Union workers and supporters turned out for a protest across the street from Twitter’s Manhattan headquarters, where janitors lost their jobs after the tech company terminated its contract with Flagship Services. Photo: Abigail Gruskin More Workers Out The Door At Twitter’s Chelsea Office When Yoneiby Lorenzo received a text message alerting him that he’d lost his job, a fate that went into effect immediately... News 27 Jan 2023 | 11:05
Radha Metro-Midkiff, executive director of the Manhattan headquarters of Integral Yoga. Photo courtesy of Integral Yoga Institute Caring for the Spirit as Well as the Body In the words of Sri Swami Satchidananda, a spiritual teacher from India and founder of Integral Yoga, the perfect or divine... News 23 Dec 2022 | 10:30
Two people were arrested for trespassing at Council Member Erik Bottcher’s apartment building on Monday, Dec. 19, according to an NYPD spokesperson. Photo via Erik Bottcher’s Twitter Hate At Erik Bottcher’s Doorstep Inside a Chelsea public library on Saturday, Dec. 17, children read “regular kids’ books,” sitting on the floor together,... News 22 Dec 2022 | 02:13
Council Member Erik Bottcher (left) with Eric Marcus, of the 300 West 20th Street Block Association, Pamela Wolff, of the Chelsea West 200 Block Association and NYC Parks Manhattan Borough Commissioner Anthony Perez (right). Photo courtesy of Erik Bottcher’s office 1,000 New Street Trees for District 3 On Wednesday, December 14, Council Member Erik Bottcher and the New York City Parks Department announced that 1,000 new street... News 14 Dec 2022 | 03:02
Barber Ari Jacobov with a client in his new shop. Photo: Deborah Fenker Tiny Barber Relocates and Expands Dreams do come true ... if you make them happen. This is exactly what happened for Avi Jacobov, who was first profiled in... Home 14 Dec 2022 | 12:19
Workers from Wildcat Service Corporation, the nonprofit tapped to remove graffiti in Council Member Erik Bottcher’s district. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Graffiti Be Gone To camouflage oneself on the streets of New York City would mean to get dirty; a certain amount of graffiti would be required.... Home 02 Dec 2022 | 12:31
The playground at P.S. 11. Photo: Abigail Gruskin An Influx Of Asylum-Seeking Students — and a Community’s Response When Mario’s two children started school on Friday, October 14, they hadn’t attended a class since March — and that was in... News 04 Nov 2022 | 04:43
V (formerly known as Eve Ensler) giving the opening night talk at a new gallery exhibit in Chelsea. Photo: Gaby Messino ‘Sensing’ Some Women A block off the Hudson in the C24 gallery in Chelsea, a new exhibit focused solely on women. “Sensing Woman,” as the show... Home 01 Oct 2022 | 04:14
Traffic on the West Side Highway near Hudson Yards. Photo: Abigail Gruskin The Crackdown On Loud Cars Is On A Roll Noise in New York City, like the vibrating drilling of construction or the booming sound of music coming from the apartment... News 30 Sep 2022 | 12:18
Two dogs playing at the temporary dog run in Penn South Playground as a third sits close by. Photo: Gaby Messino The Dog Days are Not Over In all five boroughs of New York there are roughly 500,000 registered dogs and only 84 dog runs; a little less than half... News 23 Sep 2022 | 02:42
A line of parents waiting to drop off their children on the first day of school wrapped around the block at P.S. 87, on West 77th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Is This What Normal Feels Like? On paper, little about the upcoming school year felt settled in the weeks — and even days — leading up to September 8, the... Education Guide 21 Sep 2022 | 12:10
Erin Reppenhagen (left) as Miss Todd and Juliet Morris as Laetitia in the Opera Next Door’s production of “The Old Maid and the Thief.” Photo: Kathryn Tornelli What’s More NYC than an Opera on a Stoop? Opera is an art form often enjoyed in gilded halls not accessible to all. Yet last Saturday a group of talented performers... Home 15 Sep 2022 | 05:29
The Spanish Benevolent Society building. Photo: Zoey Lyttle La Nacional: The Spanish Benevolent Society Lives On The nonprofit society La Nacional opened on 14th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in 1868, but when the Church of... News 17 Aug 2022 | 03:02
NYS Assembly District 73 candidate Russell Squire (left), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (second from left), Governor Kathy Hochul (center), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (second from right) and District 76 Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright (right) on the campaign trail on the morning of the primary at East 86th Street and Second Avenue. Photo courtesy of Rebecca Seawright’s campaign Where Were the Voters? New York’s first of two summer primary elections drew to a close on Tuesday night, after a long — but extremely low-turnout... News 30 Jun 2022 | 05:46
At the 2019 Oasis benefit at Chelsea Piers. Photo courtesy of the Ali Forney Center Ali Forney Center Changes Event Venue to Protest Chelsea Piers Chelsea Piers faced a massive backlash for featuring Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at a Tivkah Fund conference on Sunday,... News 17 Jun 2022 | 06:13
