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How Paper And Color Can Make You Dream. Exclusive Interview With Artist Adele Rahte.
Sep 04, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 146 146 recommendations | email to a friend
  Interview by Tiziano Thomas Dossena I met Adele Rahte at the beautiful Harlem house of a common friend, the soprano Lauren Flanigan. The conversation soon turned from music (we had just the fortu...
Construction Accidents Involving Falls from Heights
Aug 21, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 299 299 recommendations | email to a friend
Why Are Falls from Heights So Significant in New York City? New York takes construction accidents involving falls from heights very seriously. In fact, the NY State Legislature passed the Scaffold ...
Sackstein Sacktein & Lee, LLP Sponsors the SUMAQ Peruvian Food Festival
Aug 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 356 356 recommendations | email to a friend
August 25–26, 2018: the SUMAQ Peruvian Food Festival in Nassau County on Long Island This year, Sackstein Sackstein & Lee, LLP takes pride in being the lead sponsor of the SUMAQ Peruvian Food Festi...
Why You Have Legal Rights in Construction Accidents Involving Falling Objects
Aug 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 645 645 recommendations | email to a friend
Can Injured workers and families who have lost their loved ones pursue lawsuits? By December of 2017, a construction site at 61 Ninth Avenue in Chelsea had been repeatedly cited for construction co...
Company Security and Surveillance: Where Should Employers Draw the Line?
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Are Your Security and Surveillance Policies Violating Privacy Laws? Companies have the right to protect against internal theft or property destruction. They also have a responsibility to evaluate p...
Changes in New York State and NYC Sexual Harassment Laws
Aug 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 220 220 recommendations | email to a friend
Sexual Harassment: Mandatory Arbitration and Nondisclosure Agreements The NY legislature passed changes in sexual harassment law that Governor Cuomo signed into law on April 17, 2018. These laws we...
Your Rights Regarding Medical Treatment after a Work Injury
Aug 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 378 378 recommendations | email to a friend
It’s common knowledge in New York that, in the event of a work-related injury, you have a right to seek medical attention and have the costs covered by the workers’ compensation insurance provider....
Honesty—The Best Policy in a Workers' Compensation Claim
Aug 07, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 316 316 recommendations | email to a friend
The Dangers of Overstating or Understating the Nature of Your Injury When you've been injured on the job in the state of New York, you have a right to seek workers' compensation benefits to cover y...
How to Survive as a Small Business Owner Among a Myriad of Laws & Regulations
Aug 07, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 369 369 recommendations | email to a friend
Laws Small Business Owners Should Know About Business laws have multiplied over the years and as a small business owner, you might feel overwhelmed because there are so many. Which laws take priori...
Jul 29, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 248 248 recommendations | email to a friend

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In Konecnik's camp
Dear Editor, I have read Ed Konecnik's letter (“Guns & Ignorance” - March 22), and here we have a civic-minded person who has not only identified why we have a recent growth in shooting problems, b...
Apr 03, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 204 204 recommendations | email to a friend
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Making progress?
Dear Editor, I read the letter that Ed Konecnik (“Guns & Ignorance” - March 22) wrote, and I just shook my head. But I submit that the reactions of schools to students walking out of class for 17 m...
Mar 27, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 243 243 recommendations | email to a friend
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'Quinn' pro quo
Dear Editor: Former City Council speaker and 2013 losing mayoral candidate Christine Quinn's apology and subsequent retraction of her insult to Cuomo challenger Cynthia Nixon that she is "an unqual...
Mar 27, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 173 173 recommendations | email to a friend
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Misguided blame
Dear Editor, In his letter last week about school violence, Ed Konecnik blamed everyone but the most responsible party: the NRA. He pointed out that "students are taught that all lifestyles are equ...
Mar 27, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 194 194 recommendations | email to a friend
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Trump's hypocrisy
Dear Editor, It is laughable when President Donald Trump gets up on his high horse and alleges that Joe Biden has threatened him with physical assault. What about the time he said that he would hit...
Mar 27, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 140 140 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lane mistake
Dear Editor, The last time I checked, I live in New York City and I want to tell Mayor Bill de Blasio that he works for me and all the other taxpayers in the city, not the other way around. I have ...
Mar 27, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 127 127 recommendations | email to a friend
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Right call
Dear Editor, Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision to close public schools last week was the right decision given the predicted intensity of the approaching nor'easter. It would have been disastrous if p...
Mar 27, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 167 167 recommendations | email to a friend
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School challenges
Dear Editor, New schools chancellor Richard Caranza faces many daunting hurdles, but his biggest challenge is justifying Mayor Bill de Blasio's secretive process for picking him to run our city's p...
Mar 20, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 184 184 recommendations | email to a friend
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AirTrain dreams
Dear Editor, There are several fatal flaws to the proposed LaGuardia Air Train project supported by Governor Andrew Cuomo, Borough President Melinda Katz and other elected officials that no one see...
Mar 20, 2018 | 1 1 comments | 197 197 recommendations | email to a friend
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Failed test
Dear Editor, President Donald Trump constantly calls Senator Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" for her claims to be of Native-American ancestry. An editorial this month in Massachusetts's Berkshire Eag...
Mar 20, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 175 175 recommendations | email to a friend
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Parade charade
Dear Editor, After witnessing the Bastille Day parade in Paris, President Donald Trump stated that he wants a dramatic Veteran’s Day military parade of his own. “We’re going to try and top it,” Tru...
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Guns & ignorance
Dear Editor, The tragic school shootings and growing number of mindless acts of mayhem have stirred emotions and provoked debates about the root causes of these events. The most contentious aspects...
Mar 20, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 184 184 recommendations | email to a friend
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Parole bad
Dear Editor, The decision of a parole board to grant freedom to convicted cop killer Herman Bell is an outrage. When he and several others ambushed officers Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini in M...
Mar 20, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 171 171 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hope for Pride
Dear Editor, Club Pride, a successful mental health program for Queens seniors, officially closes on June 30. But the actual end date for most members was March 13 when van service ended. They won'...
Mar 14, 2018 | 1 1 comments | 182 182 recommendations | email to a friend
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Red Storm Rising
Dear Editor, Tom Clancy's novel “Red Storm Rising” centers on an oil shortage that causes Russian leadership to determine war as the only means to remain in power. America will shortly be the world...
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