The Troubling Bail Reform Law The new bail reform law, and the likelihood of repeat offenses, has law enforcers worried. When a Community Board 8 member... Voices 10 Jan 2020 | 01:02
Council Member Ben Kallos, second from right, with Victor Rivera, right, and other BHPN staffers at the opening of the UES soup kitchen. ( Photo: Courtesy Bronx Parent Housing Network) Feeding the Hungry on the UES The gift of giving - Talk about giving and gifting and re-gifting, it's what we do at this time of year. The best gift to... Voices 06 Jan 2020 | 10:58
David Stern transformed the NBA from a struggling business to a global sports empire. ( Photo: Taki Lau via Flickr) Stern and Larsen: Two for the Road Chances are, David Stern and Don Larsen crossed paths over the years. New York sports icons have a way of understanding the... Voices 03 Jan 2020 | 12:07
A Vision for 2020 I had, not quite a dream, but a vivid image of how the new year — actually new decade — could shape up for the better in... Voices 03 Jan 2020 | 11:10
Let's Make New York the World's Safest City The New York majority rejoice, and sigh with relief at Governor Cuomo’s veto of the bill to legalize e-bikes and e-scooters.... Voices 30 Dec 2019 | 11:12
The author, with her parents and Grandma Saro, in Stuyvesant Town in the 1990s ( Photo: Courtesy of Ashley Arocho) Bittersweet Memories of the Lower East Side I went to Wo Hop, a Chinatown hole in the wall, for the first time in 1987. I was still in my mother’s womb, and she and... Voices 27 Dec 2019 | 02:27
Resolution No. 8: Cheer hard for Derek Jeter at his Hall of Fame induction ( Photo: mccarmona23 via flickr) A Neurotic NY Sports Fan's 2020 Resolutions It's the time of year when we all tell ourselves the most fanciful, life-affirming lies and dress them up as "New Year's... Voices 29 Dec 2019 | 04:54
Overbuilding is Bad for City Life Back for the cure - The walk-in medical facility Pro Health Urgent Care opened in the Ruppert Yorkville residential building... Voices 23 Dec 2019 | 10:22
Eli in action against the Seattle Seahawks, October 2011. ( Photo: Mike Lizzi via Flickr) Thank You, Eli My beloved New York Football Giants will not make the playoffs again, in another dreadful season. The once-proud franchise... Voices 20 Dec 2019 | 02:51
Gerrit Cole's new home in the Bronx. ( Photo: Erica Schoonmaker via Flickr) That Yankees Deal is Not Insane Yes, the New York Yankees paid an obscene, unfathomable sum of $324 million for nine years to Gerrit Cole. But it makes perfect... Voices 11 Dec 2019 | 11:18
Condos, Big Boxes and a Senior Poet A new kind of IMBY - Who would have thought that the survivors of department store closings would be the H&Ms and the Old... Voices 09 Dec 2019 | 02:14
The author in the brace she had to wear after an automobile accident. ( Photo: Courtesy of Anna Bookstaber) The Healing Powers of the Upper West Side When I first saw the brace I was to be confined in for a month, I passed out. The humiliation of having to wear a chunky... Voices 06 Dec 2019 | 10:24
As the media looked on last month, Michael Bloomberg filed for the Arizona Democratic presidential primary. ( Photo: Courtesy mikebloomberg2020 via Twitter) Bloomberg's Unforced Error Not long after billionaire and former mayor Michael Bloomberg entered the White House sweepstakes, Bloomberg News’s top editor,... Voices 02 Dec 2019 | 01:16
LED Streetlights Have Got to Go! But first, some more thoughts about Thanksgiving, this so inclusive American tradition, about thankfulness, and faith groups... Voices 02 Dec 2019 | 11:58
Old Navy on 86th Street and Lexington Ave. ( Photo: Lorraine Duffy Merkl) The Temptation of Old Navy “I wouldn’t shop at Old Navy if they gave me the stuff for free.” That has been my credo for the past two decades. Then, a... Voices 29 Nov 2019 | 11:28
