Tag: Amsterdam News

  • Amsterdam News

    Amsterdam News

    Commanding Officer Maisonet A huge thank you to the 25th Precinct’s Commanding Officer Maisonet. His tenure has witnessed notable improvements and ‘good neighbor’ behavior at his precinct. Walking past the back of the precinct’s parking lot along Park Avenue shows a clean sidewalk – not the trash filled experience neighbors had witnessed for years. Thank…

  • Thomas Sankara in Harlem

    Thomas Sankara in Harlem

    The 5th President of Burkina Faso -Thomas Sankara (1949-1987) – visited Harlem in 1984 to give an impassioned speech asking for solidarity between Africans and the African diaspora. Sankara spoke at Harriet Tubman Elementary School (P.S. 154) in Harlem, New York City, after the Reagan Administration denied President Sankara an official state visit to the…

  • Randalls Island

    Randalls Island

    At the base of the Triborough bridge (where the pedestrian walkway starts in Astoria) there is a wonderful, vintage and cast metal map of Randalls Island: Note the red button on the right-hand side that indicates where you are. Note how Wards Island was not ‘open’ to the public (greyed out) and had a dock…