Mahl Hamdan, 2, has been staying at the Millennium Downtown Hotel with his father. Photo: Ben Fraactenberg, THE CITY 70 Families Displaced by Hurricane Ida Now Getting Boot From Downtown Hotel Displaced for a year and a half by Hurricane Ida, 70 families are set to be thrown out of their Lower Manhattan hotel at... Home 14 Feb 2023 | 08:42
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
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
Donald Trump in late 1985 with model of “Television City,” a development proposal for the former West Side rail yards, now Riverside South. Photo: Bernard Gotfryd, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Made in NYC One of the great ironies of the Trump era is how utterly many New Yorkers would love to disown him even though he is very... News 19 Oct 2022 | 06:37
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
Ferry stop on the Lower East Side. Photo: Kay Bontempo An Increase in Ferry Fares Ferry rides across the NYC system jumped Monday, increasing from 2.75 to 4 dollars per ride. The change came as part of an... Home 16 Sep 2022 | 08:56
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio at a briefing at City Hall on Monday, August 2, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. De Blasio Heads to Harvard as a Teaching Fellow Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is headed to Harvard this fall as a teaching fellow at the university’s schools... News 30 Aug 2022 | 10:11
Book jacket of “The New Kings of New York” by Adam Piore. Reshaping the Skyline of NYC Arthur Zeckendorf traced his finger along the steep upward sloping line, which explained so much about what has happened... News 26 May 2022 | 10:01
Rep. Jerrold Nadler and Rep. Carolyn Maloney: Photos: Emily Higginbotham (Nadler), Office of Rep. Carolyn Maloney When East Meets West New world order – She’s been presiding in the district for 30 years. And he wants to kick her out. Astounding? Well he now... Voices 23 May 2022 | 10:20
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
Governor Kathy Hochul holds a COVID-19 briefing in New York City on February 9, 2022. Photo: Don Pollard / Office of the Governor Ending Mask Mandates Governor Kathy Hochul made it clear she was following more than just the science. “Everybody I could think of received a phone... News 13 Feb 2022 | 10:42
Mayor Eric Adams provides an update on the fatal attack of an Asian woman in Times Square, NQR subway station on Saturday, January 15, 2022. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Woman Killed in Subway Shove at Times Square A woman was pushed to her death in front of a subway train at the Times Square station Saturday, police said, a little more... News 17 Jan 2022 | 09:30
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio in early December. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office De Blasio’s Vaccine Mandate Leaves Some Part-Time Workers and Small Business Owners Confused By now, most New Yorkers are aware of former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s employer vaccine mandate, which required that by December... News 07 Jan 2022 | 03:23
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
Manhattan Borough President at a recent hearing. Photo: Emily Higginbotham Brewer holds SoHo/NoHo hearing After a four hour plus meeting where residents expressed their discontent with the proposed upzoning of SoHo/NoHo, the project... News 30 Aug 2021 | 12:19
