Community Corner
The Early Word: Livery Car Drivers and Taxi Workers Unite
Rally planned to push for better working conditions for employees of the car wash industry.
1. Yellow cabbies and black car drivers planned to rally outside a car wash establishment on Manhattan's West Side to call for a boycott of businesses they said were responsible for unsafe working conditions and worker abuses. The WASH NY campaign looks to pressure car wash owners to improve conditions and highlight what they called rampant wage violations. Westside Highway Car Wash, 638 West 47th St. (Manhattan). Noon.
2. Youngsters age 2 to 4 years old are welcome at this with Jamie Philbert. , 558 Fulton St. 9:45 a.m. Donation-based.
3. , an exhibition creating an encounter between visual and verbal forms of representation, continues its run. BRIC Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton St. (Brooklyn Heights). Noon to 6 p.m. Free.
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4. The New York Writers’ Coalition welcome two of their most promising workshop students, , to celebrate the publication of their recent young adult books. , 686 Fulton St. 7:30 p.m. Free.
5. Alternate side parking rules are in effect.
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