The New York Observer, October 2nd, 2007
8:30 a.m. The Manhattan Institute will host conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of Allan Bloom's book, “The Closing of the American Mind” at the Princeton Club, 15 West 43rd Street.
9 a.m. Operation HOPE will open a new education and banking center in Harlem at 2511 Frederick Douglass Boulevard at West 134th Street.
9 a.m. The New York Public Library will celebrate a switch from traditional light bulbs to “green” compact fluorescents at The Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.
10 a.m. Assembly Republicans will host a forum on the governor's proposal to give driver licenses to illegal immigrants at 250 Broadway, across from City Hall between Murray and Park streets.
10 a.m. The Taxi Workers Alliance will announce the details of its second strike against the installation of GPS and credit-card processing systems outside Penn Station, 31st Street and Eighth Avenue.
11:30 a.m. A Compressed Natural Gas refueling station will open in Central Park at the 86th Street Transverse, between Central Park West and Fifth Avenue.
Noon. Council member Alan Gerson will join residents to demand that the Department of Transportation respond to safety concerts regarding the Houston Street reconstruction project at the corner of LaGuardia Place and Houston Street.
1 p.m. Council members will honor “Desert Bayou” filmmaker Alex LeMay at City Hall.
6 p.m. Council member Letitia James will host an anti-displacement Town Hall meeting at Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 South Oxford Place, in Brooklyn.
7 p.m. Elizabeth Edwards, wife of John Edwards, will speak on NPR’s All Thing Considered.
