The inaugural ADAPT Leadership Awards Gala honoring Al Roker & Deborah Roberts – Isiah Whitlock Jr. to attend Gala – Mike Woods Gala Co-Chair
Photos by: Seitu Oronde, 347 971-6717
ADAPT Leadership Awards Gala Red Carpet 2018 took place on Thursday, March 8th at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. Judy Woodruff, Anchor and Managing Editor of the PBS NewsHour will host the event.
2018 ADAPT Leadership Award honorees include, Al Roker, Co-host and Weatherman of NBC’s Today Show and his wife Deborah Roberts, ABC News Correspondent for 20/20, Nightline, Good Morning America, and ABC World News Tonight with David Muir; The Hausman Family, one of the Founding families of United Cerebral Palsy of NYC; Marissa Shorenstein, President, Northeast, AT&T; and Amy Wright, Founder and CEO of Bitty & Beau’s Coffee, and 2017 CNN Hero of the Year.
2018 Co-Chairs of the gala are: James Hausman and Liz Cohen Hausman; James Kase and Helene Miller; Sabina McCarthy; and Alan Zack.
Honorary Chair of this year’s gala is Lynda Carter, Actress, Singer and Activist. Honorary Co-Chairs are Tamsen Fadal, Eight-time Emmy winning Anchor of PIX 11 News and Mike Woods, Meteorologist and Reporter FOX 5’s Good Day New York.
ADAPT Community, Awards Gala, PBS, Deborah Roberts, Amy Wright, Lynda Carter, Al Roker, Tamsen Fadal, Mike Woods, Sabina McCarthy, Alan Zack, United Cerebral Palsy.
Preview New NYC Taíno Exhibition July 24
The Indigenous peoples of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean are not extinct and they never were. “Todavía estamos aquí (we are still here)”: this is the powerful message of the modern Taíno movement and the foundation of “Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean,” a new exhibition presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Latino Center. It opens Saturday, July 28, at the museum’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York.
GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER NEW YORK TROOP 6000 NOW SERVING MORE THAN 500 GIRLS AND WOMEN ACROSS FIVE BOROUGHS
The de Blasio Administration today announced that Girl Scout Troop 6000, the first of its kind Girl Scout troop dedicated to serving girls and women in the shelter system as they get back on their feet, has expanded to 15 shelter facilities for families with children across all five boroughs, with more than 500 girls and women now participating in the leadership-and-community-development program.
“La Semana del Restaurante” en Nueva York llega con 24 nuevos participantes
Desde el 23 de julio al 17 de agosto vuelve a la ciudad uno de los programas más reconocidos y preferidos de los neoyorkinos: La Semana del Restaurante. NYC & Company dio a conocer los detalles de la vigésimo sexta edición que desde ya tiene a la disponibilidad reservaciones abiertas para los amantes de la buena cocina.
¡Una exhibición con tiburones llega a Nueva York!
La exhibición “Maravillas Oceánicas: Tiburones” o “Ocean Wonders Sharks! En el Acuario de Nueva York. La muestra, realizada por Donald Zucker y Barbara Zecker, hace parte de una de las tantas maravillas que el 2018 ha traído a la capital del mundo. Los visitantes pueden conocer estos hermosos animales cualquier día después de las 10 a.m.
Brasil pasa a cuartos de final luego de derrotar a México
Los dos países sudamericanos se enfrentaron en un partido lleno de lucha. Neymar de Brasil anotó el primer gol del partido y Firminio el segundo. Guillermo Ochoa representó a México de una manera increíble al tratar de tapar mucho de los goles.
The Largest International Beer Festival
The largest beer festival in Queens, NY at The World’s Fare serving up beers from all over the World!