Now, if you don’t live in Morningside Heights, you might not know that in the last week of August, the area is teaming with newly arrived students and academics, with all kinds of residents bustling about as they return from summer vacations, and with shoppers. There’s the added commotion of boxes arriving at loading zones, and vehicles of all sorts stopping and starting or zooming along Broadway. Right splat in the middle of all this, I had a lovely sense of our village life.
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Saturday, August 28th, 2010CNN Hero!
Sunday, June 6th, 2010This week, I have had the great honor of being featured on CNN network tv as its CNN Hero! It’s been an amazing experience, with lots of support from all across the nation for what we are doing. Naturally in a one and half minute video, the viewing audience only has a very small percentage of my story. Although the huge majority of the many letters I am receiving come from people who want to begin a Morningside Village in their own neighborhoods, a few people have raised vital questions: (more…)
