Mayor of Athens, Giorgos Kaminis, is on an official visit to New York, where he will meet on May 15 with the Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, at the New York City Hall. Earlier, he will have a meeting with Archbishop Demetrios of America. Kaminis and his associates accompanying him, will also have a separate workshop meeting [...]
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Ieronymos Praises Diaspora In Greek History
The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos described the Diaspora as a “great chapter of our history” and as “Greece outside the borders of Greece” in an interview with the New York newspaper The National Herald. He is the first Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church to officially visit the Greek-American community in the [...]
Composer Giannis Spanos Performs in NYC
Acclaimed Greek composer Giannis Spanos embraced with his music nostalgic moments and different generations of the Greek Diaspora in a unique concert held in New York in support of the Hellenic-American organization, which offers help to vulnerable groups of Greeks. The famous composer played memorable compositions sang by Chryssoula Stefanaki in the packed auditorium of [...]
Kordakis Receives Photography Award
Greek photographer Yiorgos Kordakis was awarded the 1st Place-Outstanding Achievement at the 6th Photography Masters Cup Awards hosted in February 2013, in New York. A total of 8,500 photographers participated in the leading international awards honoring color photography in 2012. Kordakis did not only win the first prize of the contest, but was also presented [...]
Hixenbaugh’s Greek Geometric Amphora
Hixenbaugh Ancient Art in Manhattan, New York, the antiquities dealer that sells ancient art and authentic antiquities from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome and Europe has updated its website to include over fifty recently acquired objects. Among them is a Greek Geometric Amphora dating to the early part of the 8th Century BC, to Greece’s Geometric [...]
NY Officials Seek Pilot Greek Yogurt Program
New York officials want the state to be part of a pilot program to test the cost-effectiveness of serving Greek yogurt in school meal programs. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is starting a pilot program that could lead to more Greek yogurt in schools as early as April. State Agriculture Commissioner Darrel Aubertine has written [...]
Avramopoulos Hits N.Y. for UN Talks
Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos will be in New York City on Feb. 21 for a meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The topics to be discussed during Avramopoulos’s talks include the negotiations on the FYROM name issue, the Cyprus issue, and issues concerning the stability and security of the wider region of Southeast Europe, [...]
Sleeping Eros Exhibit at N.Y. Met
A statue of Eros is being displayed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, within the framework of the exhibit Changing Image of Eros, Ancient Greek God of Love, from Antiquity to Renaissance. The statue of Sleeping Eros demonstrates that love as we know it doesn’t just last forever — it’s been around forever too. [...]
Greek Transport Minister Hatzidakis in N.Y.
Kostis Hatzidakis, Minister for Transport, Communication and Development, is set to give an address on Nov. 28 at a dinner organized by Andrew N. Liveris, President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company, which many Greek-American businessmen are going to attend. He will be the keynote speaker at the 14th Annual Investor [...]
N.Y. Celebrates Oxi Day
The Federation of the Hellenic Societies of New York in cooperation with many Hellenic associations, organized a series of events to mark the anniversary of Oxi, Oct.28. In the morning, lots of people attended the casual thanksgiving marked at St Catherine’s church, and afterwards Diaspora representatives symbolically paraded along the way from the Church to [...]
N.J. Teen Helps Raise $80,000 for Greek Children
Thanks to Christina Leventis, a Tenafly, N.J. High School graduate, some $80,000 has been collected to help benefit children in Greece during the country’s crushing economic crisis. The New York-based newspaper Ethnikos Kyrix reported that Leventis, along with her classmates, wanted to do something to help Greece. The money was raised during a gathering at [...]
SYRIZA Comes to New York Too
Nearly 40 teachers, academics, business executives, artists and others met in New York to form a branch of Greece’s major opposition party, the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA.) They talked about Greece’s crushing economic crisis and the party’s role in opposing austerity measures ordered by international lenders in return for bailout loans. Anastasia Romanou, [...]
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05 / 17 Ieronymos Honors Boston Marathon Bomb Victims
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05 / 17 Angelopoulos: Greeks Can Repeat the 2004 Miracle
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05 / 16 N.Y. Atlas Soccer Marks 67th Year
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05 / 16 Unemployed Greeks Have Chance to Work in US
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08 / 12 John Thomas Financial CEO Thomas Belesis Is Optimistic @FoxBusiness
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12 / 03 Epirotes Abroad Blast Berisha’s “Greater Albania”
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10 / 23 Mitt Romney, Greece is Not a Punching Bag
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