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Join us on Wednesday, September 27 for an ABNYTalks with four leaders from NYC’s workforce and immigration service sectors. With the recent influx of asylum seekers, the city is increasing [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for a tour of Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, Thursday, September 28 at 6:00 p.m. Cornell Tech develops leaders and technologies for the Al era through foundational and [...]
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On Wednesday, October 4th, ABNY will present ABNYChats: Keeping New York’s Infrastructure Competitive, a conversation among NYS Director of State Operations and Infrastructure Kathryn Garcia and New York City Deputy [...]
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Join ABNY Women on Thursday, October 26th for a discussion with newly appointed leaders of several prominent New York City universities. During this event, we will hear from Linda G. [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for a tour of The High Line on October 26 at 4:30 p.m. The High Line is a public park built on a historic freight rail [...]
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On Tuesday, October 31st, ABNY will present ABNYChats: Building Wealth and Sustaining New York Communities, a conversation between President and CEO of Empire State Development, Hope Knight and President and [...]
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Please join us on Thursday, November 2 at 9:00 a.m. for a virtual Policy Brief with B.J. Jones, "New" New York. Mr. Jones will provide ABNY Young Professionals with an [...]
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Cancelled: On Tuesday, November 14th, ABNY will present ABNYChats: Meeting New York's Public Transit Needs, a conversation between CEO of Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Janno Lieber, and President and CEO of the [...]
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On Wednesday, November 29th ABNY will present an ABNY YP Boardroom Breakfast with Seema Shah, Executive Director of Civic Hall. ABNY Young Professionals will have the opportunity to learn more [...]
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Join us on Thursday, December 7 at 9:00 a.m. for an ABNYTalks discussion with four leaders from across New York City’s tourism industry. They will discuss the trends and challenges [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for a tour of the Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) on December 14 at 6pm. PAC NYC is a new home for emergent and established [...]
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When: January 19 - 12:00 p.m. - 03:00 p.m. Location: *PLEASE NOTE THE NEW LOCATION* Rethink Food - 180 Maiden Lane, New York, NY 10005 *PLEASE NOTE THE NEW LOCATION* Program Description: [...]
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Please join us on January 25 at 9:00 a.m. for a Policy Brief with Molly Schaeffer, Director of the NYC Office of Asylum Seeker Operations. Ms. Schaeffer will provide ABNY Young [...]
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ABNY is excited to welcome Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Friday, January 26 for a Power Breakfast. Doors open at 8:30 a.m., breakfast begins at 9:00 a.m. Jeffries will discuss his agenda as Democratic [...]
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Please join us on Thursday, February 8 at 6:00 p.m. for a What's On Tap? with Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. Mr. Richards, a lifelong resident of Southeast Queens, will join ABNY Young Professionals to discuss his work [...]
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Join us on Wednesday, February 21st, for ABNYChats: Unlocking New Housing in the New Budget, a conversation between Senator Brian Kavanagh and Rafael Cestero, the President and CEO of the Community [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for a tour of the New York City Public Design Commission Archive on February 21 at 5:30 p.m. The Public Design Commission (PDC) maintains an archive [...]
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Join us on Thursday, February 29 at 8:30 a.m., for ABNY Talks: Unemployment, Underemployment and Gainful Employment, a conversation on how to ensure economic mobility and opportunity forward for Black [...]
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On Tuesday, March 5th ABNY Young Professionals will present a Boardroom Breakfast with Petra Todorovich Messick, Amtrak's Senior Program Director of The Gateway Program. ABNY Young Professionals will have the opportunity [...]
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ABNY is excited to host Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at a Power Breakfast on Monday, March 11. Doors open at 8:30 a.m, breakfast begins at 9:00 a.m. Majority Leader [...]
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Join us for ABNY Women’s annual spring cocktail reception on Tuesday, March 26 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at Kyma Flatiron for an evening of networking, refreshments, and reconnecting with [...]
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Before the ABNY network, Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer will announce new details on the Adams administration’s housing efforts and explain why we need to build “everything, everywhere, all at once” [...]
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Join us on Wednesday, April 3rd for an ABNY Policy Brief with Ya-Ting Liu, Chief Public Realm Officer. Ya-Ting Liu will provide ABNY Young Professionals with an update on her [...]
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Join us as we welcome New York City Mayor Eric Adams for an ABNY signature Power Breakfast event! We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, April 16 at 8:30 [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for a walking tour of the QueensWay on April 30 at 6:00 p.m. The QueensWay is a community-led effort to transform an abandoned, 3.5 mile stretch [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for a neighborhood tour with Welcome to Chinatown on Tuesday, May 14 at 5:30 p.m. Led by local nonprofit Welcome to Chinatown, this tour will highlight [...]
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On Thursday, May 16th ABNY Young Professionals will present a Boardroom Breakfast with Carson Hicks, Executive Director, Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity, whose mission is to reduce poverty and increase equity. Carson will [...]
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On Wednesday, May 22nd ABNY will present: ABNY What’s on Tap? With Julie Samuels, President, and Executive Director of Tech: NYC. Founded in 2016 by Ms. Samuels, TECH: NYC is an engaged network of [...]
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Join us at the Rainbow Room for the 2024 Spirit of ABNY Awards. We will be presenting the coveted Apple Awards to three civic luminaries who have provided a distinguished [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for a tour of Google's new office at St. John's Terminal in Hudson Square on Friday, June 14 at 9 a.m. See inside Google's newest office space in New [...]
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On Thursday, June 20th ABNY will present: ABNY Policy Brief with Louisa Chafee, Director of NYC IBO. Lousia will share about the unique role and responsibilities the Independent Budget Office [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for a guided after hours tour of the Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than The Real Thing on Wednesday, July 17 at 6:15 p.m. The eighty-first edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of [...]
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Please join the ABNY Young Professionals for a guided tour of the award-winning, best in class, new LaGuardia Airport on Friday, August 2nd at 11 am. Hosted by the Port Authority of [...]
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Please join us for an exciting evening at our annual ABNY Women Summer Social! Celebrate with us as we network, empower, and honor our community of inspiring women. Engage in [...]
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We are excited to invite you to a walking tour of Governors Island on Friday, August 16 at 2:00 PM. We will convene at Battery Park Maritime Building Ferry Terminal to begin our guided tour of [...]
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We hope you can join us for a special ABNY YP Associates Summer Meet-Up on Tuesday, August 27 from 5:30 p.m. Stop by to learn more about the ABNY YP Associates membership program, [...]
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Please join us on Thursday, September 12 at 6:00pm for a What’s On Tap? with Dan Garodnick, Chair and Director at the NYC Department of City Planning (DCP). Director Garodnick will [...]
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ABNY is excited to welcome Comptroller Brad Lander on Thursday, September 19th for a signature ABNY Power Breakfast! Join us and members of ABNY's network to hear from the Chief [...]
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On Tuesday, September 24 ABNY Young Professionals will present a Boardroom Breakfast with Nse Esema, Senior Vice President of the Green Economy team at New York City Economic Development Corporation [...]
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The event is postponed; a new date will be shared soon. We are delighted to invite you to join the Association for a Better New York (ABNY) and its members [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for an exclusive tour of the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute on Tuesday, October 8 at 6:00 p.m. On the tour, you will go behind [...]
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In response to NYCEDC’s release of their Green Economy Action Plan, please join us on Wednesday, October 23 for ABNY Talks: NYC’s Growing Green Economy, a conversation between experts navigating New [...]
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ABNY is excited to welcome First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer to a Power Breakfast on Monday, October 28. In her new and expanded role, Torres-Springer will speak to the ABNY network [...]
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ABNY is excited to welcome Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins to a Power Breakfast on Tuesday, November 19. Stewart-Cousins will address the ABNY network, sharing her insights on key issues and [...]
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Please join us on Tuesday, November 19 at 6:00pm for a What’s On Tap? with Vanessa Gibson, Bronx Borough President. Ms. Gibson, who proudly serves the nearly 1.5 million Bronx residents [...]
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On Thursday, January 16 ABNY Young Professionals (YP) will present a Boardroom Breakfast with Scott Millstein, New York City Executive Director, iMentor. ABNY YPs will have the opportunity to hear [...]
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Join ABNY Women on Friday, January 24th for a ABNY Women State Legislative Panel with State women lawmakers to discuss the new session’s key legislative priorities, focusing on various policy [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for an exclusive after hours tour of the New York Transit Museum on Thursday, January 30 at 6:00pm. Housed underground in an authentic 1936 subway station in Downtown Brooklyn, the [...]
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Join us on Thursday, February 6 at 6:00pm for a What’s On Tap? with Dynishal Gross, Commissioner of the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS). Commissioner Gross will discuss [...]
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Join us on Tuesday, February 18 at 9:00 a.m. for an ABNY YP Policy Brief with Vennela Yadhati, Vice President of Renewable Project Development at the New York Power Authority. [...]
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ABNY Young Professionals are invited to volunteer with God's Love We Deliver, a non-profit that cooks and home-delivers 17,000 nutritious, medically tailored meals to people too sick to shop or cook [...]
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ABNY is excited to welcome NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch to a Power Breakfast on Wednesday, February 26th. Commissioner Tisch will discuss her recent appointment, her top priorities, and how [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for an exclusive tour of NYC’s Department of Transportation Sign Shop on Tuesday, March 4th 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. NYC DOT’s Sign Shop creates the [...]
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Please join us on Thursday, March 6 for a conversation hosted by ABNY and 5BORO Institute to hear from NYC’s business and civic community leaders on the current state of the [...]
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Join us on Thursday, March 20 at 9:00 a.m. for an ABNY Boardroom Breakfast with Hannah Frey, Technology Managing Director, State of New York at IBM. Hannah will speak on [...]
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Join us for ABNY Women’s annual spring cocktail reception on Tuesday, March 25 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at Civic Hall for an evening of networking, refreshments, and reconnecting with ABNY [...]
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Join us on Thursday, April 10 at 8:30 a.m. for an ABNY YP Policy Brief with Paul S. Ryan, Executive Director for the New York City Campaign Finance Board. Paul will share [...]
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Join us on Thursday, April 17 at 9:00 a.m. for an ABNY Boardroom Breakfast with Jamie Torres-Springer, President of MTA Construction and Development. Jamie will speak about his role and [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for a tour of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum on Thursday, April 24th 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. The 9/11 Memorial & Museum is the country’s principal institution concerned with exploring 9/11, documenting [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for the Rat Walk with the New York City Rat Czar Kathleen Corradi on Thursday, May 15th 6:00 p.m. See our City in a whole new light and [...]
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Join the ABNY Young Professionals for an upcoming volunteer event with AIDS Walk New York on Sunday, May 18 from 11:00 a.m. - 03:30 p.m. Tasks may include assisting with set-up/break-down, [...]
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ABNY is excited to welcome the 67th Attorney General for the state of New York, Letitia "Tish" James, to a Power Breakfast on Tuesday, May 20. The Attorney General will discuss her [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for a tour of the ConEdison East River Generating Plant on Thursday, June 5th - 4:00 p.m. The tour will provide an insightful overview of the district [...]
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Please join us on Tuesday, June 10 at 6:00 p.m. for a What’s On Tap? with Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Chancellor of the City University of New York Chancellor Matos Rodríguez will talk about [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for a tour of the South Battery Park Resilience Project on Tuesday, June 24th - 4:00 p.m. Participants will get a sneak peek of the soon-to-be reopened Wagner [...]
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Please join us on Tuesday, July 8 for a virtual ABNYTalks: Pulse of the NYC Primary. This timely conversation will feature a panel of leading voices in local government and [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for a tour of the Davis Center in Central Park on Thursday, July 17 - 6:00 p.m. This one-hour walking tour will highlight the novel engineering and [...]
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We are excited to invite you to a walking tour of Governors Island on Thursday, August 7 at 3:00p. We will convene at Battery Park Maritime Building Ferry Terminal to begin our guided tour of the island [...]
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This event has been postponed. A new date will be announced shortly.
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ABNY is excited to offer this exclusive invitation to a screening of the film Drop Dead City, directed by Michael Rohatyn and Peter Yost. The documentary is the first to tell the [...]
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We hope you can join us for a special ABNY YP Associates Summer Meet-Up on Thursday, August 21 from 5:30 - 7:30p. Stop by to learn more about the ABNY YP Associates membership program, network [...]
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Join the ABNY Young Professionals for an upcoming volunteer event at Fort Tryon Park on Saturday, August 23, 10:00a - 1:00p Volunteers will join the Fort Tryon Park Trust and NYC Parks on their monthly beautification day [...]
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Please join us on Thursday, September 4 at 6:00p for a What’s On Tap? with Louis A. Molina, Commissioner, New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), the agency tasked to make government work for all [...]
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The New York City Charter Revision Commission was established in December 2024 to review the New York City Charter and determine how to make New York City’s government more transparent [...]
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Join us for the 19th Annual Spirit of ABNY Awards at the Rainbow Room. We will be presenting the coveted Apple Awards to three civic luminaries who have provided a [...]
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Join us on Tuesday, September 23 at 9:00a for an ABNY YP Boardroom Breakfast with Bruce Revman Co-Host City Manager, FIFA World Cup 26 New York New Jersey. Bruce will share about his career, [...]
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Please join ABNY's 2025 Mayoral Candidate Series with a conversation featuring Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani. As we look ahead to the General Election this November, ABNY will host individual discussions [...]
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Please join ABNY's 2025 Mayoral Candidate Series with a conversation featuring Curtis Sliwa. As we look ahead to the General Election this November, ABNY will host individual discussions with each [...]
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Please join ABNY's 2025 Mayoral Candidate Series with a conversation featuring Governor Andrew Cuomo. As we look ahead to the General Election this November, ABNY will host individual discussions with [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for a tour of Lincoln Center on Tuesday, October 21 at 5:00p. The tour will be led by Lincoln Center staff and will tour around the venue's iconic [...]
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After a campaign season full of surprises — and just enough time left for a few more — it all comes down to this. Join members of the ABNY network [...]
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Be a part of one of the city's most iconic and inspiring annual traditions! ABNY Young Professionals are invited to volunteer with the New York Road Runners for the NYC Marathon on Sunday, November [...]
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Please join us on Thursday, November 13 at 6:00p for our next ABNY Young Professionals' What’s On Tap? with Rohit T. Aggarwala, who serves as both the city's Chief Climate Officer and the Commissioner [...]
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Join us to hear from the New York City Council Speaker candidates as they discuss their vision for New York City's legislative body. This panel conversation will be moderated by [...]
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Followed by a panel featuring: Andy Byford, Special Advisor to the Amtrak Board of Directors Sarah Kaufman, Director of the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Mark Levine, Manhattan Borough President Betsy Plum, Executive Director [...]
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ABNY YP Associates are invited to join us for an exclusive holiday toast on Wednesday, December 10 from 6:00p - 8:00p. We are excited to celebrate a wonderful 2025 with [...]
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ABNYTalks: Making NYC Family-Friendly - Reaching Universal After-School Building on the Successes and Lessons of the Past Three Administrations to Serve New York City's Children Today Join leaders from the past three [...]
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ABNY Young Professionals are invited to volunteer with GOSO on December 20th - 10:00a - 4:30p. Help East Harlem families build community connections and create joyful memories during this seasonal [...]
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To celebrate a remarkable tenure that transformed the New York-New Jersey metropolitan region, please join us in honoring retiring PANYNJ Executive Director Rick Cotton at a special reception on January [...]
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Please join us Thursday, January 15 at 6:00p for the next ABNY Young Professionals’ What’s on Tap? featuring Michael Lange — writer, researcher & political strategist born and raised in New York City. Michael [...]
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ABNY looks forward to welcoming City Council Speaker Julie Menin to a Power Breakfast on Wednesday, February 4. Menin is an attorney, three-time City agency Commissioner, former small business owner, [...]
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This summer, the region will host the FIFA World Cup 2026, with eight matches including the coveted final match hosted at MetLife Stadium. This event is anticipated to draw over [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for a tour of NY1 followed by a chat with Errol Louis, journalist, and political anchor at NY1, on Friday, February 13 at 11:30a. The visit will include a guided tour of the NY1 studios, offering an inside look [...]
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ABNY Young Professionals are invited to volunteer with City Meals on Wheels on Saturday, February 21 - 10:00a - 1:00p. Volunteers will help deliver nutritious meals to elderly New Yorkers in need. [...]
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We are pleased to host a timely and important breakfast conversation with Deputy Mayors for Housing - past and present - to reflect on New York City’s affordable housing crisis [...]
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The ABNY Foundation is excited to announce it's new World Cup For All Community Grant Program ahead of this summer when the New York City region will host the world’s [...]
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Join us on Wednesday, March 11 at 12:00p for a virtual ABNY Policy Briefing with Louisa Chafee, Director of NYC Independent Budget Office (IBO). IBO’s responsibility under the New York City Charter is to enhance public [...]
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Join ABNY Young Professionals for a tour of JPMorganChase’s new global headquarters, on Tuesday, March 17 at 5:30p.
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ABNY looks forward to welcoming Governor Kathy Hochul to a Power Breakfast on Thursday, March 19. Governor Hochul serves as New York State's 57th Governor, and we are honored to [...]
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This event has moved to a virtual discussion via Zoom. Join us to hear from Emmy Liss, Executive Director of New York City's Office of Child Care. She will reflect on her [...]
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Please join us Thursday, March 26 at 6:00p for the next ABNY Young Professionals’ What’s on Tap? featuring Ahmed Tigani, Commissioner at NYC Department of Buildings.
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This event is sold out with no waitlist available. On behalf of ABNY Women Chair Samantha Rudin and Co-Chair Laura Colacurcio, we are excited convene and celebrate members of the [...]
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Join us as ABNY hosts its first-ever live podcast taping! We're bringing FAQ NYC to the stage where hosts Harry Siegel, Dr. Christina Greer, and Katie Honan break down the first 100 days of the Mamdani [...]
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The City of New York contracts nearly $20 billion in human services each year, with the vast majority delivered by nonprofit providers across the five boroughs. Nonprofits manage our homeless [...]
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Join us for an engaging panel, Navigating Your Career Path, presented by the ABNY Young Professionals Career Development Committee on the new date of Tuesday, April 28, doors open at [...]
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