Good News and Reverend Paul Sladkus, All Faiths and Spiritual joins Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal and team for a tour, what a great museum, don’t miss it…even work by  famed artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat. What a joy, thanks Brad and team.

On Friday, February 27 from 4-9pm, join the Manhattan Borough President’s Office for a Free Night at the Studio Museum in Harlem to celebrate artwork that has been inspired by Black culture. Free tickets to the Studio Museum will be first come, first served while supplies last. We look forward to seeing you there!

Note: Music for our video is by Billie Holiday, “I’ll Be Seeing You,” in our video, who was discovered in Greenwich Village, NY, and was  closely related to HARLEM. BTW, Harlem is Thriving. Paul

Community Board Application Deadline EXTENDED to Friday, March 6

You now have until March 6 at 5pm to apply for a position on a community board, the most grassroots form of local government and official liaison between your neighborhood and elected officials.

You can learn about the location and work of your community board here. You must be at least 16 years old and live, work, or attend school in the community board to which you’re applying.

I’m hosting an ICE preparedness town hall and training this Sunday, March 1 at 5:30 pm at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church (225 W. 99th St.) We’ll have a panel on learnings from Minneapolis’ response to ICE and a training on what to do if ICE shows up. No RSVP necessary.

Applications for Free 3-K and Pre-K Seats Close TOMORROW, Friday, Feb. 27

Families with children born in 2022 and 2023 can apply for a free 3-K or pre-K seat through this Friday, February 27. Families can apply online at MySchools.nyc, over the phone at 718-935-2009, or at a Family Welcome Center (Manhattan’s two FWCs are at 123 Morningside Dr. in Morningside Heights and 333 7th Ave. in Chelsea). 3-K and pre-K offers will be sent out in mid-May.

Last week, I was thrilled to join Mayor Mamdani to announce a new NYC childcare site on the Upper East Side at 65th Street, which will have 72 pre-K seats and 60 3-K seats this fall.

Apply for 3-K and Pre-K

Due to last weekend’s blizzard, we postponed my Inauguration Celebration and Borough Convention, so keep an eye on your inbox for an updated invitation coming soon.

All best regards,

Brad Hoylman-Sigal

Manhattan Borough President

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Good News Broadcast chats with Garment District Alliance member and Peace Day supporter David Montini, who shares with us the future plans for the neighborhood and its local businesses.

Click here to listen to the podcast version of this episode on Spreaker!

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We are deeply shocked and disheartened to share that the Mt. Zion Church of God 7th Day’s church van has been stolen. This van is more than just a vehicle—it serves their community by transporting members to services, outreach events, and vital programs. Its loss is a heavy blow to the work we do and the people we serve.

We are appealing to the conscience of our community: If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of the van, please come forward. Contact 718-284-1097, your tip—no matter how small—could make a difference.

Early Voting: June 14 – June 22

Primary Election Day: June 24

Step 2:Elected officials shape the policies and funding that impact our work and community. When we show that our staff and community members are voters, it strengthens our voice. Visit the GodSquad office to register to vote! For questions, please reach out to Christine at Path@67clergycouncil.org.

Upcoming Community Partner Events

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Join Not On My Watch, VIP Community Services, and SBH Health System, in proud partnership with Right To Be and L’Oréal Paris, for an unforgettable evening of empowerment, education, and action! Whether you’re a teen, adult, senior, parent, professional, or just someone who wants to make a difference—this FREE, interactive training will equip you with tools to stand up for yourself and others.

Be BronX Street R.E.A.D.Y.

Street Harassment Awareness Training & Resource Fair

 Tuesday, June 24, 2025 |  6:00 PM

 SBH Health System – 4422 3rd Ave, Bronx, NY

Click Here to Register

We Will Be Street R.E.A.D.Y., BronX Street READY:

R – Recognize the signs

E – Empower yourself and others

A – Act with confidence

D – Defend your rights

Y – You are not alone

 What to Expect:

•  Learn how to protect your safety in public spaces
•  Street Harassment Intervention Training using the powerful 5D’s:
• Distract. Delegate. Document. Delay. Direct.
•  Self-defense basics
•  Access to local resources and support services
•  Free giveaways & light refreshments
•  Open discussions with local providers

 Key Takeaways:

• Understand what street harassment really is—and isn’t
• Learn how to safely interrupt or respond when it happens
• Discover why reporting matters and how to do it safely
• Leave feeling confident, equipped, and never alone

Open to all genders, all ages, all communities. Because safety has no boundaries.

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In an interview, he will talk about how this topic relates to those that are disabled today.

He can also discuss the changing social circumstances of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and how that impacted the veterans. Wounded for Life is equal parts Civil War history, disability history and the history of the body. The collective experiences of the veterans profiled in the book show how they dealt with common expectations of manhood or masculine identity after the injuries.

Dr. Hicks will share insight into this era of history through humanizing the intimate lives of disabled veterans.

For more info: https://iupress.org/9780253070784/wounded-for-life/

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The most famous city in the world is undoubtedly New York. In Central Park in Manhattan, plants and birds coexist harmoniously with humans, making it a happy living place. Surrounding the park, in thousands of buildings, reside world-renowned celebrities, Hollywood stars, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and new wealthy elites from China. Despite their different languages and skin colors, they share their space politely and graciously. Next to Central Park is a mile-long avenue known as “Museum Mile,” home to countless genuine artifacts from the Metropolitan to the Guggenheim, including treasures looted from China by the Eight-Nation Alliance.

New York boasts many famous avenues and streets. World-famous brand stores like LV, Chanel, and Estée Lauder are neighbors on Fifth Avenue, and many others extending to the 42nd Street and intersecting with Broadway, the birthplace of stunning musicals and home to shows such as The Lion King, Aladdin, Cats, Marry Poppins and many more. Time Square is called the crossroads of the world, bustling 24/7 with tourists capturing every moment on their iPhones. At this global crossroads stands the giant Nasdaq screen, showcasing ticker symbols of at least 350 Chinese listed companies, telling the world about their dreams from China.

Broadway is where dreams take place. The buildings around Broadway have been telling many dreams, one of which is a Chinese brand – The Haier Group. For the past 20 years, the story has continued.

In the early 1980s, at the start of China’s reform and opening-up, Haier Group, which imported a German technology from a German company called Liebour Haier. The German company insisted that the backward poor Chinese electronics in Qingdao must carry their names or at least one word/ Liebour or Haier. The Chinese company chose the later for the namesake of an ocean – “hai er “ sounds in Chinese like ocean. The company soon grew into a giant conglomerate and became China’s top brand manufacturing high quality refrigerators.In 2002, Haier took a bold step and as the first Chinese company going global and ventured into the US. They established its presence at 1356 Broadway – The Haier Building. Despite various challenges, including the fluctuating US-China relations, Haier Group has remained steadfast. People need to eat, and food needs to stay fresh, making a good refrigerator is essential. The era of eating spoiled food and drinking dirty water should never return. In the upcoming era of AI robots coexisting with humans, having a comfortable, jointly created US-China smart kitchen at home and enjoying fresh, varied, healthy meals from an open kitchen is something to look forward to, isn’t it?

Walking a few blocks down Broadway brings you to 1227 Broadway. There stands the Virgin Hotel, built by John Lam in collaboration with Richard Branson, chairman of Rolling Stone Entertainment Magazine and one of the world’s three private spaceship manufacturers alongside Elon Musk and Jeffery Bezos. Yes, the renowned Virgin Hotel is located at 1227 Broadway, New York, NY 10001 and Branson’s partner is a Chinese individual on New York soil, you didn’t read it wrong or hear it wrong.

The name Virgin signifies unexplored territory, symbolizing bold exploration and adventure. Even after Branson’s Virgin spacecraft crashed into eight pieces while returning from the moon, he stood smiling beside it, undeterred in his space suit. Mortality is inevitable, and business innovation might fail, but for whom do we live and die?

Virgin Airlines, Virgin Cruise, Virgin Hotel – Branson designed these for the future generation capable of making history. Without these visionary and skilled individuals, we wouldn’t be enjoying the benefits of AI today from the comfort of our homes. Branson aims to create a hotel where these elite genius can quietly and undisturbed explore the future world, the mysteries of the universe, and extraterrestrial life. After their tireless efforts for our comfort, they need a place to rest in a modern and an innovative hotel for the future. This hotel must be neighbors with companies like Open AI, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and IBM. The remarkable achievements from these technology companies and research institutes, from laboratories to markets, are not accomplished overnight. Such extraordinary technological projects and engineering studies, benefiting humanity, require an exceptional group of young talents. Without them, today’s booming US stock market might lose its vitality and competitiveness, wouldn’t it?

Branson, flying his Virgin plane (not spacecraft) over New York for ten years, sought a partner to create a future-leading, world-class hotel. Amidst New York’s lush trees and blooming flowers, he found his partner in John Lam ( or Lin Jianzhong in Chinese), who came from Hong Kong and mainland China 60 years ago. Over 50 years, Lam has become the hotel king of Manhattan. His Lam Group is renowned throughout New York and the Chinese community worldwide.

Who is John Lam? How did he achieve his success? Does he share any Chinese genes with the people who inhabit in the Haier Building? If Haier refrigerators tell the story of China’s 1 billion people rising from poverty, what story does Lam Group want to tell? If the century-old trees in Central Park dream of seeing the future world, perhaps a city’s dream is to become that one – a future city itself. The people of New York might dream of the same dream like John Lam, making their city even more beautiful and attractive. Every green leaf, every sidewalk brick, every steel plate, and every piece of spacious glass walls and windows tell the same story of dream catchers – the iron will and gentle romance combine into one , moment by moment, piece by piece.

John Lam accepted this challenge bestowed on him. He turned Branson’s dream into reality in New York City on Broadway, echoing that of Haier Group on 1356 Broadway, New York, NY 10001.

Chapter One

The first invention by John Lam: New York’s Hotel Sky Garden & Hotel Sky Lobby

for more stories, check out these links…

https://goodnewsplanet.com/chinese-english-a-magnificent-virgin-hotel-is-coming-to-ny-john-lam-joseph-yi-hung-luk-tell-us-about-it/

https://goodnewsplanet.com/john-lam-self-made-man-and-sucess-story-for-business-and-family/

https://goodnewsplanet.com/virgin-hotel-new-york-grand-opening-celebration/

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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Salute to Singer-Songwriter Jackie
DeShannon, Poets and Prophets, Saturday Afternoon April 6, 2024
Poets and Prophets: Salute to Singer-Songwriter Jackie DeShannon, Saturday
Afternoon, April 6, 2024 at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Celebrated singer-songwriter, and visionary Jackie DeShannon will make a rare
appearance in Nashville at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in the
CMA Theater (224 Rep. John Lewis Way S Nashville, TN) on Saturday April 6, 2024
at 2:30 PM. The iconic songstress will be discussing her trailblazing songwriting
career and her country music roots.

Now based in California, DeShannon was born in the small town of Hazel,
Kentucky. She became a child Radio performer in Kentucky and Illinois and later in
her teens she began a long recording career that would embrace, country,
rockabilly, folk, pop, gospel, and R&B. Her song “Buddy” a Buddy Holly tribute
which she wrote and recorded in Nashville in 1958 became a regional rockabilly
hit. DeShannon moved to LA in 1960 and debuted on the national charts with her
cover of the Bob Wills country standard “Faded Love” in 1963. She scored her first
major pop hit in 1965 with a soulful rendition of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s
“What the World Needs Now is Love”. Her version of the song was inducted into
the Library of Congress last year.

One of the first female singer-songwriters of the rock & Roll era, DeShannon was
elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame for penning hits for herself and for others.
She provided six chart singles for Brenda Lee alone, including 1961’s “Dum Dum.”
“When You Walk in the Room” was a huge success for The Searchers during the
British Invasion, and decades later Pam Tillis’s version reached the Top Five of the
country charts. Bruce Springsteen’s version is still heard during his concerts. In
1969 Jackie and her brother wrote the anthemic song, recorded by her and a
thousand others “Put a Little Love in Your Heart.” “Bette Davis Eyes” a timeless hit
for Kim Carnes earned Jackie the 1982 Grammy for Song of the Year. DeShannon’s
other credits include: “Breakaway” (Irma Thomas), “Come Stay with Me”
(Marianne Faithfull), “(He’s) The Great Imposter” (the Fleetwoods). Her songs
have also been performed by the Byrds, Ella Fitzgerald, Al Green, Annie Lennox,
Van Morrison, Dolly Parton, Bruce Springsteen and dozens of other artists.

The program will also include video clips of Jackie performing with Country Hall of
Fame members Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, the Everly, Brothers,
and Willie Nelson. She will also sign commemorative Hatch Show Print Posters
following the program in addition to copies of the newly-released historical
collection, “The Sherry Lee Show,” of Jackie’s early country performances on the
radio. Presented in partnership with Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival. Program
ticket included with Museum admission. Free to Museum members.

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