Scenes such as the above, where a young woman shows off her flu-shot sticker, should be commonplace this fall after the FDA in June finally issued recommendations on the new flu vaccine for the 2025-26 flu season. ( Photo: Whoisjohngalt/Wikimedia Commons) Flu Vaccine Shots Will Be Available This Fall After All Despite political posturing, missed meetings, and nail-biting moments of medical mystery, it now seems certain that there... News 11 Jul 2025 | 04:01
Editor Jule Campbell adjusts a bracelet on model Kathy Ireland's wrist during a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue shoot in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the fall of 1989. Model Judit Masco can be seen in the background. ( Photo: Bill Cramer/Wonderfulmachine.com/Wikimedia Commons) Director Creates Filmic Ode to Legendary Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Editor Take a film director, add a pandemic, sprinkle in a legend in the fashion industry, a dash of supermodels discussing how... News 11 Jul 2025 | 03:40
Maya Haddad (left) is helping with a countersuit against banks filed by Ping “Penny” Cheung (right), a native of Guangzhou, China, who is fighting to hold on to her two Chinatown buildings. ( Photo: Maya Haddad) Owner Battles Banks Trying to Foreclose on Her 2 Chinatown Buildings Ping Cheung, known as Penny to her friends and neighbors, is a Chinatown resident and proprietor. She grew up in Guangzhou,... News 11 Jul 2025 | 08:44
Gabriel Magahey, now an 82-year-old great-grandfather of five, was once labeled the “leader of the IRA in America.” He says the Trump administration is trying to force him out of the country some 37 years after he finished his federal prison sentence and in violation of a deal brokered by President Clinton. He was at Ernie O’Malley’s Pub on East 27th Street on July 9. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Feds Seeks to Deport 82-year-old Great-Grandpa Once Dubbed ‘the Leader of the IRA in America’ Gabriel Magahey was dubbed “the leader of the IRA in America” by prosecutors when he was convicted in 1983 of gunrunning... News 12 Jul 2025 | 02:51
Inside West Side Kids ( Photo: Otto Fritton) Beloved West Side Kids to Close After 44 Years After 44 years of hard work, bright windows, and neighborhood magic, UWS community-driven staple West Side Kids is closing... News 09 Jul 2025 | 02:51
The DOT says that they will hire 45 unarmed “peace officers” for a Department of Sustainable Delivery but not until 2028. Once empowered, the new until will be able to to hand out moving violations to e-bikers and scooter and moped operators. ( Photo: DOT ) New DOT “Peace Officers” Aim to Curb Unsafe E-Bikes, Mopeds and Scooters...By 2028 The NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) will eventually deploy 45 bike enforcement “peace officers” as part of a “Department... News 10 Jul 2025 | 05:28
Strand Bookstore has opened a new Upper West Side location at 2020 Broadway, taking over the former Shakespeare & Co. space and expanding its presence in the neighborhood. ( Photo: Benny Harps) A New Chapter for Independent Bookstores on the Upper West Side Bibliophiles on the Upper West Side are rejoicing. The shuttered Shakespeare & Co. store at 2020 Broadway, between West 69th... News 09 Jul 2025 | 03:14
Despite efforts by the Trump Administration to derail congestion pricing in the courts, the tolls have remained on. After six months, Gov. Kathy Hochul said it is meeting all its promised traffic reduction goals. ( Photo: Ralph Spielman) Six Months In, Congestion Pricing Shows Early Signs of Success New York City’s congestion pricing program, launched in January 2025, is already reshaping how people move through Manhattan.... News 08 Jul 2025 | 11:33
Left: Grand Marshal State Assembly Member Charles Fall. Right: “General Marquis de Lafayette.” ( Photos: Brian Berger) Happy Birthday, America! Independence Day Parade Wows Lower Manhattan Hundreds of ardent patriots gathered in Battery Park on the morning of July 4 to participate in the Lower Manhattan Historical... News 07 Jul 2025 | 03:57
Left: Dana Baraket in October 2023, after tearing down Israeli hostage posters. Right: police say the suspect is wanted for public lewdness in Kips Bay. ( Photos: Stop Antisemitism, NYPD) Woman Assaults Cops in Times Square; Public Lewdness in Kips Bay A woman, Dana Baraket, 19, caught on video tearing down Israeli hostage posters on the Upper West Side in October 2023, has... News 07 Jul 2025 | 04:41
Honduran migrant Joel Antonio Alonzo allegedly assaulting federal officer on June 6. ( Photo: Southern District of New York) 2 Indictments in Recent Court Attacks Jonathan Wohl, 37, a recidivist offender who attacked three New York State Court officers inside the Manhattan Criminal... News 07 Jul 2025 | 10:27
Approximate site of the crash between illegal electric unicycle and bicyclist, June 30, 2025. ( Map: CentralPark.org; Straus News markup) Rider of Illegal Electric Unicycle Badly Injured in Crash with Central Park Bicyclist The war between the speed of high-powered electric vehicles and the more measured human-powered pace of bicyclists and pedestrians... News 06 Jul 2025 | 11:59
Smartwatches are now allowed in NYC pools, if they have don’t have cameras, the Parks Department told Straus News (pictured above, Thomas Jefferson Pool). ( Photo: NYC Parks ) Smartwatch Ban Relaxed: Now Allowed At City Pools, If Camera-Free Big news: You can wear a smartwatch to Parks Department swimming pools this summer, for the first time. Straus News heard... News 03 Jul 2025 | 07:15
Sweat can be unpleasant, but experts are discovering it has a lot more beneficial effects than just cooling down the body in hot weather. ( Photo: Sasener) Summer Is Here and the Sweat You Hate Is Actually Good For You! Summer is here and while high heat and humidity can be unpleasant and energy-sapping, the sweat that accompanies the sweltering... News 03 Jul 2025 | 04:27
Woman Assaults Cops in Times Square; Public Lewdness in Kips Bay