Aug 03, 2010
Your global correspondent recently caught up with William Rockwell, an adjunct professor at NYIT's School of Architecture and Design. Rockwell is a native New Yorker, and has built his professional and personal life in the Big Apple. New York’s Lower East Side is among his favorite spots, where he lives in the Amalgamated Dwellings Apartment, which is also the site of his design firm, William Rockwell Architect Inc. Third-year architecture students who are part of Rockwell’s design studio class are treated to an in-depth tour of the six-story Art Deco building that was built in the 1930s, making it one… More
Author: nyit_global_blog
Aug 03, 2010
Morrie Yohai, who died of cancer at age 90 last week, was a mystic, a World War II Marine pilot and a philanthropist. But he’ll probably be remembered most as the creator of the Cheez Doodle. So how did he come up with the iconic snack? After World War II, Yohai took over his father’s snack-food business at the Old London Melba toast factory in the Bronx. The business already made Cheese Waffles, caramel popcorn and other snacks but wanted something new, Newsday reported. "We were looking for another snack item," Yohai told Newsday in a 2005 interview. "We were… More
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Jul 30, 2010
Your global correspondent recently caught up with Father Rick Frechette, an American Catholic priest, community organizer, a physician and an alumnus of NYIT’s School of Osteopathic Medicine (NYCOM), who has been busy leading relief efforts in Haiti. Frechette has been living and working in Haiti since 1987, and fell in love with the country its' people. He earned his medical degree in 1998 from NYCOM, and was inspired to become a doctor as he became “painfully aware of the lack of physicians and the brain drain in Haiti. There was a real need for physicians and people who could organize… More
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