Upcoming Events in Murray Hill and...September 16, 2019 The information in this eblast is provided by The Murray Hill Neighborhood Association. We are sharing the information as a service to our members. If this notice does not interest you, please disregard it. These weekly eblasts are available online at www.murrayhillnyc.org, in the News section, view Weekly Updates 2019. For street or lane closures visit www.murrayhillnyc.org Traffic Change Updates section. Please share this email with a friend, neighbor or colleague. You can sign up for these emails at www.murrayhillnyc.org, scroll down the Also Happening column past the flowers. NOTICE TO MHNA MEMBERS: Our Membership personnel are changing, and you may experience delays in receiving your Discount booklets when you join or renew your membership. An up to date list of the discounts can be viewed on the MHNA website. If you received an acknowledgement email when renewing or joining online, you can use it as proof of membership. If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]. Register to Through October 11 vote! Apply for Register to vote in the General Election in an Absentee November Through October 29 Ballot! Apply for an Absentee Ballot if you cannot go to the polling place for early voting or for the General Election on November 5 If you have a valid ID from the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, you can register to vote online. To vote in Primary Elections in New York State you must be registered with a political party. If you have changed your address you must also notify the Board of Elections. New York State law requires voters to notify the Board of Elections within 25 days of an address change to preserve their voting rights. To make changes to your registration you must notify the Board of Elections in writing (change of address or name). You may send the change on a Registration application. Board of Elections website https://vote.nyc.ny.us. Forms: https://www.vote.nyc.ny.us/html/forms/forms.shtml BOE contact information: 200 Varick Street, 10 Fl, New York, NY 10014, Tel: 212-886-2100, Fax: 646-638- 2047, Hours of Operation 9am – 5pm. Preview of what will be on the ballot. September 16 Application deadline Volunteer Opportunity: Help Families and Individuals Get Back on Their Feet The Advocacy, Counseling and Entitlement Services (ACES) Project of the Community Service Society is recruiting retired individuals age 55 years or older to serve as volunteer public benefit counselors dedicated to helping financially Help Families disadvantaged people. ACES volunteers assist clients with completing applications & Individuals for public benefits and help correct benefit related problems. Volunteers must attend a training that begins October 1, 2019. Upon completion, they are placed in Get Back on agencies in one of the five boroughs to provide information on government benefits Their Feet to low-income families, older adults, and individuals with disabilities. A personal interview, successful completion of the training, and a commitment of six hours per week for one year of volunteer service is required. Applicants must have advocacy, research, and computer skills, in addition to an interest in assisting low-income populations and learning about public benefit programs. No prior benefit experience is required. Your participation in this program gives you a chance to help others in a truly significant way. For more information, please telephone Rebecca Haase at 212-614-5482. To apply, go to: www.cssny.org/programs/entry/the-aces-project. September 17 6:30pm East River East River Park Resiliency Project Hearing Park The Department of Design and Construction will hold another public hearing on the Resiliency east side resiliency project. Comments can also be submitted at https://www1.nyc.gov/site/cdbgdr/action-plan/escr-comments-form.page no later Project than October 2. For special needs assistance, call 718-391-2005 by September 10. at Manny Cantor Center Hearing 197 East Broadway September 17 6:30pm Eleanor Randolph on Michael Bloomberg: In Conversation with Sam Roberts FREE. Reservation required: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/All-GC- Events/Calendar/Detail?id=52692. This event will be live-streamed. Eleanor Eleanor Randolph’s new book, The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg, offers a revealing Randolph on portrait of the business innovator, philanthropist, and former New York City mayor who continues to make national headlines. Randolph, a veteran New York Times Michael reporter and editorial writer, who was a Biography Fellow at The Graduate Center, had unprecedented access to the famously private Bloomberg for this biography. Bloomberg She joins in a discussion with Sam Roberts, longtime New York Times columnist and editor and host of the TV program The New York Times Close Up With Sam Roberts. at The Graduate Center CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue Elebash Recital Hall Room 1201 District 4 Town September 17 6:30pm (doors open at 6pm) NYC Council District 4 Town Hall Hall Please join New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and New York City Council Member Keith Powers for a District 4 Town Hall. Space is Limited. Kindly RSVP to [email protected] or 212-482-4123. For questions about accessibility, please call 212-482-4124 or email [email protected]. To request additional accommodations, please contact the City Council offices at least three business days before the event. at CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue, 8th Floor September 17 - 30 UN General Assembly 2019 The 74th UN General Assembly Key Dates: September 17 - Opening of the General Assembly regular session, September 24 - Opening of the general debate. The UN General general debate of the seventy-fourth session will be held from Tuesday, 24 September, to Saturday, 28 September, and on Monday, 30 September 2019. Assembly Presenting the President-Elect of the 74th session: H.E. Mr. Tijjani Muhammad- Bande. https://www.un.org/en/ga/ Expect street closures and security checkpoints, especially north of 42nd Street to approximately 48th Street and east of 3rd Avenue. Traffic may also be affected in surrounding areas. September 18 6:30pm Participatory Budgeting Neighborhood Assembly - Council District 2 Councilwoman Carlina Rivera invites you to help decide how to spend $1 million of Carlina’s budget towards district improvements. Learn about the PB process and submit your ideas for community improvements. RSVP to email [email protected]. There will be only one more assembly this year for CD2's participatory budgeting. You can also submit ideas on the Idea Map: http://ideas.pbnyc.org/place/597154. Learn more about PB. Mount Sinai Beth Israel 10 Nathan D. Perlman Place (at East 16th Street) September 18 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm for refreshments) Build the Block Meeting for Midtown South & Midtown East (14th Precinct) Sector A With neighborhood policing the Neighborhood Coordination Offices (NCOs) and the Steady Sector Officers who work with them can collaborate with residents in identifying and solving local quality of life conditeions and crime concerns. The same officers are assigned to our community each day so these officers learn the neighborhood, its challenges and potintial, and the people who call it home. Sponsored by: Your neighborhood Coordination Officers Police Officer John Secaira and Police Officer Kerri Whalen. For accommodations regarding disabilities contact Sgt. Michael Callahan at 212-239-9815 or [email protected]. at Madison Avenue Baptist Church 129 Madison Avenue (between 30th & 31st Street) Financial September 20 10am - 5pm Financial Planning Day at SIBL Planning Day FREE. Focus on your finances and hear from the experts. Take a look at the agenda to see all that you can do and learn on this day: meet with a Financial at SIBL Planner on a one-on-one basis, confidentially and for free; attend one of the many workshops on personal financial topics such as Understanding Your Financial Statements, Cyber Safety & ID Theft Prevention, Making the Most of Retirement Savings Opportunities, Medicare 2019, Paying for College...or any of the many other programs offered! Meet with the representatives from non-profits and government agencies at the Financial Fair who will be here to help answer your questions. at Science, Industry and Business Library 188 Madison Avenue (between 34th & 35th Street) September 21 2pm Book talk and signing: 'Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image' with Book talk: Into author Christopher P. Heuer the White: The FREE. Author Christopher P. Heuer discusses his new book Into The White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image. Between 1500 and 1700, one region Renaissance upended all of the conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, Arctic and the art: the Arctic. Into the White uses five case studies to probe how the early modern Arctic (as site, myth, and ecology) affected contemporary debates, long before the End of the nineteenth century romanticized the polar landscape. Following the discussion, Image copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. RSVP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/into-the-white-the-renaissance-arctic-and-the- end-of-the-image-tickets-63126128951. at Scandinavia House 58 Park Avenue (between 37th & 38th Street) September 21 6-8pm Artists’ Reception for exhibit 'We Bend, Not Break' at Gallery35 FREE and open to the public. An exhibit by 12 artists focusing on the strides and struggles of African-Americans and other historically and currently marginalized groups! For more information on this social justice exhibit visit www.gallery35nyc.com. The closing reception will be on October 19 6-8pm. at Gallery35 30 East 35th Street (between Park & Madison Avenue) SAFE Disposal September 22 10am to 4pm Event SAFE Disposal Event - Union Square North Plaza (solvents, automotive, flammable, electronics) Source: Department of Sanitation flyer Only New York City residential waste is accepted at SAFE Disposal Events.