News A Muslim Student, A Jewish Teacher, A Little Light Peeking Through the Stereotypes 08 Dec 2023 | 04:44 I was working as a second-grade teacher in a gritty section of the northeastern Bronx, in 2009, when...
News Governor Kathy Hochul participates in a menorah lighting on the first night of Hanukkah, alongside Rabbi Shmuel Butman of the Lubavitch Youth Organization. It took place at the world’s largest menorah, located at Central Park South’s Grand Army Plaza. ( Susan Watts/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul) Menorah Lightings Abound In Manhattan, Kicking Off Hanukkah 08 Dec 2023 | 06:50 Hanukkah has begun, and with it comes a spate of menorah lightings in Manhattan. NYC, after all, has...
News Crime Watch UWS 12.14.23 08 Dec 2023 | 02:39 Mugger Snatches Subway Rider’s Phone A 24-year-old woman told police that at 11:20 p.m. on Sunday, November...
News European regulators have banned more than 2,400 hazardous chemicals from cosmetics, the US has banned only 11, primarily for ingredients such as red dye #40, deemed carcinogenic. Photo: Wikimedia Commons US Tightening Labeling Laws on Cosmetics But Regs Still Far More Lax Than Europe 08 Dec 2023 | 01:31 Ladies: How safe is your lipstick? Gentlemen: How about your aftershave? It’s not a simple question....
City Arts “Slick” is a self portrait by Barkley L. Hendricks that is one of the paintings featured in the Frick’s first ever solo exhibition of an artist of color. Photo: Courtesy American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. “Slick” Barkley Hendricks is First Artist of Color to Get Frick Exhibit 08 Dec 2023 | 12:55 Step off the elevator on the fourth floor of Frick Madison and witness perhaps the most shocking–but...
Voices John Lennon and Yoko Ono, seen here performing at the Sinclair Freedom Rally in December 1971, had just released the “Double Fantasy” album in 1980 shortly before Lennon was murdered outside the Dakota apartment building where they lived. Photo: University of Michigan/Wikimedia Commons John Lennon: In My Life 07 Dec 2023 | 07:02 Whenever Dec. 8 rolls around, I take time to reflect. It occurs to me that nothing is real and all you...
On every Saturday in December, the Subway Nostalgia Train will arrive and depart from the Second Avenue Station on the Lower East Side, starting at 10AM, bound for W. 145th Street, returning back to Second Avenue. Here is the NY Transit Museum’s R1-R9 train, with subway cars built between 1931-1938, arriving for its first trip of the day. ( Ralph Spielman) Nostalgia Train Rides Again On every Saturday in December, subway riders are able to stop, look and listen to charming reminders of New York City’s transit... News 07 Dec 2023 | 02:10
After a concert and speeches, attendees danced through the rest of the night. ( Source: CBST (Flickr) ) Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, a Longtime Jewish LGBTQ Institution, Turns 50 Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST), located on West 30th Street between 6th and 7th Avenue, threw a celebration on December... News 07 Dec 2023 | 03:50
Governor Kathy Hochul rallying to support congestion pricing at Union Square on December 5, one day before the MTA Board’s full vote on suggested tolls below 60th St. The final tally was 9-1 in favor, with a $15 base levy holding steady. ( Photo via Governor Kathy Hochul on X.com) MTA Board OKs Recommended Congestion Pricing Tolls; Public Will Now Have Its Say Congestion pricing has come one step closer to reality, after the full MTA board overwhelmingly voted for toll recommendations... News 07 Dec 2023 | 05:01
Edward Caban (center) was formally appointed Police Commissioner in July. He succeeded Keechant Sewell. Crime stats collected by the NYPD have featured a categorical decline in incidents this year. ( Photo via NYC’s Mayor’s Office) NYPD Says Overall Crime Rate Is Down Compared to Last Nov., But Hate Crimes Surging According to the NYPD’s latest stats roundup, the overall NYC year-over-year crime rate dropped by 4.1 percent last month.... News 08 Dec 2023 | 05:32
Hana Prokop, 17, speaking at a Girl Scout of Greater New York event. ( Photo by: Girl Scouts of Greater New York ) 17-year Old Girl Scout Gets Recognized as the 2023 Future Woman of Distinction Seventeen-year-old Hana Prokop, who is Co-President of the Females in Finance club at her high school and a Co-CEO of Rock... News 05 Dec 2023 | 04:48
City Comptroller Brad Lander (center) has stripped Mayor Eric Adams of his emergency contracting powers when it comes to asylum seeker services, citing delays and questionable awardees. Adams called it “unfair.” ( Photo via Office of the NYC Comptroller ) Adams’s Emergency Powers for Asylum Seeker Contracts Revoked by Lander The Adams administration may no long utilize emergency powers to award contracts for “asylum seeker services,” after City... Home 06 Dec 2023 | 03:31
Councilmember Eric Bottcher (right) standing amidst a pyramid of toys that were collected last year. (Photo: Supplied by Eric Botcher’s office) Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen & Eric Bottcher Kickoff Annual Holiday Toy Drive The weeks leading up to Christmas can be pretty chaotic for everyone, but especially for parents; there are presents to pick,... News 07 Dec 2023 | 02:00
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, an 80 ft tall Norway spruce which contains about five miles of LED lights, was officially turned on at 10 p.m. on Nov. 29. The tree lights will be turned on every morning at 5 a.m. and stay lit up until midnight. The tree itself will stand until Jan. 14. Photo: NYCmayorsoffice Five Miles of Lights and Seven Arrests At Rock Center Tree Lighting Ceremony A long stretched out ceremony and added police security kept many of the people who turned out to watch the tree lighting... News 05 Dec 2023 | 10:27
Photo from a missing person’s poster that the family of Jaclyn Elmquist had circulated before she was discovered dead in a garbage chute in a luxury building on W. 28th St. on Dec. 1 Photo: Twitter Family Devastated After 24 y.o. Woman Found Dead in Chelsea Garbage Chute The family of a 24 year old woman originally from Minnesota but living in Brooklyn Heights was reported missing after she... News 04 Dec 2023 | 04:38
Santas convening around the Astor Place Cube during 2007’s SantaCon. They scribbled pronouncements such as “Santa Loves You!!” on the side of the famous spinning monument. ( Photo via Phil Whitehouse, Wikimedia Commons) Leave the Peppermint Schnapps at the North Pole: No Booze on LIRR, Metro North for SantaCon Beware, sleigh enthusiasts and North Pole elves. If you are donning the garb of St. Nick and coming to NYC’s SantaCon, you... News 08 Dec 2023 | 12:29
