Asian Community Block

Time: Thursdays, 2PM to 4PM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000 between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan Free Admission The “Asian Community Block” provides social agencies and cultural organizations with an opportunity to reach out and promote their activities to the more than one million and growing Asian population currently residing within the five … Read more

Gouverneur Hospital Mobile Crisis Team

Asian Community Block Gouverneur Hospital Mobile Crisis Team Gouverneur Hospital Mobile Crisis Team has been in existence since 1968.   It  was the first program of it’s kind in New  York City.  It came about due to a dramatic shift in mentally ill demographics in the city.  There had been a concerted program to deinstitutionalize state … Read more

2007 CUNY Asian American Film Festival

Date: Thursday, May 24, 2007 | Time: 6PM to 8PM Place: CUNY Graduate Center – Martin E. Segal Theatre 365 Fifth Avenue (Corner of 34th Street), Manhattan Fiction Film Winner: Smiling Eyes – Sheauyunn Soo  (Brooklyn College) Runner-up: The Hole in the Sky – Takeshi Fukunaga (Brooklyn College) Honorable Mention: Broadway Bound – Bandar Albuliwi (Brooklyn … Read more

NYC Earthquakes: Fact or Fiction?

Geologists and seismologists generally agree that earthquakes produce dislocations known as faults and that preexisting faults tend to localize new earthquakes. The bedrock of New York City, always considered to be solid and impervious to seismic activity, is cut by a great number of brittle faults which belong to two contrasting sets oriented NE and … Read more