Mayor Eric Adams delivers remarks at the vigil for Michelle Alyssa Go in Times Square on Tuesday, January 18, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Crime and Mental Illness In life, her friends say, she shunned any limelight on herself as she helped others less fortunate. So it was a painful irony... News 23 Jan 2022 | 02:30
Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg. Photo: Alvin Bragg on Flickr Bragg’s Mea Culpa Tour Elections have consequences. That is a popular refrain in these days of hyper-partisan struggle. But what if few people are... News 22 Jan 2022 | 04:26
“Turning the corner”: Governor Kathy Hochul updates New Yorkers on progress combating COVID-19, January 14, 2022. Photo: Mike Groll/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul The Omicron Uncertainty In the face of Omicron uncertainty, the economy shuddered. Infections from the Omicron variant may be peaking, as the governor... News 16 Jan 2022 | 10:06
Photo: Office of Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine Levine’s Pillars to a Comeback On his first full day as Manhattan borough president, Mark Levine issued a detailed, 16-point plan to confront a crisis he... News 09 Jan 2022 | 10:56
Mayor Eric Adams is sworn in as the 110th Mayor of New York City in Times Square minutes after midnight on Saturday, January 1, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office ‘We Are Ready for a Major Comeback’ New York is a great city to be rich in, it has been observed, and not the worst place to be poor, either. But the folks in... News 01 Jan 2022 | 06:01
At Mayor Bill de Blasio’s press briefing on Tuesday, December 21, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. Omicron Attacks The health commissioner, who presumably knows how to stay safe, got infected, although she didn’t say exactly how. The lawyer... News 23 Dec 2021 | 06:23
COVID testing at Columbus Circle by the holiday market. Photo: Michael Oreskes COVID’s Sudden New Surge Suddenly, the virus was everywhere. “We’ve never seen this before in New York City,” Dr. Jay Varma, the mayor’s former health... News 17 Dec 2021 | 10:12
U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney. Photo courtesy of Maloney’s campaign West Side Endorsements for Maloney Under pressure from her political left and from across the Queens side of the East River, Representative Carolyn Maloney... News 15 Dec 2021 | 09:50
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Hochul hold a joint press conference to update New Yorkers on the Omicron variant. City Hall, Thursday, December 2, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office The Omicron Factor When fear runs high and facts are scarce, it’s wise to go back to what you already know works. That, boiled down, were the... News 06 Dec 2021 | 11:32
Left to right, front row: Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer; Janno Lieber, acting chair of the MTA; Rep. Carolyn Maloney; and Governor Kathy Hochul during tour of the Second Avenue tunnel on Nov. 23, 2021. Photo: Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of the Governor ( Kevin P. Coughlin / Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of th) A Tunnel Tour With Hochul Congress and President Biden have signed off on spending a trillion dollars on construction and reconstruction of, as they... News 26 Nov 2021 | 05:31
Rendering of entrance to Blood Center, courtesy of Ennead. City Council Approves Blood Center Plan The City Council, brushing aside the objections of its member from the Upper East Side, overwhelmingly approved the New York... News 24 Nov 2021 | 06:45
At the Veterans Day Parade on Fifth Avenue, attended by Mayor Bill de Blasio, on Thursday, November 11, 2021. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Health and the Holidays In the annals of public health there is probably no moment more notorious than the ill-timed parade in Philadelphia that... Home 20 Nov 2021 | 09:57
Photo courtesy of Council Member Ben Kallos Kallos: ‘This Wasn’t Really About Blood’ Ben Kallos still wants to talk to the New York Blood Center. “I am still reaching out to them asking them to come to the table,”... News 18 Nov 2021 | 06:57
The first step to limit the uptick in cases, said Dr. Dave Chokshi, the city’s health commissioner, is vaccinating the unvaccinated, including 5- to 18-year-olds. Students at P.S. 19 in the East Village received COVID-19 vaccination shots on Monday, November 8, 2021. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office A New COVID Surge COVID rates are climbing again in New York City. This news may not yet be cause for alarm, but it is certainly reason for... News 15 Nov 2021 | 01:16
Street-level rendering of revised Blood Center, courtesy of Ennead. Blood Center: The Political Tide Turns The New York Blood Center lopped 116 feet off the new tower it is proposing to build on the East Side and that turned the... News 12 Nov 2021 | 11:49
