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Community Harlem News “Good News You Can Use” Community Harlem News “Good News You Can Use” Vol. 13 No. 50 December 12 - 18, 2013 FREE The Harlem News Group, Inc. Connecting Harlem, Queens, Brooklyn and The South Bronx Steve Harvey and Judges Select Next Class of Disney Dreamers Academy Students page 10 . Jacob Soul Food Restaurant Gives Back - Free Dinners on Thanksgiving Day page 10 NELSON MANDELA - 1918-2013 Mayor Bloomberg Announces HE CHANGED OUR WORLD Country’s Largest Continuous Free page 17 Public WiFi Network Covering 95 City Community Calendar of Events page 8 Blocks in Harlem face/harlemnewsinc page 3 visit our website: www.harlemnewsgroup.com @harlemnewsinc Harlem News Group COMMUNITY HARLEM . QUEENS . BROOKLYN . BRONX Community HARLEM NEWS Community BROOKLYN NEWS Advertise Community BRONX NEWS Community Today QUEENS NEWS Free copies distributed in your community weekly “GOOD NEWS YOU CAN USE” IN THIS ISSUE: Community page 3 Editorial page 6 Real Estate page 7 Calendar page 8 Pat Stevenson Events page 9 A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER Holiday page 12 Health page 13 Good News You Can Use! Tribute page 17 The World mourns the death of Nel- Lifestyle page 19 Literary Corner page 20 son Mandela, while simultaneously celebrat- Urbanology page 21 ing his legacy. The Apollo marquee was Church page 22 scripted with his memory within hours of his Technology page 23 Classified page 24 passing. Peter Cooper spoke with individuals Crossword Puzzle page 26 who actually met Mr. Mandela and have had a Games/Horoscope page 27 relationship over the years in the tribute we present in this issue.. (see page 17) Publisher/Editor Pat Stevenson Film/Entertainment Roberto Johnson Since its opening in 2008, Jacobs A&E Editor Linda Armstrong Restaurant has graciously opened its doors Art & Cultural Stacey Ann Ellis Adams Report Audrey Adams and provided free dinners from its menu of Travel Editor Audrey Bernard more than 42 items on Thanksgiving day. (see Writer Tobias Salinger Employment Stacey K. Williams page 10) Education Luvon Roberson Steve Harvey and a panel of judges Real Estate Rev. Charles Butler Columnist Bro Bill Defosset met earlier this month in Chicago to review Columnist William A. Rogers thousands of applicants for the Disney Columnist Zakiyyah Columnist Ann Stevenson Dreamers Academy. (see page10) Columnist Arn Ashwood If you want Health Insurance Cover- Columnist Peter Cooper Columnist Stan Rose age by January 1, 2014, you need to go Book Review Terri Schlichenmeyer through the New York Exchange process and Brooklyn Writer Keith Forrest select a provider. You can go online, you can Bronx Writer Howard Giske Queens Photojourn. Juliet Kaye call on the phone or you can do what I did. Society Audrey Bernard Go the Emblem Neighborhood Health office Technology Editor Ron Stephenson Photographer Michelle James on the ground floor at 215 West 125th Street. Photojournalist Seitu Oronde They have a person there who will go through Photojournalist Gideon Manasseh Layout Ann Stevenson the computer program with you. Within an Office/Dist. Assistant Dominic Jones hour I had my insurance coverage and within Office Assistant Tevin Washington Distribution Russell Simmons a couple of days got my first bill. By the way, Computer Dir. David Sinclair if you want to be covered by January 1, you Social Media Mgr. 1209 Affair Our Mission Statement need to pay your premium no later than The Harlem News Group, Inc. will publish posi- Jose Ferrer - Hispanic Mkt. Mgr. December 23rd Hispanic Community Consultant tive news and information. Our mission is to deliver If you want to change your life and William A. Rogers - MWBE Consultant 3 do better. Just start - today. “good” and informative news to our readers focus- Marketing & Strategy Consultant 1 0 2 ing on health, education, housing, business and , When you do business with our advertisers, tell them you saw their ad in the Harlem News Publica- 2 employment opportunities. We look for and publish tions. We appreciate our readers. Send us your opinions. 1 The Harlem News Group assumes no responsibility for return of photographs. r results, not problems. We promote businesses, -Pat Stevenson e b opportunities and events happening in the commu- Next Issue: December 19, 2013 m e nities we serve. We are dedicated to providing our c e readers with valuable information they can use to D A Publication of: improve the quality of life for themselves, their fami- p u lies and our communities. Harlem News Group, Inc. o r Mailing: P.O. Box # 1775 G To reserve advertising space call New York, New York 10027 s w Phone: (212) 996-6006 e (212) 996-6006 Fax: (212) 996-6010 N m e To subscribe go to our website at www.harlemnewsgroup.com l email: [email protected] r a WEBSITE: www.harlemnewsgroup.com H 2 Harlem News Group COMMUNITY HARLEM . QUEENS . BROOKLYN . BRONX Mayor Bloomberg Announces Country’s Largest Continuous Free Public WiFi Network Covering 95 City Blocks in Harlem ayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on tion and the Mayor’s Fund, we are wiring nearly 100 “I have been hoping for years that we The New York City Department of Infor- Wednesday, December 12th, the launch of blocks in Harlem and giving 80,000 New Yorkers could somehow make this happen for our children mation Technology and Telecommunications and the Ma new outdoor public WiFi network in another tool for success.” and families, so I am personally delighted this day Technology Development Corporation are oversee- Harlem accessible to all users at no cost. The Harlem “This unprecedented free network is pos- has arrived,” said Geoffrey Canada, President and ing the WiFi network’s implementation working WiFi network will extend 95 city blocks, from 110th sible thanks to private generosity and public know- CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone. “Today, being closely with technology provider, Sky-Packets. The to 138th Streets between Frederick Douglass Boule- how,” said Deputy Mayor Holloway. “With the connected to the world and being competitive in the project will be implemented in three phases: vard and Madison Avenue making it the largest con- management skills of the Technology Development global marketplace means access to the Internet, I. Phase One: 110th to 120th Street, tinuous free outdoor public wireless network in the Corporation and the IT infrastructure expertise of which is essential to evening the digital playing field between Madison Avenue & Frederick Douglass nation. The network, which will be rolled out in our Department of Information, Telecommunications for our kids.” Blvd. Scheduled for completion in December 2013. three phases in coordination with the city’s Technol- and Technology, New Yorkers will have access to “We are honored to work with the II. Phase Two: 121st to 126th Street, ogy Development Corporation and the Department the largest free network in the nation in record time.” Mayor’s Fund, Harlem Children’s Zone and our between Madison Avenue & Frederick Douglass of Information Technology and Telecommunica- “Increasing wireless connectivity helps to other local partners to facilitate the Harlem Free Blvd. Scheduled for completion in February 2014. tions, will increase digital access for approximately strengthen neighborhoods for those who live, work, Wifi project,” said Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman. III. Phase Three: 127th to 138th Street, 80,000 Harlem residents, including 13,000 public and visit and is a key component of the Bloomberg “We are proud New Yorkers and believers in the between Madison Avenue & Frederick Douglass housing residents, as well as businesses and visitors Administration’s efforts to ensure digital inclusion,” communities and the people that make this city Blvd. Scheduled for completion in May 2014. in the area. The free public network will serve the said Chief Information and Innovation Officer Rahul extraordinary. We hope that increased access to the The Harlem WiFi network will provide a community for an initial five-year term and is fund- Merchant. “The Harlem WiFi network extends wire- Internet and its extensive resources will serve to fast Internet connection from portable devices com- ed through a generous donation from the Fuhrman less access to thousands of New Yorkers, enabling advance educational opportunities and support com- pletely free of charge. The network will be available Family Foundation to the Mayor’s Fund to Advance convenient free connectivity on-the-go. Thank you munity development across a broad area of the city.” 24/7 in outdoors locations within the zone, with New York City. The first phase, extending from to our partners in this project for their commitment “As more than 13,000 public housing resi- unlimited access. Enabling connectivity is a key 110th to 120th Streets between Madison Avenue and to expanding our City’s digitally connected commu- dents will benefit from having access to free WiFi, component of increasing technology inclusion city- Frederick Douglass Boulevard, is underway and the nities.” this will be a big boost in helping our residents wide. From public WiFi in over 50 parks and access remaining phases will be complete by May 2014. “Combining the passion of private sup- bridge the digital divide,” said NYCHA Chairman to computers and the web through NYCHA’s Digital The Mayor was joined at the announcement by Chief porters with the expertise of City agencies and local John Rhea. “We greatly appreciate the efforts of the Van, to computer courses at senior centers and Information and Innovation Officer Rahul Merchant, community members has allowed us to provide pio- Mayor’s Fund for NY, along with Sky Packets and libraries and subsidized broadband for thousands of Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman, Mayor’s Fund to neering public services like this initiative,” said the Furman Foundation in providing this service; as low-income residents, today more New Yorkers are Advance New York City President Megan Sheekey, Megan Sheekey, President of the Mayor’s Fund to well as the very able collaboration of the Harlem connected than ever before.
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