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NYC Heath Commissioner Ashwin Vasan tweeted about his mild case of COVID in late September and early October. Photo via Commissioner Ashwin Vasan, MD PhD on Twitter

NYC Heath Commissioner Ashwin Vasan tweeted about his mild case of COVID in late September and early October. Photo via Commissioner Ashwin Vasan, MD PhD on Twitter

A new debate over the return on investment (ROI) of the COVID jabs

Vaccine Angst

26 Nov 2022 | 01:18

For a brief moment we greeted those vaccines as our salvation from COVID-19, scrambling for appointments and celebrating our jabs as liberation from masks, social distancing and lockdowns. But then the realization settled in that vaccination is medicine not magic.

The focus turned from the significant...

Cover of Richard Barone’s “Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s.” Photo via Amazon.com

Cover of Richard Barone’s “Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s.” Photo via Amazon.com

When Greenwich Village was ‘Bursting with Music’

22 Nov 2022 | 09:37

Richard Barone is the author of the new book, “Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s” (Rockbeat...

Jeremy Pope (left) and Paul Bettany (right) performing in “The Collaboration” at the Young Vic in London. Photo: Mark Brenner

Jeremy Pope (left) and Paul Bettany (right) performing in “The Collaboration” at the Young Vic in London. Photo: Mark Brenner

Broadway is Gaining a Few New Artists

18 Nov 2022 | 02:51

“My parents did three jobs that they didn’t like in order to keep our family. I’m here doing [multiple]...

Members of CB1’s Waterfront, Parks & Cultural Committee met online to discuss a possible sequel to the “Million Trees” initiative. Photo: Abigail Gruskin

Members of CB1’s Waterfront, Parks & Cultural Committee met online to discuss a possible sequel to the “Million Trees” initiative. Photo: Abigail Gruskin

The City May Be In For a Million More Trees

18 Nov 2022 | 12:31

It won’t happen overnight, but the city may be destined to grow more green. A sequel to the “Million...

May 2009 photograph by C. Ford Peatross, staircase, former Restaurant Longchamps # 12, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street (Empire State Building), opened 1938. Photo courtesy of C. Ford Peatross

May 2009 photograph by C. Ford Peatross, staircase, former Restaurant Longchamps # 12, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street (Empire State Building), opened 1938. Photo courtesy of C. Ford Peatross

Taking Away the Stairway

15 Nov 2022 | 01:02

A historic stairway, the last surviving restaurant interior designed by the noted New York artist Winold...

Dozens of protesters turned out at 250 Broadway, where City Council offices are located. Photo: Abigail Gruskin

Dozens of protesters turned out at 250 Broadway, where City Council offices are located. Photo: Abigail Gruskin

‘The Yuck Mobile’

18 Nov 2022 | 10:52

A mock dining shed on wheels stalled briefly in front of City Council members’ offices downtown, at 250...

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine administered at NYU Langone Health in Manhattan, December 14, 2020. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine administered at NYU Langone Health in Manhattan, December 14, 2020. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office

The COVID Scoreboard

18 Nov 2022 | 10:37

What a difference three years make. On January 21, 2019, when the first U.S. case of COVID 19 was confirmed,...

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