Attack on NYC woman, 101, caught on tape 1 hour, 37 minutes ago
NEW YORK - For a moment, the man in the grainy video looks like a good Samaritan holding the door open for an elderly neighbor. Then he turns and delivers three sharp punches to the 101-year-old woman's head.
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"The next thing I knew, I had a big bang on the side of my face," said Rose Morat, who suffered a fractured cheekbone and lost her purse and $33 to the mugger.
The attack was captured by a surveillance camera in the lobby of her Queens apartment building last Sunday.
"I'm quite sure that if it had happened when I was younger, I would have been after him," she said. "I'm a very strong woman. I've been that way my whole life."
Police said the same man is believed to have later attacked a second elderly woman in the neighborhood. Investigators were searching for a suspect Saturday.
"We are pulling out all the stops to find him," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a statement. "We want to stop him before he strikes again."
Morat said she was headed to church when she met the man in her lobby. He offered to help her make her way out, but she declined.
"I know how to handle myself," she said.
As Morat maneuvered her walker through the building's small vestibule, the man slowly put his bicycle against the wall, turned, and attacked her, the security video showed.
Her hat flew off, but she remained on her feet as the man removed her bag and felt her coat pockets.
Then, before making his escape, he punched her in the head again and shoved her to the ground.
Morat spent three days in the hospital.
The 85-year-old woman believed to be the mugger's second victim, Solange Elizee, told police she was punched and pushed to the floor outside her apartment door by a man who had initially offered to help her get home.
"I like to help old people," he said before turning violent, according to Elizee.
The man took her purse and got away with $32, police said.
"God saved my life," she said.
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Saturday, March 10, 2007
Thursday, March 8, 2007
NYC City Council Bans the N-word
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Date: Wed, Mar 7 2007 9:27am
From: "Agnes Kim"
Dear friends,
On the last day of Black History Month, the New York City Council
passed a symbolic ban on the "n-word" -- urging New Yorkers to learn
about the history of this word and refrain from using it in everyday
speech.
For more information, please read excerpts of recent news reports below.
Agnes Kim
Director of Operations
Office of Council Member John C. Liu
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: "Council vote sends a message"
The city council has said n-o to the N-word, unanimously approving a
resolution yesterday calling for a moratorium on the rap world's
favorite epithet.
"This is not just a resolution," said Councilman Albert Vann
(D-Brooklyn), a veteran black legislator and civil rights activist. "I
think this could be the beginning of a movement."
Vann said that those who use the N-word casually are often too young
to remember the historic and bloody civil rights struggle.
"And so I make an appeal to all people, and particularly the hip-hop
culture, that they would respect who we are, where we've been and that
they no longer use that N-word," Vann said during the vote.
The resolution is not a ban, and it has no enforcement teeth except
the power of moral persuasion. So its chief sponsor, Councilman Leroy
Comrie (D-Queens), who is black, said he was surprised at the
widespread attention the resolution attracted.
"It has stirred what it was intended to - discussion," Comrie said.
The 51-member Council, which has a 25-member Black, Latino and Asian
Caucus - was united in its enthusiasm for the measure.
Councilman John Liu (D-Queens), the sole Asian on the Council, called
the the N-word "the vilest word in the English language."
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Date: Wed, Mar 7 2007 9:27am
From: "Agnes Kim"
Dear friends,
On the last day of Black History Month, the New York City Council
passed a symbolic ban on the "n-word" -- urging New Yorkers to learn
about the history of this word and refrain from using it in everyday
speech.
For more information, please read excerpts of recent news reports below.
Agnes Kim
Director of Operations
Office of Council Member John C. Liu
----------
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: "Council vote sends a message"
The city council has said n-o to the N-word, unanimously approving a
resolution yesterday calling for a moratorium on the rap world's
favorite epithet.
"This is not just a resolution," said Councilman Albert Vann
(D-Brooklyn), a veteran black legislator and civil rights activist. "I
think this could be the beginning of a movement."
Vann said that those who use the N-word casually are often too young
to remember the historic and bloody civil rights struggle.
"And so I make an appeal to all people, and particularly the hip-hop
culture, that they would respect who we are, where we've been and that
they no longer use that N-word," Vann said during the vote.
The resolution is not a ban, and it has no enforcement teeth except
the power of moral persuasion. So its chief sponsor, Councilman Leroy
Comrie (D-Queens), who is black, said he was surprised at the
widespread attention the resolution attracted.
"It has stirred what it was intended to - discussion," Comrie said.
The 51-member Council, which has a 25-member Black, Latino and Asian
Caucus - was united in its enthusiasm for the measure.
Councilman John Liu (D-Queens), the sole Asian on the Council, called
the the N-word "the vilest word in the English language."
Friday, March 2, 2007
Freegan Sites in NYC
Manhattan
This directory is organized from north to south. Keep scrolling down to find more neighborhoods and more stuff.
Inwood
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Washington Heights
Bravo Supermarket
Broadway near 181st
Good selection of produce, includes some Latin American specialty items
Mike’s Bagels
4033 Broadway at W 168th Street
Harlem and East Harlem
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Morningside Heights
Morton-Williams
Broadway and 115th Street. When I've gone the staff have been in the process of throwing stuff out, so 9 or 9:30, and they were friendly enough about letting us dive away. It's a very busy corner, and well-lit, so its high-profile dumpster diving, not for the shy.
Dagostino
Broadway and 110th Street. I'm not sure what the best time is, but I think 9-9:30 is when I've had good luck there.
Absolute Bagel
Broadway and 108th St. The usual bagel abundance, plenty fresh.
Garden of Eden
Broadway between 108th and 109th Streets. One of the best diving sites in the city—super-high end fresh produce in huge plastic barrels, bags of fresh-made packaged entrees, loose buffet bar food, lots more. Enormous volume. Lots of exotic produce. You'll find stuff there from 9:30 or 10 on.
Upper West Side
Silver Moon Bakery
Broadway and 105th Street
We found meat and cheese sandwiches as well as bread.
Hot and Crusty
2 Broadway locations: at 105th St, and between 87th and 88th Sts.
All the bready stuff-- muffins, pizza slices, rolls, croissants, etc. We had more luck with the store in the 80s.
Gristedes
Broadway and 103rd St.
Normal supermarket stuff, although we didn't find much produce. Lots of eggs and bread though.
Health Nuts
Broadway between 98th and 99th Sts.
We found mostly prepared foods, some vegetarian and vegan, some not.
West Side Health Food
Broadway between 96th and 97th Sts.
We had good luck with packaged foods.
Gourmet Garage
Broadway and 96th St., next to West Side Health Food
In the Village and Soho you can't get food from Gourmet Garage any more, but this outlet has fresh produce and packaged goods in abundance in their small, easy-to-unload dumpsters. On the night we went we found an abundance of fresh fettucini and ravioli in perfect condition.,P. Gary Null's Uptown Whole Foods
Broadway and 89th Street
Produce, pretty much. Food's out by 10:30 pm, perhaps earlier.
Barzini's
Broadway between 90th and 91st
Lots of good produce.
Supersol
Amsterdam betwen 85th and 86h, west side
Kosher supermarket. On 2 trips, we found many non-vegan protein staples not often found elsewhere, such as whitefish and cheese, plus dry macaroni, etc.
Godiva
Broadway at 84th Street
Often throws out fancy quality strawberries that they dip in chocolate. Sometimes chocolate as well.
Barnes & Noble
Broadway at 82nd Street
Barnes & Noble recently instituted a country-wide recycling policy, so their dumpster may no longer hold loads of "stripped" magazines and paperbacks. Direct reuse is always more resource-efficient than recycle, so if the books are still there it's worth saving them. In the past we have also occasionally found sealed boxes of hardcover books at this location. If you're in the neighborhood, please check and let us know what you find. Boxcutter recommended.
Zabars and Fairway would seem like sure bets, but we haven't seen anything there yet. If anyone does, please email us.
Upper East Side
In our experience, the goods get fancier and fresher as you go south.
Key Food
2nd Avenue and 92nd Street, in the Rupert Towers building
On our first foray, we found only some shrink-wrapped produce, plus local street people hanging out seemed hungry. If folks find more another time, please email us.
Patak's (Gourmet Deli)
Madison Avenue between 89th and 90th Streets
Lots of black bags, but comparatively little good food. Some pre-made sandwiches and bread.
Patak's (Gourmet Deli)
Madison Avenue between 89th and 90th Streets
Lots of black bags, but comparatively little good food. Some pre-made sandwiches and bread.
Gristedes
Lexington Avenue and 89th Street
Dairy and eggs galore, a little not-so-great quality produce.
Eli's
3rd Avenue between 80th and 81st Sts.
Most of their trash goes through a compressor, but on our first dive we found about five bags of uncompressed food including yogurt, almonds and butter.
Associated
1st Avenue between 81st and 82nd Sts.
Produce, bread and more.
Gristedes
2nd Avenue between 75th & 76th
Huge piles of bags on blindingly lit stretch of 2nd Avenue-- not for the shy. Similar to what's found at Gristedes in other parts of town, including produce, bread, dairy and more.
Grace's Market
71st and 3rd Avenue: (north east corner)
This is a large gourmet supermarket with wonderful and copious food thrown out. When the trailblaze team visited in September 06, there were citrus fruits (grapefruit and oranges), a great deal of good corn on the cob, plenty of good bread and good bagels. And there were cute little pineapples, the size of a baseball.
Really Cool Foods
3rd Avenue between 62 and 63rd, east side
Fantastic location for prepared organic foods that were wildly overpriced. We found shrimp in various forms, portobello mushrooms in a vinagrette seasoning, packaged peas, organic muffins and other cakes, loads of organic goat's milk ice cream and some other gelatos with flavors like mocha and butterscotch, croissants (chocolate!), chicken meals in individual packages, sauces (Asian sweet and sour,lobster, some kind of cream sauces).
Food Emporium
63rd and and 3rd Avenue, north west corner
In September 06 we found loads of packaged foods: foie gras (several), many cookies and crackers (Triscuits, Wheat Thins, Doritos, boxes of individually wrapped bags of 100 calories in the bag cookies), candies , chocolates.
Midtown East
D'Agostino
1st Avenue and 56th
Bread and good produce in large quantities, including bananas, spinach, and citrus.
Café Europa
42nd Street between 5th and Madison
Pizza, salads, sandwiches
Midtown West
D'Agostinos
57th Street and 9th Avenue, on the northeast corner
Gray garbage cans and bags are in front of the store on 57th Street.
We found lots of good veggies, a bunch of dairy products, and some bags of kitty litter.
Bread Factory Cafe
8th Avenue between 55th and 56th Streets
Bagels galore.
Gristedes
8th Avenue and 54th Street
Black plastic bags of veggies, bread and cookies, plus the usual supermarket assortment of packaged goods. We found loads of tofu and "cookie kits."
Bagel Stix
8th Avenue and 53rd Street
Bagels plus breakfasty muffins
Food Emporium
Dumpsters are on 49th Street just east of 8th Avenue
Loads of stuff. We found veggies, tofu, bread, dairy, nuts and seeds.
Hale and Heary Soup
42nd between 5th and 6th
Bread, salads.
Pret A Manger
42nd Street between 5th and 6th Aves (north side of Street)
Large volumes of really fancy prepackaged sandwiches and salads. Bags of loaves of sliced seven grain bread. Enormous volumes of fresh squeezed juices (not every night).
Pax
42nd Street between 7th and 8th.
Wrap sandwiches, pizza, baked goods.
Fairly narrow time window—stuff goes out late and is picked up by 1:30 AM or so.
Pax
40th Street and 6th Avenue
Bagels, rolls, variety of other stuff. Less consistent than other Pax stores.
Midtown Comics
W. 40th Street at 7th Avenue
Comics books, magazines, paperback novels, comic book protective bags and boards. Check the black bags and the sealed cardboard boxes. With the store to your back (entrance on 40th St, NOT 7th Ave), you will see a street sign right in front of you. Everything to the immediate right of the sign pole is Midtown Comics trash. Everything to the left is their neighbors’.
Pax
Broadway between W 35th and W 36th Streets
LOTS of really expensive sandwiches, esp. wraps. Muffins, bagels. Very popular, so sometimes stuff is gone by the time you get there.
Hale and Hearty Soup
35th and 7th Avenue
Entire bag of cut romaine lettuce, prepacked mixed salads in plastic sealed bowls. Soup veggies and beans sometimes.
Chinatown Express
7th Avenue 32nd Street and 33rd Street
Bags and bags of Chinese buffet food. All food is discarded at the end of the day. The stuff is still hot for hours, even on cold nights.
Murray Hill/Kips Bay
Gristedes
460 Third Avenue & 32nd Street
Quite a lot of packaged, precooked food, including deli cheeses and meats, in 2 large dumpsters on the 32nd Street side. Easy location to sort through without being harassed. Well known to neighborhood regulars.
Gristedes
Third Avenue between 36th and 37th Streets
On the avenue, generally tolerant and sometimes chatty management.
D’Agostino’s
528 Third Avenue & 35th Street
D’Agostino’s 578 Third Avenue and 38th Street
Both D’ags are on the west side of 3rd Avenue, with their trash right outside the stores. Both put out lots of produce, much of it very high quality; the northern store puts out lots of excellent bread. They tend to have a very short window between putting out and having their private trash carrier pick up; arrive by 9pm for best results.
Chelsea
Garden of Eden
162 West 23rd Street
Yupscale NYC based chain that specializes in produce, prepared foods and luxury products.
Guy and Gallard
29th Street at 7th Ave
Dumpster on 29th Street side
Bagels, bread, salads, fruit salads, sandwiches, prepared gourmet meal thingees, fresh squeezed juice, yogurt and granola, etc. Kind of have to really reach in the bags to find good stuff sometimes, but there’s lots of it.
Krispy Crème
W 23rd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues
Donuts, of course.
Flower market
28th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues
Stores throughout the block.The stores all close by 6pm; regulars check early, but there are still flowers and plants for all until late at night.
Chelsea Piers
West Side Highway at 20th St
There are a lot of TV and film productions at their Silver Screen Studios building, which means a lot of catered food thrown out. Some other stuff, too. Come late at night and look for the dumpsters facing the bike path.
Gramercy/Flatiron
Garden of Eden
310 3rd Avenue at 23rd Street
Yupscale NYC based chain that specializes in produce, prepared foods and luxury products.
Zaro's
920 Broadway between 20th and 21st; dumpsters are on the south side of 21st St just east of Broadway
Tip came in from a worker there: "Every night, a huge load of bread and pastries from that morning are discarded. Last night, I put out two bags of bread so heavy I could hardly lift them. I try to put the bags of clean food on the right or left side of the dumpsters rather than IN them." It's worth checking other Zaro's locations as well, including Penn Station and Grand Central.
Associated Supermarket
Park Ave around 22nd
mainly produce
Natural Green Market
16th at 3rd Ave
health food store
closes at 10:30, collects after 12:30
David’s Bagels
1st Avenue between 19th and 20th Streets
Gramercy Bagels
3rd Avenue and 20th Street
Around Union Square
Profiting from the success of the farmers market (which collaborates with City Harvest to find homes for the farm-fresh produce), upscale chains are moving in.
Garden of Eden
14th Street between 5th and University
In addition to their bags, which sometimes bear meat and fish, check the large rolling garbage containers, which hold all the deli hot food (a specialty of this chain; may contain cooked chickens) as well as salad bar.
Gristedes
14th Street between 5th and 6th Aves
Recently (autumn '06) this store either has its trash picked up very early, or it's not putting it out any more.
Au Bon Pain
Park Ave and 14th Street by Union Square
Bread and pastry chain. Lots of sweets, bagels, rolls, breadsticks, etc.
also--
Au Bon Pain
5th Avenue and 16th Street
Petco
Union Square North and Broadway
Lots of companion animal food.
(Keep in mind that carnivorous companions generally love the meat and fish “fit for human consumption” that all the supermarkets throw out. With a little care – don’t take animal products that are not quite cold or quite hot; wash everything in cold water and wrap in clean packaging; freeze what you can’t use right way; always cook before you serve it—your companions need never eat overprocessed byproduct kibble again.)
Zen Palate
Lots of cooked soup stock veggies. Not exactly amazing stuff, but it’ll do in a pinch.
West Village
Bagelry
14th Street and 7th Ave
Puts out more bagels than Bagel Bob's, and sometimes Krispy Kreme donuts or salads as well
Food Emporium
6th Ave below 12th
upscale supermarket chain
Now puts out between 10:00 and 11:30 pm, earlier than they used to. Recently (autumn '06) this location has become somewhat less wasteful. There are seldom the entire cases of produce there used to be. Very popular, because of its former hyper-wastefulness, but still seldom gets completely cleaned out, especially if you dig deep in the miscellaneous bags. Stuff is in bags on several large rolling carts. They are open still at 11pm and the night manager often talks with folks. Be especially careful about putting stuff back neatly.
Lifethyme Natural Market
6th Ave between 8th and 9th
Large health food store
Closes at 10. Those who are feeling bold and polite can go into the store at 9:45 pm to ask for food from the organic hot food bar. Be sure to thank the manager on duty and the workers who empty the food trays and will wait until you're done, within reason. Store personnel will want you to use their packaging since they don't want to alienate "regular" customers still in the store. If you don't want to use their packaging or you get there later, feel for the hot trash bag, which has only stuff from the hot food bar. Brown rice, vegan chili, sweet potatoes, steamed veggies, plus chicken and turkey, although at that point everything's mixed together. Their other black bags yield packs of nuts, vegan baked goods, dried fruit, small amounts of produce, lots of patches of cut live wheatgrass, and lots more.
Gourmet Garage
7th Ave at W. 10th Street
Perhaps the neighbors complained, because the dumpsters that used to sit outside this yuppie store are no longer there. If you notice the situation change, email us.
Gristedes
Barrow between 7th Avenue and W. 4th Street.
The trash is around the corner from the market itself, next to a parking garage, across from “One if By Land” (fancy restaurant) and west of the trash for the apartment building. Lotsa stuff, not often seriously dived.
Gristedes
Trash also around the corner from the market, on Bank St west of Hudson.
The usual Gristedes assortment.
Le Pain Quotidien
8th St just west of 5th Ave
Huge rounds of crusty whole grain sourdough bread, stays moist inside for many days after being tossed. Even on days when the whole loaves aren't there, you'll find quarter and half loaves. Also some baguettes and occasionally sweets.
Integral Yoga
13th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues
small health food store; no produce.
Unnamed shop (no sign)
Sells chinese buns and smoothies
West 3rd just east of 6th Ave, north side
After 10:30 or 11, you'll find one or more bags of various buns filled with meat or vegetables, still warm. Vegetarians beware, as the meat and veggie buns often look the same.
Temple in the Village
3rd St. east of Thompson, below Washington Sq. Park
vegan restaurant
Whole bag of stir-fried Asian food after 10 every night
Jamaican Flavors
3rd St. and Sullivan, below Washington Sq. Park
Caribbean restaurant
Every day, throws out a bag of nothing but beans and rice, and another bag of meat and veggie rotis (pouches)
Peanut Butter and Co.
3rd St. and Sullivan, below Washington Sq. Park
Peanut butter and banana sandwiches, whole grain bread, celery and carrot sticks, cups of peanut butter
produce market (large, I forget the name)
Carmine at Varick St.
Several cartons of very good produce
East Village
fruit stand
University below Union Square, next to Amazing Savings
Several black bags of good produce, stuff is usually available as early as 6 PM.
Produce stand
Northeast corner of 7th Street and 1st Avenue
Lime Tree
1st Avenue and 9th Street
fruit and vegetable store
Gristedes
University Place between 8th and 9th Street
This one is a little more abundant with produce and less with packaged food than most of this chain.
Puts out at about 8:30, collects early, well-frequented.
Gristedes
14th Street between 1st and 2nd Aves
Gristedes
Mercer St and 3nd St
Lots of fruit and other produce. Bread, hummus, other packaged foods.
Gracefully
Avenue A between 3rd and 4th
upscale produce and grocery store
Caravan of Dreams
6th St east of 1st Ave
vegan restaurant
Not much to be found, but what is there is really good
closes at 11 most days
Counter
1st Ave around 7th St
vegan restaurant/lounge
closes late (after 12:30)- good stuff my be disguised in other bags
open 24 hours, had stuff out around 7:30/8; others say to check barrels around 10pm.
Commodities
1st Ave and 10th St
health food store
seldom anything good, but others beg to differ
Urban Roots
Avenue A between 3rd and 4th Streets
Small health food store
Healthfully
4th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue
Small health food store
Bagel Bob's
University between 9th and 10th
An East Village freegan legend; out of the many bags of plain old trash, feel for the one to three bags that contains obvious bagel and bialy shapes. Huge bags of bagels, mini bagels, bagel bits (sort of like Munchkins, but bagels), cinnamon buns, struedels, and bialys not intermingled with other food and garbage Very popular. Don’t bother on Mondays.
David’s Bagels
1st Avenue between 14th and 13th St
The Black Hound
2nd Avenue between 10th & 11th Streets
decadent desserts
Dean & De Luca
11th Street and University
Taylors
2nd Avenue between 10th and 11th Streets
tray of sandwiches every night, around 10pm
Au Bon Pain
3rd Street between Broadway and Lafayette
Bread and pastry chain. This one tosses lots of pastries when it closes around 11:30 pm. Also, bagels, rolls, breadsticks, etc.
Au Bon Pain
8th Street and Mercer
Dunkin’ Donuts
1st Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets
Old Fashion Donuts
1st Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets
Soho
Gourmet Garage
453 Broome Street at Mercer
This is the flagship store, so when you can get at it, it’s a motherlode. Several giant dumpsters on the Mercer Street side. Rumor has it that these dumpsters are sometimes locked; it is more likely that security or a night manager will yell at you and/or chase you away. Go after 11pm.
Dean & Deluca
450 Broadway between Prince and Spring Sts
sushi, pastries, etc
produce stand
Southeast corner of Houston and Broadway
Gray barrels have compostable food.
Tribeca
Food Emporium
316 Greenwich St at Duane St
Massive quantities of produce, fancy cakes, and all manner of other items in dumpsters in front of the store.
Lower East Side
Essex Street Market
Essex between Rivington and Delancey
Large indoor market; check dumpsters in the afternoon.
Economy Candy
Rivington between Essex and Ludlow
Candy and nuts.
Earth Matters
Ludlow between Houston and Stanton
Small health food store.
Chinatown
Fay Da Bakery
82 Elizabeth St. between Hester & Grand
Mott & Canal
Sweet & meaty baked goods.
Financial District/Battery Park City
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Inwood
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Washington Heights
Bravo Supermarket
Broadway near 181st
Good selection of produce, includes some Latin American specialty items
Mike’s Bagels
4033 Broadway at W 168th Street
Harlem and East Harlem
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Morningside Heights
Morton-Williams
Broadway and 115th Street. When I've gone the staff have been in the process of throwing stuff out, so 9 or 9:30, and they were friendly enough about letting us dive away. It's a very busy corner, and well-lit, so its high-profile dumpster diving, not for the shy.
Dagostino
Broadway and 110th Street. I'm not sure what the best time is, but I think 9-9:30 is when I've had good luck there.
Absolute Bagel
Broadway and 108th St. The usual bagel abundance, plenty fresh.
Garden of Eden
Broadway between 108th and 109th Streets. One of the best diving sites in the city—super-high end fresh produce in huge plastic barrels, bags of fresh-made packaged entrees, loose buffet bar food, lots more. Enormous volume. Lots of exotic produce. You'll find stuff there from 9:30 or 10 on.
Upper West Side
Silver Moon Bakery
Broadway and 105th Street
We found meat and cheese sandwiches as well as bread.
Hot and Crusty
2 Broadway locations: at 105th St, and between 87th and 88th Sts.
All the bready stuff-- muffins, pizza slices, rolls, croissants, etc. We had more luck with the store in the 80s.
Gristedes
Broadway and 103rd St.
Normal supermarket stuff, although we didn't find much produce. Lots of eggs and bread though.
Health Nuts
Broadway between 98th and 99th Sts.
We found mostly prepared foods, some vegetarian and vegan, some not.
West Side Health Food
Broadway between 96th and 97th Sts.
We had good luck with packaged foods.
Gourmet Garage
Broadway and 96th St., next to West Side Health Food
In the Village and Soho you can't get food from Gourmet Garage any more, but this outlet has fresh produce and packaged goods in abundance in their small, easy-to-unload dumpsters. On the night we went we found an abundance of fresh fettucini and ravioli in perfect condition.,P. Gary Null's Uptown Whole Foods
Broadway and 89th Street
Produce, pretty much. Food's out by 10:30 pm, perhaps earlier.
Barzini's
Broadway between 90th and 91st
Lots of good produce.
Supersol
Amsterdam betwen 85th and 86h, west side
Kosher supermarket. On 2 trips, we found many non-vegan protein staples not often found elsewhere, such as whitefish and cheese, plus dry macaroni, etc.
Godiva
Broadway at 84th Street
Often throws out fancy quality strawberries that they dip in chocolate. Sometimes chocolate as well.
Barnes & Noble
Broadway at 82nd Street
Barnes & Noble recently instituted a country-wide recycling policy, so their dumpster may no longer hold loads of "stripped" magazines and paperbacks. Direct reuse is always more resource-efficient than recycle, so if the books are still there it's worth saving them. In the past we have also occasionally found sealed boxes of hardcover books at this location. If you're in the neighborhood, please check and let us know what you find. Boxcutter recommended.
Zabars and Fairway would seem like sure bets, but we haven't seen anything there yet. If anyone does, please email us.
Upper East Side
In our experience, the goods get fancier and fresher as you go south.
Key Food
2nd Avenue and 92nd Street, in the Rupert Towers building
On our first foray, we found only some shrink-wrapped produce, plus local street people hanging out seemed hungry. If folks find more another time, please email us.
Patak's (Gourmet Deli)
Madison Avenue between 89th and 90th Streets
Lots of black bags, but comparatively little good food. Some pre-made sandwiches and bread.
Patak's (Gourmet Deli)
Madison Avenue between 89th and 90th Streets
Lots of black bags, but comparatively little good food. Some pre-made sandwiches and bread.
Gristedes
Lexington Avenue and 89th Street
Dairy and eggs galore, a little not-so-great quality produce.
Eli's
3rd Avenue between 80th and 81st Sts.
Most of their trash goes through a compressor, but on our first dive we found about five bags of uncompressed food including yogurt, almonds and butter.
Associated
1st Avenue between 81st and 82nd Sts.
Produce, bread and more.
Gristedes
2nd Avenue between 75th & 76th
Huge piles of bags on blindingly lit stretch of 2nd Avenue-- not for the shy. Similar to what's found at Gristedes in other parts of town, including produce, bread, dairy and more.
Grace's Market
71st and 3rd Avenue: (north east corner)
This is a large gourmet supermarket with wonderful and copious food thrown out. When the trailblaze team visited in September 06, there were citrus fruits (grapefruit and oranges), a great deal of good corn on the cob, plenty of good bread and good bagels. And there were cute little pineapples, the size of a baseball.
Really Cool Foods
3rd Avenue between 62 and 63rd, east side
Fantastic location for prepared organic foods that were wildly overpriced. We found shrimp in various forms, portobello mushrooms in a vinagrette seasoning, packaged peas, organic muffins and other cakes, loads of organic goat's milk ice cream and some other gelatos with flavors like mocha and butterscotch, croissants (chocolate!), chicken meals in individual packages, sauces (Asian sweet and sour,lobster, some kind of cream sauces).
Food Emporium
63rd and and 3rd Avenue, north west corner
In September 06 we found loads of packaged foods: foie gras (several), many cookies and crackers (Triscuits, Wheat Thins, Doritos, boxes of individually wrapped bags of 100 calories in the bag cookies), candies , chocolates.
Midtown East
D'Agostino
1st Avenue and 56th
Bread and good produce in large quantities, including bananas, spinach, and citrus.
Café Europa
42nd Street between 5th and Madison
Pizza, salads, sandwiches
Midtown West
D'Agostinos
57th Street and 9th Avenue, on the northeast corner
Gray garbage cans and bags are in front of the store on 57th Street.
We found lots of good veggies, a bunch of dairy products, and some bags of kitty litter.
Bread Factory Cafe
8th Avenue between 55th and 56th Streets
Bagels galore.
Gristedes
8th Avenue and 54th Street
Black plastic bags of veggies, bread and cookies, plus the usual supermarket assortment of packaged goods. We found loads of tofu and "cookie kits."
Bagel Stix
8th Avenue and 53rd Street
Bagels plus breakfasty muffins
Food Emporium
Dumpsters are on 49th Street just east of 8th Avenue
Loads of stuff. We found veggies, tofu, bread, dairy, nuts and seeds.
Hale and Heary Soup
42nd between 5th and 6th
Bread, salads.
Pret A Manger
42nd Street between 5th and 6th Aves (north side of Street)
Large volumes of really fancy prepackaged sandwiches and salads. Bags of loaves of sliced seven grain bread. Enormous volumes of fresh squeezed juices (not every night).
Pax
42nd Street between 7th and 8th.
Wrap sandwiches, pizza, baked goods.
Fairly narrow time window—stuff goes out late and is picked up by 1:30 AM or so.
Pax
40th Street and 6th Avenue
Bagels, rolls, variety of other stuff. Less consistent than other Pax stores.
Midtown Comics
W. 40th Street at 7th Avenue
Comics books, magazines, paperback novels, comic book protective bags and boards. Check the black bags and the sealed cardboard boxes. With the store to your back (entrance on 40th St, NOT 7th Ave), you will see a street sign right in front of you. Everything to the immediate right of the sign pole is Midtown Comics trash. Everything to the left is their neighbors’.
Pax
Broadway between W 35th and W 36th Streets
LOTS of really expensive sandwiches, esp. wraps. Muffins, bagels. Very popular, so sometimes stuff is gone by the time you get there.
Hale and Hearty Soup
35th and 7th Avenue
Entire bag of cut romaine lettuce, prepacked mixed salads in plastic sealed bowls. Soup veggies and beans sometimes.
Chinatown Express
7th Avenue 32nd Street and 33rd Street
Bags and bags of Chinese buffet food. All food is discarded at the end of the day. The stuff is still hot for hours, even on cold nights.
Murray Hill/Kips Bay
Gristedes
460 Third Avenue & 32nd Street
Quite a lot of packaged, precooked food, including deli cheeses and meats, in 2 large dumpsters on the 32nd Street side. Easy location to sort through without being harassed. Well known to neighborhood regulars.
Gristedes
Third Avenue between 36th and 37th Streets
On the avenue, generally tolerant and sometimes chatty management.
D’Agostino’s
528 Third Avenue & 35th Street
D’Agostino’s 578 Third Avenue and 38th Street
Both D’ags are on the west side of 3rd Avenue, with their trash right outside the stores. Both put out lots of produce, much of it very high quality; the northern store puts out lots of excellent bread. They tend to have a very short window between putting out and having their private trash carrier pick up; arrive by 9pm for best results.
Chelsea
Garden of Eden
162 West 23rd Street
Yupscale NYC based chain that specializes in produce, prepared foods and luxury products.
Guy and Gallard
29th Street at 7th Ave
Dumpster on 29th Street side
Bagels, bread, salads, fruit salads, sandwiches, prepared gourmet meal thingees, fresh squeezed juice, yogurt and granola, etc. Kind of have to really reach in the bags to find good stuff sometimes, but there’s lots of it.
Krispy Crème
W 23rd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues
Donuts, of course.
Flower market
28th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues
Stores throughout the block.The stores all close by 6pm; regulars check early, but there are still flowers and plants for all until late at night.
Chelsea Piers
West Side Highway at 20th St
There are a lot of TV and film productions at their Silver Screen Studios building, which means a lot of catered food thrown out. Some other stuff, too. Come late at night and look for the dumpsters facing the bike path.
Gramercy/Flatiron
Garden of Eden
310 3rd Avenue at 23rd Street
Yupscale NYC based chain that specializes in produce, prepared foods and luxury products.
Zaro's
920 Broadway between 20th and 21st; dumpsters are on the south side of 21st St just east of Broadway
Tip came in from a worker there: "Every night, a huge load of bread and pastries from that morning are discarded. Last night, I put out two bags of bread so heavy I could hardly lift them. I try to put the bags of clean food on the right or left side of the dumpsters rather than IN them." It's worth checking other Zaro's locations as well, including Penn Station and Grand Central.
Associated Supermarket
Park Ave around 22nd
mainly produce
Natural Green Market
16th at 3rd Ave
health food store
closes at 10:30, collects after 12:30
David’s Bagels
1st Avenue between 19th and 20th Streets
Gramercy Bagels
3rd Avenue and 20th Street
Around Union Square
Profiting from the success of the farmers market (which collaborates with City Harvest to find homes for the farm-fresh produce), upscale chains are moving in.
Garden of Eden
14th Street between 5th and University
In addition to their bags, which sometimes bear meat and fish, check the large rolling garbage containers, which hold all the deli hot food (a specialty of this chain; may contain cooked chickens) as well as salad bar.
Gristedes
14th Street between 5th and 6th Aves
Recently (autumn '06) this store either has its trash picked up very early, or it's not putting it out any more.
Au Bon Pain
Park Ave and 14th Street by Union Square
Bread and pastry chain. Lots of sweets, bagels, rolls, breadsticks, etc.
also--
Au Bon Pain
5th Avenue and 16th Street
Petco
Union Square North and Broadway
Lots of companion animal food.
(Keep in mind that carnivorous companions generally love the meat and fish “fit for human consumption” that all the supermarkets throw out. With a little care – don’t take animal products that are not quite cold or quite hot; wash everything in cold water and wrap in clean packaging; freeze what you can’t use right way; always cook before you serve it—your companions need never eat overprocessed byproduct kibble again.)
Zen Palate
Lots of cooked soup stock veggies. Not exactly amazing stuff, but it’ll do in a pinch.
West Village
Bagelry
14th Street and 7th Ave
Puts out more bagels than Bagel Bob's, and sometimes Krispy Kreme donuts or salads as well
Food Emporium
6th Ave below 12th
upscale supermarket chain
Now puts out between 10:00 and 11:30 pm, earlier than they used to. Recently (autumn '06) this location has become somewhat less wasteful. There are seldom the entire cases of produce there used to be. Very popular, because of its former hyper-wastefulness, but still seldom gets completely cleaned out, especially if you dig deep in the miscellaneous bags. Stuff is in bags on several large rolling carts. They are open still at 11pm and the night manager often talks with folks. Be especially careful about putting stuff back neatly.
Lifethyme Natural Market
6th Ave between 8th and 9th
Large health food store
Closes at 10. Those who are feeling bold and polite can go into the store at 9:45 pm to ask for food from the organic hot food bar. Be sure to thank the manager on duty and the workers who empty the food trays and will wait until you're done, within reason. Store personnel will want you to use their packaging since they don't want to alienate "regular" customers still in the store. If you don't want to use their packaging or you get there later, feel for the hot trash bag, which has only stuff from the hot food bar. Brown rice, vegan chili, sweet potatoes, steamed veggies, plus chicken and turkey, although at that point everything's mixed together. Their other black bags yield packs of nuts, vegan baked goods, dried fruit, small amounts of produce, lots of patches of cut live wheatgrass, and lots more.
Gourmet Garage
7th Ave at W. 10th Street
Perhaps the neighbors complained, because the dumpsters that used to sit outside this yuppie store are no longer there. If you notice the situation change, email us.
Gristedes
Barrow between 7th Avenue and W. 4th Street.
The trash is around the corner from the market itself, next to a parking garage, across from “One if By Land” (fancy restaurant) and west of the trash for the apartment building. Lotsa stuff, not often seriously dived.
Gristedes
Trash also around the corner from the market, on Bank St west of Hudson.
The usual Gristedes assortment.
Le Pain Quotidien
8th St just west of 5th Ave
Huge rounds of crusty whole grain sourdough bread, stays moist inside for many days after being tossed. Even on days when the whole loaves aren't there, you'll find quarter and half loaves. Also some baguettes and occasionally sweets.
Integral Yoga
13th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues
small health food store; no produce.
Unnamed shop (no sign)
Sells chinese buns and smoothies
West 3rd just east of 6th Ave, north side
After 10:30 or 11, you'll find one or more bags of various buns filled with meat or vegetables, still warm. Vegetarians beware, as the meat and veggie buns often look the same.
Temple in the Village
3rd St. east of Thompson, below Washington Sq. Park
vegan restaurant
Whole bag of stir-fried Asian food after 10 every night
Jamaican Flavors
3rd St. and Sullivan, below Washington Sq. Park
Caribbean restaurant
Every day, throws out a bag of nothing but beans and rice, and another bag of meat and veggie rotis (pouches)
Peanut Butter and Co.
3rd St. and Sullivan, below Washington Sq. Park
Peanut butter and banana sandwiches, whole grain bread, celery and carrot sticks, cups of peanut butter
produce market (large, I forget the name)
Carmine at Varick St.
Several cartons of very good produce
East Village
fruit stand
University below Union Square, next to Amazing Savings
Several black bags of good produce, stuff is usually available as early as 6 PM.
Produce stand
Northeast corner of 7th Street and 1st Avenue
Lime Tree
1st Avenue and 9th Street
fruit and vegetable store
Gristedes
University Place between 8th and 9th Street
This one is a little more abundant with produce and less with packaged food than most of this chain.
Puts out at about 8:30, collects early, well-frequented.
Gristedes
14th Street between 1st and 2nd Aves
Gristedes
Mercer St and 3nd St
Lots of fruit and other produce. Bread, hummus, other packaged foods.
Gracefully
Avenue A between 3rd and 4th
upscale produce and grocery store
Caravan of Dreams
6th St east of 1st Ave
vegan restaurant
Not much to be found, but what is there is really good
closes at 11 most days
Counter
1st Ave around 7th St
vegan restaurant/lounge
closes late (after 12:30)- good stuff my be disguised in other bags
open 24 hours, had stuff out around 7:30/8; others say to check barrels around 10pm.
Commodities
1st Ave and 10th St
health food store
seldom anything good, but others beg to differ
Urban Roots
Avenue A between 3rd and 4th Streets
Small health food store
Healthfully
4th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue
Small health food store
Bagel Bob's
University between 9th and 10th
An East Village freegan legend; out of the many bags of plain old trash, feel for the one to three bags that contains obvious bagel and bialy shapes. Huge bags of bagels, mini bagels, bagel bits (sort of like Munchkins, but bagels), cinnamon buns, struedels, and bialys not intermingled with other food and garbage Very popular. Don’t bother on Mondays.
David’s Bagels
1st Avenue between 14th and 13th St
The Black Hound
2nd Avenue between 10th & 11th Streets
decadent desserts
Dean & De Luca
11th Street and University
Taylors
2nd Avenue between 10th and 11th Streets
tray of sandwiches every night, around 10pm
Au Bon Pain
3rd Street between Broadway and Lafayette
Bread and pastry chain. This one tosses lots of pastries when it closes around 11:30 pm. Also, bagels, rolls, breadsticks, etc.
Au Bon Pain
8th Street and Mercer
Dunkin’ Donuts
1st Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets
Old Fashion Donuts
1st Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets
Soho
Gourmet Garage
453 Broome Street at Mercer
This is the flagship store, so when you can get at it, it’s a motherlode. Several giant dumpsters on the Mercer Street side. Rumor has it that these dumpsters are sometimes locked; it is more likely that security or a night manager will yell at you and/or chase you away. Go after 11pm.
Dean & Deluca
450 Broadway between Prince and Spring Sts
sushi, pastries, etc
produce stand
Southeast corner of Houston and Broadway
Gray barrels have compostable food.
Tribeca
Food Emporium
316 Greenwich St at Duane St
Massive quantities of produce, fancy cakes, and all manner of other items in dumpsters in front of the store.
Lower East Side
Essex Street Market
Essex between Rivington and Delancey
Large indoor market; check dumpsters in the afternoon.
Economy Candy
Rivington between Essex and Ludlow
Candy and nuts.
Earth Matters
Ludlow between Houston and Stanton
Small health food store.
Chinatown
Fay Da Bakery
82 Elizabeth St. between Hester & Grand
Mott & Canal
Sweet & meaty baked goods.
Financial District/Battery Park City
Know what's happening here? Have ideas for a trailblaze? Send your ideas to ask@freegan.info.
Freegan Events in NYC
MARCH FREEGAN EVENTSIN NEW YORK CITY
Join us for upcoming freegan events, trash tours and meetings
Call Janet at (347)724-6954 or email Madeline atmailto:ask@freegan.infowith questions on any event.
Events that don’t list a fee and don’t mention the organizing group
are free and are organized by Freegan.info.
Every Wednesday and Saturday * Freegan bike repair workshopLearn how to turn found bike parts into working bicycles. And build your own bike. For more info, call Christian at (917) 582-9010. Media reps are welcome on Wednesdays, but Saturdays are media free.When & Where?Starting at 6:00 pm on Wednesdays, going until at least 9:00 pm, and from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm Saturdays. 327 West 36th St. bet. 8th & 9th Aves (look for sign at entrance).
Monday, March 5th * Freegan Meeting and Trash TourJoin us for a meeting to plan upcoming freegan events and outreach. After, we will explore the area’s wasted food and other goods. The meeting is NOT open to media, but media reps may attend the trash tour, with appointment.When and Where? Meet at 7:30pm at Green Pea deli at 435 5th Avenue between 38th and 39th Streets.To come just for the tour, meet us at 9:30pm in front of the grocery on 38th Street and 3rd Avenue.
Thursday, March 15th • Trash TourJoin us as we collect the discarded quality products that stores throw out. We give advice on how to salvage these goods and comment on the reasons for such waste. The media WILL be welcome to attend, but with appointment.When and Where? Meet us at 9:30pm in front of the grocery on 38th Street and 3rd Avenue.Friday, March 16th • Freegan FeastThis dinner is a wonderful occasion with excellent food prepared from the finds of Thursday’s trash tour. Come early to assist in preparation. Media WILL be welcome. Please RSVP to (347) 724-6954 for the location.When & Where? Help cook at 5:30pm & eat at 8. RSVP for location & details.Thursday, March 22nd • Freegan Meeting and Trash TourJoin us for a second meeting to plan upcoming freegan events and outreach. After, we will explore the area’s wasted food and other goods. The meeting and trash tour are NOT open to media.When and Where? Meet at 7:30pm at Regale deli in the rear seating area. Regale is on 5th Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets. To come just for the tour, meet us at the deli at 9:30pm.Tuesday, March 27th • Hell's Kitchen Trash TrailblazeFor experienced foragers interested in helping explore an area we are less familiar with to add to our list of locations to recommend to others. NOT open to media.When and Where? Meet us at 9pm at the southeast corner of 41st Street and 9th Avenue.
Ongoing EventsCOMPOSTINGLower East Side Ecology Center accepts organic material for composting (fruit and vegetable peelings, coffee grounds and tea bags, egg and nut shells, cut flowers, and similar organic material). LESEC has drop-off bins at the Union Square Greenmarket (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from 8 am to 5 pm).
For other composting drop sites, visit http://www.nyccompost.org/resources/organizations.htmlCOMPUTER AND ELECTRONICS RECYCLING
Per Scholas is a recycling facility in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx that allows individuals to drop off up to five pieces of residential computer and electronic equipment. Keyboards, mice and speakers are not included in the count. A monetary donation is required for the six through Nth piece. They cannot accept TVs that contain wood since they cannot recycle organic matter. They accept residential equipment Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Lower East Side Ecology Center also hosts electronics recycling events.
WEEKLY BIKE REPAIR WORKSHOPS
ORGANIZED AND HOSTED BY TIMES UP!, 49 East Houston (between Mott and Mulberry), in the basement workshop.
LADIES’ BICYCLE REPAIR NIGHT: Every Monday, 6:30 p.m. No previous experience with bicycle repair required or expected.
BIKE REPAIR WORKSHOPS: Every Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. Come learn how to fix bikes, do simple maintenance and tune-ups at the bike mechanic skill share. <>FIX YOUR BIKE WORKSHOP: Every Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Share skills with other cyclists while you fix up your own bike.For more information about events at Time's Up!, visit http://www.times-up.org/calendar/calendar.phpWILD FOOD TOURS “Wildman” Steve Brill holds frequent tours where you can learn to find and harvest wild growing plants for food and medicine Fee is $12 ($6 for children under 12), sliding scale. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds. Tours this month in the NYC area are: 3/3 in Central Park; 3/4 in Prospect Park, Brooklyn; 3/10 in Forest Park, Kew Gardens, Queens; 3/11 in Marine Park, Brooklyn; 3/17 in Alley Pond Park, Douglaston, Queens; 3/18 in Central Park, 3/24 in Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan; 3/25 in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Check the details and sign up at http://wildmanstevebrill.com/ or call (914) 835-2153.GRUB COMMUNITY BUILDING MEAL
1st and 3rd Sunday of every month.A mostly freegan dinner for strangers and co-conspirators in a relaxed environment. There is no charge but donations are requested. Organized by In Our Hearts and Toy Shop collectives; at Rubulad, 338 Flushing Avenue(between Classon & Taaffe - near the Navy Yard) in Brooklyn. 1st and 3rd Sunday of every month. Doors open 6:30; dinner around 7:00. More info at http://www.toyshopcollective.com/grub.html
http://freegan.info/?page=Events
Join us for upcoming freegan events, trash tours and meetings
Call Janet at (347)724-6954 or email Madeline atmailto:ask@freegan.infowith questions on any event.
Events that don’t list a fee and don’t mention the organizing group
are free and are organized by Freegan.info.
Every Wednesday and Saturday * Freegan bike repair workshopLearn how to turn found bike parts into working bicycles. And build your own bike. For more info, call Christian at (917) 582-9010. Media reps are welcome on Wednesdays, but Saturdays are media free.When & Where?Starting at 6:00 pm on Wednesdays, going until at least 9:00 pm, and from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm Saturdays. 327 West 36th St. bet. 8th & 9th Aves (look for sign at entrance).
Monday, March 5th * Freegan Meeting and Trash TourJoin us for a meeting to plan upcoming freegan events and outreach. After, we will explore the area’s wasted food and other goods. The meeting is NOT open to media, but media reps may attend the trash tour, with appointment.When and Where? Meet at 7:30pm at Green Pea deli at 435 5th Avenue between 38th and 39th Streets.To come just for the tour, meet us at 9:30pm in front of the grocery on 38th Street and 3rd Avenue.
Thursday, March 15th • Trash TourJoin us as we collect the discarded quality products that stores throw out. We give advice on how to salvage these goods and comment on the reasons for such waste. The media WILL be welcome to attend, but with appointment.When and Where? Meet us at 9:30pm in front of the grocery on 38th Street and 3rd Avenue.Friday, March 16th • Freegan FeastThis dinner is a wonderful occasion with excellent food prepared from the finds of Thursday’s trash tour. Come early to assist in preparation. Media WILL be welcome. Please RSVP to (347) 724-6954 for the location.When & Where? Help cook at 5:30pm & eat at 8. RSVP for location & details.Thursday, March 22nd • Freegan Meeting and Trash TourJoin us for a second meeting to plan upcoming freegan events and outreach. After, we will explore the area’s wasted food and other goods. The meeting and trash tour are NOT open to media.When and Where? Meet at 7:30pm at Regale deli in the rear seating area. Regale is on 5th Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets. To come just for the tour, meet us at the deli at 9:30pm.Tuesday, March 27th • Hell's Kitchen Trash TrailblazeFor experienced foragers interested in helping explore an area we are less familiar with to add to our list of locations to recommend to others. NOT open to media.When and Where? Meet us at 9pm at the southeast corner of 41st Street and 9th Avenue.
Ongoing EventsCOMPOSTINGLower East Side Ecology Center accepts organic material for composting (fruit and vegetable peelings, coffee grounds and tea bags, egg and nut shells, cut flowers, and similar organic material). LESEC has drop-off bins at the Union Square Greenmarket (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from 8 am to 5 pm).
For other composting drop sites, visit http://www.nyccompost.org/resources/organizations.htmlCOMPUTER AND ELECTRONICS RECYCLING
Per Scholas is a recycling facility in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx that allows individuals to drop off up to five pieces of residential computer and electronic equipment. Keyboards, mice and speakers are not included in the count. A monetary donation is required for the six through Nth piece. They cannot accept TVs that contain wood since they cannot recycle organic matter. They accept residential equipment Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Lower East Side Ecology Center also hosts electronics recycling events.
WEEKLY BIKE REPAIR WORKSHOPS
ORGANIZED AND HOSTED BY TIMES UP!, 49 East Houston (between Mott and Mulberry), in the basement workshop.
LADIES’ BICYCLE REPAIR NIGHT: Every Monday, 6:30 p.m. No previous experience with bicycle repair required or expected.
BIKE REPAIR WORKSHOPS: Every Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. Come learn how to fix bikes, do simple maintenance and tune-ups at the bike mechanic skill share. <>FIX YOUR BIKE WORKSHOP: Every Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Share skills with other cyclists while you fix up your own bike.For more information about events at Time's Up!, visit http://www.times-up.org/calendar/calendar.phpWILD FOOD TOURS “Wildman” Steve Brill holds frequent tours where you can learn to find and harvest wild growing plants for food and medicine Fee is $12 ($6 for children under 12), sliding scale. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds. Tours this month in the NYC area are: 3/3 in Central Park; 3/4 in Prospect Park, Brooklyn; 3/10 in Forest Park, Kew Gardens, Queens; 3/11 in Marine Park, Brooklyn; 3/17 in Alley Pond Park, Douglaston, Queens; 3/18 in Central Park, 3/24 in Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan; 3/25 in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Check the details and sign up at http://wildmanstevebrill.com/ or call (914) 835-2153.GRUB COMMUNITY BUILDING MEAL
1st and 3rd Sunday of every month.A mostly freegan dinner for strangers and co-conspirators in a relaxed environment. There is no charge but donations are requested. Organized by In Our Hearts and Toy Shop collectives; at Rubulad, 338 Flushing Avenue(between Classon & Taaffe - near the Navy Yard) in Brooklyn. 1st and 3rd Sunday of every month. Doors open 6:30; dinner around 7:00. More info at http://www.toyshopcollective.com/grub.html
http://freegan.info/?page=Events
Thursday, March 1, 2007
MySpace Trackers Gave in
NY youths in plea deal in MySpace case
By LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent Mon Feb 26, 11:40 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - Two New York men accused of trying to extort $150,000 from MySpace.com by developing code that tracked visitors pleaded no contest Monday to illegal computer access in a bargain with the prosecution.
Two counts of attempted extortion and another illegal computer access count were dropped in the deal, which gave the defendants three years probation. Each had faced up to nearly four years in prison.
Shaun Harrison, 19, and Saverio Mondelli, 20, of Suffolk County, N.Y., were accused of demanding the money as a "consulting fee" from the News Corp. subsidiary. The pair were offering the code on their own Web site for $29.95 and claimed to be developing an unbreakable version. MySpace had blocked the existing version after it was discovered.
The popular MySpace social-networking site — where people create elaborate profiles and personalize them with photos, music and video — is supposed to offer anonymity to visitors who browse the pages.
But Harrison and Mondelli's program collected e-mail addresses and Internet Protocol addresses, prosecutors said. Such information could have been used by stalkers trying to locate MySpace users, said Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey A. McGrath.
The men sold access to several versions of the code to computer users, who could then apply it to their own MySpace profiles. That type of traffic monitoring violates MySpace's rules.
The men boasted they had around 85,000 registered users of their tracking program, but investigators have not determined how much information users were able to cull, McGrath said.
The plea bargain, also agreed to by Paul L. Gabbert, attorney for the young men, severely restricts their access to computers, limits them to one e-mail address each, and requires they do 160 hours of community service and pay MySpace $13,500 in restitution.
Superior Court Commissioner Kristi Lousteau told the defendants that if they violate their agreement they could go to prison. She said they will be subject to search of their computers at any time and they may not access MySpace.com directly or indirectly.
The defendants stood before the commissioner and acknowledged the terms of the agreement, but neither spoke other than to answer "yes."
Outside court, Gabbert said that the agreement came from "the recognition that they are young and made a mistake and to give them a second chance."
He said they set up their business right out of high school, are going to college and "they will continue to be creative and not transgress the law."
McGrath said the young men, who were extremely proficient in the Web multimedia program Flash, were discovered by the operators of MySpace and were sent a "cease and desist" order by e-mail.
The pair sent a reply saying, "We will neither cease nor desist" and announced on their Web site that they were developing an even more sophisticated system that would soon be for sale, prosecutors said.
The problem for MySpace was that the pair's identities were not known because they were operating under pseudonyms.
The prosecution said the company then began "quasi negotiations" with the two. They were arrested last May when they flew to Los Angeles to collect the $150,000 but actually met with undercover
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Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer for MySpace, said the site is committed to protecting users.
"We are pleased with outcome of this case and hope that it sends a message to anyone thinking about causing harm to the MySpace community," Nigam said in an e-mail statement.
McGrath said there are other companies offering similar services on the Internet and that MySpace is constantly trying to shut them down.
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LOS ANGELES - Two New York men accused of trying to extort $150,000 from MySpace.com by developing code that tracked visitors pleaded no contest Monday to illegal computer access in a bargain with the prosecution.
Two counts of attempted extortion and another illegal computer access count were dropped in the deal, which gave the defendants three years probation. Each had faced up to nearly four years in prison.
Shaun Harrison, 19, and Saverio Mondelli, 20, of Suffolk County, N.Y., were accused of demanding the money as a "consulting fee" from the News Corp. subsidiary. The pair were offering the code on their own Web site for $29.95 and claimed to be developing an unbreakable version. MySpace had blocked the existing version after it was discovered.
The popular MySpace social-networking site — where people create elaborate profiles and personalize them with photos, music and video — is supposed to offer anonymity to visitors who browse the pages.
But Harrison and Mondelli's program collected e-mail addresses and Internet Protocol addresses, prosecutors said. Such information could have been used by stalkers trying to locate MySpace users, said Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey A. McGrath.
The men sold access to several versions of the code to computer users, who could then apply it to their own MySpace profiles. That type of traffic monitoring violates MySpace's rules.
The men boasted they had around 85,000 registered users of their tracking program, but investigators have not determined how much information users were able to cull, McGrath said.
The plea bargain, also agreed to by Paul L. Gabbert, attorney for the young men, severely restricts their access to computers, limits them to one e-mail address each, and requires they do 160 hours of community service and pay MySpace $13,500 in restitution.
Superior Court Commissioner Kristi Lousteau told the defendants that if they violate their agreement they could go to prison. She said they will be subject to search of their computers at any time and they may not access MySpace.com directly or indirectly.
The defendants stood before the commissioner and acknowledged the terms of the agreement, but neither spoke other than to answer "yes."
Outside court, Gabbert said that the agreement came from "the recognition that they are young and made a mistake and to give them a second chance."
He said they set up their business right out of high school, are going to college and "they will continue to be creative and not transgress the law."
McGrath said the young men, who were extremely proficient in the Web multimedia program Flash, were discovered by the operators of MySpace and were sent a "cease and desist" order by e-mail.
The pair sent a reply saying, "We will neither cease nor desist" and announced on their Web site that they were developing an even more sophisticated system that would soon be for sale, prosecutors said.
The problem for MySpace was that the pair's identities were not known because they were operating under pseudonyms.
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McGrath said there are other companies offering similar services on the Internet and that MySpace is constantly trying to shut them down.
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Career Fairs at Columbia U
CAREER FAIRS
Tip Sheets
Career Fairs
Career Education offers several job fairs and collaborates with other career centers at Columbia University and its affiliated institutions, which allows students to explore a wide variety of career fields, employers, and types of employment.
Career fairs provide students with the opportunity to distribute their resumes and market themselves, while simultaneously allowing them to gather more information about various companies and organizations for which they might want to work. See the Career Fair tip sheet and learn how to make the most of a job fair.
Each year, Career Education hosts a number of events, including the Fall Career Fair, Career Week, Networking Receptions, Not-for-Profit Career Fair, and Education Career Fairs. Check the Center for Career Education calendar for the most up-to-date information on Career Fairs.
Columbia's Ivy Plus eCareer Fair
February 19, 2007 12:01am EST to March 1, 2007 11:59pm EST
World Wide Web
Columbia, MIT, Caltech, and Cornell University would like to invite you to participate in the 6th annual Ivy Plus eCareer Fair, powered by MonsterTRAK.
An eFair is a web based "job efair" exclusively for students from participating institutions. Last year's eCareer Fair was a huge success generating over 8,000 student resumes from these four elite universities.
Students interested in participating in the fair will be able to submit resumes using their Columbiatrak accounts once the fair begins.
Employers interested in participating can find more information at http://static.monstertrak.monster.com/efair/html/ivy2007.html
For further information regarding this event, please contact Center for Career Education by sending email to careereducation@columbia.edu .
Women in Public Service Reception
February 26, 2007 from 6:00pm EST to 8:00pm EST
North Tower, 17th Floor, Sulzberger Hall
Women in Public Service Reception
Please join us for a celebration of Black Womanhood Week.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Center for Career Education by sending email to careereducation@columbia.edu .
Careers in Counseling & Social Work
February 27, 2007 from 6:00pm EST to 8:00pm EST
Center for Career Education, East Campus, Conference Room
Careers in Counseling & Social Work
The "Careers In ..." series gives students a unique opportunity to connect with Columbia alumni and other established professionals in a diverse group of industries. The focus of the "Careers In ..." series is to facilitate student learning about industries and career paths by providing an opportunity to hear from employers and alumni directly.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Center for Career Education by sending an email to careereducation@columbia.edu.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Center for Career Education by sending email to careereducation@columbia.edu .
We encourage participants to register in advance. Please RSVP by February 26, 2007 at 5:00pm EST
Careers in Charter Schools
February 28, 2007 from 6:00pm EST to 7:30pm EST
Teachers College, 177 Grace Dodge
Careers in Charter Schools
Careers in Charter Schools is a panel discussion which explores the unique issues related to working in charter schools and what career opportunities will be available in the future. Panelists include: Becca Weinstein, Head Recruiter for Achievement First, Sheila Lopez, Director of Instructional Development from Harlem Success Academy Charter School and Dirk Tillotson, Chief Operations Officer from NYC Center for Charter School Excellence.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Center for Career Education by sending email to careereducation@columbia.edu .
Women in Foreign Policy Mentoring Night
March 1, 2007 from 6:30pm EST to 9:00pm EST
Faculty House, East Campus
Women in Foreign Policy Mentoring Night
The Women’s Foreign Policy Group (WFPG) will host its 2007 Annual Mentoring Fair on March 1, 2007. All undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to attend. Our mentoring fair is a unique and exciting opportunity for students to meet WFPG members, to speak informally with these experts about their career experiences, and to find out what skills are required to become involved in their given fields. Our members are women leaders in the foreign affairs community, drawn from organizations such as the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations, NGOs, international corporations, the media, and academia. This is also a great chance to make contacts with professionals who can provide practical advice and guidance in career planning. Students who have RSVPed will receive an updated list of the organizations that will be represented. Please RSVP to reserve your spot online at www.wfpg.org. Space is limited so please RSVP well in advance. This event is free for Columbia students.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Center for Career Education by sending email to careereducation@columbia.edu .
2007 Not-For-Profit / Public Service Career Fair
March 2, 2007 from 11:00am EST to 4:00pm EST
Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall
An opportunity for students to explore careers in the Not-For-Profit sector.
The Spring 2007 Not-for-Profit Career Fair, co-hosted by the Columbia Center for Career Education, Teachers College Career Services, CU School of Social Work, CU School of International and Public Affairs, and Barnard College Office of Career Development, allows students and alumni to explore a wide variety of career fields, employers, and types of employment.
Interested in a Career In...Arts?Education?Engineering?Foundations?Government?Healthcare?Humanitarian Efforts?Healthcare?International Development?Law?And many more!Discover all the ways you can make an impact at the Not-For-Profit / Public Service Career Fair.For a full list of employers, click "Who's Coming."Business attire required.
Employers - The last day to register is February 20th!!
Job seekers are not required to register.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Patrick Smith by sending email to ps2211@columbia.edu or by calling 212-854-5496.
The registration deadline for this event, February 23, 2007 at 3:01pm EST, has passed.
Who's Coming?For a full list of registrants, please click here.
Pre K-12 Education Career Fair
March 22, 2007 from 2:00pm EST to 6:00pm EST
Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall
Pre K-12 Education Career Fair
The 2007 PreK-12 Education Career Fair gives students the opportunity to meet with representatives from over 100 schools nationwide regarding career opportunities in teaching, counseling, administration, and more! This once a year event is not to be missed for those seeking employment in the field of education.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Center for Career Education by sending email to careereducation@columbia.edu .
http://www.cce.columbia.edu/students/find_a_job/career_fairs.php
Not for Profit / Public Service Career Fair 2007
NOT-FOR-PROFIT/
PUBLIC SERVICE
CAREER FAIR 2007
Friday, March 2, 2007
11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Alfred Lerner Hall
West 115th Streetand Broadway
http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/lerner.html
11:00am – 12:00pm Career Fair open ONLY to Columbia University students and alumni
12:00pm – 4:00pm Career Fair open to ALL students and alumni of participating schools
Students interested in...
Arts
Education
Engineering
Foundations
Government
Healthcare
Humanitarian Efforts
International Development
Law
And many more!
Discover ways to make an impact at the Not-For-Profit/ Public Service Career Fair.
Professional Attire Required.
Download Not For Profit Career Weeks Calendar
Partial List of Expected Employers:
Academy for Educational Development
Amber Charter School
American Symphony Orchestra League
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Breakthrough Collaborative
Bronx Lighthouse Charter School
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy
Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
Brooklyn Museum
BUNAC USA
Camp Huntington
Camp Laurel
CDS International, Inc.
Center For Family Life
Charles Necthem Associates, Inc.
Children's PressLine
Children's Rights
Citizen Schools
City Parks Foundation
CityYear
Columbia University
Common Cents
Community Education Alliance of West Philadelphia (CEAWP)
Council On Accreditation
Council on Foreign Relations
DEA
Democracy Prep Charter School
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Fiver Children's Foundation
Fund for Public Interest Research
Good Shepherd Services
Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.
Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy Charter School
Harlem Success Academy Charter School
Hearts & Minds
Homes for the Homeless, Homes for the Homeless Summer Camps, the Institute for Children and Poverty
Housing & Services, Inc.
Human Development Services of Westchester
Independent School Placement
International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC)
Jewish Child Care Association
KIPP NYC
Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA)
LIPIX (Long Island Patient Information eXchange)
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Los Ninos Services
MDRC
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Mississippi Teacher Corps
MTA New York City Transit
N.Y.P.D.
National Center for Learning Disabilities
New Leaders for New Schools
New Victory Theater / New 42nd Street
New York Foundation for Senior Citizens
New York Interschool Faculty Diversity Search Program
New York State Office of the State Comptroller
New York State Police
New York University
Northfield Mount Hermon Upward Bound
NYC Office of Management and Budget
NYC Teaching Fellows
NYS Office of the State Comptroller
Oasis Children's Services
Peace Corps
Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center
Safe Horizon
Selfhelp Community Services Inc.
South Asian Youth Action
Spirituality For Kids
Students Partnership Worldwide
The 52nd Street Project
The Boys' Club of New York
The Children's Aid Society
The Doe Fund, Inc
The East Harlem School (EHS)
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
The Foundation Center
The Fresh Air Fund
The Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services, Inc
The Jewish Coalition for Service
The Moth- Storyville Center for the Spoken Word
The New York County District Attorney's Office
The New York Public Library
The Patrons Program
The Pension Boards-United Church of Christ
The Urban Institute
The Women's Mosaic
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Trinity Wall Street
U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Department of State
Union Semester
UNITE HERE
United States Secret Service
US Army
US Department of Justice
US Marine Corps
VISIONS Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE
Working Families Party
YAI/National Institute for People with Disabilities
YMCA of Greater New York
For additional information check the Career Education Events Calendar.
http://www.cce.columbia.edu/index.php
Tip Sheets
Career Fairs
Career Education offers several job fairs and collaborates with other career centers at Columbia University and its affiliated institutions, which allows students to explore a wide variety of career fields, employers, and types of employment.
Career fairs provide students with the opportunity to distribute their resumes and market themselves, while simultaneously allowing them to gather more information about various companies and organizations for which they might want to work. See the Career Fair tip sheet and learn how to make the most of a job fair.
Each year, Career Education hosts a number of events, including the Fall Career Fair, Career Week, Networking Receptions, Not-for-Profit Career Fair, and Education Career Fairs. Check the Center for Career Education calendar for the most up-to-date information on Career Fairs.
Columbia's Ivy Plus eCareer Fair
February 19, 2007 12:01am EST to March 1, 2007 11:59pm EST
World Wide Web
Columbia, MIT, Caltech, and Cornell University would like to invite you to participate in the 6th annual Ivy Plus eCareer Fair, powered by MonsterTRAK.
An eFair is a web based "job efair" exclusively for students from participating institutions. Last year's eCareer Fair was a huge success generating over 8,000 student resumes from these four elite universities.
Students interested in participating in the fair will be able to submit resumes using their Columbiatrak accounts once the fair begins.
Employers interested in participating can find more information at http://static.monstertrak.monster.com/efair/html/ivy2007.html
For further information regarding this event, please contact Center for Career Education by sending email to careereducation@columbia.edu .
Women in Public Service Reception
February 26, 2007 from 6:00pm EST to 8:00pm EST
North Tower, 17th Floor, Sulzberger Hall
Women in Public Service Reception
Please join us for a celebration of Black Womanhood Week.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Center for Career Education by sending email to careereducation@columbia.edu .
Careers in Counseling & Social Work
February 27, 2007 from 6:00pm EST to 8:00pm EST
Center for Career Education, East Campus, Conference Room
Careers in Counseling & Social Work
The "Careers In ..." series gives students a unique opportunity to connect with Columbia alumni and other established professionals in a diverse group of industries. The focus of the "Careers In ..." series is to facilitate student learning about industries and career paths by providing an opportunity to hear from employers and alumni directly.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Center for Career Education by sending an email to careereducation@columbia.edu.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Center for Career Education by sending email to careereducation@columbia.edu .
We encourage participants to register in advance. Please RSVP by February 26, 2007 at 5:00pm EST
Careers in Charter Schools
February 28, 2007 from 6:00pm EST to 7:30pm EST
Teachers College, 177 Grace Dodge
Careers in Charter Schools
Careers in Charter Schools is a panel discussion which explores the unique issues related to working in charter schools and what career opportunities will be available in the future. Panelists include: Becca Weinstein, Head Recruiter for Achievement First, Sheila Lopez, Director of Instructional Development from Harlem Success Academy Charter School and Dirk Tillotson, Chief Operations Officer from NYC Center for Charter School Excellence.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Center for Career Education by sending email to careereducation@columbia.edu .
Women in Foreign Policy Mentoring Night
March 1, 2007 from 6:30pm EST to 9:00pm EST
Faculty House, East Campus
Women in Foreign Policy Mentoring Night
The Women’s Foreign Policy Group (WFPG) will host its 2007 Annual Mentoring Fair on March 1, 2007. All undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to attend. Our mentoring fair is a unique and exciting opportunity for students to meet WFPG members, to speak informally with these experts about their career experiences, and to find out what skills are required to become involved in their given fields. Our members are women leaders in the foreign affairs community, drawn from organizations such as the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations, NGOs, international corporations, the media, and academia. This is also a great chance to make contacts with professionals who can provide practical advice and guidance in career planning. Students who have RSVPed will receive an updated list of the organizations that will be represented. Please RSVP to reserve your spot online at www.wfpg.org. Space is limited so please RSVP well in advance. This event is free for Columbia students.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Center for Career Education by sending email to careereducation@columbia.edu .
2007 Not-For-Profit / Public Service Career Fair
March 2, 2007 from 11:00am EST to 4:00pm EST
Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall
An opportunity for students to explore careers in the Not-For-Profit sector.
The Spring 2007 Not-for-Profit Career Fair, co-hosted by the Columbia Center for Career Education, Teachers College Career Services, CU School of Social Work, CU School of International and Public Affairs, and Barnard College Office of Career Development, allows students and alumni to explore a wide variety of career fields, employers, and types of employment.
Interested in a Career In...Arts?Education?Engineering?Foundations?Government?Healthcare?Humanitarian Efforts?Healthcare?International Development?Law?And many more!Discover all the ways you can make an impact at the Not-For-Profit / Public Service Career Fair.For a full list of employers, click "Who's Coming."Business attire required.
Employers - The last day to register is February 20th!!
Job seekers are not required to register.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Patrick Smith by sending email to ps2211@columbia.edu or by calling 212-854-5496.
The registration deadline for this event, February 23, 2007 at 3:01pm EST, has passed.
Who's Coming?For a full list of registrants, please click here.
Pre K-12 Education Career Fair
March 22, 2007 from 2:00pm EST to 6:00pm EST
Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall
Pre K-12 Education Career Fair
The 2007 PreK-12 Education Career Fair gives students the opportunity to meet with representatives from over 100 schools nationwide regarding career opportunities in teaching, counseling, administration, and more! This once a year event is not to be missed for those seeking employment in the field of education.
For further information regarding this event, please contact Center for Career Education by sending email to careereducation@columbia.edu .
http://www.cce.columbia.edu/students/find_a_job/career_fairs.php
Not for Profit / Public Service Career Fair 2007
NOT-FOR-PROFIT/
PUBLIC SERVICE
CAREER FAIR 2007
Friday, March 2, 2007
11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Alfred Lerner Hall
West 115th Streetand Broadway
http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/lerner.html
11:00am – 12:00pm Career Fair open ONLY to Columbia University students and alumni
12:00pm – 4:00pm Career Fair open to ALL students and alumni of participating schools
Students interested in...
Arts
Education
Engineering
Foundations
Government
Healthcare
Humanitarian Efforts
International Development
Law
And many more!
Discover ways to make an impact at the Not-For-Profit/ Public Service Career Fair.
Professional Attire Required.
Download Not For Profit Career Weeks Calendar
Partial List of Expected Employers:
Academy for Educational Development
Amber Charter School
American Symphony Orchestra League
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Breakthrough Collaborative
Bronx Lighthouse Charter School
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy
Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
Brooklyn Museum
BUNAC USA
Camp Huntington
Camp Laurel
CDS International, Inc.
Center For Family Life
Charles Necthem Associates, Inc.
Children's PressLine
Children's Rights
Citizen Schools
City Parks Foundation
CityYear
Columbia University
Common Cents
Community Education Alliance of West Philadelphia (CEAWP)
Council On Accreditation
Council on Foreign Relations
DEA
Democracy Prep Charter School
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Fiver Children's Foundation
Fund for Public Interest Research
Good Shepherd Services
Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.
Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy Charter School
Harlem Success Academy Charter School
Hearts & Minds
Homes for the Homeless, Homes for the Homeless Summer Camps, the Institute for Children and Poverty
Housing & Services, Inc.
Human Development Services of Westchester
Independent School Placement
International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC)
Jewish Child Care Association
KIPP NYC
Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA)
LIPIX (Long Island Patient Information eXchange)
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Los Ninos Services
MDRC
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Mississippi Teacher Corps
MTA New York City Transit
N.Y.P.D.
National Center for Learning Disabilities
New Leaders for New Schools
New Victory Theater / New 42nd Street
New York Foundation for Senior Citizens
New York Interschool Faculty Diversity Search Program
New York State Office of the State Comptroller
New York State Police
New York University
Northfield Mount Hermon Upward Bound
NYC Office of Management and Budget
NYC Teaching Fellows
NYS Office of the State Comptroller
Oasis Children's Services
Peace Corps
Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center
Safe Horizon
Selfhelp Community Services Inc.
South Asian Youth Action
Spirituality For Kids
Students Partnership Worldwide
The 52nd Street Project
The Boys' Club of New York
The Children's Aid Society
The Doe Fund, Inc
The East Harlem School (EHS)
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
The Foundation Center
The Fresh Air Fund
The Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services, Inc
The Jewish Coalition for Service
The Moth- Storyville Center for the Spoken Word
The New York County District Attorney's Office
The New York Public Library
The Patrons Program
The Pension Boards-United Church of Christ
The Urban Institute
The Women's Mosaic
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Trinity Wall Street
U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Department of State
Union Semester
UNITE HERE
United States Secret Service
US Army
US Department of Justice
US Marine Corps
VISIONS Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE
Working Families Party
YAI/National Institute for People with Disabilities
YMCA of Greater New York
For additional information check the Career Education Events Calendar.
http://www.cce.columbia.edu/index.php
Rats Next to Your NY Fried Chicken and Tacos...Eeew!
Rats run wild in KFC-Taco Bell in N.Y.
By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer Sat Feb 24, 4:05 AM ET
NEW YORK - The parent company of KFC and Taco Bell — still smarting from last year's
E. coli scare — has been forced back into damage-control mode after television cameras caught rats scampering around a restaurant floor.
As health inspectors descended on a KFC and Taco Bell eatery in Manhattan's Greenwich Village on Friday, Yum Brands Inc. hastened to show that it also was taking the rodents seriously.
"Nothing is more important to us than the health and safety of our customers. This is completely unacceptable and is an absolute violation of our high standards," Yum Brands said in a statement.
The franchise owner "is actively addressing this issue," the statement said, adding that the restaurant will remain closed until the problem is "completely resolved."
A TV crew discovered the rat infestation and began filming through a window of the building early Friday. About a dozen rats were filmed racing around the restaurant's floors, playing with each other and sniffing for food as they dashed around tables and children's high chairs.
The restaurant was not open at the time, and the company later said construction in the basement on Thursday appeared to have stirred up the rats.
Onlookers could not keep their eyes away from the jaw-dropping sight — a gang of urban vermin invading a restaurant that had been taking people's chicken and taco orders just a day earlier. Video of the rats was seen around the world, disseminated on TV stations and the Internet.
"They should handcuff them and throw the dirty rats in jail," cabbie Wilson Paul said as he pulled over to gawk.
Rats have long been a problem in New York City, with such a dense population and such a large and readily available food supply for the rodents. They are frequently seen scampering through subway tunnels, rooting through trash, dashing across parks and burrowing into the walls of apartment buildings.
Greenwich Village tends to be a happy home for them because of its combination of older buildings and a tangle of subway lines converging just below street level.
Still, it is rare to see so many rats congregating in one place in such public view.
The city Department of Health had inspectors at the site on Friday for hours, and by midday had posted a sign that read "CLOSED."
"Today, this establishment had serious unsanitary conditions," said Carol Feracho, a senior health inspector. "There were issues with vermin throughout."
She said the infestation was "coming from the building," with "openings" that allowed the vermin to enter. She provided no other details.
There was no answer at the phone number displayed in neon on the store window below the words "We Deliver." Department of Health spokeswoman Sara Markt said agency records list the franchise owner as ADF Fifth Operating Corp. The owner could not be reached for comment, despite numerous efforts.
Joel Cohen, who lives in the building next to the restaurant, had a graphic view of the situation.
"I'm living over the place that is feeding the rats of New York City," said Cohen, who works in real estate. "This place is a disaster. They throw their rubbish in the doorways. It's loaded up with food in bags that are not tied, and the rats have eaten through the bags."
Gregory Moore, a retired city administrator who lives on a nearby street, called the situation "pretty horrendous. The rats have made a grand play here."
Last week, it was reported that Taco Bell sales had slumped after the widely publicized E. coli scare, but that international sales helped Yum Brands in the company's fourth quarter.
The E. coli outbreak late last year caused more than 70 Taco Bell customers to become ill. Federal officials said in December that the most likely source of the illnesses was lettuce. Taco Bell took precautions by changing its suppliers of lettuce and cheese in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Yum Brands stock closed Friday at $60.51, down 55 cents.
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Associated Press Writer Pat Milton contributed to this report.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070224/ap_on_fe_st/restaurant_rats;_ylt=AqkeB7oX7bmr55XoCyZhqVouQE4F
By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer Sat Feb 24, 4:05 AM ET
NEW YORK - The parent company of KFC and Taco Bell — still smarting from last year's
E. coli scare — has been forced back into damage-control mode after television cameras caught rats scampering around a restaurant floor.
As health inspectors descended on a KFC and Taco Bell eatery in Manhattan's Greenwich Village on Friday, Yum Brands Inc. hastened to show that it also was taking the rodents seriously.
"Nothing is more important to us than the health and safety of our customers. This is completely unacceptable and is an absolute violation of our high standards," Yum Brands said in a statement.
The franchise owner "is actively addressing this issue," the statement said, adding that the restaurant will remain closed until the problem is "completely resolved."
A TV crew discovered the rat infestation and began filming through a window of the building early Friday. About a dozen rats were filmed racing around the restaurant's floors, playing with each other and sniffing for food as they dashed around tables and children's high chairs.
The restaurant was not open at the time, and the company later said construction in the basement on Thursday appeared to have stirred up the rats.
Onlookers could not keep their eyes away from the jaw-dropping sight — a gang of urban vermin invading a restaurant that had been taking people's chicken and taco orders just a day earlier. Video of the rats was seen around the world, disseminated on TV stations and the Internet.
"They should handcuff them and throw the dirty rats in jail," cabbie Wilson Paul said as he pulled over to gawk.
Rats have long been a problem in New York City, with such a dense population and such a large and readily available food supply for the rodents. They are frequently seen scampering through subway tunnels, rooting through trash, dashing across parks and burrowing into the walls of apartment buildings.
Greenwich Village tends to be a happy home for them because of its combination of older buildings and a tangle of subway lines converging just below street level.
Still, it is rare to see so many rats congregating in one place in such public view.
The city Department of Health had inspectors at the site on Friday for hours, and by midday had posted a sign that read "CLOSED."
"Today, this establishment had serious unsanitary conditions," said Carol Feracho, a senior health inspector. "There were issues with vermin throughout."
She said the infestation was "coming from the building," with "openings" that allowed the vermin to enter. She provided no other details.
There was no answer at the phone number displayed in neon on the store window below the words "We Deliver." Department of Health spokeswoman Sara Markt said agency records list the franchise owner as ADF Fifth Operating Corp. The owner could not be reached for comment, despite numerous efforts.
Joel Cohen, who lives in the building next to the restaurant, had a graphic view of the situation.
"I'm living over the place that is feeding the rats of New York City," said Cohen, who works in real estate. "This place is a disaster. They throw their rubbish in the doorways. It's loaded up with food in bags that are not tied, and the rats have eaten through the bags."
Gregory Moore, a retired city administrator who lives on a nearby street, called the situation "pretty horrendous. The rats have made a grand play here."
Last week, it was reported that Taco Bell sales had slumped after the widely publicized E. coli scare, but that international sales helped Yum Brands in the company's fourth quarter.
The E. coli outbreak late last year caused more than 70 Taco Bell customers to become ill. Federal officials said in December that the most likely source of the illnesses was lettuce. Taco Bell took precautions by changing its suppliers of lettuce and cheese in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Yum Brands stock closed Friday at $60.51, down 55 cents.
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Associated Press Writer Pat Milton contributed to this report.
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Beaver Seen in NYC; First in Centuries
Beaver seen in NYC; first in centuries
Fri Feb 23, 5:49 PM ET
NEW YORK - Beavers grace New York City's official seal. But the industrious rodents haven't been spotted here for as many as 200 years — until this week.
Biologists videotaped a beaver swimming up the Bronx River on Wednesday. Its twig-and-mud lodge had been spotted earlier on the river bank, but the tape confirmed the presence of the animal.
"It had to happen because beaver populations are expanding, and their habitats are shrinking," said Dietland Muller-Schwarze, a beaver expert at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. "We're probably going to see more of them."
Beavers gnawed out a prominent place in the city's early days as a European settlement, attracting fur traders to a nascent Manhattan. The animal appears in the city seal to symbolize a Dutch trading company that factored in the city's colonial beginnings, according to the city's Web site.
But amid heavy trapping, beavers disappeared from the city in the early 1800s, according to the city Department of Parks & Recreation.
The beaver that has made its way to the Bronx appears to be a male, several feet long and 2 or 3 years old, said Patrick Thomas, the mammals curator at the nearby Bronx Zoo.
Biologists have nicknamed the animal Jose, as a tribute to Rep. Jose Serrano (news, bio, voting record)'s work to revive the river. The Bronx Democrat lined up federal money for a cleanup.
"But I don't know to what extent I imagined things living in it again," he said.
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A beaver swims in New York City's Bronx River, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007. After its twig-and-mud lodge had been spotted earlier on the river bank, biologists photographed New York's State Mammal in the river after a 200 year absence. Amid heavy trapping, beavers disappeared from the city in the early 1800s, according to the city Department of Parks & Recreation, but may become more common as their populations expand and development cause their habitats to shrink. (AP Photo/Wildlife Conservation Society, Julie Larsen Maher )
Fri Feb 23, 5:49 PM ET
NEW YORK - Beavers grace New York City's official seal. But the industrious rodents haven't been spotted here for as many as 200 years — until this week.
Biologists videotaped a beaver swimming up the Bronx River on Wednesday. Its twig-and-mud lodge had been spotted earlier on the river bank, but the tape confirmed the presence of the animal.
"It had to happen because beaver populations are expanding, and their habitats are shrinking," said Dietland Muller-Schwarze, a beaver expert at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. "We're probably going to see more of them."
Beavers gnawed out a prominent place in the city's early days as a European settlement, attracting fur traders to a nascent Manhattan. The animal appears in the city seal to symbolize a Dutch trading company that factored in the city's colonial beginnings, according to the city's Web site.
But amid heavy trapping, beavers disappeared from the city in the early 1800s, according to the city Department of Parks & Recreation.
The beaver that has made its way to the Bronx appears to be a male, several feet long and 2 or 3 years old, said Patrick Thomas, the mammals curator at the nearby Bronx Zoo.
Biologists have nicknamed the animal Jose, as a tribute to Rep. Jose Serrano (news, bio, voting record)'s work to revive the river. The Bronx Democrat lined up federal money for a cleanup.
"But I don't know to what extent I imagined things living in it again," he said.
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A beaver swims in New York City's Bronx River, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007. After its twig-and-mud lodge had been spotted earlier on the river bank, biologists photographed New York's State Mammal in the river after a 200 year absence. Amid heavy trapping, beavers disappeared from the city in the early 1800s, according to the city Department of Parks & Recreation, but may become more common as their populations expand and development cause their habitats to shrink. (AP Photo/Wildlife Conservation Society, Julie Larsen Maher )
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