NILES ADVERTISING OPENS IN PARKCHESTER
Niles Advertising opened its fi rst-ever destination specializing in architectural signage and display graphics showroom at
1488 Metropolitan Avenue, 2nd Floor. The showroom opening is the second phase of the founder’s vision and company’s
strategic marketing plan to provide architects, contractors, property and facility mangers, purchasing agents, event planners,
nonprofi ts and small businesses with a showroom setting, where they can see, touch, compare design options and
pricing of architectural signs and display products from leading manufacturers.
MGM RESORTS INTERNATIONAL DAY AT THE RACES
MGM Resorts International Leadership Team hosted its VIP Day at the Races Reception on Saturday, May 4 at Empire City
Casino in honor of the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby.
DAMON RUNYON 5K HELD
AT YANKEE STADIUM
Over 2,150 people from across the city,
country and world took part in the 11th
annual Runyon 5K at Yankee Stadium on
Saturday, May 11.
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MOTHER’S DAY BABIES
BORN AT ST. BARNABAS
Moussadatou Sabi and Noemi Puajarito celebrated Mother’s
Day giving birth at St. Barnabas Hospital. Each new mother
received roses to mark this day.
Moussadatou Sabi received a rose to commemorate her
Mother’s Day. Photo courtesy of St. Barnabas Hospital
FERNANDEZ HOSTS THRIVENYC
COMMUNITY FORUM
Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernandez hosted a ThriveNYC
Community Know Your Rights Forum on Thursday, May 2
at P.S. 105. Constituents learned about IDNYC, the city-wide
identifi cation card; ActionNYC, free and safe immigration
legal help; NYCitizenship, free legal help with citizenship application
and We Speak NYC, free English language learning
programs.
Assemblywoman Fernandez welcomed everyone to the informative
community forum.
Photo courtesy of Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernandez’s Offi ce
Wendell Niles (c), president and Wendell Niles II (r), business development director. Photo by Gerald Peart
(l-r) Laura Guerriero, Bronx Times Reporter publisher; Uri Clinton, Empire City Casino president; Taryn Duffy, Empire City
Casino Public Affairs director and Olga Luz Tirado, Bronx Tourism Council executive director.
Photo courtesy of Empire City Casino
Bronx resident Juan DeJesus (r) with
friends Charles Rivera and Jessica Boche,
who participated in the event in support
of Juan’s mother, who is battling cancer.
Photo courtesy of Damon Runyon Cancer
Research Foundation