The New York Observer, June 15th, 2007
Saturday
9:30 a.m. Church groups will help build affordable homes for
Bedford-Stuyvesant families at Halsey
Street and Marcus Garvey Boulevard, in
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
10 a.m. A march against violence will start at Fulton Street and Ralph Avenue and end on Fulton Street and Lewis Avenue, in Brooklyn.
10 a.m. The Bronx borough president will host an annual home buyers fair at Monroe College’s
King Hall, 2501 Jerome Avenue,
in the Bronx.
11 a.m. The city’s Department of Education will hold a Town Hall meeting for
parents of public school students at the Brooklyn
Technical High
School, 29 Fort
Greene Place, in Brooklyn.
Noon. The Parks Department and Brooklyn Library will host a Summer
Strawberry Festival at the Children's Garden, Jamaica Avenue and Ashford Street, in Queens.
Noon. The Parks Department and Backpacker Magazine will hold their annual
Adventures NYC outdoor celebration in Central Park’s Naumberg Bandshell, 72nd
Street and Fifth Avenue.
12:30 p.m. CUNY will host a free summer lecture on energy consumption and
conservation on Governors Island.
12:30 p.m. An LGBT gay pride march against violence will start at 301 Grove Street
between Myrtle and Knickerbocker avenues, in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
1 p.m. The Health Village and Safe Streets Coalition will hold a
festival at St. John's Recreational Park,
1251 Prospect Place,
in Brooklyn.
1 p.m. Al Sharpton will host a Harlem health fair at Jackie Robinson Park,
146th Street and Bradhurst Avenue.
4 p.m. The Barefoot Wine Beach Rescue Project will sponsor a Rockaway Beach
cleanup and celebration at Surfer's Beach, 91st Street, Rockaway
Beach, in Queens.
Sunday
11 a.m. The International Immigrants Foundation will host a street fair on Sixth
Avenue between 42nd and 56th streets.
8 p.m. An interview with Chicago Tribune reporter Evan Osnos at the New York City Pace University
studio will air on C-SPAN. He will discuss U.S.
relations with China
and his experiences as a foreign correspondent.
Monday
8 a.m. Goodwill of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey and the Council
on the Environment’s Office of Recycling Outreach and Education will host the
Union Square Greenmarket’s Textile Recycling Day, collecting clothing, shoes,
boots, hats, jackets, towels, bedding, and linens at the northeast corner of
the park.
10 a.m. The city’s Immigration, Public
Safety and Civil Rights committees will discuss community policing at
City Hall.
