Hes previously been editorinchief and American Heritage magazine. Several books including two novels in a book of poetry. Hes written for films including coney island. Thank you for coming and enjoy. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you to word. What a nice store. Thank you for having me. This is the books publication date. Soap or the last few weeks, ive been and what a writer friend of mine called the law before the wall. Im pleased and honored to have the debut of not only in brooklyn, but in greenpoint. Brooklyn has made technological wonders. But perhaps the most impressive is the hero of my book. I mean the uss monitor. The single most influential warship ever felt and was born about 400 yards away from here. We tend to think of the civil war. People think of gettysburg, shiloh. Its unlikely anyone will remember the navy. Accounted for only 5 of the Union Manpower and losses for the entire four years of the war were often surpass in a single day of fighting on land. But ther
Adult programs. They want to close it completely presumably to save money. This is something they have concealed from the public and even from the head of the board of trustees. The board of trustees of city colleges is meeting on thursday, the 23rd of march at 4 00 in the multi youth building on the ocean avenue campus. The library, the library [inaudible] ended last month, and recently they sent their statistics out. Most of which which represented some good news, but also in the larger picture, it was what might be considered not a success, but a flop. More than 90 of some of their goals, if not all, failed. So for example, they boasted about 10,000 patrons having their fines forgiven. What they didnt say was 150,000 patrons, more than a third of the total current card holders owe 1 cent or more and has restricted use of the library. They boasted that 5,000 patrons had their borrowing privileges restored. They didnt boast that thats less than 10 of the 55,000 whose borrowing were re
Watching today. We will go ahead and start this meeting with a roll call. Hockhammer here, thomas, lamb, frost here. We have a quorum commissioner [inaudible] eddies on his way. I am here, to sorry. Commissioner tan here. Before we go on to item number one i do want to highlight that theres an item on our agenda there will be continued. That is item number seven. 500 a continuance on this that no one from how soon could make it tonight. Gina your own or any of the staff could be here. In addition to that of instructed our staff to [inaudible] police code 1060. 124 commissioners in her binder at the very back if you want to look at that. Essentially, there in that cody is that particular section is about noise abatement. It says if the committee feels within reasonable time and in no event more than 60 days after having been ordered to do so, pursuant to the article, to abate any noise this permit shall be suspended after second hearing due notice of which is given until such time as he
Disturb the meeting. If you want to speak during Public Comment you be called on or you have Public Comment cards. We do have more cards of front if you want to fill out and send it to our staff. I will call you when the appropriate item comes all. Then, finally we always get you think sfgov tv services for airing this meeting not to the pop. Thank you for everyone out there watching today. We will go ahead and start this meeting with a roll call. Hockhammer here, thomas, lamb, frost here. We have a quorum commissioner [inaudible] eddies on his way. I am here, to sorry. Commissioner tan here. Before we go on to item number one i do want to highlight that theres an item on our agenda there will be continued. That is item number seven. 500 a continuance on this that no one from how soon could make it tonight. Gina your own or any of the staff could be here. In addition to that of instructed our staff to [inaudible] police code 1060. 124 commissioners in her binder at the very back if you
Disturb the meeting. If you want to speak during Public Comment you be called on or you have Public Comment cards. We do have more cards of front if you want to fill out and send it to our staff. I will call you when the appropriate item comes all. Then, finally we always get you think sfgov tv services for airing this meeting not to the pop. Thank you for everyone out there watching today. We will go ahead and start this meeting with a roll call. Hockhammer here, thomas, lamb, frost here. We have a quorum commissioner [inaudible] eddies on his way. I am here, to sorry. Commissioner tan here. Before we go on to item number one i do want to highlight that theres an item on our agenda there will be continued. That is item number seven. 500 a continuance on this that no one from how soon could make it tonight. Gina your own or any of the staff could be here. In addition to that of instructed our staff to [inaudible] police code 1060. 124 commissioners in her binder at the very back if you