New York City on November 11 - JASA Seminars Focus on New York’s Changing Political and Cultural Landscape

Contact: Nickie Falk, Communications Manager,


212-273-5301(office); 201-788-7182 (cell);

nfalk@jasa.org

JASA Seminars Focus on New York’s Changing Political and Cultural Landscape

New York Then and Now: Politics, Media and Changing Landscapes in the City That Never Sleeps is a series of lively and engaging lectures presented by JASA’s NextAct. “You’re never too old to learn,” said Aileen Gitleson, JASA CEO. “NextAct is one of many opportunities JASA offers to help quench the thirst for learning that exists in our the 55+ community.”

The Thursday evening programs debut on November 4 with Alan Weisman, former producer for 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning and CBS Evening News, who will address After Tammany: New York City Politics From the Post-War to the New Millennium.

Weisman, Sanford Socolow, and Philip Scheffler, will jointly present “Breaking News: How Media Impacts Politics and Life in New York City” on November 11. Socolow is executive producer of Cronkite Productions, Inc., a video production company founded and chaired by Walter Cronkite and former executive producer of The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. Scheffler, an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University’s Journalism School, is also a former executive producer of 60 Minutes.

Wrapping up the series on November 18 is Roberta Brandes Gratz, an award-winning journalist and urban critic, lecturer and author, who will speak on “The Battle For Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs.”

NextAct will be held at UJA, 130 E. 59th Street, 7th floor, at 6:00 p.m. A wine and cheese reception follows each event. Pre-registration is required. Contact Sara Tornay, Coordinator, Sundays@ JASA at (212) 273-5304 or stornay@jasa.org to register.

JASA is one of the largest community-based, voluntary social service agencies serving the aged in the United States. Its mission is to sustain and enrich the lives of the aging in the New York metropolitan area so that they can remain in the community with dignity and autonomy.

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NICKIE FALK

Communications Manager
J A S A
132 West 31st Street
New York, NY 10001

T.212.273.5301
F. 212.695.3083
nfalk@jasa.org

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