Several New York State landmarks will be lit in purple on Thursday evening, March 26.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s part of International Purple Day, which honors epilepsy awareness.<\/p>\n
The New York State Department of Health says epilepsy is a brain disorder that results in repeated seizures.<\/p>\n
About three million people in the United States live with epilepsy, including an estimated 215,000 people in New York State, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The health department says nearly 9,000 New Yorkers are diagnosed each year.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore than half the time, the cause of epilepsy is unknown,\u201d the Department of Health said in a statement. \u201cWhen the cause can be determined, it is most often due to head injury, infections, a tumor in the brain, a stroke, other neurological diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease, or genetic factors.\u201d<\/p>\n
The landmarks that will be lit include:<\/p>\n
1.One World Trade Center<\/p>\n
2.Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge (starting at 9 p.m.)<\/p>\n
3.Kosciuszko Bridge<\/p>\n
4.The H. Carl McCall SUNY Building<\/p>\n
5.State Education Building<\/p>\n
6.Alfred E. Smith State Office Building<\/p>\n
7.Empire State Plaza<\/p>\n
8.State Fairgrounds \u2013 Main Gate and Expo Center<\/p>\n
9.Niagara Falls<\/p>\n
10.The Franklin D. Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge<\/p>\n
11.Grand Central Terminal \u2013 Pershing Square Viaduct<\/p>\n
12.Albany International Airport Gateway<\/p>\n
13.MTA LIRR \u2013 East End Gateway at Penn Station<\/p>\n
14.Fairport Lift Bridge over the Erie Canal<\/p>\n
15.Moynihan Train Hall<\/p>\n
16.Roosevelt Island Lighthouse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several New York State landmarks will be lit in purple on Thursday evening, March 26. It\u2019s part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-176358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}