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Photograph supplied by Marty Dolan The Third Avenue Bridge could also be getting a brand new identify. A gaggle of New York Metropolis Major Election candidates have teamed as much as in an effort to rename the bridge – which connects Manhattan to the Bronx, operating over the Harlem River – because the Olga Méndez Bridge.  Mendéz served within the New York State Senate from 1978 to 2004, the place she represented East Harlem and a part of the Bronx. She was the primary Puerto Rican lady to serve not solely within the New York authorities, but additionally in any state legislature…

George Clooney’s “Good Night, and Good Luck” is about to make theater historical past. The Broadway manufacturing has damaged field workplace information left and proper because it opened April 3. And now, the play goes someplace a Broadway play has by no means gone earlier than: reside TV. Producers of the play introduced an historic transfer to air a reside efficiency on CNN subsequent month. The printed will mark the primary time a present has ever been telecast from a Broadway theater. The announcement comes as a aid to many Broadway followers who cannot afford the $300 common ticket worth…