How Mohawk âSkywalkersâ Helped Build New York City s Tallest Buildings
Native American riveting gangs worked on the high steel for iconic structures like the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Plaza and more.
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Native American riveting gangs worked on the high steel for iconic structures like the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Plaza and more.
Native Americans aren’t often associated with New York City and its dense, vertical landscape. With so many Indian nations pushed to America’s frontier in the 19
th century, they usually appear in popular culture as denizens of the rural West, occupying wide open spaces replete with tipis, buffalo and pow wows. Yet the Mohawk Nation has deep roots in metropolitan New York City where, beginning in the early 20
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Monthly town hall meetings for a new River Institute project, called Future Climate Leaders, will begin later this month.
The project includes having a goal of sparking a climate-change conversation in eastern Ontario, aiming to increase public awareness about climate change within different levels of society. The efforts will also encourage community members to support a climate-change solution.
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“This project will include a website to educate, inform and guide individuals to progress towards sustainable thinking and most important of all, action,” Louis Savard, Head of RiverLabs, the Applied Research department of the River Institute, said in a news release.
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A simple Route 80 traffic stop for tinted windows and tailgating led to the arrests of two men driving with 360 pounds of marijuana from Canada to New York City, prosecutors said at a court hearing on Friday.
Highway police who arrested Shawn Porter and Jeremy Windoloski in Lodi last week allegedly noticed duffle bags packed away in the back of their Chevy Tahoe. Inside the bags were heat-sealed packages of marijuana with an estimated street value of $1.5 million, according to authorities.
Despite facing first-degree drug charges, a Superior Court judge on Friday ordered that Porter, 34, and Windoloski, 23, go free while their cases are pending. The pair had been held in Bergen County Jail since their arrests on April 27.
To the editor: I hope that the community will consider the broader implications of the first-proposed Malone police reform plan that was allowed to be presented to the public. The author chosen states that Malone has seen its long decline after manufacturing was moved abroad, leading to “Tremendous unemployment. Soaring drug and alcohol abuse. Despair.” But then the author goes on to demonize the people who have fallen weakest to these consequences of the overall decline. Here is one out of the many disparaging statements referring to deviants from the author’s standards, this one describing his opinion of “drug dealers and users”: “These people absolutely destroy the quality of life for law-abiding and well-behaved residents.” How many of us “well behaved and law abiding citizens” has a loved one or relation that has fallen in weakness to deviancy? Would we be better to condemn them or to address the problems realistically with compassion rather than harsh author