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
From left to right: City Council Members Shaun Abreu, Erik Bottcher, Sandy Nurse, Chi Ossé and Carlina Rivera posed outside City Hall with two rats that were protesting new legislation passed on Thursday. Photo: Abigail Gruskin City Council’s ‘Rat Pack’ Says Rodents Are Ready to ‘Surrender’ In a city of millions, there’s an alarming number of unwelcome guests — ones that scurry, lurk and leap. Everyone’s seen... News 27 Oct 2022 | 05:54
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
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
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 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
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
Madison Square Garden. Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim, via Flickr Relocating Madison Square Garden? The Manhattan Borough President and key Manhattan legislators have coalesced around a call to relocate Madison Square Garden... News 17 Jul 2022 | 01:59
Council Member Erik Bottcher. Photo courtesy of the Office of Erik Bottcher Bottcher on LGBTQ Mental Health As Pride month came to a close, Council Member Erik Bottcher met with Fountain House, the national mental health nonprofit,... News 08 Jul 2022 | 12:45
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
Chelsea tree canopy. Photo: Zoey Lyttle A Greener Future for District 3 Councilman Erik Bottcher’s office recently tallied District 3’s votes for this year’s Participatory Budgeting program. After... News 31 May 2022 | 01:05
Tony Simone is running for NYS Assembly in District 75, which spans from Union Square through Chelsea to the southern region of Central Park. Photo courtesy of Tony Simone’s campaign Tony Simone Endorsed By Erik Bottcher, Brad Hoylman For NYS Assembly Council Member Erik Bottcher and State Senator Brad Hoylman are the latest to join what has become a robust group of local... News 09 May 2022 | 11:04
Mayor Eric Adams announced his FY 2023 preliminary budget in mid-February. Photo via the Mayor’s Office YouTube ‘Homelessness Solutions,’ Mental Health Care in Council Budget Process Budgeting the city’s spending is no small task — and it’s not one left solely to the mayor’s discretion, either. That’s why,... News 07 Apr 2022 | 02:56
