good morning. It's Monday. Today we'll find out about the National Youth Poet Award winner's love letter to the school she attends. You will also get details on purchasing the nonprofit organization for the Metrovoort building on the Upper West Side.
Some universities have Almamatel. Harvard sings towards “Fair Harvard,” and Yale is in harmony about “a bright college year.”
New York City universities don't have school songs. However, this week I'm getting my school poem, Dear Kanye. It was written by Stephanie Pacheco's National Youth Poet Award recipient, attending the roses of Manhattan Community College, one of Cuny's 25 schools.
Dear Kinney,
I don't know any other schools that run the city like you
It depicts the town with its face
like you
Every time I turn, every building is a student
All train carts are in classrooms.
But at least the only loan I got
It's in my school library
The only debt I owe is for them.
“Dear Cuny” with 53 lines is too long to print completely here. The above snippet came from Pacheco's YouTube video reciting a 30-second version. That in itself is an excerpt.
She will read poetry tomorrow at an event at Queensborough Community College, marking National Poetry Month. Cuny's Prime Minister Félix Matos RodrÃguez, who is scheduled to attend, called Pacheco's poem “a beautiful piece of poetry that fully demonstrates the great influence Cuny had on all of New York.”
Pacheco, 21, a major in writing and literature, was selected as the National Youth Poet Award winner last year. First was Amanda Gorman. He read poems he wrote at Joseph Biden's inauguration in 2021 and joined a small group of poets invited to celebrate the presidential transition.
Pacheco was named New York City Youth Poet Award winner in 2023 and was also named New York State's first Youth Poet Award winner. She won three titles in a competition organized through Urban Ward, a literary and arts organization for youth, with support from institutions such as the American Academy of Poets and the Library of Congress.
Pacheco said he began writing poetry when he was in “middle school.”
Was the poems she wrote at the time something good? “I've grown a lot,” she said. “For the eighth graders, I think they were good. They had a rhythm for them.” But she also said she had no idea that she was writing poetry. “I didn't understand the full weight of the poem and what it could do for my story,” she said. She attended the Mottohole Science and Technology Academy in the South Bronx.
She began playing poetry at the age of 15 and signed up for open mic dates and poetry slams. And in 2022, “Fresh from the Pandemic,” she enrolled in the ward of Manhattan Community College. “For those who wanted to continue writing and performing,” she said. “It makes sense to be in my hometown, I wanted to be close to home.
When Kny approached her about writing poetry for school, she said, “They were like this. Well, poet, I'd like to hear your experiences. Tell us about Kanye through your poetic eyes.” She said she asked for a week or two to solve something.
“I was very stuck in the first few days,” she said. “I needed to sit down and ask what it takes to be an uny student,” she then said, “It was like the pen just moving on its own.”
“We wanted to let this young man know that he is a student at a public university,” she said.
“I know the value of being involved in Cuny. I am evidence of the value of public education, but sometimes the story felt like it was overlooked,” she added. “We want students to hold our students, to be able to know that we are excellent, that we are exceptional,” she added, “particularly deserves poetry.”
weather
Expect rainy mornings with temperatures floating high from mid-40s. In the evening there is a slight chance of rain, with clouds and temperatures soaking at about 37.
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It actually takes place on Sunday (Passover).
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Upper West Side Theater is on sale
The nonprofit completed its purchase of landmark Metrologer, located in Manhattan's Upper West Side last week after receiving a $4 million grant from New York State.
The nonprofit Upper West Side Cinema Center is planning to turn the building into a five-screen complex with a cafe. The group says it will take another $15-25 million to build new interiors and exchange scrub graffiti from the Art Deco Theater.
The Metro closed in 2005. For many years, there have been talks about reusing the building, but options were limited. The former owner, Albert Bialek, passed away in 2023.
Then last summer, Upper West Side Cinema Center announced its bids with the support of Martin Scorsese, Ethan Hawk and John Tarturro among others.
In December, Mikarasher was elected to Congress the previous month, but we hear that the Upper West Side Cinema Centre will miss the January 10 deadline for purchasing the building from the Bierek property. He contacted Hochul. On December 26th, the governor, who was the governor's boss, called him when he was the governor's director of policy at the governor's office.
“I have some Christmas news for you,” Rusher remembers hearing her say. “I'm going to save the cinema.”
Ira Deutchman, an independent film producer who heads the nonprofit at Adeline Monzier, said government support could provide an extension to raise the $6.9 million purchase price. Foundation and individual contributions, including major grants from Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg's Haasland Foundation.
Metropolitan Diary
Subway luck
Dear Diary:
I was on the subway platform on 8th Avenue and Broadway was heading uptown. I was sitting on a bench near the front of the train.
The train rolled in and I got on. When the door closed I realized I had left my laptop on the bench. I slammed the door without any help. As the train began to leave the station, I saw them sitting there in a small white and blue polka dot case.
I managed to call my husband Peter. He could have gone to the platform before someone took the laptop. When I couldn't reach him, I called a friend who was in my apartment and asked her to try and get her to go to the platform. It was only two blocks from the house.
I got off at 14th Avenue, ran downtown side of the station and waited five minutes for R to arrive.
When I returned to Eighth Street, I raced across Broadway, ran to the Uptown platform, searching for a laptop case. That was gone. Every thought in my head, every draft of my latest play, was with it.
I called my husband. This time he replied.
“I have it,” he said.
“Where are you?”
“On the platform.”
I looked down at the platform, where he was carrying the incident. Someone picked it up and turned it into a station agent.
No matter who you are, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
– Delia Efron
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