Bronx-born and Brooklyn-bred, he grew up in a federal housing project in the blue-collar East New York neighborhood and still betrays a Brooklyn accent.
The HELP Shelter, it turns out, is situated in desolate section of East New York, marked by cinderblock buildings, trash-strewn lots and razor wire.
"We are also starting a Mingus Workshop series with Partnership for the Homeless to send small Mingus combos to teach and perform in East New York, " she said.
Mr. Barron is a self-described fighter and strong advocate for his predominately black district, which includes parts of East New York and Brownsville, some of the poorest neighborhoods in the city.
Within two weeks, officials from both organizations came to his company's 100, 000-square-foot headquarters in Brooklyn's East New York neighborhood to investigate, but he knows of no further attempt by either agency to follow up.
"I just want to thank you, just for being you, " said Shariffe Fussell, a 33-year-old working at the Penn-Wortman Senior Center in East New York, as Mr. Barron whirled in for a quick visit this week.
Speaking at the Christian Cultural Center in East New York, the neighborhood with the highest number of stop and frisks last year, the mayor credited the tactic for a 34% drop in crime during his 10 years in office.
At 14:00 EDT (18:00 GMT), Sandy was churning about 170 miles south-east of New York City, the NHC said.
Seventy-two people were sent to the hospital Friday evening after a Metro-North train heading east from New York City derailed and was hit by a train heading west from New Haven.
About 700 people were on board the Metro-North trains when one heading east from New York City's Grand Central Station to New Haven derailed about 6:10 p.m. just outside Bridgeport, MTA and Bridgeport officials said.
About 700 people were on board the Metro-North trains when one heading east from New York City's Grand Central Terminal to New Haven derailed at about 6:10 p.m. just outside Bridgeport, transit and Bridgeport officials said.
One special visitor's planned arrival to Fire Island is creating a pressing deadline for the cleanup of tons of rotting wood, sheet rock, old refrigerators and other Superstorm Sandy debris from the popular vacation destination east of New York City.
Edward Fandrey told reporters Sunday that police received a 911 call about 3:30 p.m. from a mother reporting that her 5-year-old son and a 7-year-old daughter disappeared from their home in Central Islip, about 50 miles east of New York City.
On August 17th Block Island, an idyllic spot on Long Island Sound north-east of New York city, will be graced by a holiday visit from one William Jefferson Clinton, plus 200 of his closest friends (Secret Service men and reporters, mostly).
John Azzata, chief of the Nassau County homicide squad, said he alerted Suffolk County colleagues that an as-yet unidentified body was found on Monday afternoon by a woman walking her dog in Lattingtown, an affluent community on Long Island Sound about 35 miles east of New York City.
In addition, Greenfield identifies a new trend among the young beach-going women who frequent her New York, East Hampton and Miami stores.
On Wednesday, she will be joined by the Duke of York in east London to visit the offices of creative agency Mother and business social network site Yammer.
Nor did he speculate how many more bodies might lie in the sandy scrubland behind the beach on the south shore of Long Island, just east of the New York City border.
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There is no doubt that a lack of familiarity and comfort with the Yankee organization, competing in the American League East, and New York City in general at least partially explains why Mr. Lee rejected overtures from Mr. Cashman.
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Walk by the Latter-day Saints church on the Upper East Side of New York, and you will see only images of Jesus and scenes from the Gospels, even if the Mormon Jesus looks more corn-fed and burly than the gaunt, ascetic one in the Protestant church around the corner.
Mr Tarantino surrendered to police in New York's East Village and was charged with assault.
It is not only on New York's East River that emotions are running high.
The Fuller Brush man made regular rounds in our Lower East Side neighborhood in New York City.
They went nose-to-nose again Friday night, two original Big East titans on the New York stage for one final time.
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Calling all impatient and impecunious fans of East Asian fare in New York City: Food Gallery 32 is cooking in the midst of Koreatown.
Many students at the university in East Garden City, New York, wore white ribbons on their gowns in tribute to Andrea Rebello, CNN affliate WCBS reported.
Several hundred people await the start of the event, which is being held in a large warehouse-like entertainment venue on the shore of New York's East River.
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