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ANTHONY According to multiple reports, Emmy-winning daytime talk show host Tamron Hall tested positive for COVID-19 on April 26. Hall has had no symptoms whatsoever. She continued taping episodes of the show from her Manhattan home. Page Six reported that Hall sent an email to her staff that said: “I am following CDC guidelines, staying home, and taking every precaution to ensure everyone’s safety. Thankfully, my son Moses and my entire family have all tested negative. I am devastated to say the least, but I know we will get through this.” Hall was vaccinated in 2021 at the hospital of her Alma Mater, Temple University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Peconic Land Trust recently beat out superstar couple Jay-Z and Beyoncé to preserve another key property on Georgica Pond, near Revlon Chairman of the Board Ron Perelman’s “The Creeks.” Ana Meir and her husband Daniel Creighton sold 2.7 acres of prime waterfront land on Georgica Pond at 18 Jones Creek Lane, East Hampton, to the Peconic Land Trust, according to a press release from Town + Country Real Estate. It was originally listed for $11,750,000 in September 2021 with Town + Country Real Estate’s Linda Batiancela, who explained, “There were multiple offers being considered before the Peconic Land Trust contacted me in early November to discuss. The owners decided to pass on other higher offers and make a deal with the Peconic Land Trust for $8.5 million for preservation purposes.” Batiancela exclusively listed and sold the property, which comes complete with approximately 300-feet of prime Hamptons waterfront and is located adjacent to the Fulling Mill Preserve and just under a mile to the ocean. Aside from Jay-Z and Beyoncé, neighbors include Steven Spielberg and famous attorney Lenny Ackerman. The 24th annual First Ladies High Tea will take place on May 7 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Honorees include Emmy Award-Winning actress Loretta Devine and Cookie Johnson, NY Times bestselling author, founder of CJ, a premium denim line, and wife of Earvin “Magic” Johnson, as well as Dr. Jerry Abraham. The tea will feature a performance by gospel great Kurt Carr, as well as an appearance by Richard Roundtree. Co-hosts will be Wendy Raquel Robinson from “The Game” and Apostle Beverly “BAM” Crawford, pastor of Bible Enrichment Fellowship International Church. The Bell family sadly announces the passing of Rory Wahid Rayyan Bell, youngest brother of Robert “Kool” Bell, co-founder of Kool & the Gang. He was known to many in the music industry as Rocky. He died of Stage 4 lung cancer and congestive heart disease. He was 62. Wahid (Rocky) was an incredible lighting director for several major recording artists and worked concerts with hit-makers such as Kool & the Gang, Gladys Knight, Patti Labelle, Stephanie Mills, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, and Anita Baker. A teenage Rory/ (Rocky) Wahid can be heard with his big brother Kool on the album track “Heaven at Once” from Kool & the Gang’s multi-platinum LP, “Wild & Peaceful,” released in 1973. Funeral and burial services will be private.
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Zinerman, community weigh in on Bed Stuy’s Marcus Garvey Armory
sized pool, full sized bowling alley, shooting range and stables at one point. Though she doubts all of that can stay. She said ideally she’d like to see agriculture or a growing space focused on health and wellness included in what she imagines will be a lively recreational and arts space. Other ideas include a boarding school and housing for foster care children aging out of the system. Zinerman said she is not looking to build hundreds of units of housing or displace Assemblymember Stefani L. Zinerman kicked off the re-imagining of the 13th Regiment Armory the homelessness on April 12 (Contributed photo) service run by Black By ARIAMA C. LONG Veterans For Social Amsterdam News Staff, Report for Justice. She believes America Corps Member that a space should always be available Last month Assemblymember Stefani for transitional housL. Zinerman kicked off the re-imagining and wrap around ing of the 13th Regiment Armory, a services for individumassive historic building in Bedford als who need it. Stuyvesant, Brooklyn that’s the second “It is something largest armory in New York City. that I have been Longtime Bed Stuy resident Donna wanting to see Williams, 68, from Age Friendly Central happen for a very Brooklyn, said she remembers going to long time and I’m so a dance held at the armory as a high happy that we have school teen. “I’m very excited about begun the process,” bringing the armory back as a place for the developer handling the physical said Zinerman. “Being a member the neighborhood,” said Williams. renovation of the project yet. of this community I am certainly in The feasibility study officially sourcZinerman said that amenities and touch with what people would like to es community input on what should access needs to be modernized and see. We’ve talked about it at cafes and happen with the historical landmark the building made more clean energy community meetings over the years.” and is funded by a $125,000 state grant efficient, but other than that, she is Williams said she’d like to see a from the Urban Development Corpo- happy to keep the facade the way it is public pool, handicap-accessible ration Aid to Localities Appropriations. because of its historic design. bathrooms, and a gym for the neighPatch reported that the grant was The Marcus Garvey Armory, or the borhood’s many seniors at the armory. first secured under former Assem- 13th Regiment Armory, was home “It definitely needs to be made ageblymember Tremaine Wright to cover to Union soldiers who fought in the friendly,” said Williams about the arcosts for zoning analysis, design and Civil War and was originally designed mory’s potential design. “Just in terms construction estimates. Officials in 1894. The soldiers themselves of being able to enter the building or wanted to study the rest of the ar- were essentially the city’s nation- having access ramps. Even a little step mory’s potential back in 2013, said al guard. They were deployed in the when you have mobility problems can Patch. Only part of the space houses Civil War, suppressed the lynching be a mountain to you.” the Pamoja House Men’s Shelter. of Black residents during New York Zinerman said she’s hoping to move “I feel blessed that I was elected and City’s Draft Riots of 1863, and fought onto funding phase two of the project able to pick up the baton that was in the Spanish-American War in 1898, in this year’s state budget. passed, this means so much to our according to the feasibilty study. community,” said Zinerman. In the 1900s, the armory was big Ariama C. Long is a Report for America The feasibility team is being led by enough to hold track meets and for corps member and writes about culture Urbane Development, a local team in soldiers to play baseball indoors. It and politics in New York City for The AmBrooklyn of Black-owned developers still covers about 2.62 acres of land and sterdam News. Your donation to match and architects that have also worked extends a full block between Jefferson our RFA grant helps keep her writing stoon the redevelopment of Flatbush and Putnam Avenues, said the study. ries like this one; please consider making Caton Market in Flatbush. Zinerman Zinerman marveled at the sheer size a tax-deductible gift of any amount today clarified that Urbane is not officially of it, saying that it had an Olympic- by visiting: https://tinyurl.com/fcszwj8w
