Showing posts with label new years day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new years day. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Sunday, January 3, 2021
The Blaz and The Brad flaunt pandemic protocols by partaking in events banished to their constituents
This is #deBlastopia
— JQ LLC: Good Troublemaker/Impunity City (@jqllc) January 2, 2021
This is also the ultimate elitist statement and blatant display by a man and woman who treat the city like they own it. https://t.co/fG7QGzen9i
The original polar bears cancelled the plunge this year.We’re ready for you, 2021! pic.twitter.com/PfzkZmV9Rm
— Brad Lander (@bradlander) January 1, 2021
Monday, January 1, 2018
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Watch privileged, mostly white, drunk morons act stupid and get arrested
"Two hours after 2015 became official in New York City, a dance party popped up on the Lower East Side. A bicycle rigged with a mobile sound system provided beats while two dozen or so revelers boogied and partied on Ludlow Street, literally, as the middle of the street was treated like a dance floor."
Enjoy the stupidity.
"don't take pictures, that's how people get arrested."
A woman was arrested for assaulting a police officer. She lives in Queens, but is originally from Vermont. Naturally, she was part of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Friday, January 2, 2015
Unattended soup may have killed 3 at Lefrak City
A traditional Haitian holiday soup left unattended on a stove likely sparked a deadly fire that killed a couple and their relative, fire officials said Thursday.
Louise Jean-Charles, 59, her husband, Napoleon Michel, 69, and 37-year-old Nadia Donnay were unconscious inside the apartment when firefighters arrived minutes before midnight.
They were pronounced dead at hospitals.
Jean-Charles’s son, Sergeory Jean-Charles, 36, told the Daily News that the dish was called Soup Joumou, a spicy pumpkin soup they make every year.
It’s served on Jan. 1—the anniversary of Haiti’s liberation from France.
“It’s a New Year’s tradition,” the distraught son told the newspaper.
And then this happened:
"This woman was upset NYPD would not allow her to enter the burning building with her infant and proceeded to assault the officer."
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
The history of One Times Square
From the New Yorker:
The home of the New Year’s Eve ball — One Times Square — started out as the headquarters of the Times; it displayed early illuminated billboards and the famous news ticker. New Yorker staffers have made numerous trips to the building. A 1961 Talk of the Town story reported that “there was a time when a speakeasy was going full blast in one of the basements … and when the F.B.I. — this was during the Second World War — was holding pistol practice in a basement and using a seventh floor office to trap German spies.”
The building, eventually sold to Jamestown Properties, is now mostly unoccupied. The abandoned floors are littered with graffiti and the remnants of old signs. On New Year’s Eve, around a million people are expected to pack Times Square and fix their eyes on the ball. When it comes down, though, it will land above a building that has been empty for years.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Meng wants to make Lunar New Year a school holiday
From the Daily News:A QUEENS lawmaker is hoping that the third time's the charm when it comes to city schools honoring Lunar New Year.
Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing) was joined by two dozen Queens students to ask city and state officials for the third year in a row to close schools on the most important Asian holiday of the year.
"We're going to do this every year until this becomes a reality," Meng vowed during Wednesday's rally at Public School 244 in Flushing. "We just want the same right to celebrate our holiday at home, the same as other cultures."
The Year of the Rabbit began yesterday, and the holiday is celebrated with large family gatherings. Alternate-side parking rules are suspended that day.
Asians make up about 12% of the city's population and 22% in Queens, according to the 2009 American Community Survey.
A lot of children in the community question why their Jewish friends get to celebrate Rosh Hashanah at home but they have to go to school, Meng said.
Christine Colligan, president of the Korean-American Parents Association of Greater New York, said not observing the holiday forces kids to choose between their heritage and school. She noted that the "vast majority" of Asian students are absent that day.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
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