Jun 30
It is now forty years since the start of a riot for freedom in a small tavern in New York City -- and the riot has never stopped. It is spreading slowly across the world, to every continent, to Mumbai and Shanghai and Dubai. Everywhere it goes, it wins, in time. Yet on June 28th 1969, it seemed only like another sixties ruck in the muck against corrupt cops. The Stonewall Tavern was a bar in Greenwich Village where gay people huddled together to find friends and lovers in a hostile country o
Jun 30
Mark Lennihan/Associated PressMembers of the influential hip-hop trio Run-DMC — from left, Jason Mizell, known as Jam Master Jay; Joseph Simmons, known as Run; and Darryl McDaniels, known as DMC — at a Grammy Awards ceremony in the 1980s. Mr. Mizell was slain in 2002. The groundbreaking hip-hop trio Run-DMC, which emerged from the streets of Hollis, Queens, in the 1980s and shattered musical barriers with their 1986 collaboration with Aerosmith, will be honored with the symbolic renaming of a
Jun 30
New York City June 30 2009 newsday.com Three workers – including a father and son – were killed Monday afternoon when they were overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes while trying to escape a deep, water-filled hole at a Queens waste transfer plant, authorities said. The final moments of the victims’ lives were spent thrashing around an 18-foot-deep hole filled with three feet of water and deadly levels of hydrogen sulfide, a by-product of decomposed organic material that collects in the well as
