John Lennon and Yoko Ono, seen here performing at the Sinclair Freedom Rally in December 1971, had just released the “Double Fantasy” album in 1980 shortly before Lennon was murdered outside the Dakota apartment building where they lived. Photo: University of Michigan/Wikimedia Commons John Lennon: In My Life Whenever Dec. 8 rolls around, I take time to reflect. It occurs to me that nothing is real and all you need is love and life... Voices 07 Dec 2023 | 07:02
Mayor Eric Adams says the FDNY is stepping up enforcement of lithium-ion battery complaints while the NYPD is visiting homes where teens have been caught subway surfing. Photo: Keith J. Kelly City Taking Steps to Prevent Tragedies from Lithium Batteries and Subway Surfing Recently, our city witnessed two tragedies that could have been prevented: A deadly fire at an e-bike shop and a subway surfing... News 04 Dec 2023 | 12:36
George Santos, in his official portrait, is now an ex-Congressman. It was a weekly paper, the North Shore Leader, that first blew the whistle, repeatedly, on the fabulist before the 2022 election. Photo: US Congress/Ike Hayman Ouster of Santos Emphasizes the Importance of Local Papers Congress last week on its third try finally voted to boot George Santos from the House of Representatives, making him only... Voices 04 Dec 2023 | 06:05
Delmonico’s serves up a holiday turkey dinner. Photo: Simon Tchoukriel/Delmonico’s Holiday Themed Restaurants Rolf’s and Delmonico’s Gear Up for Big Season Holiday spirit all year–Winter holiday season’s here. Diwali’s just passed. Chanukah and Christmas are coming up. Restaurants... Voices 25 Nov 2023 | 05:31
The sparking new escalators at Penn Station may all come tumbling down in a few years when a major renovation of the entire station stakes place. Photo: Amtrak Stairway to where exactly? It would be a clear case of New York jadedness to call the spanking new Seventh Avenue entrance to Penn Station a stairway... Voices 24 Nov 2023 | 02:17
Bob Dylan (right) was 22 years old when he appeared with Joan Baez on Aug. 28, 1963 during a civil rights March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I have a dream” speech. Sixty years later, Dylan is on his latest live tour that includes a Nov. 16th appearance at the Beacon Theater. Photo: National Archives and Records Admin/Wikimedia Commons True Troubadour: Bob Dylan is Flourishing by Acting His Age At an age when Bob Dylan could be clipping coupons at home in Malibu, polishing up his Nobel Prize for Literature or sipping... Voices 16 Nov 2023 | 05:46
William Russo, who would go on to become an attorney, said one of the most important lessons he learned from his father Joseph Russo (above), a neighborhood butcher in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, was how to show kindness to everyone. Photo: Courtesy the Russo family Writer Says He First Learned About Kindness in His Father’s Butcher Shop in Brooklyn Kindness is in short supply these days. I miss it, but maybe as Ed Koch used to say, things were never the way they used... Voices 16 Nov 2023 | 10:50
Fans turn out in force, and the current NY Knicks team is one that is easy to root for. But our Public Eye columnist thinks the team is short one dominant superstar that is needed to push them to the next level. Photo: Wikimedia commons Knicks Still a Superstar Short The Knicks are so frustrating! The NBA team plays hard and looks fundamentally sound. It is comprised of players that are... News 13 Nov 2023 | 11:33
Letters 11.16.23 Dear Letters Editor: Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s announcement of delivering billions in federal funding for... Voices 13 Nov 2023 | 01:09
Navy veteran Alex Miller holding Going For Broke, which features his essay. Photo: Asher Fields Never done fighting: Veteran’s struggle with PTSD, homelessness, and how writing saved him He’s a former Navy veteran who once ended up homeless on the streets of New York. When writer Alex Miller laughs today, it... News 06 Nov 2023 | 12:02
“I did not want to replicate IRL what I was seeing online—adults in my feed fighting about Israel and Palestine, offending one another, and even losing friendships over it,” said Sare Beth Rosenberg. ( Wikimedia Commons) My Students Asked If I Was ‘Team Israeli’ or ‘Team Palestinian” In the past few years, social studies teachers have found it especially challenging to find unbiased, educational, and harm-free... Voices 31 Oct 2023 | 05:36
Donald J. Trump, seen here in a 2019 Congressional hearing, is in the midst of a civil fraud trial on business dealings of the companies within the Trump Organization. Photo: Office of Robert Aderholt/US House of Representatives Trump and Cohen Both Appear Rattled As Fraud Trial Continues A visibly enraged Donald J. Trump sprung out of his chair in New York State Supreme Court on Oct. 25 and rushed out of the... Voices 30 Oct 2023 | 12:22
Keith Powers, the Democratic majority leader in the City Council, has come out strongly against Mayor Eric Adams to force city retirees to give up their Medicare insurance and move to a private health care insurer’s plan. Photo: Keith Powers Powers: NYC Retirees Should Keep Healthcare They Were Promised In the past year, the city’s 250,000 retired municipal employees have understandably struggled with the city’s announcement... News 27 Oct 2023 | 03:16
Photo of Cornelia, “Connie” Kapp-Frydman, the writer’s mother at ten years old, taken after the family fled to Italy after her father, a Yugoslav resistance fighter, was killed fighting Nazis in WW II. Photo: Courtesy of Ken Frydman Son Whose Mother Fled Nazis Never More Proud to be Jewish My mother is having nightmares. Since the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel, 88-year-old Cornelia “Connie” Kapp-Frydman... News 29 Oct 2023 | 06:11
Taylor Swift (at mic) in concert in July 2022. Photo: Raph PH/Wikimedia Commons Would Taylor Swift Have Approved of Me at Her Movie? There was a strange vibe at the Imax AMC Theater when I saw the highly entertaining Taylor Swift concert film Eras. I went... News 25 Oct 2023 | 05:13
