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
Blood Center rendering, via the office of George M. Janes. City Planning Commission Approves Blood Center Project The controversial proposal to build a 340-foot life sciences laboratory and office tower on the current site of The New York... News 23 Sep 2021 | 03:30
Dr. Ashutosh K. Tewari, chair of Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Photo courtesy of Mount Sinai Conversation is the Strongest Medicine Against Prostate Cancer One of the serious “side effects” of the pandemic is disruption of other medical care, including screening for prostate,... News 18 Sep 2021 | 10:49
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
The September 11 Commemoration Ceremony in 2020. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. The Forever Epicenter History constantly recalibrates our threshold of the unfathomable. What we thought was unbearable turns out to have been... Home 08 Sep 2021 | 01:45
Dr. Matthew Harris, head of vaccine distribution at Northwell Health, administers a third shot of the Moderna vaccine to Arthur Magee, 81, an immune-compromised cancer patient from Brooklyn. Photo courtesy of Northwell Health Boosters, Third Doses and the Vaccine Confusion She told the pharmacist the truth. “I am a rather healthy 66 year-old,” explained the Upper West Sider, fully vaccinated since... News 03 Sep 2021 | 10:40
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
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
The Vessel in Hudson Yards, in 2019. Photo: Antony-22, via Wikimedia Commons Tragedy at The Vessel The architects say they had designed safety partitions to deter suicides. The Community Board repeatedly urged Hudson Yards... News 30 Jul 2021 | 03:58
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
Causes for celebration: the MTA participated in the Hometown Heroes ticker-tape parade on Broadway on Wed., July 7, 2021. An articulated electric bus was featured. Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA Letters to the Editor IMPRESSED You have a fine newspaper. Call out to Michael Oreskes in particular for his variant article (“The Delta Variant... Letters to the Editor 14 Jul 2021 | 02:24
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
