Surprise statement: City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (left) said at a Citizens Union breakfast (with moderator John Avlon) that outdoor dining should be confined to sidewalks. Photo via Adrienne Adams on Twitter Booze and Bike Lanes Nothing is ever simple in the Great City. Take the revolution in outdoor dining wrought by the pandemic. Ok, we still aren’t... News 02 Oct 2022 | 09:16
Traffic on the West Side Highway near Hudson Yards. Photo: Abigail Gruskin The Crackdown On Loud Cars Is On A Roll Noise in New York City, like the vibrating drilling of construction or the booming sound of music coming from the apartment... News 30 Sep 2022 | 12:18
V (formerly known as Eve Ensler) giving the opening night talk at a new gallery exhibit in Chelsea. Photo: Gaby Messino ‘Sensing’ Some Women A block off the Hudson in the C24 gallery in Chelsea, a new exhibit focused solely on women. “Sensing Woman,” as the show... News 01 Oct 2022 | 04:14
An ad for app DraftKings in the 14th Street subway station. Photo: Kay Bontempo You Can Bet On It Nine months after New York legalized online and mobile sports betting, the Empire State has quietly established itself as... News 27 Sep 2022 | 02:22
The Rev. K Karpen (right) with a recently arrived Venezuelan family. The parents were married in the church. Photo: Courtesy St. Paul & St. Andrew UWS Sanctuary Offers Help to New Asylum Seekers The news has been filled with reports of busloads of migrants from Texas, Florida and Arizona being “shipped” to politically... Home 28 Sep 2022 | 01:30
The Kardashians cookies. Photo courtesy of Funny Face Bakery The New York Cookies That Put Smiles on Everyone’s Faces Although the cookies at Funny Face Bakery make people smile, some are so touching that they cause customers to tear up in... News 26 Sep 2022 | 01:31
Two dogs playing at the temporary dog run in Penn South Playground as a third sits close by. Photo: Gaby Messino The Dog Days are Not Over In all five boroughs of New York there are roughly 500,000 registered dogs and only 84 dog runs; a little less than half... News 23 Sep 2022 | 02:42
Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams at a meeting with President Joe Biden and FEMA officials on Hurricane Fiona relief efforts, September, 22, 2022. Photo: Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of Governor Kathy Hochul Whiplash on MSG There are moments in the Great City when government seems to be going in two directions at once. Take last Wednesday. Mayor... News 23 Sep 2022 | 03:36
CB8 members met over Zoom on Tuesday to discuss abortion rights. Photo: Abigail Gruskin A ‘Recipe’ For Defending Abortion Rights Marlene Fried, a reproductive rights champion and scholar, has a “recipe for activist fuel” in the battle to defend abortion... News 22 Sep 2022 | 04:22
Replate’s delivery service picks up surplus food from businesses, restaurants and other food vendors. Photo courtesy of Replate Technology Meets Food Waste and Food Insecurity Replate is bridging the gap between food waste and food insecurity by simultaneously addressing both issues. The innovative... News 21 Sep 2022 | 12:47
Elvis Costello at Town Hall, NYC, in December 2010, performing on “A Prairie Home Companion.” Photo: Paul VanDerWerf, via Flickr Pump It Up! Elvis Costello to Play 10 Shows at Gramercy Theater Pump it up! Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Elvis Costello recently announced on Jimmy Fallon’s late-night television show that... News 21 Sep 2022 | 11:15
Wynn Handman’s daughters, Laura Handman (left) and Liza Handman (second from left) were joined by City Council Member Keith Powers (second from right) and former Mayor Bill de Blasio (right) at the street naming ceremony. Photo: Elisabeth Ness ‘Wynn Handman Way’ Honors Late Theater Great For 50-some years, Wynn Handman taught actors on the Midtown block of West 56th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.... News 20 Sep 2022 | 03:58
Presciliana Esparolini, George Tovar and Nick McDow Musleh in “Our Man in Santiago.” Photo: Charlie Mount ‘Our Man in Santiago’ Mark Wilding spent 13 years in “Shondaland,” as it is called in Hollywood. That means he wrote for powerful executive Shonda... News 21 Sep 2022 | 01:53
Dr. Brian Elbel, professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Photo courtesy of NYU Langone Health The COVID Endgame The end of the pandemic is in sight, the World Health Organization said last week, but only if we keep doing what needs to... News 17 Sep 2022 | 12:35
