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Harlem's Presidential Debate Watch Party!
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The Harlem Neighborhood Block Association
September 10, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes
New York for Harris presents a: Presidential Debate Watch Party
Date: TODAY!!! Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Time: Doors open at 7:30 PM / Remarks at 8:30 PM / Debate airs at 9:00 PM
Location: PB Brasserie Steak House, 60 West 125th Street, New York, NY
ADVANCE RSVP REQUIRED: https://events.democrats.org/event/679179/
The 125th Anniversary of St. Aloysius Church
In addition to a live stream of the debate, the event will feature brief remarks from elected officials and New York for Harris leaders who will share insight on our win strategy. Attendees will enjoy Happy Hour specials, a live DJ, and access to exclusive Harris swag. RSVP Today!
You are invited to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of St. Aloysius Church (see below).
Edith Clemons and Evelyn Thomas, saved this block and west 131st street from being demolished in the period of urban renewal in the 1960’s
. If you have not seen the interior of the church, you really should. The restoration is magnificent.
Rats+Cars
For those of you with cars (and especially if you are parking on the street), time to think about rats (yuck). |
What Does a Rat Want With Your Engine? |
Michael H. Parsons, a visiting research scholar at Fordham University who studies the city rats of New York, said that car engines evoked rats’ ancestral homes: dark, warm burrows with easy access to chewable roots. (The common brown rat appears to have arrived in North America around 1775, perhaps when European ships docked at Manhattan’s South Street Seaport; the species is believed to have originated in Asia.) |
To rats, said Dr. Parsons, state of the art vehicular wiring systems are “surrogate roots.” Not because they provide the moisture or nutrient access of real roots, but because they somewhat resemble them and are chewable. |
Rats “get a certain amount of comfort by just chewing,” said Michael Deutsch, an urban entomologist and the technical director of the Arrow Exterminating Company, headquartered on Long Island. |
For the full article, see: |
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/style/rats-car-engines.html |
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