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Stop Diabetes Before It Starts! Join Project HEED in East Harlem

Losing weight is the key to stopping diabetes before it starts! Project HEED—Help Educate to Eliminate Diabetes is a free eight-session workshop offered in English and Spanish that showed impressive results when it was introduced last year to overweight East Harlem residents with pre-diabetes. Participants learned simple ways to eat healthier with the foods of their culture, be more active, and read labels on food and drinks. After one year, participants in the Project HEED workshop lost an aver… Continue

Added by Hope Community, Inc. on September 25, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

East Harlem Tutorial Program Staff Member Glenn Wright Killed

Dear Neighbor: Unfortunately, I write you with extremely upsetting news regarding a member of the East Harlem Tutorial Program family. 5pm Saturday evening, former EHTP student and current staff Glenn Wright was stabbed twice in the neck while washing his grandmother’s windows on the Lower East Side, in what appears to have been a tragic case of mistaken identity. With his family, friends, and many of us from EHTP by his side, he passed away yesterday afternoon. A suspect has been apprehended… Continue

Added by Hope Community, Inc. on September 14, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

A multimedia community dedicated to the Puerto Rican Diaspora

US-PuertoRicans.org is a multimedia community dedicated to the Puerto Rican Diaspora - a place for discussion and learning, for stimulating imagination, and promoting solidarity. Today more Boricuas live in the United States than in Puerto Rico. For most of the 20th century, US Puerto Ricans were concentrated in the Northeast and Midwest but today live across the country. Changes in the Diaspora signal an opportune moment to… Continue

Added by carlos s. on August 23, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

A CALL TO ARTISTS AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY

If you are an artist and have work or would like to create work that speaks out against police brutality, October 22 Coalition-New York has a number of propositions for you. The October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Re… Continue

Added by carlos s. on August 16, 2009 at 3:16pm — No Comments

Olga A. Mendez (1926-2009)

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Added by Hope Community, Inc. on July 30, 2009 at 1:00pm — 5 Comments

The Homeless Creates Tent City in New York

Picture The Homeless and Allies Occupied a Vacant Lot and Builds a Tent City in East Harlem..As the foreclosure crisis festers, Bloomberg and the banks fail us. While the homeless population continues to escalate, landlords and the city continue to keep buildings empty. In fact, the total volume of potential apartments in vacant buildings and lots in Manhattan alone exceeds the number of homeless households in shelter and on the street citywide!

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Added by carlos s. on July 25, 2009 at 10:59am — No Comments

Building A Tent City In NYC

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Added by carlos s. on July 17, 2009 at 5:52pm — No Comments

Vandals Sully an Ode to East Harlem

By David Gonzalez The New York Times, June 27, 2009

The walls of East Harlem can speak. Dozens of colorful murals line the narrow streets and wide avenues, celebrating pleneros and poets, rumberos and revolutionaries. Defying gentrification, their dazzling colors brighten sun-starved stretches and declare that the neighborhood’s residents refuse to budge.… Continue

Added by Hope Community, Inc. on June 26, 2009 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments

Social Enterprise: Housing Works' Book Store/Cafe

Hi all: Yesterday while I was listening to my favorite new station 101.9, I learned about a non-profit organization in the city that operates a used books store/cafe in order to support housing and other services for low-income folks, targeting specifically those with HIV/AIDS. Upon visiting there website I think I learned a new coin term that I will likely try to inject at my next job interview. It is "social enterprise." I think this is very catchy and certainly competitive with some of the… Continue

Added by Camille Parker on May 6, 2009 at 5:01pm — 1 Comment

DHCR to Hold NYC Public Forum on Mitchell Lama Regulations

Hi folks: DHCR will be holding a Public Hearing on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) here in NYC. I cut and pasted the article for your review. Just for copy right purposes the source is as follows: NYS DHCR website Notice of Public Hearing New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (HCR) (Re: HCR-15-09-00003-P) Purpose: The New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (… Continue

Added by Camille Parker on May 6, 2009 at 4:11pm — No Comments

DHCR Releases Statewide Housing Study

Hi All: DHCR just released a statewide housing study report. You can download the whole study or a regional report. Go to http://www.dhcr.state.ny.us/ Continue

Added by Camille Parker on May 6, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Article Alert: City Limits.org - A WINTER'S TALE: WHAT THE HOMELESS TALLY MEANS

http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/viewarticle.cfm?article_id=3709 Hi all: I would read this article - I haven't - but I would. If you have a few moments, let me know what you think. Continue

Added by Camille Parker on May 1, 2009 at 2:56pm — No Comments