Another large civic centre stands at the opposite end of the ridge.
JUDY Schneider and Barry Schneider, an East Side couple united by marriage and by a tenacious civic activism, stood near the corner of 61st Street and Second Avenue in Lenox Hill, where they squinted at a bump in the road and tried to decide what to call it.
The next step is to have our corporate leaders and civic leaders stand together, listen to the voice of the people and state that they will commit to increasing the diversity of their communities and that they will make long-term financial investments to help address this talent gap.
Success depends on the answers to several questions: Will New Yorkers who disagree with the cardinal's conservative stance on social issues be able - or willing - to distinguish St . Patricks as a civic landmark that stands apart from church teaching and archdiocesan politicking?
Two weeks ago, Justice Spinner, the second judge to mull the case of the moribund mall, issued his ruling: in a nutshell, Taubman has a right to build its mall, and the town has no legal, environmental or civic leg to stand on regarding its refusal to issue a special-use permit.
Over this past year, a roundtable of Los Angeles-based vets and civic leaders has stood up to address this problem.
Encouraging that coalition, working to create that kind of cross-ethnic American civic nation, must stand at the core of what all of us progressives are doing.
"The towns that have the strongest support for public schools are often the ones that had strong white civic leaders who stood behind the public schools when many whites in the state were fleeing them … and that has a ripple effect into the present".
("PO" stands for Civic Platform).
It stands for civic duty and democracy, and, of course, our right as citizens to vote.
