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Ya boy Jay or shall we say Shawn Carter the co-owner of the soon to be Brooklyn Nets sat down to breakfast with the Mayor of New York City Mike Bloomberg. Seems like it was the billionaire boys club for real, the Nets majority owner, a Russian Billionaire, Mikhail Prokhorov also attended the dinner with […]

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I am stunned by Governor Paterson’s recent proposal to cut the New York State Council on the Arts’ budget by 40%. It seems like an abandonment of his values and his lifelong stance about the importance of the arts in community, economic, and human development. I understand what a difficult position the Governor is in […]

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Erinn Phelan, a young Ivy-league graduate moves to NY to live her dreams, and takes a job working for Mayor Mike Bloomberg as a staffer.  On Monday afternoon, in New York City, her dreams quickly faded, as she was crossing the street with her friend, her ex-roommate at Brown University, Alma Guerrero, 23, and a […]

Erinn Phelan, a young Ivy-league graduate moves to NY to live her dreams, and takes a job working for Mayor Mike Bloomberg as a staffer.  On Monday afternoon, in New York City, her dreams quickly faded, as she was crossing the street with her friend, her ex-roommate at Brown University, Alma Guerrero, 23, and a […]

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Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has narrowly won a third term as New York mayor in a race that was startlingly close. The richest man in New York fended off Democrat William Thompson Jr. Republican Bob McDonnell easily won the Virginia governor’s race Tuesday as independent voters who helped deliver the state to President Barack Obama handed […]

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Every day in our neighborhoods, you and I see talented young people with so much promise, hanging out on street corners, wasting their time, with little to do and nowhere to go.  The Community Service Society (CSS) estimates that there are as many as 200,000 New Yorkers between the ages of 16 and 24 who […]

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As I travel throughout this great city, I see the impact of our urban young professionals everywhere I look.  This is the next generation of leaders in our city.  Many of them are entrepreneurs with a dream – something Russell and I can appreciate.  We know how tough it is to open a small business, […]

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Dear My Friend, Mayor Bloomberg,     In the summertime, as a child, I used to play in the streets of Hollis, Queens.  As we played, there were always kids hanging out on the corner.  Most of those kids that stood on that street corner of Hollis and 205th either died or went to jail.  So, […]