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ELLE DECOR Modern Life Concept House
New York’s most design-forward address is 540 West 28th Street for two more weekends this spring as ELLE DECOR presents the Modern Life Concept House with partner LX.TV Open House. Located between 10th and 11th Avenues, the Concept House features 10 designers who have partnered with leading brands to create dazzling indoor and outdoor spaces that offer a fresh approach to contemporary living.
The Concept House is open to the public for two more weekends: May 27, 28, 29, 30 and June 3, 4, 5. Visiting hours are 10am-4pm.
Admission is $30. Proceeds benefit Housing Works.
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 2:56 am
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On May 31, AIDS Groups, Council Member Palma to Denounce Bloomberg Housing and Food Cuts
AIDS advocates will be right back to work after the holiday weekend.
Join Housing Works, other leading AIDS organizations and City Council Member General Welfare Committee Chair Annabel Palma next Tuesday at a rally and press conference to denounce Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed cuts to housing and meals for poor New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS. The joint General Welfare/Finance Committee budget hearings begin the same day as the press conference.
Here are the details:
WHAT: Rally protesting cuts to housing and meals for New Yorkers with HIV/AIDS.
WHEN: Tues., May 31, 9 AM, before a General Welfare/Finance committee hearing
WHERE: Steps of City Hall, Manhattan
WHO: City Council Member and General Welfare …Posted on May 26, 2011 at 9:20 pm
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Haitian AIDS Activist to Address UN High Level Meeting
Haiti was conspicuously neglected at last summer’s International AIDS Conference, so it was especially gratifying that Haitian AIDS activist Esther Boucicault received an invite last week to speak at the United Nations High Level Meeting on AIDS.
Boucicault, the first person to discuss her HIV-positive status in the media in Haiti, plans to use her global soapbox to focus the world’s attention on the looming threat to Haiti’s hard-won AIDS treatment and prevention infrastructure and nascent supportive services.
“We need housing, jobs and food or we run the risk of seeing the work of so many years tomber à l’eau, fall overboard,” Boucicault said. “HIV is not just about medication.”
Boucicault, who founded the Read More
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 9:19 pm
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An Expert on Puerto Rican Drug Users Returns Home to Fight for Change
We have Rafael Torruella’s abuela to thank for his advocacy on behalf of injection drug users.
“After college, where I studied drug-user research, my grandmother showed me a newspaper article about outreach that was happening in Puerto Rico. She said, ‘Look, this is what people are doing about what you’re always talking about. That brought me into action,” Torruella said.
On June 1, Torruella will become the executive director of Proyecto Casa de Ayuda Intermedia al Menesteroso (CAIM), which provides drug users in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, with badly needed services such as syringe exchange, HIV prevention education, and links to health care. (Since 2008, CAIM has operated as a subsidiary of Housing Works.)
Torruella took his grandmother’s counsel to heart, …
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 9:18 pm
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“Hypocrite” Bloomberg Supports Gay Marriage—But Not LGBT Health
If Bloomberg had plans to score points with the LGBT community with his big gay marriage speech on Thursday, VOCAL-NY had other ideas.
The indefatigable activist group staged two protests this week, one on Wednesday to call attention to the city’s egregiously discriminatory pattern of marijuana arrests, and one yesterday, to expose the mayor’s hypocritical stance on health issues that affect LGBT New Yorkers.
View photos.
“Mayor Bloomberg is a hypocrite for saying he’s on the side of LGBT New Yorkers while blocking legislation that would prevent homelessness for people living with HIV/AIDS and making deep cuts to HIV/AIDS programs in the City budget,” said Gustavo Pedroza, a VOCAL-NY leader and longtime marriage equality …
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 9:17 pm
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ADAP Watch: AIDS Drug Wait List Jumps to 8,310
As of May 19, the wait list to receive lifesaving AIDS medication through the nation’s AIDS Drug Assistance Programs had hit 8,310 people across 13 states.
The number of people waiting to receive medication through state-run AIDS drug programs has increased more than 5,000 percent since August 2009, according to the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors. The federal government has reacted with little urgency, however, allotting just $25 million in additional dollars to the program for FY 2012.
To help readers keep tabs on the growing ADAP crisis, we are now posting the ADAP Watch—the document that tracks increasing cuts to the program—each week, and including it in our Friday morning newsletter.
David Thorpe--> on May 26, 2011 at 9:16 pm
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NYC & Housing Works launch re-fashioNYC
Annually NYC residents throw away approximately 200,000 tons of clothes, towels, blankets, curtains, shoes, handbags, belts, and other textiles and apparel. Why New Yorkers sometimes choose to toss out rather than donate their unwanted clothes is believed to be a matter of convenience.
re-fashioNYC is a partnership between the City of New York and Housing Works to make clothing donation as easy as possible through convenient in-building drop-off service.
The partnership is unique because it provides any participating building with convenient donation services at no cost to the building or taxpayers. The program is expected to grow slowly in response to participation requests and Housing Works ability to expand its services.
If you’re interested in participating in this new and convienient clothing reuse …
Posted on May 25, 2011 at 7:37 pm
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Membership Looks Good On You!
Only Housing Works Members get 25% off on Sundays in May at the Thrift Shops.
Support our services for low-income and homeless New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and get exclusive benefits!
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 11:39 pm
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