Eric Adams speaking at an August 17 press conference on his tripartite plan to convert a wide swath of unused office space into affordable housing. Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine is to his left. ( Photo via NYC Mayor’s Office) Mayors Adams Proposes New Plans to Turn Vacant Midtown Offices Into Apartments As a grim housing shortage plaguing New York has shown no signs of abatement, Mayor Eric Adams held a Tuesday, August 17... News 20 Aug 2023 | 10:59
Greenwich Village LL, which uses Pier 40 on the Hudson as its home field, kicks off the 2023 season on the fields on April 1. Photo: Office of Manhattan Borough president Mark Levine Greenwich Village Little League Kicks Off Season With Its Own Opening Day While the rest of us were getting excited about Opening Day, the youngest New Yorkers had their own fun with Greenwich Village... News 03 Apr 2023 | 04:37
Kimberly Schiller carries a shirtwaist banner with the name of one of the 146 people who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911 in the biggest fire tragedy in the city’s history. Her daughter Anna Lee carries three white roses. The victims were mostly poor Jewish and Italian immigrants. Photo: Keith J. Kelly Remembering the Victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 112 Years Later It’s been 112 years, but several hundred people gathered on the corner of Washington and Greene Streets in Greenwich Village... News 26 Mar 2023 | 05:50
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine has unleashed a sweeping housing plan that could add 70,00 new units in Manhattan to help alleviate the affordable housing crisis. The report finds 171 vacant lots that could support new housing. Boro Pres Unveils Sweeping Housing Plan, Seeks to Add 70,000 New Units Manhattan borough president Mark Levine unveiled a plan to create thousands of new apartments in Manhattan, declaring that... News 02 Feb 2023 | 09:47
The new LinkNYC 5G towers, shown without an advertising screen in the second image from the left, stand 32 feet tall. Photo via the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation 5G Towers Are Coming To Greenwich Vil and SOHO As many as nine LinkNYC 5G towers — the ones that stand at a whopping 32 feet tall — could eventually crop up in Community... News 20 Jan 2023 | 02:51
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
A rendering of what Fifth Avenue could look like, after new construction begins next year. Photo courtesy of the mayor’s office A New Vision For Fifth Avenue This winter, in a bid to encourage holiday shopping and festivities, the city transformed a stretch of Fifth Avenue from... News 21 Dec 2022 | 03:15
Democratic NY-10 candidate Daniel Goldman (left) campaigned with Attorney General Letitia James (center) and Democratic NYS Assembly candidate Grace Lee (second from right) on the Lower East Side on Election Day. Photo via Dan Goldman’s Twitter A Blue Wave Sweeps Manhattan Early in the morning on Election Day, Governor Kathy Hochul addressed what was shaping up to be a competitive race between... News 10 Nov 2022 | 06:10
From left to right: City Council Members Shaun Abreu, Erik Bottcher, Sandy Nurse, Chi Ossé and Carlina Rivera posed outside City Hall with two rats that were protesting new legislation passed on Thursday. Photo: Abigail Gruskin City Council’s ‘Rat Pack’ Says Rodents Are Ready to ‘Surrender’ In a city of millions, there’s an alarming number of unwelcome guests — ones that scurry, lurk and leap. Everyone’s seen... News 27 Oct 2022 | 05:54
Myrna Socol Eisenberg’s painting, “Yellow Sky at Dawn.” Photo courtesy of Arlene Kayatt Remembering Those Who Made New York Another street, another naming – The northwest corner of East 29th St. at First Ave. is being co-named for Dr. May Edward... Voices 25 Sep 2022 | 02:45
Dr. Ashwin Vasan, the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene commissioner, presented on monkeypox at a City Council town hall on Monday, July 18. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Monkeypox Is Here Hundreds in New York City have now likely come down with a fever and body aches not caused by COVID-19. They may have suffered... News 21 Jul 2022 | 04:14
Madison Square Garden. Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim, via Flickr Relocating Madison Square Garden? The Manhattan Borough President and key Manhattan legislators have coalesced around a call to relocate Madison Square Garden... Home 17 Jul 2022 | 01:59
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
Mayor Eric Adams briefs the media regarding a boating accident on the Hudson River on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office The Summer of Our Discontent If COVID-19, job losses, inflation, more COVID-19, gun violence, soaring rents, shrinking 401k’s, jobs going begging, more... News 13 Jul 2022 | 05:20
Community members attended a town hall on the UES a week after the fatal shooting of Azsia Johnson. Photo: Abigail Gruskin What’s Being Done About Guns? An Upper East Side town hall grew rowdy on Wednesday night at P.S. 77 when locals implored a panel of elected officials and... Home 08 Jul 2022 | 04:36
