HAMILTON GRANGE: Exhibit Design & Content Public Meeting

Friends of St Nicholas Park: HAMILTON GRANGE: Exhibit Design & Content Public Meeting

HAMILTON GRANGE: Exhibit Design & Content Public Meeting
The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public input on the exhibit content and design for Hamilton Grange National Memorial.

Following the restoration of Hamilton Grange in St. Nicholas Park, the new ground floor level of the building will become a visitor center focusing on the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton and the home he built for his family in Harlem. Current planning and programming for the visitor experience at the Grange includes interpretive and interactive exhibits as well as an orientation gallery and short narrative film within this space. Guided tours of the restored and furnished historic spaces on the first floor of the house are planned to enhance and complement the interpretive exhibits on the ground floor.

The NPS would like to engage the public in the early stages of this design process to help generate ideas for interpretive themes, content development, and other thoughts for the future exhibit design for Hamilton Grange. The NPS is seeking input from a variety of stakeholders – including local community groups and neighborhood associations, educators and academics, park visitors and other interested parties – to inform and comment on this design process. It is anticipated that the design and fabrication of the exhibits will be completed and installed within the building in time for the Grange’s re-opening.

We look forward to your participation in this important effort.

WHAT: Public Meeting – Hamilton Grange Exhibit Design & Content

WHEN: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

WHERE: Room NA 1/203, located on the first floor of the North
Academic Center Building at the City College of New York. (click link for PDF) Please enter on Convent Avenue at 138th Street.
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HOLIDAY: Today marks the opening of the 7th Annual Holiday Train Show, presented by the NY Transit Museum. Head over to Grand Central to get a peek at the “first models of MTA equipment– Metro-North M7 railroad cars and New York City Transit R27 subway cars…along with a new scale model of the Brooklyn Bridge, an elevated trestle, six new buildings, and an underground subway that is twice as large as last year.” Check out more on the train in this NY Times piece.

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CITY’S AMBULANCE CHA$E

By SALLY GOLDENBERG

November 26, 2008

First gas, then milk, now ambulances.

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Basic Life Support rides will increase to $515 from $475; Advanced Life Support will jump to $750 from $600 and Advanced Life Support for the most critical patients will go up to $850 from $700, FDNY Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta told a City Council Public Safety Committee hearing Monday.

NYPOST

THE BLACK WEST

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In The Black West, historian William Loren Katz corrects the record in words and pictures, showing that, from the journeys of Lewis and Clark to the charge at San Juan Hill, African American men and women exerted an influence beyond their numbers in the discovery and definition of the American West. Rare vintage photographs and fascinating accounts of their real-life history let the reader meet these brave individuals face-to-face.

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WORLD AIDS DAY – DEC. 1st

		Dear Reader, Do not take for granted that funding the war against HIV/AIDS is a top priority in this time of change. On World AIDS Day, December 1st, 2008, join SOS Children’s Villages in telling President-elect Obama to continue to fund HIV/AIDS programs. SOS Children’s Villages, the world’s largest NGO dedicated to orphaned and abandoned children, believes that AIDS is a preventable disease. In 132 countries, we provide orphaned children with homes, loving families, education and stability regardless of their personal or family history with HIV/AIDS. SOS is committed to maintaining supportive and healthy environments that reduce the vulnerability of children and their care-givers to HIV infection. We create and sustain programs that enable children orphaned by AIDS to grow up in a caring family, and provide them with equal access to education and essential services. “Nearly three quarters of my class are orphaned,” says Mr. Mashanga, a teacher at an SOS Primary School in Zimbabwe, where almost one in four children are now orphaned by AIDS. SOS Children’s Villages provides orphaned children with homes and opportunities to attend school. Mrs. Gombakomba, the Headmaster, comments: “The situation is pathetic. Children have to learn to be adults before their time. If you talk to these children they have stories that will move your heart. What is the world coming to?” By 2010, the number of children orphaned by AIDS is expected to exceed 25 million globally. Progress cannot continue to be made at this level without the continued support of the US government. Join SOS Children’s Villages. Urge President-elect Obama to keep HIV/AIDS funding a top priority. Make a difference. Sign our petition today. Thank you for your support, Heather Paul Executive Director SOS Children’s Villages – USA