Magnolia Bakery cupcakes. ( Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim, via flickr) Cupcake Pandemic Only in New York could the leading edge of building back from the pandemic be a cupcake store on the Upper West Side, guided... News 21 May 2020 | 05:04
Dr. Oxiris Barbot on screen at a media briefing by Mayor Bill de Blasio at City Hall, Friday, May 1, 2020. ( Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.) The Vitamin D Question Why has New York City been slammed so hard by COVID-19? There are almost as many theories as lights gone dark on Broadway.... News 15 May 2020 | 12:24
David J. Brenner at a TED talk in 2017. ( Photo: Bret Hartman) A 'Far Light' Solution? EXCLUSIVE - In a sealed lab at Columbia University, researchers say they have found a way to destroy coronavirus in the air... Home 04 May 2020 | 10:45
On Sunday, April 19, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the New York State Department of Health would begin to conduct a statewide antibody testing survey. ( Photo: Kevin P. Coughlin/ Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo) The 'R' Factor The lockdowns are working. The coronavirus is retreating. One of the most basic metrics in epidemiology, the legendary R,... News 20 Apr 2020 | 09:29
Firefighters applaud medical staff at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue on Friday, April 10, 2020 during a visit by Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady to thank health workers. ( Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) The Road to Recovery Closing a great city was simple, it turns out, compared to the task ahead of reopening it safely. What we were told to do... Voices 10 Apr 2020 | 05:07
Mayor Bill de Blasio announces that former Police Commissioner James O’Neill will be returning to serve as COVID-19 Senior Advisor on Wednesday, April 01, 2020. ( Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.) Memo to Trump and de Blasio: Don't Distort History There is one thing President Donald Trump and Mayor Bill de Blasio agree on: this is not the time to blame them for having... News 02 Apr 2020 | 11:01
Leadership in the Plague Years This virus is spreading so quickly that it outstrips our ability to keep up with events or lessons that might help us. So... Voices 26 Mar 2020 | 11:24
Sign of the times. Penn Station main floor, 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 10, 2020. ( Photo: David Noonan) Portrait of New Yorkers in a Crisis Until a very few days ago, social distancing conjured for most New Yorkers an image of, say, the rich and famous rising above... News 13 Mar 2020 | 11:21
Perhaps the most famous headline of the 1970s, published on Oct. 30, 1975. ( Photo: Edward Stojakovic via flickr) Haunted by the '70s Perhaps it’s nostalgia through a darkened lens, like Brits remembering the Blitz. That was a bad time, but we made it through,... News 24 Feb 2020 | 03:48
Governor Cuomo tours L Train tunnel and shows improvements made ahead of schedule and on budget on September 29, 2019. ( Photo: Darren McGee / Office of Governor Cuomo) Who Runs the Transit System? Once upon a time in the Great City, Hugh L. Carey, one of New York’s best modern governors, and certainly its most underrated,... News 31 Jan 2020 | 01:46
Scaffolding provides some shelter for the homeless at the corner of Broadway and 73rd St. ( Photo: Emily Higginbotham) In the Shadow of the Ansonia Below the surface of the Great City a delicate and generally tolerable balance of rules and laws and social norms allows... News 06 Jan 2020 | 11:31
