Council Member Erik Bottcher (at podium) hosted a rally with Assembly Members Linda Rosenthal (left) and Dick Gottfried (far right), State Senator Brad Hoylman (right of Bottcher), Congressman Jerrold Nadler (second from right) and others. Photo: Abigail Gruskin A New Subway Station? ‘Sexy,’ Manhattan Politicians Say Some of Council Member Erik Bottcher’s Hell’s Kitchen constituents walk not five or 10, but 15 or 20 minutes to get to their... News 10 Aug 2022 | 06:04
A spotted lanternfly sighting in Times Square, documented on Twitter by @SaveInsectsA The Bad Bugs Are Back Spotted lanternflies, those pesky dotted bugs, are back. Midway through the summer, the invasive insects have made appearances... News 09 Aug 2022 | 11:07
Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler and lawyer Suraj Patel, who are all vying for a seat in the newly drawn NY-12, faced off in a Tuesday night debate. Photo: Abigail Gruskin NY-12 Debate Reveals Similar Viewpoints, Different Personalities On Tuesday night, a trio of opposing personalities took the stage at CUNY’s Graduate Center for a televised debate between... News 04 Aug 2022 | 05:06
A proposed map of newly drawn City Council districts was released on July 15. Map screenshot from the NYC Districting Commission ‘Preliminary’ City Council Redistricting Is Just That, Council Members Say City Council districts are the latest to get a major overhaul as part of a redistricting process on the heels of the latest... News 22 Jul 2022 | 02:20
Dr. Ashwin Vasan, the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene commissioner, presented on monkeypox at a City Council town hall on Monday, July 18. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Monkeypox Is Here Hundreds in New York City have now likely come down with a fever and body aches not caused by COVID-19. They may have suffered... News 21 Jul 2022 | 04:14
Incumbent State Senator Brad Hoylman has represented the current District 27 for nearly a decade. Photo courtesy of Brad Hoylman’s campaign Hoylman Campaigns In West Side District With New Lines — and a New Number State Senator Brad Hoylman, who’s represented parts of Chelsea, Midtown and the East Village for nearly a decade, is now... News 14 Jul 2022 | 02:53
Community members attended a town hall on the UES a week after the fatal shooting of Azsia Johnson. Photo: Abigail Gruskin What’s Being Done About Guns? An Upper East Side town hall grew rowdy on Wednesday night at P.S. 77 when locals implored a panel of elected officials and... Home 08 Jul 2022 | 04:36
Ellen Jovin awaits questions at the Grammar Table in Central Park near West 72nd Street. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Putting The Grammar Table On the Page In Verdi Square, on the Upper West Side, Ellen Jovin once met a “footnote fetishist,” a “fashionably dressed young woman”... News 08 Jul 2022 | 11:33
NYS Assembly District 73 candidate Russell Squire (left), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (second from left), Governor Kathy Hochul (center), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (second from right) and District 76 Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright (right) on the campaign trail on the morning of the primary at East 86th Street and Second Avenue. Photo courtesy of Rebecca Seawright’s campaign Where Were the Voters? New York’s first of two summer primary elections drew to a close on Tuesday night, after a long — but extremely low-turnout... News 30 Jun 2022 | 05:46
Sign at a May protest in Foley Square after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion on Roe v. Wade. Photo: Abigail Gruskin New York Politicians on the End of Roe v. Wade Americans across the country now face a very different world, following a Supreme Court decision on Friday morning that ends... News 24 Jun 2022 | 05:15
Council Member Erik Bottcher (third from right) announced funding for a new Penn South Playground with fellow politicians and disability advocates on Tuesday. Photo: Abigail Gruskin A Playground For Everyone Penn South Playground, which Council Member Erik Bottcher has said goes mostly unused in its current state, is now due for... News 23 Jun 2022 | 03:28
City Council members after passing FY 2023 budget. Photo via Gale A. Brewer on Twitter City Council Passes Record-High $101.1 Billion Budget Following a City Council vote that wrapped up late Monday evening — and a handshake agreement with Mayor Eric Adams only... News 16 Jun 2022 | 04:19
Elba Rose Galvan has been a lawyer for over 25 years. Photo courtesy of Galvan’s campaign The Race For Surrogate’s Court Amid high-profile bids — and battles — for power in New York congressional districts, a quieter race is unfolding in Manhattan,... News 08 Jun 2022 | 11:10
Council Member Julie Menin and her supporters gathered near City Hall on Thursday. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Universal Child Care Is On New York’s Horizon With City Hall as her backdrop, and cheered on by a historic women-majority City Council, Upper East Side Council Member... News 03 Jun 2022 | 02:47
New congressional districts now split Manhattan north-south, as opposed to east-west. Photo from davesredistricting.org New Congressional Districts Pit Nadler Against Maloney Congressional races in the city shifted course drastically this week, after the release of new, contentious — and now final... News 23 May 2022 | 09:43
