Sunday, September 4, 2011
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Mo Meter - Six More to Go
Our friends at the 161th. Street Bid are at it again, and this time they have a Mo Meter in front of the picture of Mariano Rivera outside Yankee Stadium. Rivera is only six saves away from being the all time leader in saves, as Trevor Hoffman is currently the leader in all time saves with 601. Rivera is currently in second place with 596 saves, all coming with one team the Yankees.
As when Derek Jeter hit his 3,000th hit, there will be a party on 161th Street, with cake served to celebrate another all time baseball record broken by another career Yankee player.
Speaking of Derek Jeter, he has moved into 19th place on the all time hit list passing now #20 Craig Biggio who had 3060 career hits. Jeter now has 3064 hits, and next up is #18 Dave Winfield with 3110 hits. with 26 games left in the 2011 baseball season left Jeter may have to wait until next season to pass Winfield. Also with another season like he had this year, Jeter could wind up #10 on the all time hit list at the end of next season right behind the great Willie Mays.
Friday, September 2, 2011
COUNCILMAN KOPPELL AND CHURCH OF THE MEDIATOR SPONSOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS DAY
Council Member Oliver Koppell, The Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Medicare Rights Center, and Big Apple Rx invite you to get----
Blood pressure screening, nutritional information, free massages, health information, benefit screening, prescription assistance, giveaways, entertainment and more.
At The Church of the Mediator
260 West 231st Street and Kingsbridge Avenue
Saturday, September 10, 2011 11AM to 3 PM.
Could There Be an End to The Silk Stocking Congressional District?
The Daily News has a piece on how the Dominican American National Roundtable would radically change the 14th congressional district to make it possible to elect the first Dominican-American member of Congress. The story has the redistricting hopes of DANR which include changing current Bronx congressional districts also.
The 15th Congressional district drawn as a black minority district has changed, and is now more Hispanic than black, as the district lines were drawn. To correct that DANR proposes that the 15th CD extend through the Bronx into Mount Vernon to regain a black majority.
The 14th CD would then pick up the Manhattan Dominican and other Dominicans from the Bronx to create a new Dominican-American congressional district. Current 14th Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney's district would go from a 2/3 majority of white upper east side Manhattan voters to a district with less than 1/3 of a white vote, and 2/3 Hispanic.
You can read the whole story by Celeste Katz of the Daily News here.