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
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, after his primary win in August. Photo via Nadler’s Twitter Midterm Election Races To Watch After a long summer with not one, but two primary elections, the November 8 midterm election is now around the corner. There... News 21 Oct 2022 | 02:59
Lunch on the street. Photo: David Axelbank ‘The Longest Table’ Lights Up West 21st Street It started with a simple idea - to gather neighbors and share a meal around a table down the middle of an NYC block. After... News 18 Oct 2022 | 12:11
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
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
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
A line of parents waiting to drop off their children on the first day of school wrapped around the block at P.S. 87, on West 77th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Is This What Normal Feels Like? On paper, little about the upcoming school year felt settled in the weeks — and even days — leading up to September 8, the... Education Guide 21 Sep 2022 | 12:10
Erin Reppenhagen (left) as Miss Todd and Juliet Morris as Laetitia in the Opera Next Door’s production of “The Old Maid and the Thief.” Photo: Kathryn Tornelli What’s More NYC than an Opera on a Stoop? Opera is an art form often enjoyed in gilded halls not accessible to all. Yet last Saturday a group of talented performers... News 15 Sep 2022 | 05:29
Rep. Jerrold Nadler celebrated a landslide victory over Rep. Carolyn Maloney and attorney Suraj Patel. Photo via Nadler’s Twitter Easy Nadler Win Settles East-West Face-Off After an extra two months of campaigning, the contentious Democratic primary race in Manhattan’s newly-drawn 12th Congressional... News 26 Aug 2022 | 11:58
The Spanish Benevolent Society building. Photo: Zoey Lyttle La Nacional: The Spanish Benevolent Society Lives On The nonprofit society La Nacional opened on 14th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in 1868, but when the Church of... News 17 Aug 2022 | 03:02
The Chelsea Garden Club. Photo courtesy of the Chelsea Garden Club The Chelsea Garden Club’s Community Roots Since Phyllis Waisman was a young girl growing up in Manhattan, she always wanted a tree in front of her building. For decades,... News 20 Jul 2022 | 04:16
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
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
At the 2019 Oasis benefit at Chelsea Piers. Photo courtesy of the Ali Forney Center Ali Forney Center Changes Event Venue to Protest Chelsea Piers Chelsea Piers faced a massive backlash for featuring Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at a Tivkah Fund conference on Sunday,... News 17 Jun 2022 | 06:13
