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Callahan v. Carey was a landmark case in the New York County Supreme Court that established the duty of New York State to provide shelter for homeless men. It was brought in 1979 as a class action suit, the first such suit by advocates for the homeless in the United States, and settled with the negotiation in 1981 of a consent decree governing the provision of homeless shelters by New York City.
PRUDEN moved to New York City in May 1994. In addition to serving on the board of for the American Indian Community House 's board, he co-founded the NorthEast Two-Spirit Society (NE2SS) in New York City, [ 3 ] which organizes traditional cultural ceremonies for two-spirit Indigenous peoples. [ 4 ]
The new conservative movement later led by William F. Buckley, Jr., Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan adopted much of the domestic anti-New Deal conservatism of the Old Right, but broke with it by demanding free trade and an aggressive, internationalist, interventionist, and anti-communist foreign policy.
The Jay Heritage Center (JHC) [1] [2] is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization incorporated in 1990 and chartered by the New York State Board of Regents to act as stewards of the 23-acre Jay Estate, [3] the National Historic Landmark home of American Founding Father John Jay.
The Overton Corners Border Inspection Station is located at a bend in the road of New York State Route 276 at a crossroads with Canadian Route 221. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) station is directly north and in an unusual arrangement is on the same side of the road and shares a common side lot boundary.
Haven Coalition, a non-profit in New York City that helps out-of-town women access abortions in the city, draws inspiration from the Jane Collective for their operations. [6] Abortion access has become increasingly restricted: By 2018, more than 1,100 abortion restrictions had been passed in the US, and the number of abortion clinics declined ...
The Jay Estate has 3 discrete owners:New York State Parks, Westchester County and the Jay Heritage Center. [14] New York State Parks (90%) and Westchester County (10%) own a 21.5 acre parcel known as the "Jay Property" as tenants in common while the non-profit Jay Heritage Center (JHC) owns 1.5 acres outright including the Jay Mansion and the 1907 Van Norden Carriage House. [15]
Geoffrey Canada (born January 13, 1952) is an American educator, social activist and author. Since 1990, Canada has been president of the Harlem Children's Zone in Harlem, New York, an organization that states its goal is to increase high school and college graduation rates among students in Harlem. [1]