Madison Square Garden will be rocking this playoff season with both Knicks and Rangers in the hunt for a championship. Photo: Wikimedia Commons As Rangers and Knicks Start Post Season Journey, Can Either Win a Championship? New York sports fans haven’t experienced this kind of rapture from their hockey and basketball teams since 1994. That year,... Voices 19 Apr 2024 | 01:27
Beau Allulli and Doo Kim, the co-founders of the Mighty Lucky dispensary, posing in front of their legally-licensed store on the Bowery. ( Photo by Jack Ahern ) Legal Weed Shop Opening On The Bowery Has Been A Long Time Coming On the overcast morning of April 17, Beau Allulli–the co-founder of the legally licensed dispensary Mighty Lucky, which he’s... News 19 Apr 2024 | 05:15
It’s all in the shorthand. Just as a baseball player would used RBI instead of “run batted in” after a hit enabled a runner on his team to cross home plate, nutritionists also have a language all their own. Photo: Wikimedia Commons How to Make a Nutritionist’s Word Salad a Little More Digestible Every profession has its own verbal shorthand. Cops abbreviate unknown suspects to “perps” short for “perpetrators.” Sportswriters... News 19 Apr 2024 | 01:15
There is a fine art to building a campfire as campers at the Nature Place Camp in Chestnut Ridge in Rockland County discover. This camp here will not find competitive sports, loudspeakers, or screens. Instead, campers get outside, explore, create, cooperate, play, and wonder. Photo: The Nature Place The Best Way To Prepare Your Kids for Summer Camp With just a few months to go until the school year ends and summer vacation starts, you want to make sure that you and your... News 19 Apr 2024 | 12:20
Author Elle Evans (left) with Elle culture writer Lauren Puckett-Pope (center) and Kathleen Harris, executive editor of Zibby Books. Photo: Lorraine Duffy Merkl Chic Lit Author Who Wrote “Wedding Issues” Under Pen Name Has Day Job: M.D. I think of myself as somewhat of a multi-tasker but Elle Evans has me trumped by most counts. This ambitious Boston native... City Arts 19 Apr 2024 | 04:05
The newest interpretive exhibit at the Tenement Museum, “Union of Hope 1869” notes the lives of Joseph and Rachel Moore, Black Americans who left rural New Jersey for a better life in New York City. Photo: Tenement Museum Tenement Museum Opens Exhibit on First Black Family That Moved into Bldg Right After Civil War We are all proud of our original heritages and those that we identify with as Manhattanites. For everyone, New York City... City Arts 19 Apr 2024 | 07:45
NYC Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch (left) and City Council Member Erik Bottcher preparing to unveil a new–and hopefully rat-proof–trash can on the corner of 9th Ave. & 43rd St., which is within Bottcher’s Hell’s Kitchen district. ( Photo by Jack Ahern ) Bottcher and Sanitation Commish Tisch Unveil New Anti-Rat Trash Bins Purportedly rat-proof public trash cans are still coming to the corners of Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, where they will... News 17 Apr 2024 | 06:25
Jean-Marie Haessle, who arrived in NYC 56 years ago from France, passed away this week, shortly after conducting what turned out to be his final interview with our reporter. Photo: Lorriane Duffy Merkl Noted Artist Who Vowed to Paint ‘Until My Last Breath’ Dies Shortly After Final Interview “I was going to be the next Van Gogh, but I found my own way.” Famed 84-year-old expressionist artist Jean-Marie Haessle... News Alert 18 Apr 2024 | 05:03
East Village Radio storefront in 2010 ( Photo: Wikimedia Commons) East Village Radio Plans to Return This Spring The East Village is on the brink of artsy revival this spring with the much-anticipated return of East Village Radio (EVR).... News 15 Apr 2024 | 06:03
NY Times columnist Dan Barry (left) discusses the anthology “Breslin: Essential Writing,” which he compiled during a recent lecture with veteran city reporter Michael Daly at Hunter College. Photo: Matt Capowski Newspaper Men Dan Barry and Michael Daly Speak About the Legendary Jimmy Breslin “So what do we talk about?” Michael Daly asked, laughing and somewhat quietly like someone who has so much to say, he doesn’t... News 16 Apr 2024 | 09:28
The word “pickleball” is now splayed across the front of the Life Time facilities at PENN 1. ( Photo by Jack Ahern ) New Pickleball Courts Open Across From Madison Square Garden Life Time Fitness, the upscale gym behemoth that has opened eight separate spots in Manhattan, is now offering seven fresh... News 19 Apr 2024 | 07:03
When Anna Meshcheri arrived in the US from Russia, she thought she’d land a 9-to-5 office job, but when that didn’t materialize, she turned to creative pursuits and now is a fashion photographer with a studio in Times Square. Photo: Times Square Photo Studio She Combines High End Fashion Work with Keepsake Photo Shoots for Tourists Since Anna Meshcheri was once a tourist in Manhattan, she now loves offering vacation photoshoots to visitors here. The Russian... Home 15 Apr 2024 | 04:26
The Vessel in November 2022 after it had been closed to the public following four suicides since its opening. Related Companies says it will install steel mesh to prevent further suicides when it reopens. Photo: kidfly 182 Wikimedia Commons Vessel Reopening Brings Back Painful Memory for Family of Past Suicide Victim Shilpa Kulkarni is glad the owners of The Vessel are at last installing safety measures to prevent suicides on the idiosyncratic... News 15 Apr 2024 | 09:34
Sniff, sniff ( Source: Wikimedia Commons) City May Soon Try to Sterilize Rat Problem with Birth Control Tablets Rats are among the world’s most prolific mammal breeders, with a single female able to spawn 15,000 descendants in a single... News 18 Apr 2024 | 06:58