9/11 Tribute Center programs are offered throughout the year. Lectures, educational workshops and support programs are available to unite family members who lost loved ones, survivors, Lower Manhattan residents, rescue and recovery workers and volunteers who assisted in the aftermath of 9/11. Visit tributewtc.org for a schedule of upcoming programs and events.
Hurricane Sandy closed the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center for more than two months. Their staff pumped 2 million gallons of water out of the Arts and Culture level and removed everything - including all the walls - and they've repaired, cleaned and painted the upper three floors of the Center. The Center reopened recently, […]
A benefit for NYPD Detective Joe Pidoto will take place on Thursday, February 28, 2013, from 7:00pm to 11:00pm at Mulcahy’s in Wantagh. Joe is suffering from life-threatening gastrointestinal cancer. He is a 45-year-old active detective with the Queens Robbery Squad. He has a loving family. Please help them defray some of the costs of […]
The John Jay Center on Terrorism’s first seminar for the spring semester will be held on Friday, March 1, 2013 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm when Jayne Huckerby will speak on the topic Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism: Human Rights Perspectives. Human rights analyses of the counter-terrorism measures implemented in the aftermath of 11 September 2001 […]
Cycle for Survival is an indoor cycling event held nationwide to fund rare cancer research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. This year's NYC dates are the weekend of March 2-3, 2013. More than half the people diagnosed with cancer have a rare cancer. According to the National Institutes of Health, a “rare” cancer is one […]
The 38th Annual Rockaway St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be held on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 1:00pm. This year’s Grand Marshal will be John Ahern. The Gael of the Year will be Hilary Beirne. The parade route will go west to east down Newport Avenue to Beach 116th Street. The route then turns and will […]
The 12th annual Sean Caton Memorial Foundation Mardi Gras Ball will be held on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at the Park Ridge Marriott in New Jersey. The evening will begin with cocktails at 7:00pm. Dinner will begin at 8:00pm. As always, the evening will be filled with music, dancing, Cajun cuisine, auctions, prizes and surprises. […]