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 It won’t happen overnight, but the city may be destined to grow more green. A sequel to the “Million Trees” initiative, this... News 18 Nov 2022 | 12:31
Dozens of protesters turned out at 250 Broadway, where City Council offices are located. Photo: Abigail Gruskin ‘The Yuck Mobile’ A mock dining shed on wheels stalled briefly in front of City Council members’ offices downtown, at 250 Broadway, in the... News 18 Nov 2022 | 10:52
NY-10 candidate Daniel Goldman with his family on the day of the Democratic primary over the summer. Photo via Goldman’s Twitter A Race To The Finish After a long summer with not one, but two primary elections, the November 8 midterm election is now around the corner. There... News 21 Oct 2022 | 05:08
Robert Alonso. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Building Service Workers Award Honoree Robert Alonso: A Lobby To Call Home Doorman Robert Alonso has found a second home in the lobby of the luxury downtown apartment building where he works, complete... People 17 Oct 2022 | 02:44
Pedro Saenz. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Building Service Workers Award Honoree Pedro Saenz: A Downtown Porter Dreams Of Travel For the past 34 years, Pedro Saenz has worked as a porter at 250 Vesey Street, formerly Four World Financial Center. It’s... People 17 Oct 2022 | 02:39
The Kardashians cookies. Photo courtesy of Funny Face Bakery The New York Cookies That Put Smiles on Everyone’s Faces Although the cookies at Funny Face Bakery make people smile, some are so touching that they cause customers to tear up in... News 26 Sep 2022 | 01:31
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
NY-10 candidates from left to right: Yuh-Line Niou, Mondaire Jones, Jo Anne Simon, Carlina Rivera, Elizabeth Holtzman, Daniel Goldman. Photo: Abigail Gruskin An NY-10 Debate Bursting At The Seams A two-hour debate between six candidates in the newly-drawn 10th Congressional District on Wednesday evening felt as if it... News 12 Aug 2022 | 01:29
On Twitter, “Trash Heaps of FiDi” (@FiDiTrash) documents Downtown’s trash pile problem. Photo from Trash Heaps of FiDi FiDi, a Haven For Pedestrians? Are sidewalks in Manhattan’s Financial District too narrow for carefree strolls (or, perhaps more commonly, hurried commutes)?... News 15 Jul 2022 | 02:41
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
Congressional candidate Suraj Patel has devoted his campaign efforts to the Upper East Side as of late. Photo courtesy of Suraj Patel’s campaign Districts — and Campaigns — In Limbo The world is in a troubling state of tumult, according to third-time congressional candidate Suraj Patel — think crime rates... News 13 May 2022 | 03:32
Wil Petre introducing Social Alchemix Live at Caveat. Photo: Karen May Wil Petre Wants People to Form Connections in Person Down the stairs to Caveat, the underground bar and downtown performance space, Wil Petre is trying to make people open up.... News 01 Mar 2022 | 03:47
A map from December 2021, released by the office of then-Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer in partnership with BetaNYC, shows delivery service company locations in Manhattan. Photo: Gale Brewer’s Office How Fast Do You Need Your Groceries? Just the other week, Council Member Gale Brewer stepped foot inside an Upper West Side outpost of Gopuff, a company from... News 26 Feb 2022 | 10:16
Suraj Patel is running for the third time in Congressional District 12. Photo courtesy of Suraj Patel’s campaign Suraj Patel Announces Third Campaign for Congress Suraj Patel — an attorney, activist and business ethics lecturer at New York University — is embarking on his third run in... News 18 Feb 2022 | 11:17
Ukraianian National Home on Second Avenue. Photo: Kay Bontempo In NYC’s Little Ukraine, Anxieties Rise Over Tensions in Ancestral Homeland The recent political tension between Russia and Ukraine, widely reported in the international press, has also reverberated... News 11 Feb 2022 | 12:37
