Hot Air ballooning at dawn in Cappadocia, Türkiye while filming for the new 10th season of “Travels with Darley.” Photo: Chad Davis In the City and On the Road with PBS’ Darley Newman Darley Newman moved back to New York in Dec. 2018 and when the pandemic hit and she couldn’t travel, she used the time to... News 28 Nov 2022 | 11:37
Mayor Eric Adams receiving his second COVID-19 booster shot at City Hall on September 20, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Vaccine Angst For a brief moment we greeted those vaccines as our salvation from COVID-19, scrambling for appointments and celebrating... News 27 Nov 2022 | 10:34
Cover of Richard Barone’s “Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s.” Photo via Amazon.com When Greenwich Village was ‘Bursting with Music’ Richard Barone is the author of the new book, “Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s” (Rockbeat Books). The... News 22 Nov 2022 | 09:37
Members of CB1’s Waterfront, Parks & Cultural Committee met online to discuss a possible sequel to the “Million Trees” initiative. Photo: Abigail Gruskin The City May Be In For a Million More Trees It won’t happen overnight, but the city may be destined to grow more green. A sequel to the “Million Trees” initiative, this... News 18 Nov 2022 | 12:31
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine administered at NYU Langone Health in Manhattan, December 14, 2020. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office The COVID Scoreboard What a difference three years make. On January 21, 2019, when the first U.S. case of COVID 19 was confirmed, we knew literally... News 18 Nov 2022 | 10:37
Dozens of protesters turned out at 250 Broadway, where City Council offices are located. Photo: Abigail Gruskin ‘The Yuck Mobile’ A mock dining shed on wheels stalled briefly in front of City Council members’ offices downtown, at 250 Broadway, in the... News 18 Nov 2022 | 10:52
The cover of “Party School,” designed by Siori Kitajima and courtesy of Jon Hart. ‘Party School’ Unpacks ‘School Shaming’ Not-so-subtle gloating about acceptances to top-tier universities — while relegating others to “party school” status — has... News 15 Nov 2022 | 02:39
May 2009 photograph by C. Ford Peatross, staircase, former Restaurant Longchamps # 12, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street (Empire State Building), opened 1938. Photo courtesy of C. Ford Peatross Taking Away the Stairway A historic stairway, the last surviving restaurant interior designed by the noted New York artist Winold Reiss, has been... News 15 Nov 2022 | 01:02
Art historian Lauren Kaplan makes art approachable for anyone who’s interested. Photo: Jackie Weisberg An Art Historian for the People Lauren Kaplan is an art historian for the people. As a professor of art history at John Jay College and Hunter College, and... News 15 Nov 2022 | 12:23
Ken Leung (right) Jeb Kreager in “Evanston Salt Costs Climbing.” Photo: Monique Carboni Ken Leung Can Do It All “Ken Leung?” Actor-filmmaker Edward Norton gushed when I mentioned who I had just interviewed. “He’s genius! I’ve cast him... News 15 Nov 2022 | 11:14
Patrick Schmidt at Lady Blue cocktail bar. Photo: Phil O’Brien at W42ST Magazine It’s All Peachy Keen in Hell’s Kitchen In the current state of the restaurant industry in New York City, “everything has to be an experience and a story, having... News 14 Nov 2022 | 09:54
Emergency field hospital tents in Central Park across from Mount Sinai in March 2020. Photo: Nancy Ploeger An Unhappy Anniversary for COVID-19 The anniversary of an event that has killed some 15 million people around the world, so far, would seem to cry out for a... News 11 Nov 2022 | 07:04
Governor Kathy Hochul with Rep. Carolyn Maloney (right) on the Upper East Side on Election Day. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Manhattan’s Blue Tsunami Early in the morning on Election Day, Governor Kathy Hochul addressed what was shaping up to be a competitive race between... News 10 Nov 2022 | 04:17
The playground at P.S. 11. Photo: Abigail Gruskin An Influx Of Asylum-Seeking Students — and a Community’s Response When Mario’s two children started school on Friday, October 14, they hadn’t attended a class since March — and that was in... News 04 Nov 2022 | 04:43
Michelle Wolf performing live at a previous New York Comedy Festival. Photo courtesy of the New York Comedy Festival The New York Comedy Festival Mixes Stars and Up-and-Comers “I think it’s an accomplishment to be in business for 40 years,” says Caroline Hirsch, the founder of Caroline’s on Broadway.... News 04 Nov 2022 | 02:50
