONATE ONLINE? Make checks payable to our Fiscal Sponsor, “Brecht Forum”, and write “FREE Families Rally” in the memo section.

Mail to: Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment
c/o Fortune Society
Long Island City, NY 11101

Please drop us an email at prisonfamz@gmail.com or leave a phone message so we can look out for your donation. 718-706-0195.

The Survival Guide was made possible in part by the North Star Fund, and the New York Foundation, and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

City and state clash over plan for Deegan exits

City and state clash over plan for Deegan exits

Nov. 9 hearing will give public a chance to weigh in

Posted on 05. Nov, 2009 by Bernard Stein in Government, Transportation

Efforts to relieve congestion on the Major Deegan Expressway have touched off a turf war between state traffic engineers and the city’s planners over the future of the Harlem River waterfront in Mott Haven.

City planners fear that the state’s redesign of the Deegan will torpedo their ambitious plan to build housing, parks, office buildings and a hotel on the waterfront, completed last summer when the City Council and the Mayor signed off on rezoning the Lower Grand Concourse.

A spokesman for the Department of City Planning warned Community Board 1 that the state Department of Transportation’s plan to lengthen exit ramps will wall off the shoreline, discouraging waterfront development.

Residents will have the opportunity to weigh in at a public hearing scheduled for Nov. 9 at Hostos Community College.

The hearing, will be held from 4 to 9 p.m. in the Savoy Multi-Purpose Room, 120 E. 149th St. at Walton Avenue, second floor.

There will be two 20-minute presentations of information, one at 4:30 p.m. and the other at 7 p.m. Public comments and statements will be taken throughout the hearing, and project staff will be available for informal discussions.

A version of this article appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of the Mott Haven Herald.

INDIAN ROAD EVENTS

INDIAN ROAD EVENTS     SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8th 12 – 2PM, Will Teez Bike Club The Inwood Cycling Club meets every Sunday outside of the Indian Road Café.  Show up any time after 11am.  We’ll head out a bit after noon, leaving plenty of time to get properly caffeinated, hydrated and schmooze. Meet your neighbors, Rep Your Hood and get your ride on. Everybody’s welcome, come one come all.   1 – 3PM, Medleys and Mimosa Brunch with Stephen Kennedy Murphy This week we feature songs of The Knack including “My Sharona” and “Oh Tara.” (Just kidding-not sure what the featured songs are this week)   3:30 – 5:00PM, We host a closing reception for “subway artist” Enrico Miguel Thomas (on the mezzanine)   MONDAY thru FRIDAY 4 – 6PM, Happy Hour at the bar   MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9th 7PM, Indian Road Knitting Circle Come on in, have a drink, and knit yourself that piano tie that you’ve always wanted.   WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11th 8 – 10PM, Trivia Night with Dr. Jordan & The Evil Mr. Philoptikos   Come on out and join up with your friends and neighbors for a night of raucous fun and great prizes, including tickets to Broadway and sporting events.   THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12th 8:45 – 10:15PM, LIVE MUSIC – Orville Davis “Take a taste of Rock and Roll, mix it with a little Rhythm and Blues, top it off with a little Country and Western, stir it up and you’ve got Honky Tonk With Attitude. This is the music Orville Davis brings to the public.”

Bellevue Natural-Birth Center, Haven for Poor Women, Closes

clipped from www.nytimes.com Bellevue Natural-Birth Center, Haven for Poor Women, Closes By A. G. SULZBERGER and NICK PINTO The Bellevue Birth Center was celebrated as a landmark achievement for the natural-birth movement in New York City when it opened in 1998. The luxurious natural-birth center, designed to feel more like a home than a hospital, was the only one of its kind dedicated not to Manhattan’s trend-conscious set, but to poor, mostly immigrant women on Medicaid. But last month, as Carolina Palmgren prepared to give birth to her first child there, she learned from a midwife that the center at Bellevue, a city hospital, had been quietly closed. “The upsetting thing is that there was no notice,” said Ms. Palmgren, 31. The closing has provoked complaints about a lack of public notice that it was being considered, as well as about the declining number of natural-birth options in the city.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/nyregion/07birth.html

Charles Barron May Run For Council Speaker

clipped from gothamist.com Charles Barron May Run For Council Speaker According to Runnin’ Scared, City Councilman Charles Barron is considering challenging Christine Quinn to be Speaker, saying, “I would be an excellent speaker…We need someone to be a check on the Mayor, not a deputy mayor.” He noted that the Speaker and Council chairs for the finance and land committees are white, so if a non-white Council member doesn’t throw her or his hat into the ring against Quinn, he will. He added, “You only need 26 votes.

Art D’Lugoff, Village Gate Impresario, Dies at 85

clipped from www.nytimes.com Art D’Lugoff, Village Gate Impresario, Dies at 85 By MARGALIT FOX Art D’Lugoff, who was widely regarded as the dean of New York nightclub impresarios and whose storied spot, the Village Gate, was for more than 30 years home to performers as celebrated, and diverse, as Duke Ellington, Allen Ginsberg and John Belushi, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 85 and lived in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Enlarge This Image Fred Conrad/The New York Times Art D’Lugoff, who ran the Village Gate nightclub, in 1993. The cause has not been determined, said Mr. D’Lugoff’s brother, Burt, a medical doctor and frequent silent partner in his joyously noisy endeavors. Mr. D’Lugoff died at the Allen Hospital of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where he had been taken on Wednesday after experiencing shortness of breath. Opened in 1958, the Village Gate was on the corner of Bleecker and Thompson Streets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/arts/06dlugoff.html

UPI.com: Judge nixes plea deal in cat killing

 

Judge nixes plea deal in cat killing

 

 

A technicality forced a judge to reject a plea agreement offered to a 17-year-old girl charged with burning a cat in an oven, New York prosecutors said.

 

 

Cheyenne Cherry had pleaded guilty and accepted a deal for one year in prison for animal cruelty in the May 6 fatal burning of her former roommate’s cat, Tiger Lily, The New York Post reported Tuesday.

 

 

Bronx County Supreme Court Judge Margaret Clancy Monday withdrew the agreement after determining it was illegal to reduce a violent felony charge to a non-violent charge, The Post reported.

 

 

Prosecutors offered a new agreement in which Cherry could plead guilty to animal cruelty in exchange for two years in prison.

 

 

Cherry’s lawyer, Danielle Follette, accused prosecutors of succumbing to pressure from animal rights activists who were following the proceedings.

 

 

Cherry next is to appear in court Dec. 2.

 

 

via UPI.com: Judge nixes plea deal in cat killing.

 

via UPI.com: Judge nixes plea deal in cat killing.

A Celebration, Washington Heights Style

clipped from bats.blogs.nytimes.com A Celebration, Washington Heights Style By John Branch As Champagne celebrations go, the best one after the Yankees won the World Series might have been the one on the sidewalk of 191st Street in Washington Heights. Washington Heights is a huge enclave of baseball-crazy Dominican immigrants near the northern tip of Manhattan — and just about two miles from Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. It is hard to imagine any New York neighborhood as passionate about baseball in general, and about the Yankees in particular. Dozens of people had converged on the O.N.F. — the nickname residents on the block conferred for the “One-Nine-First” — to watch Game 6 on a small flat-screen television set up on a broken-down stand. With the Yankees holding a lead over the Phillies throughout the brisk evening, the numbers grew. Money was pooled together. A couple in the group, mostly teenage and 20-something men, left to buy toilet paper and Champagne.