Savory Deli & Grocery Inc. is a company registered at 1840 Amsterdam Avenue, New York. It was set up as a domestic business corporation in New York county, under company number 4700233 on January 26, 2015, 3 years ago.
This company is licensed by the DCA as a tobacco retail dealer that can be found at 1840, Amsterdam Ave, New York, Ny (40° 49.747' N 73° 56.687' W). You can contact the company by dialing (212)283-4444.
We gathered information about 6 Department of Consumer Affairs inspections. A DCA inspection (industry: cigarette retail dealer) was completed on January 8, 2018 - the result was "no violation issued". There was also an inspection on September 30, 2016 (industry: grocery-retail) that ended with "a pass" result. Finally, there was an inspection on September 30, 2016 (industry: cigarette retail dealer) that ended with "a no violation issued" result.
The Houdini Museum of New York has several hundred of the rarest and most important pieces that was used and personally belonged to Harry Houdini on display. In the museum's archives are over 1,500 pieces of Houdiniana that allow for an ever changing display.
Some of Houdini’s items include extremely rare publicity posters, unthinkable handcuffs, large escape restraints, secret tools to escape, mystifying magic props, spiritualistic expose items, thought provoking photographs and creative advertising memorabilia. Many of the museum's items have never been on display for public viewing.
The Houdini Museum of New York is located within the headquarters of Fantasma Magic, the leading manufacturer of magic tricks and home of the most prestigious magic shop in the world. The shop features thousands of magic tricks to chose from and an enthusiastic professional magic staff performing amazing magic tricks that you can do. A limited amount of original Houdini items are also available for sale.
Families are more than welcome to come explore. The resident magician will be on hand to show mind-bending magic tricks and give in-depth explanations of the Houdini artifacts.
The Houdini Museum of New York's goal is to inspire all age groups to realize that once you focus and set your mind on something, you can accomplish anything you desire. This was exactly the way Houdini lived his life. The museum captures Houdini’s larger-than-life personality from the time he was a young boy and the events and people that influenced him.
Visit with your school to learn how Houdini became the most recognized name in magic, despite having been gone since 1926.
A federal district court recently dismissed a class action lawsuit brought by the graduates of Cooley Law School. The graduates had accused the school of misrepresenting statistics for graduate job placement.
The graduates claim that their decision to select Cooley Law School was based on misinformation. However, the judge did not agree with these contentions on the ground that purchasing a law degree was in itself not protected by the Michigan Consumer Protection Act. He also said that the action could not be classified as fraud or negligent misrepresentation. The Consumer Protection Act applies to providing property or services primarily for personal or household purposes. This was not applicable on this case since the purchase of the law school’s services was conducted for a commercial or business purpose.
In addition, the judge pointed out that while it may be true that the school’s employment and salary data was incomplete and vague, it was still the responsibility of the students to validate this information and do their own research before deciding to enroll in the school. He said that instead of relying on statistics alone and deciding to spend $100,000 in law school costs, the students should have been more cautious. “With red flags waving and cautionary bells ringing, an ordinary prudent person would not have relied on the statistics to decide to spend $100,000 or more.”
The court also found faults with the statistics and noted that the employment reports were meaningless, inconsistent, confusing and untrustworthy. The court also noted that there was no difference in the statistics of the number of graduates employed part time, full time or on non-legal jobs. Despite this though, the court still considered the plaintiff’s claim unreasonable and stood by its argument that the students should not have relied on two-bare bones statistics when deciding to attend a bottom-tier law school that already had the lowest admission standard in the country. The court held the plaintiffs at fault for not seeking more information related to these statistics.
This dismissal comes on the heels of a New York court’s decision to dismiss an action graduates brought against New York Law School. It is hoped that such incidences will decline because the American Bar Association has changed law school reporting requirements in order to improve the quality of the data that is released with respect to jobs obtained by recent graduates. The reports will also include whether the jobs obtained require a law license or not.
St. Patrick’s Day means a much anticipated day of celebrating and drinking with friends for many people. But the celebrations involving alcohol have made St. Patrick’s Day one of the most dangerous days for road travel, due to the large numbers of drunk drivers that are often out on the roads.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there were 103 crash fatalities in the United States on St. Patrick’s Day in 2009.
NHTSA has released the following tips that will allow you to enjoy celebrating St. Patrick’s Day without being arrested for DUI and without endangering either yourself or an innocent motorist:
If you’re impaired, use a taxi, call a sober friend or family member, or use public transportation so you are sure to get home safely.
If you know someone who is about to drive while impaired, take their keys and help them make other arrangements to get to where they are going safely.
Even though the sign of St. Patrick’s Day is the shamrock and it is supposed to signify luck, St. Patrick’s Day celebrants should not rely on luck to keep themselves and others safe after imbibing alcohol.
Veronica Chambers is the editor leading the archival storytelling team, a new initiative devoted to publishing articles based on photographs recently rediscovered as we digitize millions of images in our archives.
She has held senior editorial roles at Newsweek, Glamour and Good Housekeeping, among other magazines. As a director of brand development at Hearst, she was part of the executive team that led the relaunch of Good Housekeeping and its website. She went on to Condé Nast, where she developed and introduced Glam Belleza Latina, a quarterly magazine for Glamour’s Latina audience. A year later, she developed and started Women’s Day Latina with Hearst. She was a recent John S. Knight fellow in journalism entrepreneurship and innovation at Stanford University.
Veronica is also a book editor. She recently created the anthology “The Meaning of Michelle,” a collection by 16 writers celebrating the former first lady, and edited the coming “Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.” Veronica has written several books as well, including “Mama’s Girl,” a critically acclaimed memoir, and co-wrote “Yes, Chef” with Marcus Samuelsson and “32 Yolks” with Eric Ripert.
This role is a return to The New York Times for Veronica. Early in her career, she was an editor at The New York Times Magazine, the first black woman with that title. Born in Panama, and raised in Brooklyn, she speaks, reads and writes Spanish, but she is truly fluent in Spanglish. She lives with her husband and daughter in Hoboken, N.J.
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The fastball made the same old popping noise in the catcher's mitt. The curveball more than once left the hitter frozen. And Dwight Gooden's expression was as it used to be, blank and cool. In some ways, nothing had changed.
But, of course, much had. Here was Gooden making his first appearance of the season on the mound at Shea Stadium - pitching batting practice. He worked with protection all around him, and with his pitching coach, Mel Stottlemyre, by his side and Frank Cashen, the general manager, behind the batting cage. And, if it was possible, the curiosity surrounding his 15 minutes of pitching was greater than at any other point in his career.
He had spent nearly a month being treated for drug abuse at the Smithers Center for Alcoholism and Drug Treatment in Manhattan and now a group of about two dozen reporters and several TV crews, as well as his teammates, wanted to know how Gooden would look on the mound. Stottlemyre Is Pleased
Gooden, who at the club's insistence is still not granting interviews, said in a statement released by the Mets' publicity department that he ''felt at home'' and that he had good control of the curveball. ''I have a long way to go,'' said Gooden, ''but this was a good first step.''
The Mets plan to have Gooden remain in New York while the team goes to Atlanta for the start of a seven-game road trip. He will throw over the weekend at Shea and then probably, though the club has not officially announced it, go to Virginia to pitch for the Mets' Tidewater club there Tuesday night against Richmond, perhaps working three innings. McDowell Throws, Too
All in all, it was a pleasant afternoon for the Mets, who also had a pleasant evening, beating the Red Sox last night in an exhibition game for charity. They not only saw the return of Gooden, but also the return of Roger McDowell, who has not pitched this season because of surgery performed at the end of spring training for a hernia. McDowell, the ace right-handed reliever, threw in the bullpen for about 15 minutes and reported no problems. There is a chance he could be back ahead of schedule, possibly within the next two weeks. He had not been expected to pitch until June 1.
Gooden began throwing before most of the regulars took their batting-practice swings, pitching to Wally Backman, Al Pedrique and Barry Lyons.
When Backman entered the cage, he said to the batting-practice catcher: ''You better move back. I will have to use the whole cage.''
A version of this article appears in print on May 8, 1987, on Page D00020 of the National edition with the headline: Gooden Takes Another Step. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
When India's prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, finished speaking at the international conference on climate here on Wednesday, the fissure between richer and poorer countries over how best to tackle global warming could no longer be papered over.
In his speech, he argued that poorer countries could not be expected to invest money in tackling the causes of global warming. They bear little responsibility, he said, producing fewer greenhouse gases than industrialized countries, and yet have been hit harder by the natural calamities, from drought to floods, caused by climate changes. They have weaker economies, and with pressing needs in everything from health to education, can little afford to invest in clean-air technologies.
His speech articulated sentiments -- resentments, in some cases -- widely shared among developing nations. So while it produced little new of substance, the conference, the eighth since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted in 1992, illuminated the challenges in crafting a global response to global warming.
It highlighted a divide between north and south, between the industrialized and developing worlds, over who should bear the obligations and burdens of trying to reduce the emissions that cause global warming.
But on several points, the south found itself with an unlikely ally: the United States, which under the Bush administration has also blanched at joining efforts to reduce emissions.
Instead, the United States joined India and other developing countries in encouraging a focus on developing the technology and finding the resources to adapt to climate change.
India and others argued that developed countries should offer technical and financial assistance to help developing countries adapt.
It was not clear whether the conference's final declaration, which was still being negotiated this morning, would contain a reference to the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 climate pact completed last year and endorsed by most of the world's countries.
The Bush administration had rejected the pact, saying that fulfilling its requirements to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases could hurt America's economy. The United States is the largest producer of greenhouse gases, and many believe its rejection of the pact has undercut its potential effectiveness.
A draft declaration drawn up earlier this week did not mention Kyoto at all. But the latest version included an innocuous reference that said that parties that have ratified the protocol should encourage those that have not to do so ''in a timely manner.''
The pact must be ratified by at least 55 countries and by the industrialized nations that emitted at least 55 percent of the industrialized world's carbon dioxide in 1990. With the United States out, that number can only be reached if Russia ratifies the treaty. At the conference, the Russian delegation indicated that ratification was eventually likely, but only after Parliament passed a law in favor of ratification.
If Russia has been hesitant about ratifying the Kyoto pact because of the withdrawal of the United States, India may have been emboldened by America's rejection of formal commitments to reduce emissions of warming gases.
''We do not see targets and timetables as realistic for developing countries,'' the head of the American delegation, Paula Dobriansky, the under secretary of state for global affairs, said in an interview today.
Instead, the American delegation here repeatedly sounded two themes: that adapting to climate change is as essential as preventing it, and that economic growth is the key to environmental progress.
The European Union and Japan, accordingly, have been pressing developing nations to commit to reducing the emission of warming gases.
But it was exactly such pressures that seem to have contributed to the estrangement between north and south. A member of the Indian delegation said that the pressure from the European Union and Japan had crossed the line from ''persuasion'' to ''aggression.'' Mr. Vajpayee's speech was partly in response.
A version of this article appears in print on November 1, 2002, on Page A00006 of the National edition with the headline: At Climate Meeting, Unlikely Ally for Have-Nots. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 - With a campaign of high-profile national security events set for the next three days, following Karl Rove's blistering speech to Republicans on Friday, the White House has effectively declared that it views its controversial secret surveillance program not as a political liability but as an asset, a way to attack Democrats and re-establish President Bush's standing after a difficult year.
Whether the White House can succeed depends very much, members of both parties say, on its success in framing a complicated debate when the country is torn between its historic aversion to governmental intrusion and its recent fear of terrorist attacks at home.
Polls suggest that Americans are divided over whether Mr. Bush has the authority to order the searches without warrants that critics say violate the law and that the president says are legal and critical to the nation's security.
But as the White House and Democrats are well aware, the issue can draw very different reactions depending on how it is presented. These next few days could prove critical, as both Mr. Bush and Congressional Democrats move aggressively to define what is at stake.
Americans may be willing to support extraordinary measures -- perhaps extralegal ones -- if they are posed in the starkest terms of protecting the nation from another calamitous attack. They are less likely to be supportive, members of both parties say, if the question is presented as a president breaking the law to spy on the nation's own citizens.
Viewed from the perspective of the battles over the Homeland Security Act or the USA Patriot Act, this White House holds a tactical edge; it has repeatedly proved highly effective in defining complicated debates against the Democratic Party. Applying the campaign lessons of simplicity and repetition, Mr. Bush and Mr. Rove, his chief political adviser, have systematically presented arguments in accessible if sometimes exaggerated terms, and they have regularly returned to the theme of terrorism since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Democrats -- and, though Mr. Rove made no mention of this Friday, some Republicans, too -- have indeed challenged the administration for eavesdropping without obtaining warrants. They argue, among other points, that the White House is bypassing legal mechanisms established in 1978 that already allow law enforcement agencies to move rapidly to monitor communications that might involve terrorists. Yet it is difficult to think of a Democrat who has actually argued that it is not "in our national security interest" to track Qaeda calls to the United States, as Mr. Rove contested; he did not offer any examples of whom he had in mind.
Beyond that tactical edge, the White House enjoys the advantage of its platform. The sheer crush of news media attention to a rare public speech by Mr. Rove could not have been lost on Democrats.
By contrast, there is no single Democrat who stands as the voice of opposition. That difference is likely to become particularly glaring this week, with a speech on Monday by Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the former head of the National Security Agency; a legal defense of the spying program on Tuesday by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales; and a visit by Mr. Bush to N.S.A. headquarters on Wednesday. This orchestrated campaign is the work of the same White House that initially offered a crouched, guarded response to the disclosure of the eavesdropping program last month.
Still, in many significant ways the task the White House faces now may prove more daunting than the battles it has waged on this terrain before.
A number of Republicans have joined Democrats in challenging the surveillance program, pointedly reminding the administration that precedents established today will be in place whenever a Democrat returns to power.
"A lot of Democrats?" said one prominent Republican supporter of Mr. Bush, who did not want to be identified while being critical of a White House that famously does not brook criticism. "Democrats, Karl? Republicans, too."
David A. Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, said: "A lot of conservatives are very skeptical about it. It is not as clean-cut a political win as the administration thinks that it is."
Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is planning hearings on the surveillance program. And in an interview on Fox News on Sunday, Senator John McCain of Arizona said he did not think the president had the legal authority for this operation, adding that the White House should seek Congressional approval to alter the 1978 provisions if it thinks they are not working now.
Mr. McCain also came to the defense of Democrats in response to Mr. Rove's suggestion that they were not committed to the nation's security. "Do I think that the president's leadership has been worthy of support of our party and our leadership?" he said. "Yes. But there's too many good Democrats over there who are as concerned about national security and work just as hard as I do."
Beyond that, one Republican analyst who is skeptical about the White House strategy said Mr. Bush's position was hardly helped by the fact that his credibility numbers have dropped along with his popularity since his re-election. Mr. Bush may find that, as some Democrats have suggested, the invocations of Sept. 11 do not have the force they once had.
For their part, Democrats said they have learned from their repeated defeats by this White House. The Democratic presidential candidate of 2004, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, said in an interview on Sunday that Mr. Rove and the White House were willfully distorting the Democratic position.
"He's playing an old game," Mr. Kerry said. "Every time they have a problem, they play the 9/11 card."
"We all support surveillance -- that's where they are playing word games again," Mr. Kerry said. "You can protect the safety of the American people and you can protect the Constitution."
The political complexity of the issue was reflected in remarks by Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, a Republican, who, like Mr. Kerry, is considering a run for president. Speaking by telephone on a trip to Iowa, Mr. Romney at first offered full support for the president's surveillance program.
"The eavesdropping is a big matter on the coasts for people who are inclined to dislike the president," Mr. Romney said. "The great majority of Americans think it is the president's first responsibility to protect the lives of the American citizens in an urgent setting where there is a threat of terrorism."
But Mr. Romney called back a few moments later to make clear that he would have a different view if the program were found to be unlawful.
"I would never suggest that the president should break the law," he said. "My guess is, my assumption is, he did not break the law. The president has a responsibility to follow the law, which I believe is likely to be found, but he also has a primary responsibility to protect the American people."
News Analysis Correction: January 25, 2006, Wednesday Because of an editing error, an article on Saturday about the controversy over the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program misstated the rank of Michael V. Hayden, a former head of the agency, and one of several Bush administration officials designated to defend the operation. (The error was repeated in a front-page news analysis on Monday.) He is a general, not a lieutenant general.
Correction: January 31, 2006, Tuesday A front-page news analysis article on Jan. 23 about efforts by the White House to turn its secret surveillance program into a political asset referred imprecisely to the news program on which Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, said that he did not think the president had the legal authority for the operation. It was "Fox News Sunday," on Fox Broadcasting -- not Fox News, which is a cable channel.
BY definition, foster children have been delinquent, abandoned, neglected, physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused, and that does not take into account nonstatutory abuses like heartache. About two-thirds never go to college and very few graduate, so it’s a safe bet that those who do have an uncommon resilience.
In a society where many young men and women live with their parents well into their 20s, foster children learn quickly that they are their own responsibility. To find someplace to live in 10th grade Kaleef Starks, now an A student at the University of California, Los Angeles, but back then (to use his words) a gay, effeminate, abused teenager, went to the local library, logged onto a computer and Googled “homeless shelters for youth.”
His closest friend at U.C.L.A., Bianca Boccara, had parents who made her go panhandling with them because they knew passers-by would be more likely to donate if they saw a young child.
By the time he was 18, Manny Roque, now a student at Los Angeles City College, had lived in seven foster homes and attended five high schools. He was raised by a mother who was a crack addict and prostitute, growing up in such chaos that he did not go to school until sixth grade and only then did he understand how abnormal it was for a boy his age not to be able to name the letters of the alphabet.
One of his classmates, Shamir Moorer, “born with crack inside me,” estimates she’s lived in “15 or 17” foster and group homes. She can’t say for sure because she can’t remember the earliest ones, having been placed in care as a baby.
IN a 2010 study by researchers at the University of Chicago, only 6 percent of former foster youths had earned a two- or four-year degree by age 24. Those not in college may be in jail; 34 percent who had left foster care at age 17 or 18 reported being arrested by age 19.
Most of the research is bleak — but not all. It appears that extra support can make a difference. The Chicago study tracked the lives of about 700 foster children in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. Those in Illinois who were still getting foster care services at age 19 were less likely to have been arrested (22 percent versus 34 percent) than those in the other two states who were on their own. The same was true for education. The foster children from Illinois, which has long allowed young people to remain in care until their 21st birthday, were more likely to have completed at least one year of college than their counterparts from Iowa or Wisconsin, where the age of emancipation at the time was 18.
Which is why a growing number of colleges — from those that are selective, like U.C.L.A., to those that are not, like Los Angeles City College — have created extensive support programs aimed at current and former foster young people. At U.C.L.A., this includes scholarships, year-round housing in the dorms for those who have no other place to live, academic and therapeutic counseling, tutoring, health care coverage, campus jobs, bedding, towels, cleaning products, toiletries and even occasional treats. Ms. Boccara mentioned the gift cards she was given to a local supermarket. At Los Angeles City College, Marcellia Goodrich likes the free snacks in the program office and Mr. Roque noted the free paper. “It’s useful and helps you stay on budget,” he said.
No one tracks college programs for foster youth. But it is clear there has been considerable growth in recent years, spurred in part by the creation in 2003 of the Chafee grant program, an annual $48 million federal appropriation used to award scholarships of up to $5,000. Also important was federal legislation in 2008 giving states the option of extending federal aid programs for foster youth from age 18 to 21.
Seven states are considered to have particularly strong programs. California’s is known as the Guardian Scholars. Texas, Ohio and North Carolina call theirs Reach; Michigan has Fostering Success Michigan; Washington, Passport to College Promise; and Virginia, Great Expectations. Many colleges provide some services, but a far smaller number have the kinds of comprehensive support systems offered at places like Western Michigan University, Sam Houston State University, City College of San Francisco, and community colleges in Tallahassee, Fla., and Austin, Tex.
California has the largest foster population — about 54,000 of the 400,000 in care nationally — and Los Angeles, with 18,500 children, has the most among cities, more even than New York, which has about 14,000.
U.C.L.A. began identifying foster students five years ago when it introduced its Guardian Scholars program, and the results are promising. There are now 250 current and former foster students at the university. The first group had a four-year graduation rate of 65 percent and a five-year rate of 80 percent, which compares favorably with rates for all low-income students (61 percent and 84 percent) and campuswide (69 percent and 88 percent).
According to the state website, 33 two- and four-year colleges have a Guardian Scholars program or are in the process of developing one. The first, at California State University, Fullerton, started in 1998 with financial backing from Ronald V. Davis, the former chief executive of the Perrier Group. Philanthropy has played a role at several universities. Paul Blavin, who made his fortune as an investor, has financed programs at the University of Michigan and Northern Arizona University. The Pritzker Foundation recently gave $3 million to U.C.L.A.’s program. Casey Family Scholars provides scholarships and support services directly to students, an average of $3,500 a year to about 220 undergraduates.
Janina Montero, a vice chancellor who developed U.C.L.A.’s program, said most poor children have at least one parent to guide them and provide basic needs — and a place to call home.
There are 25 students at U.C.L.A., including Mr. Starks and Ms. Boccara, who have nowhere to go during holiday and summer breaks, and so live in the dorms year-round. And while spending Thanksgiving and Christmas in a nearly empty 10-story residence hall may sound depressing, it is better, Ms. Boccara said, than her alternative, some cheap motel room. During her first Christmas at school, she said, “I stayed busy, but it was pretty lonely here — no one I knew, just foreign students in the dorm. It does get a person down.”
Mr. Starks had a hard time, too: “The first night I cried — a young adult in college on my own.” But he also said, “I don’t let brokenness get in my way; I’ve always known if I worked hard, doors would open.”
The biggest door so far opened in the spring of 2011, when he was accepted to U.C.L.A. For Mr. Starks, it was validation that he was the kind of person he’d believed himself to be.
Last summer, living in a dorm was not so hard because by then Ms. Boccara and Mr. Starks had become friends. Ms. Boccara is pretty sure her roommate during the school year has a sense of her background but not the details. “She hears me on the phone, but I don’t talk about it,” Ms. Boccara said. “The only person I tell is Kaleef.”
Nearly three-quarters of the students qualify for an annual tuition waiver because they are too poor to pay the $1,400. The average age is 30, meaning many have probably failed at college before. The graduation rate is only 6 percent within six years (versus the national community college average of about 14 percent in three years).
City College, like most community colleges, does not have dorms, and most students find housing through social welfare agencies. Mr. Roque lives in housing financed by First Place for Youth, a nonprofit organization that serves former foster children. He was 18 when he left the last of seven homes, in 2010, and as is true for many foster youth, there are pieces of his story he doesn’t know. He was too young to remember why he was removed from the first two homes. Another house was closed for violations. His fourth foster mother planned to adopt him, he said, but changed her mind.
Last spring, Mr. Roque was rejected by Los Angeles City College for having failed to make adequate academic progress; he says he had twice attended area community colleges, but withdrew without earning any credits. To be reconsidered, he had to write a letter of appeal explaining any mitigating circumstances, which in Mr. Roque’s case was homelessness.
He wrote of the transition from foster care to no care: “Couch surfing, from relatives who did not like me to friends who got tired of me. I was not able to concentrate in school or even keep my grade-point average at a 2.0.” He also filled a single-spaced page with several more mitigating circumstances and in his conclusion promised to do better: “I have such a good support system in place, people who expect a lot from me, and I am in a place where I can make school a priority. I am serious this time.”
“All summer he was the first one in each morning,” he said. “He’d put on headphones, sit at the computer with a dictionary and find a website to practice grammar. He’d show me sentences and ask if they were right.”
New foster students take a mandatory course that includes lists of proper study skills, which Mr. Roque has memorized.
“Sit in front of the room,” he recited for me. “Visit your professors during visiting hours. Have a notebook and binder for each class, not all stuffed in one. Take notes for every class and give yourself five to eight minutes after class to go over them. Ask questions even if they sound silly. Be prompt and considerate with assignments and attendance.”
In addition to the new friends he’s made, the computer he won at a raffle sponsored by the Scholars, and knowing that he will not age out of the housing program until March 27, 2015, Mr. Roque has a job working four shifts a week at the Subway restaurant across from the college. “Life’s the best it’s ever been,” he said.
WHEN Mr. Lee started tutoring at the community college, he thought he was going to save everyone who walked through the door. He believed it was just a matter of putting in the hours. But early on, he watched as most cascaded through the cracks. There have been 300 students in the program for at least a semester since it began in 2009, and so far 14 have graduated or transferred to a four-year college.
“It’s hopeless to help students who haven’t come to the realization that they have to want to do it on their own,” he said.
For Randy Davis, who is on the honor roll and is the student government parliamentarian, the light bulb went off late, two years ago, when he was 25. Part of the problem was his family, he said. He never knew his father, hasn’t seen his mother in 10 years, his grandmother who had cared for him is dead and two brothers are in jail.
“I can’t put it all on others,” he said. “I have no bad feelings toward my biologicals. I tell people, ‘Leave the past in the past,’ but I hear people say, ‘If I had parents I would have done better.’ Well, you don’t have parents. You got to learn to roll with it.”
Mr. Davis, Ms. Goodrich and Ms. Moorer have been known as the Three Peas in a Pod since they formed a study group last year that helped them all get A’s in a geology course. But while Mr. Davis and Ms. Goodrich are applying to four-year colleges, Ms. Moorer, who’s 27, dropped out recently.
On the Friday I first interviewed her, she said, “I haven’t told anyone, but today is my last day.” She is a single mother and said the reasons had to do with her 8-year-old son. “I’m going all the time. There are nights we don’t eat until 9,” she said. “This weekend I’m making a new plan.”
But the following week there still was no plan, except that she did not want the Scholars staff to know. “They’ll pressure me to come back,” she said. “I’ve broken down a couple of times in my life and I can feel it coming on, so I just need to slow it down.”
When Veronica Garcia, who runs the Scholars program at the community college, found out, she pushed for Ms. Moorer to take at least one course, and the young woman promised that she would. Ms. Moorer said she’s fearful of being one of those women who is 40 years old and still trying to get her associate degree.
THE leap from foster care to U.C.L.A. is enormous, and there are things those who reach the far side share. Ms. Boccara said that from the time she was little, school was the one place she felt happy. Mr. Starks said his teachers intuited the harshness of his life and encouraged him. Donovan Arrington, a U.C.L.A. sophomore, said he always felt he was imposing on people; doing well in school made him feel less of a burden.
Having come so far, they are not willing to be overlooked. When Rayvonn Anthony Lee, who has overcome abuse, legal problems, serious illness and homelessness, was rejected by U.C.L.A., he appealed. He is now a senior, majoring in contemporary classical music composition. One of his professors, Adam Schoenberg, said Mr. Lee is a great student, but what stands out more is his will.
“I was able to get to know him after class,” Mr. Schoenberg wrote in an email, as he was always very ambitious. “He would ask to show me his compositions several times after theory class, and he even took a bus — because he didn’t have a car at the time — from the west side all the way to downtown just to have a lesson with me (and it probably took him close to two hours with all of the bus changes). It was clear from the get-go that Anthony is hungry to make it as a composer.”
Angel Gabarret has lived on the streets of Los Angeles before and does not intend to again. In September, he used the money he’d earned working at a carwash to pay his rent through the end of the year. “Now I just have to worry about education and food and that’s it,” he said.
He was born in Honduras, orphaned at a young age and, still a child, made his way north to Guatemala, then Mexico, and finally the United States, a street urchin supporting himself by gathering firewood, hawking newspapers and helping women sell vegetables in local markets. He didn’t learn English until he was 18 and it has taken him five years to graduate from City College, but now at 27, with a B average, he is applying to California State University, Long Beach.
Most days he arrives on campus by 7 a.m. and works at an outdoor bench. Afternoons, he goes for tutoring at the Scholars office. After several false starts, he has decided on a career.
“I think accounting is doable for me,” he explained. “I understand the concepts. I’ve learned the accounting equations. It’s a very, very clean job. You work indoors in a nice office. You’re supposed to dress up with shiny shoes and dressed-up pants.”
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The Labor Department released its official hiring and unemployment figures for March on Friday morning, providing the latest snapshot of the American economy.
■ 103,000 jobs were added last month. Wall Street economists had expected an increase of about 185,000, according to Bloomberg.
■ The Labor Department revised its estimate of February’s job growth upward, but January’s figure was revised sharply downward. The net result was a loss of 50,000 jobs relative to prior estimates.
February’s report was a barnburner: Companies added jobs at the strongest pace since 2015, and the labor force gained hundreds of thousands of workers. The report for March wasn’t as strong, but still extended a remarkable run in the job market.
March was the 90th consecutive month of job growth, by far the longest streak on record. Employers have added an average of just over 200,000 jobs per month so far in 2018, a pace that has held relatively steady for the past two years. The unemployment rate hasn’t budged since October, but remains at its lowest level since 2000.
“The fundamentals still remain solid,” said Dan North, chief economist for Euler Hermes North America.
The slowdown in March wasn’t a surprise. February’s job growth was probably inflated by a surge in hiring in construction and the retail sector that reflected unseasonably warm weather in much of the country. Both sectors slumped in March as winter storms blew through the eastern United States.
“We’ve had such unsustainably strong results in January and February that it was largely expected that we were due for some payback,” said Ellen Zentner, chief United States economist for Morgan Stanley. “The weak number in headline payrolls does not change the fact that trend job growth is strong.”
The one dull spot in February’s report was wage growth, which slowed from January. That figure was revised up slightly on Friday, and earnings rebounded further in March, rising 2.7 percent from a year earlier. Economists caution against reading too much into the month-to-month data on wages, which is volatile and prone to distortions.
The bigger picture is that wage growth remains weaker than most economists would expect when unemployment is so low. Economists have proposed a long list of possible explanations, from globalization to weak productivity growth. Most still expect employers to have to raise pay eventually to attract and retain workers. But so far, employers are resisting.
“It’s a standoff, almost, on wages,” said Jason Guggisberg, a vice president at the staffing firm Adecco. “Who’s going to go first?”
Manufacturers like Camden Yards Steel in New Jersey have been a bright spot as the economy has produced a record streak of job growth. Credit Joe Lamberti/Camden Courier-Post, via Associated Press
The manufacturing sector has posted solid job gains over the past year, and that growth continued in March, when American factories added 22,000 jobs. But mounting trade tensions with China could threaten the sector’s rebound in the months ahead.
President Trump announced late Thursday that he would consider imposing tariffs on an additional $100 billion worth of Chinese products, escalating the rapid-fire exchange of trade actions by the two countries. It isn’t yet clear what impact the tariffs could have on the economy. But the threat alone could disrupt some companies’ plans, economists said.
“Whether trade tensions and threats come to fruition or not, even if there’s not follow-through, the lingering uncertainty and the market volatility that it creates will start to permeate business decisions and household decisions,” Ms. Zentner said. Already, she said, there are signs that upper-income households are becoming less confident, a sentiment that could affect consumer spending.
Investors and policymakers alike are watching the job market closely for signs that the economy could be starting to overheat. Markets tumbled after a report of unexpectedly strong wage growth in January led to fears of inflation, and the interest-rate hikes it could bring.
The market reaction to Friday’s report was more muted. The uptick in wages was sufficient to suggest that the job market remains healthy, but probably not big enough to force the Federal Reserve to reconsider its policy of gradual rate increases, said Michelle Meyer, head of United States economics for Bank of America.
Indeed, in a speech in Chicago on Friday, the Fed chairman, Jerome H. Powell, suggested his view of the economy had changed little in recent weeks.
“The labor market remains strong, and my colleagues and I on the Federal Open Market Committee expect it to remain strong,” Mr. Powell told the Economic Club of Chicago, according to prepared remarks released by the central bank. He added that he would be “looking for an additional pickup in wage growth as the labor market strengthens further.”
Mr. Powell’s prepared remarks made no mention of the looming threat of a trade war with China. But Ms. Meyer said the added uncertainty surrounding trade could tend to make policymakers more cautious.
Perhaps the biggest surprise in the blockbuster report for February was the surge of workers into the labor force. That flood of new workers partly reversed in March, when the labor force shrank by 158,000 people. Beyond such monthly gyrations, however, the labor force has been growing gradually, an impressive feat given the ongoing retirement of the baby-boom generation.
With available workers increasingly scarce, companies are going to greater lengths to find potential employees. Some are hiring people with criminal records or loosening hiring requirements. Others are trying to entice people previously on the economy’s sidelines, like at-home parents and recent retirees.
“I’ve had more conversations about retirees in the last month than I have in the last year,” said Becky Frankiewicz, president of ManpowerGroup, a staffing firm. “That’s an ideal population because they’re still highly skilled and they’re experienced.”
Stephen A. Schwarzman planned to make a $25 million donation to Abington Senior High School in Pennsylvania in return for naming rights, among other conditions.CreditCreditMark Makela for The New York Times
ABINGTON, Pa. — Stephen A. Schwarzman, the Wall Street billionaire, was prepared to cut a $25 million check to the high school he attended here in the 1960s, to help it pay for a huge renovation project.
“Help me understand how you could make such a monumental decision without even asking?” demanded Gwen Vance, a lung-transplant nurse who graduated from Abington in 1980.
Dozens of Abington residents waited for their chance to speak directly to the school board.CreditRyan Collerd for The New York Times
“I just think there’s too much influence about big money, Wall Street money, in our society,” said Robert Durham, who arrived for the school board meeting 45 minutes early.CreditRyan Collerd for The New York Times
She was one of roughly 250 town residents who showed up at a standing-room-only school board meeting Tuesday night to vent about what felt a bit like a hostile Wall Street takeover of a local institution. The five-hour meeting, in an auditorium at the junior high school, ran well past midnight. There was shouting, name-calling and more than one demand for officials to resign.
“I just think there’s too much influence about big money, Wall Street money, in our society,” complained Robert Durham, who works at the local Chevrolet dealership and sent two sons through Abington Senior High School. He arrived at the meeting 45 minutes early, wearing dark pants and a bright green sweater.
Stunned by the public outcry, which included an online petition that has now garnered nearly 1,500 signatures, the district amended its decision to rename the school the Abington Schwarzman High School. Instead, Mr. Schwarzman’s name would merely grace the new science and technology center.
The school board president, Raymond McGarry, accepted responsibility. “I was so focused on the positive aspects of this that, frankly, I was blinded,” he said.
Christine Anderson, a spokeswoman for Mr. Schwarzman’s private equity firm, the Blackstone Group, who attended the meeting, insisted that Mr. Schwarzman was all right with his name not being on the school. “The naming was inconsequential,” she said.
Under the amended agreement, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Center for Science and Technology will feature plaques or photos of him. It is unclear if his portrait also will hang in the building.
A decade has passed since the global financial crisis. The economy is growing; unemployment is low. But emotions are still running hot about the role that big banks and other Wall Street firms — and their millionaire and billionaire leaders — play in America. Yawning inequality has cemented the feeling that just about everything is available for purchase by the very, very rich.
Stephen Schwarzman, chief executive of the private equity firm Blackstone Group, attended Abington Senior High School in the 1960s, which he credited with kick-starting his future.CreditJason Lee/Reuters
Mr. Schwarzman, with an estimated $12 billion fortune, is the embodiment of that caste. He has become a public supporter of President Trump. That helped him land a major international investment last year, but it also made him a polarizing figure in Abington, which voted more than 2-to-1 for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Naming-rights deals are common, but they increasingly risk provoking fierce reactions — sometimes leading to embarrassing retreats by the wealthy patrons and the recipients of their largess.
In 2015, former Citigroup chief executive Sanford I. Weill and his wife, Joan Weill, abandoned a $20 million donation to a small college in Paul Smiths, N.Y., after alumni fought their demand that the school modify its name to include Mrs. Weill’s. That same year, on a far smaller financial scale, a quarrel erupted in Beverly Hills, Calif., over an elementary school courtyard that was named after a local real estate agent who had donated tens of thousands of dollars.
In 2007, he gave $100 million to the New York Public Library, which renamed its grand Fifth Avenue flagship the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. The Schwarzman Scholars, a $550 million international scholarship program in Beijing, was started in 2013. And in New Haven, Conn., a $150 million gift established the Schwarzman Center at Yale University, a futuristic student building to feature new dining halls, meeting rooms, and performance space.
Mr. Schwarzman’s cash-for-naming-rights frenzy was underway as early as 2004, right here in Abington, when he donated $400,000 to the high school to build a new football stadium. It was named in his honor.
During his youth, his family moved to Abington from downtown Philadelphia. Abington was known for its good schools, and his mother wanted a better education for her children.
At Abington, Mr. Schwarzman ran track and cross-country, once logging a record time despite breaking his wrist partway through a race, and was elected student body president. After graduating in 1965, he attended Yale and then Harvard Business School. In 1985, he helped start Blackstone, which became the world’s largest private equity firm. He has credited Abington Senior High School with kick-starting his future.
By this decade, the high school needed an upgrade. Its main building dated back to the 1950s. It lacked anything resembling cutting-edge computer or science facilities.
Amy Sichel, the longtime Abington School Superintendent, started searching for a benefactor to help bankroll a renovation project that the school board estimated would cost roughly $100 million. Mr. Schwarzman, one of the school’s most famous alumni, was an obvious target.
Dr. Sichel approached him about a new contribution in January 2017. Two months later, the Abington school board incorporated the Foundation for Abington School District, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization that could manage the potential gift, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
During the ensuing months, Dr. Sichel, a former school psychologist who is one of the highest-paid superintendents in Pennsylvania, discussed her high school’s needs with Mr. Schwarzman and his philanthropic team. He was especially interested in having the school embrace technology.
Talks were so cordial that Dr. Sichel was invited to Mr. Schwarzman’s 70th birthday celebration last February. The party, in Palm Beach, Fla., featured camels and a performance by the rock star Gwen Stefani.
By the following January, Mr. Schwarzman had committed $25 million to the renovation, which would feature improved science labs, a new laptop for each student and coding classes available to all.
Mr. Schwarzman donated $400,000 to the high school in 2004 to build a new football stadium. It was named in his honor.CreditMark Makela for The New York Times
Mr. Schwarzman announced his donation at a gathering of 3,000 school superintendents in Nashville on Feb. 15. There was no mention that Mr. Schwarzman’s name would be plastered all over the school.
That was because that detail was still being discussed, said Dr. Sichel. So were other requirements contained in the original agreement, which was finalized on March 22 but never signed. The deal also stipulated that the renovated building should feature a portrait of Mr. Schwarzman that he commissioned and that his twin brothers, Mark and Warren Schwarzman, should have spaces named for them.
“Controversy over the naming and process aside, the need and desire for the funds still exists, and Mr. Schwarzman is unwavering in his desire to help,” said Ms. Anderson, the Blackstone spokeswoman.
In a phone interview on Friday, Dr. Sichel said that given the size of the gift, she and the board “were sure that it would come with some kind of naming opportunity.”
The outcry, raised by the school board’s ratification of the deal on March 27, started with social media posts. It culminated in angry emails to school officials and a petition to oppose the renaming.
School board meetings in Abington are normally dull affairs that sometimes last less than 15 minutes. But the gathering on Tuesday immediately took on a circuslike atmosphere.
Officials first gave an exhaustive presentation about the planned renovations. “This is a punishment!” shouted a woman in the audience, filled with locals in pressed khakis or Eagles jerseys. One woman clicked away on knitting needles.
When the floor was finally opened to the audience, it was nearly 9 p.m. Dozens of people queued for their three minutes at the microphone. Some read from prepared notes. Others cross-examined Dr. Sichel and the school board’s nine members.
The anger was not just about the school being renamed for Mr. Schwarzman. It was that the school board forged the deal in secret.
David Brooks, who graduated from the high school in 2000, said the board was one of three things: “brazen,” “sneaky” or “stupid.” If the school’s name could be auctioned for $25 million, he added, “what else is for sale?”
An earlier version of this article misstated the date on which Stephen A. Schwarzman, while speaking to a gathering of school superintendents in Nashville, announced a donation to the high school he attended. It was Feb. 15, not Feb. 14.
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