Governor Andrew M. Cuomo holds a press briefing on COVID-19 on Feb. 10, 2020, joined remotely by White House COVID officials. Photo: Darren McGee / Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo How Much COVID Relief is Enough? One of New York’s biggest fiscal and economic challenges is that no one knows how big New York’s fiscal and economic challenge... News 13 Feb 2021 | 05:57
Assembly Member Dan Quart faces a crowded field. Photo courtesy of Dan Quart Major Endorsements for Dan Quart Two longtime Upper East Side lawmakers are backing Assembly Member Dan Quart in what’s shaping up to be a crowded and competitive... News 22 Dec 2020 | 03:55
City Council candidate Tricia Shimamura and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. Photo Courtesy of Tricia Shimamura for City Council Maloney Endorses Former Staffer in City Council Race This week, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney announced she will be putting her weight behind,m City Council candidate Tricia... News 03 Dec 2020 | 12:56
Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright campaigns with city Comptroller Scott Stringer outside headquarters on First Avenue. Stringer is pointing to a photo of his aunt, Rep. Bella Abzug. Seawright is pointing to Rep. Shirley Chisholm. Photo courtesy of Seawright campaign ‘This Was a Long Journey’ Upper East Side Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright declared victory late Tuesday night in what had been a rocky re-election... Home 04 Nov 2020 | 03:58
Dewing in a recent December, her favorite month. Photo courtesy of Todd Brabec Remembering Bette Dewing Bette (Brabec) Dewing, a longtime columnist for Our Town and other publications, passed away on September 5, 2020 at the... News 10 Sep 2020 | 03:48
“Women’s Rights Pioneers” statue by Meredith Bergmann. Photo: Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer on Twitter Honoring Monumental Leaders On Women’s Equality Day on Wednesday, a large purple covering was pulled off in Central Park, revealing a statue honoring... News 25 Aug 2020 | 02:39
Screenshot of NY1 primary debate with (clockwise from top left) moderator Errol Louis, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Peter Harrison, Suraj Patel and Lauren Ashcraft. Patel has accused Maloney of voter suppression; Maloney called Patel’s tactics “out of Donald Trump’s playbook.” The Longest Primary Night New York’s primary election took place one week ago but the results likely won’t be known until July, exacerbating tensions... News 29 Jun 2020 | 01:50
Political Clubs in the Crazed COVID Days Four Freedoms Zooms in on the future - Virtual meeting places are the current go-to and are appealing and useful in these... Voices 13 Apr 2020 | 03:08
Times Square area on March 25. ( Photo: NYPD Times Square via flickr) Theater Folk Can't Work from Home COVID-19 is educating us about more than a pandemic. The Broadway brand is not a monolith. Theater workers were independent... News 26 Mar 2020 | 11:48
Second Time Around for Suraj Patel Suraj Patel – son of immigrants, trilingual NYU professor, Stanford-educated lawyer, Obama campaign alum and family hotel... News 12 Feb 2020 | 08:27
Council Member Ben Kallos at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Auditorium on Sunday, Jan. 26. ( Photo: Emily Higginbotham) A Show of Support for Kallos Council Member Ben Kallos did not talk about his campaign to become Manhattan’s next borough president at his State of the... News 27 Jan 2020 | 10:25
Mayor Bill de Blasio and other New York politicians joined thousands of participants in the March Against Anti-Semitism on the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday, January 5, 2020. ( Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) Taking Action Against Hate “No Hate. No Fear.” “#JewishANDProud.” “America 2020 Not Germany 1933.” The signs were everywhere on a cold, clear day in Lower... News 06 Jan 2020 | 01:29
After the death of Erica Tishman at 49th St. and Seventh Ave., the Buildings Department ordered the emergency building of a sidewalk shed. ( Photo: Emily Higginbotham) Deadly Terracotta and Sidewalk Sheds A recent front-page New York Post story decried the “scandal of [New York City’s] everlasting scaffolds,” or sidewalk sheds.... News 20 Dec 2019 | 12:02
Tricia Shimamura is running for the 5th City Council District. ( Photo courtesy of Tricia Shimamura) A Passion for Politics Tricia Shimamura came to New York City to be the next Jane Addams and ended up the Second Vice Chair of Community Board 8... Home 09 Dec 2019 | 02:28
