HDA Joins: NCLR National Affiliate Network Continues to Expand as Eight New Members Join its Ranks

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February 12, 2016                                                                   Kathy Mimberg

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NCLR National Affiliate Network Continues to Expand as Eight New Members Join its Ranks

 

WASHINGTON, D.C.—NCLR (National Council of La Raza) announced today that eight new community-based groups have joined the NCLR Affiliate Network, which currently has 267 member organizations that create opportunities for the Latino community throughout the nation. The new members to the national network include Clínica Monseñor Oscar A. Romero in Los Angeles, Calif.; Hispanic Dental Association in Austin, Texas; HomeStrong USA in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.; King-Chávez Neighborhood of Schools in San Diego, Calif.; Proyecto Inmigrante ICS, Inc. in Fort Worth, Texas; Shirlington Employment and Education Center in Arlington, Va.; Southwestern Regional Housing and Community Development Corporation in Deming, N.M.; and Urban Health Plan in Bronx, N.Y.

 

“NCLR works closely with our community partners whose leadership and hard work help expand opportunities for Latinos and connect them with critical information and services. We are proud to serve as a national voice for these Affiliates and the families who count on them, and we extend a warm welcome to the new members of the NCLR Affiliate Network,” said Sonia Pérez, NCLR Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives.

 

For more information about NCLR’s new Affiliate organizations:

·       Clínica Monseñor Oscar A. Romero (http://ift.tt/21xebil)

·       Hispanic Dental Association (www.hdassoc.org)

·       HomeStrong USA (http://ift.tt/21xebin)

·       King-Chávez Neighborhood of Schools (www.kingchavez.org)

·       Proyecto Inmigrante ICS, Inc. (http://ift.tt/1NLa5It)

·       Shirlington Employment and Education Center (SEEC) (www.seecjobs.org)

·       Southwestern Regional Housing and Community Development Corporation (www.swnm.org)

·       Urban Health Plan (http://ift.tt/1Konl66)

NCLR’s Affiliates provide programs and services to millions of Hispanic Americans and use their expertise to give voice to issues facing Latinos. Through their work, these nonprofits provide educational tools for children and adults, prepare workers to enter the labor force,facilitate the integration of immigrants into schools and the workforce, register people to vote, provide health services, help families purchase and stay in their homes, and promote policies that support the well-being of Latino families.

 

NCLR—the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States—works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans. For more information on NCLR, please visit www.nclr.org, or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

 

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PETER’S ROUND, Holliswood

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While aimlessly wandering in Holliswood the other year, I noticed, when walking north on 184th Street, that it had to make a rather drastic S-curve between 90th and 91st Avenues. The photo is looking north from about 91st Avenue.   There’s a cause for every effect, so I consulted this Bromley atlas from 1909, and [...]

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WAKEFIELD and MOUNT VERNON, Bronx-Westchester, Part 2

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LAST OF THE SCROLLS, Riverdale

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Once again, I’m risking disaster. The last of New York City’s old-style scrolled telephone pole lamppost shafts sits here at the remote (for New York City) corner of West 254th Street and Palisade Avenue in Riverdale. Beginning in the 1910s until they started to be phased out in the 1950s, these shafts, in long and [...]

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, RAY BARI, Kip’s Bay

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Sicilian immigrant Joseph Bari opened his first pizzeria in 1973, purchasing a –what else — Ray’s Pizza at 3rd Avenue and East 76th Street and renaming it for himself, in the grand tradition of Ray’s Pizza, Famous Ray’s Pizza, Original Ray’s Pizza and other pizzerias named Ray’s that became a NYC tradition since Raffaele “Ray” [...]

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2nd AVENUE, Astoria

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Looking up from the commercial building at the NE corner of 31st Street and Broadway under the Astoria elevated, there’s a blue and white sign proclaiming 31st Street to be 2nd Avenue. This is a remnant of a former street and house numbering system in Long Island City.   Belcher-Hyde atlas plate from 1919 Quoting [...]

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HOMESTRETCH BAR & GRILL, Gravesend

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A “hat tip” for ForgottenFan Paul Lukas of Uniwatch fame for finding this painted sign at a bar in Gravesend between West 9th and 10th Streets on Kings Highway at about where it interrupts Quentin Road. From the meticulously painted script to the harness racer reliefs under the awning, it’s a formidable bit of design [...]

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SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR MEMORIAL, Mott Haven

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Although it was a short war with a questionable mission, the sacrifice of American troops during the Spanish-American War is commemorated by several memorials across the city. A column erected in 1919 at Graham Square, between Third and Lincoln Avenues at East 137th Street in Mott Haven section of the Bronx is dedicated to those [...]

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WAKEFIELD and MOUNT VERNON, Bronx-Westchester, Part 1

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For this January lidlifter on the 2016 exploring season I took the IRT #2 train, easily accessible from Penn Station, north to the Nereid Avenue station (mispronounced NAIR-eed by the taped station announcements; the street is named for a former volunteer fire department — they typically took mythological water names like Neptune or Oceanus; a [...]

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HOLIDAY TRAIN SHOW, Grand Central Terminal

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This year I attended both of New York City’s prominent holiday train shows, in New York Botanical Garden and Grand Central Terminal. I plan on doing a feature on the NYBG show when it opens again in the fall (it runs from November to mid-January) but this is your last weekend [writing this on 2/20/16] [...]

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HALSEY STREET STATION, Canarsie Line (L)

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FLETCHER’S CASTORIA, Hell’s Kitchen

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There must have been a time when the familiar script handwritten signature of Charles H. Fletcher stuck fear in the hearts of crumb crunchers everywhere. Fletcher began selling his Castoria, a mild stomach remedy for children, in 1871. (You’ll recall that in the Little Rascals features, the gang was always threatened with castor oil for minor stomach [...]

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LITCHHULT SQUARE, Queens Village

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MIDBLOCK SUBWAY ACCESS, Sunset Park

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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Due to NYC’s massive subway system, there is bound to be some distinctive features. Among these differences are subway entrances. Subway entrances, something riders rarely think about,  can range from ordinary to extraordinary.  The differences were dictated by location, construction challenges, what entity built them (IRT, BMT or IND) and architectural esthetics. [...]

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POWERS BUILDING, Midtown

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Dazedly dodging Times Square crowds in the numbing cold of mid-February I found myself at 7th Avenue and West 46th Street, home on the ground floor at least to the TSQ Brasserie, which, I gather, has absolutely nothing to do with the other restaurants in Midtown named “Brasserie,” and there are a number of them [...]

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DUFFY SQUARE BUILDING, Midtown

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During recent scuttlings in the Midtown area, I passed right through Times Square, a place I’m rarely spotted, because in general, crowds don’t much interest me. This particular morning the temperature was below zero and had struggled to ten above by midday, and thus the crowds were a bit diminished, but by no means absent. [...]

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SECRETS OF HUNTER COLLEGE, Lenox Hill

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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent   New York City has more colleges than any other city in the country, ranging from leafy academic villages such as Brooklyn College and Fordham University, to vertical urban campuses such as Baruch College and John Jay College. Then there is Hunter College, a collection of buildings that house [...]

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WEST SIDE HIGHWAY WINGS, Greenwich Village

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When I last saw them a few years ago, this pair of massive Art Deco concrete wings were sitting behind a fence near Pier 54 on the Hudson River, where West Street and 10th Avenue come together. The pier, which received survivors of the Titanic after it was destroyed by an iceberg in April 1912, [...]

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TRACK INDICATOR, Grand Central Terminal

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I’m a Long Island Rail Road rider, so my experiences with the great Grand Central Terminal, which for the past few decades has been reduced to serving the commuter trains of Metro-North (formerly New York Central) are somewhat limited. I find it ironic that the mostly dumpy Penn Station, whose grand Beaux Arts palace has [...]

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LAMPS OF ST. MARK’S, Bedford-Stuyvesant

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St. Mark’s Avenue runs from Park Slope in Brooklyn east from 5th Avenue to East New York Avenue in its titular neighborhood, with some interruptions. Actually it is a much longer eastern extension of St. Mark’s Place, which runs between 3rd and 5th Avenues. Several blocks to the south, St. John’s Place keeps its Place [...]

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200th STREET, Manhattan-Bronx

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I’ll say right off the bat: there’s no such thing as a 200th Street, East or West, in Manhattan or the Bronx, but I hope here to indicate why there isn’t, or at least what’s in 200th Street’s place. When the triumvirate of commissioners drew up the grid plan for Manhattan streets in 1807 (described [...]

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COIN-OPERATED LAUNDROMAT, Prospect Heights

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LONDON TERRACE, Chelsea

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One of my favorite apartment complexes in NYC, London Terrace, takes up the entire block between West 23rd, West 24th, 9th and 10th Avenues — one of the few developments in NYC that can make that claim. The complex, built from 1929-1934, consists of over 1700 apartments in 14 connected buildings and was considered the [...]

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MANHATTAN-BRONX CLASSIC HUMPBACK STREET SIGNS

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Nothing fancy in Forgotten New York for this week’s feature. Just a presentation of some photos of Manhattan and Bronx’ classic navy blue and white street signs, first installed in the early 1910s and in use by the Department of Traffic well into the 1960s. (The last one in official use, attached to a telephone [...]

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CLAY SANSKRIT LIBRARY, Murray Hill

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After finding once again, to my chagrin, that Press on East 23rd Street is closed on weekends, I resolved to get a bite later on and marched up Park Avenue South to Grand Central Terminal on  a recent Saturday. In my recent wanderings, I’ve noticed that I haven’t paid nearly as much attention to side [...]

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FORD STREET, Crown Heights

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There are two Ford Streets in Brooklyn– just as there are two West Streets (Gravesend, Greenpoint) two West 9th Streets (Gravesend, Red Hook) and even two Atlantic Avenues (Boerum Heights east to Cypress Hills and in Sea Gate). There are likely others I’ve missed. As a rule, New York City tries to avoid duplicating street [...]

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ROOSEVELT AVENUE STATION UPPER LEVEL

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The Roosevelt Avenue IND station is a busy interchange serving Queens Boulevard local routes (M, R) and express routes (E, F). There’s also a transfer to the Flushing Line here. However, there was once a plan to make the line even busier. As part of the unbuilt IND Second System, a spur was once going to [...]

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BOTANICA, Hell’s Kitchen

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I should really spend more time in Hell’s Kitchen — there are some old and strange buildings and signage lurking in the side streets. In mid-December I was attending a recital by my friend DeeAnne Gorman and was a little early, so I went lurching around the area looking for interesting items. I actually found  a [...]

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SEAGIRT AVENUE, Far Rockaway

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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent This piece originally appeared in FNY in April 2010, but was never transcribed when I switched to the WordPress platform the following year. Sergey updated the article in February 2015. The Rockaway Peninsula of Queens never disappoints an urban explorer. Physically separated from the rest of New York City by [...]

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WINTER GARDEN, Theatre District

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The Winter Garden, at Broadway and West 50th Street, was the longtime home of Cats and Mamma Mia! However, it is also a throwback to a time before Times Square was Times Square — when this was called Longacre Square and was the home of horse and carriage dealers, not showbiz. It was built as [...]

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JONES ALLEY, NoHo

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Jones Alley, looking south from Bond Street According to Gil Tauber of oldstreets, in 1806 a laneway called at first Cross Lane was laid out beginning at Bleecker opposite Mott. It ran north to the middle of the block, then west to a point about 150 feet east of Broadway, then north again, crossing Bond and [...]

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