The Legal Aid SocietyHas Released A Know Your Rights Guide On Police Encounters For New Yorkers.
This Guide Advises New Yorkers On Their Rights As Protesters; Offers General Information To Those Who Are Arrested; Provides Information On How To Ensure Digital Security And How To Prevent New York Police Department (NYPD) Surreptitious DNA Collection; Describes The Protections Afforded By The Right To Know Act; Details Rights For Photo And Video Recording; And Explains How To Proceed If Your Rights Have Been Violated.
Back in 2019, Hypebeast took us inside the multi-million dollar atelier Gucci built for Dapper Dan in Harlem. Shout out to the King of Uptown Style, Dapper Dan, for a storied career that has spanned decades.
Waaaake up! Wake up! Wake up! The United Palace will screen the seminal 1989 movie “Do the Right Thing” on Sunday, May 15 followed by a talk back with Uptown superhero Lin-Manuel Miranda and film director, producer, actor, professor, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Spike Lee.
Doors open at noon, the 2-hour movie begins at 1pm, followed by the conversation between Mr. Miranda and Mr. Lee at 3pm. Tickets will be made available for reservation at www.unitedpalace.org at 9am on Monday, May 9.
Thanks to the Miranda Family Fund, with support from American Express, all Movies at the United Palace screenings are FREE.
We have a winner familia… After a whole heap of simply stellar submissions, the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) has chosen the winner of the 2022 Uptown Arts Stroll poster contest. Artist Christian Viteri came away with the title with this cool collage that captures the energy, vibrancy and picturesque beauty of Uptown. This year’s Uptown Arts Stroll is going to be something truly special as we are celebrating the 20th Uptown Arts Stroll. Can you believe it? We cannot wait. Uptown is ready and waiting.
Doug Bock Clark, Alexandra Berzon and Kirsten Berg penned an absolute must-read piece in the indispensable ProPublica that takes a long hard look at the building of the “Big Lie.” Check it out ASAP!
For many Dominicans such as myself Dominos is something akin to a religion. We take this Domino Life seriously. S/O @lenin_25 for giving us the different types of Dominican domino players. Which one are you?
New York City has enacted a series of new protections for workers who deliver restaurant orders for third-party food delivery apps.
Effective April 22, delivery workers will receive pay on a weekly basis, can choose how far they’ll travel and what routes they’ll take, receive more information about deliveries before accepting them, and be provided with a free insulated delivery bag.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga announced the new laws, the latest milestone in a legislative effort to improve labor conditions for delivery workers.
“As a blue-collar mayor, I am committed to ensuring every worker in this city has fair, equitable, and safe working conditions,” said Adams in a statement. “Delivery workers brave difficult conditions year-round, often for meager pay, simply to do their jobs. These hard-won protections are critically important to advancing worker justice and giving the more than 65,000 delivery workers across this city the dignity they deserve.”
Many food delivery workers — also known in some neighborhoods as “deliveristas” — lost their jobs when restaurants that employed them were forced to shutter at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
To continue earning pay, they turned to app-based delivery services such as GrubHub, UberEats, Seamless, and DoorDash. The city estimates that there are currently more than 65,000 app-based food delivery workers in the five boroughs.
Applications for the Apollo Theater’s Technical Stage Production Internship are available to rising seniors attending NYC high schools. The Apollo Theater Academy Technical Stage Production Internship provides high school students with opportunities for professional and personal development as they explore careers in Technical Stage Production. Interns learn how to apply technical elements of theater such as lighting design, videography, audio engineering, carpentry, and production design to live and recorded stage productions. Over six (6) weeks, interns are trained by and assigned to work with members of The Apollo’s production crew to learn what goes into creating events at the Apollo Theater.
