Mayor Bill de Blasio delivers remarks at the FDNY Memorial Day ceremony to commemorate FDNY members who passed away in the past year on active duty. At Firemen’s Memorial, October 6, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. Restoring the Firemen’s Memorial Located at Riverside Drive and West 100th Street, the Firemen’s Memorial of New York City has a quiet and poignant grandeur.... News 11 Oct 2021 | 09:55
Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability with Commissioner Dave Chokshi, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, on September 29, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Why Not Vaccine Mandates for All? Vaccine mandates work, the mayor says. So why isn’t vaccination against COVID-19 mandated for more New Yorkers? That question... News 03 Oct 2021 | 02:37
Mayor Bill de Blasio reads to a first grade class in Ozone Park, Queens, Tuesday, September 21, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. COVID September Kids went back to school, but could they stay there? Delegates returned to the United Nations, some of them, anyway. Riders... News 26 Sep 2021 | 12:05
New York Governor Kathy Hochul, flanked by Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin, progressive advocates and state Democratic leaders on Friday, signed The Less Is More Act, which will end the practice of sending people to jail as they await hearings over alleged technical parole violations. Photo: Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of the Governor Hochul and de Blasio Issue New Rules on Rikers Crisis In response to the deepening crisis at Rikers Island, Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday signed a new law aimed at releasing... News 20 Sep 2021 | 10:36
Mayor Bill de Blasio at a press briefing on Tuesday, September 7, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. A Patchwork Pandemic Economy The Delta wave of COVID-19 may, just possibly, have crested in New York, but its economic disruption will be with us for... News 11 Sep 2021 | 03:06
Screenshot of video of 28th Street 6 line subway on Wednesday night, by Aleksander Milch, via Mark D. Levine on Twitter. After the Storm The remnants of Hurricane Ida inundated large swaths of the northeastern U.S. with historic and unanticipated fury Wednesday... Home 03 Sep 2021 | 11:42
Mayor Bill de Blasio at his briefing on Monday, August 16, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. On the Front Lines of the Mayor’s Mandate We paid a visit to the front line of the city’s new war on the coronavirus. What we found was worrisome. A fellow with a mask... News 20 Aug 2021 | 03:37
Hawk Newsome, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Greater New York, opposes the COVID vaccine because of wariness shaped by discrimination. Photo: Uncle EZ Still Not Taking Their Shot As the highly contagious Delta variant ravages New York, vaccination rates are plateauing. An effort by the city to put pressure... News 15 Aug 2021 | 02:55
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Meisha Porter (center) joined school leadership for Summer Rising at P.S. 6 in Brooklyn on July 6, 2021. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Lessons for a New School Year Even just a few weeks ago, parents and educators held a much rosier view of what this school year could be with a vaccine... Education Guide 13 Aug 2021 | 04:51
Mayor Bill de Blasio at the Coney Island Hospital Tower Building, renamed in honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Thursday, August 5, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. Living With the Virus This is what learning to live with the coronavirus looks like. We used to speak muscularly of boxing in the virus. Or flattening... News 08 Aug 2021 | 10:52
Mayor Bill de Blasio at a briefing at City Hall on Monday, August 2, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. Vaccines, Masks and Mandates When in doubt, wear a mask, even if you are vaccinated. But under no conditions, let the need to wear a mask distract you... News 03 Aug 2021 | 01:06
At his briefing on Thursday, July 22, 2021, Mayor Bill de Blasio warned New Yorkers and tourists to be in NYC this summer or face “FOMO,” fear of missing out. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. Will Delta Spoil the Summer of NYC? Bill de Blasio does not seem to remember his own public health training. You know, from last year, when vaccines were a distant... News 26 Jul 2021 | 11:55
Mayor Bill de Blasio at the Hometown Heroes Ticker-Tape Parade to honor essential workers in the Canyon of Heroes on Wednesday, July 7, 2021. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Passing the Torch You can scour the City Charter, but no where will you find the job of Mayor Presumptive. Yet, Eric Adams has taken up that... News 09 Jul 2021 | 03:06
Mayor Bill de Blasio on election day. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office The Delta Variant Arrives The Delta variant is here. The Centers for Disease Control calls this mutation of Sars-CoV-2 a “variant of concern,” an apt... News 02 Jul 2021 | 02:00
Eric Adams with supporters. Photo via Eric Adams on Twitter Messages, Myths and the Mayoral Race New York is a progressive city. Just not that progressive. That message emerged clearly from the otherwise complicated primary... News 25 Jun 2021 | 11:55
