District Leader Rebecca Weintraub on the Upper East Side. Photo courtesy of Rebecca Weintraub New York State Needs an Equality Amendment Before the end of this year’s state legislative session, lawmakers took important steps to shore up abortion access in New... Voices 26 Jun 2022 | 05:07
The author on Park Avenue. Photo courtesy of Michael Zisser Community Dissonance: From Jackson Heights to the UES My wife and I recently moved from Jackson Heights to the Upper East Side for several reasons: being within walking distance... Voices 22 Jun 2022 | 11:27
A Haddon matrix for car crashes looks at the pre-event, crash and post-crash factors. Photo courtesy of Dr. Lisa Stone A New Approach to Gun Violence How is an active shooter like a car crash? In the 1960s, an alarming increase in deaths related to car crashes led to the... Voices 08 Jun 2022 | 08:47
Charlotte showing how she’s cleaned up the subways as mayor. Ilustrator: Ena Hodzic. Photo courtesy of Lese Dunton If I Were Mayor: Ideas From the City’s Most Innovative Leaders I had the honor of meeting the most imaginative and innovative new leaders of New York. They are forward-thinking, creative... Voices 21 May 2022 | 05:44
Ambulance in the rain. Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim, via Flickr Ambulance Sirens: A Reckoning As a physician living in New York City, my frustration with the extremely high decibel level of virtually every ambulance... Voices 27 Apr 2022 | 10:47
A new positive home test. Photo: Michael Oreskes Doctor’s Rx: Stop Testing Stop testing, said the doctor, it will be fine. In my chronicle of these plague years this may well have been the most memorable,... News 26 Apr 2022 | 10:52
Danced-through shoes. Photo: Tania Cade Dancing Through the Pandemic When the city shut down in March 2020, so ended my newfound passion for going social dancing. I had only discovered this... Voices 12 Apr 2022 | 02:01
Construction on March 20. Photo: Lauren Trapanotto The Noise from East 90th Street If you live near 424 East 90th Street, you’ve probably had a migraine since December from the multiple hydraulic jackhammers... Voices 27 Mar 2022 | 01:14
Matthew O’Reilly at camp. Photo: Rob Foldy Ninjas in the Night As our counselors yell at us to wake up early in the morning for a daunting canoe trip across the vastness of the lake, we... Camp Guide 07 Mar 2022 | 10:04
H.D. Wright alongside representatives from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland, the UNHCR, Unicef, and the European Union. Photo courtesy of H.D. Wright The Power of the Youth Voice In American society, there is an unfortunate propensity to elevate the opinions of established “experts,” while excluding... Voices 01 Mar 2022 | 01:51
The Invasion of Ukraine We are all in a state of shock and disbelief as we watch from our front row seats as Russia wages war on Ukraine. We have... Voices 27 Feb 2022 | 07:34
Entrance to The Abraham Joshua Heschel School. Photo: Zachary Weg And They’ll Stand Majestic Heschel High School was hard but it saved me. As the Upper West Side building turns twenty this year, at a time when students... Voices 12 Feb 2022 | 06:51
Mount Sinai ambulance outside of the Mount Sinai/Morningside Hospital. Photo: Susan Crawford EMS, Your Sirens Are Driving Me Crazy! It’s 3 a.m. From 20 to 30 blocks away I start to hear it: the higher-than-high-pitched shriek of an ambulance siren. As it... Voices 02 Feb 2022 | 05:45
A group of Physicians for a National Health Program advocates at a recent demonstration. Photo courtesy of PNHP Health Care Delivery at a Crossroads Health care delivery, like our democracy, is now at a crossroads between social progress and, alternately, chaos. The Direct... Voices 22 Dec 2021 | 09:26
Dive 106 on Amsterdam Ave. has a heated outdoor shed. Photo: Gerry Khermouch How About a City-Sponsored Design Contest for a ‘Moveable Feast’? If necessity is the mother of invention, is it possible that the gnarly problem of what to do with all those outdoor dining... Voices 22 Nov 2021 | 04:13
