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At last week's Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program graduation at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, N.Y., and again this week at the White House's United State of Women Summit, Buffett offered his number - one tip for business success.

I would like to acknowledge what is a long list: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Office of the New York Attorney General, the New York State Department of Financial Services, the New York Legal Assistance Group, Staten Island Legal Services, the Legal Aid Society, MFY Legal Services, various bar associations, New York City Department of Small Business Services, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island and the Northfield Local Community Development Corporation.

This Friday December 29th at 6:00 PM members of more than two dozen New York City and other community groups who are seriously concerned about the situation in Puerto Rico, now that more than 100 days have passed since the devastation that hurricane Maria brought to the island, will converge on the south side of Union Square to have their voices heard.

Sharon Bajwa at Spaces in Long Island City, NY, tells Allwork how events help build and nurture their coworking community.

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The Waldorf School of Garden City values and actively seeks a student body reflecting the ethnic, racial, cultural, and socioeconomic diversity of our Long Island community.

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The Three Cedars School, Bellevue, Washington — The Whatcom Hills Waldorf School, Bellingham, Washington — The Washington Waldorf School, Washington DC — The Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School, Viroqua, Wisconsin — The Tamarack Community School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin — The Three Rivers School, La Crosse, Wisconsin — The Youth Initiative High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin

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«There is no reason other communities well - served by the New York City Subway or Long Island Railroad enjoy a far smaller toll burden and toll - free bridges.»

At 11 a.m., Cuomo makes an announcement at LaGuardia Community College, The Atrium, 31 - 10 Thomson Ave., Long Island City, Queens.

The proposals, expected to be detailed later Monday, follow a series of forums that Senate Democrats held around the state on the sudden spread of the drug from New York City to sleepy upstate communities and Long Island suburbs.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson have announced an agreement to replace Rikers Island with a series of community - based jail facilities located near borough courthouses.

Two months after she proposed the plan, the Long Island Rail Road has agreed to City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley's (D - Middle Village) request to let the community turn a dilapidated newsstand in Ridgewood into open space for the community.

De Blasio had three nominees pending with the Senate to serve on the state - run authority, which manages transit — buses, subways, trains, bridges and tunnels — in New York City and surrounding areas including, Long Island: David Jones, a leader with the nonprofit Community Service Society who has advocated reduced transit fares for low - income New Yorkers; Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who chairs the chamber's Transportation Committee; and Veronica Vanterpool, director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and a member of the MTA's «reinvention» commission.

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STATEN ISLAND — Four community centers — including reopening the former Cromwell Center — would come to the North Shore under a new plan being worked out by the city.

Meanwhile, students, parents and community members organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, Citizen Action of New York and the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice delivered valentines to state lawmakers» local offices in the Capital District Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island asking them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed education aid cuts.

The citywide task force — to be chaired by city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Dr. Mary Basset, Borough President James Oddo, along with Councilmen Steven Matteo (R - Mid-Island), Joseph Borelli (R - South Shore), Councilwoman Debi Rose (D - North Shore), Assemblyman Michael Cusick (D - Mid-Island), Senator Andrew Lanza (R - Staten Island) and Congressman Daniel Donovan (R - Brooklyn / Staten Island)-- will develop a community and public engagement campaign to increase utilization of new life - saving resources and to recruit health and medical professionals to distribute the new prescription drug resources.

The city budgeted $ 60 million in FY17 for the project, according to a spokesperson, and de Blasio said, «The Staten Island levee will provide vital protection to the East Shore community — a community that is on the front lines of climate change, as we saw so clearly during Sandy.

Since the horrific crash, Senator Klein and the City Island Civic Association have continuously advocated for later Bx29 bus service to properly accommodate the City Island community.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - In getting a green light from two Staten Island community boards, the city cleared a hurdle this week in its quest to acquire 25 East Shore parcels so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can build a seISLAND, N.Y. - In getting a green light from two Staten Island community boards, the city cleared a hurdle this week in its quest to acquire 25 East Shore parcels so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can build a seIsland community boards, the city cleared a hurdle this week in its quest to acquire 25 East Shore parcels so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can build a seawall.

«These are crimes that can injure others and make our communities less safe,» said Staten Island Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, who has joined several Republican legislators in pushing a bill in Albany to compel the city to comply with federal detention requests.

QUEENS, NY — Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Stop & Shop, with help from students of I.S. 93Q, today unloaded 1,000 Easter hams off an 18 - wheeler in front of Borough Hall, donated in time for preparations for the upcoming holiday to five local Queens organizations: Catholic Charities Queens North Community Center of Astoria, Chinese - American Planning Council's Nan Shan Senior Center of Flushing, Hour Children of Long Island City, Korean Community Services Senior Centers of Corona and Flushing, and Queensbridge / Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement Senior Center of Long Island City.

The community leader and Staten Island resident made the announcement at a City Hall press conference on Thursday.

But while the chamber has closed, Kathryn Wylde, president of the Partnership of New York City, said the Israeli tech community is well - represented in New York City by the country's consul general and the Technion Institute, which has partnered with Cornell University to build a new graduate engineering school on Roosevelt Island.

About QSAC Founded in 1978, QSAC is a New York City and Long Island based nonprofit that supports children and adults with autism, together with their families, in achieving greater independence, realizing their future potential, and contributing to their communities in a meaningful way by offering person - centered services.

«We want the police to protect and serve the community,» said Sherel Bowman - Wilson of Staten Island, who said she was considering a City Council run in 2017.

Council Member Mark Levine, Chair of the City Council's Jewish Caucus said, «The ties between the Jewish and Puerto Rican communities in New York have been deep for generations, and so the devastation on the island hits New Yorkers as if it were a member of our own family suffering.»

As the drumbeat to shutter the city's main jail complex on Rikers Island continues, many are imagining what could replace the exclusive gated community...

«This has long been a priority project for the state and the city — beginning back in the Bloomberg administration — that has widespread support within the community and region because it will transform the economy of Staten Island's North Shore,» said Jason Conwall, a spokesman for ESD.

At 6:30 p.m., Hochul will provide remarks at a screening of Alexander Shebanow's Film «Fail State», LaGuardia Community College, Little Theatre, Building E, 31 10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens.

At noon, Rep. Carolyn Maloney and Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas host Women's History Month luncheon in New York, honoring three Queens women for «dedication to community service» — Queens Assembly District Leader Carol Scarano, Long Island City Partnership President Elizabeth Lusskin, and Mt. Sinai Queens Director of Community Relations Ana Rodriguez, Kaufman - Astoria Studios, 3412 36th St., Astoriacommunity service» — Queens Assembly District Leader Carol Scarano, Long Island City Partnership President Elizabeth Lusskin, and Mt. Sinai Queens Director of Community Relations Ana Rodriguez, Kaufman - Astoria Studios, 3412 36th St., AstoriaCommunity Relations Ana Rodriguez, Kaufman - Astoria Studios, 3412 36th St., Astoria, Queens.

The former Democratic presidential nominee rallied with Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City for a ceremonial bill signing of the state's new scholarship for poor and middle - class students.

Appearing at the Eltingville station of the Staten Island Railway, City Councilmen James Oddo and Vincent Ignizio, along with Mid-Island Council candidate Steven Matteo, on Thursday announced a three - prong strategy to beautify communities across the borough.

The advocates rallied outside City Hall as Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Bratton held a round - table with Staten Island community leaders and Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss the fallout of the death of Eric Garner, shortly after an NYPD officer apparently put him in a prohibited chokehold.

Since Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office in 2011, there's been a succession of severe storms, including hurricanes Irene and Lee that brought massive flooding to upstate and Superstorm Sandy in 2012 that flooded beach front communities on Long Island and submerged portions of the New York City subway system in corrosive salt water.

«The City Island Clam Chowder Festival is a time - honored tradition in The Bronx — celebrating the culinary treasures of this beloved seaside community.

«The $ 275 million appropriation is a giant step in what needs to be done in Rodman's Neck, and I applaud our Mayor for finally listening to the pleas of the City Island community.

«Limiting ICE's access to detainees at Riker's Island is a very important step in the right direction toward protecting our immigrant communities,» said City Council Education Committee Chair and Bills Co-Sponsor Daniel Dromm.

WILLOWBROOK — The city's first publicly funded wellness community — a neighborhood with retail shops, medical facilities and affordable housing focused on residents» health — is taking over a shuttered tuberculosis hospital on Staten Island.

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«This unfair and unjust outcome impacted thousands of Sandy victims all over New York City, including right here in our own community,» Rep. Dan Donovan said to some of his constituents on Staten Island at a press conference Wednesday.

And she added that the city has an immigrant health initiative, passed legislation keeping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement off of Rikers Island and the Criminal Justice Reform Act — and has hosted events around the city «to really inform members of our community about their rights.»

He also was in charge of Brooklyn's Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, which under his watch ran massive deficits and ultimately got put up for sale, to the outrage of many in the surrounding community — and from de Blasio, then the city's Public Advocate and a candidate for mayor.

Jack Ahern, Executive Vice President, New York City Central Labor Council stated, «Staten Island has always been one of the true working and middle - class communities of New York City, and we know Michael McMahon is the right person to represent those interests in Washington as our next Democratic Congressional representative.

«We have a few charter schools that are serving our community's needs, and if they no longer serve that need then I wouldn't be opposed to Success Academy coming to Staten Island,» said Sam Pirozzolo, vice-president of the New York City Parents Union, a volunteer organization that has been a vocal supporter of the charter school movement.

Pirozzolo, who lives on Staten Island and was president of the borough's community education council (largely parent advisory groups organized through a process run by the city Department of Education), said parents should be able to choose between district and charter schools, and that both have faults.

«The impacts of Rikers Island and the city's mass incarceration policies on our communities here in Harlem can not be overstated,» said Brian Benjamin.

CVH members from New York City, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie and Yonkers will gather in the backyard of State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Long Island to call on the Majority Leader and Governor Andrew Cuomo to pass strong legislation that meets the needs of their communities.

Indeed, Mr. Cuomo unveiled his proposal at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, alongside Mr. Sanders, who called the idea «revolutionary.»