Mayor Eric Adams receiving his second COVID-19 booster shot at City Hall on September 20, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Vaccine Angst For a brief moment we greeted those vaccines as our salvation from COVID-19, scrambling for appointments and celebrating... News 27 Nov 2022 | 10:34
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 A historic stairway, the last surviving restaurant interior designed by the noted New York artist Winold Reiss, has been... News 15 Nov 2022 | 01:02
Emergency field hospital tents in Central Park across from Mount Sinai in March 2020. Photo: Nancy Ploeger An Unhappy Anniversary for COVID-19 The anniversary of an event that has killed some 15 million people around the world, so far, would seem to cry out for a... News 11 Nov 2022 | 07:04
Signs marking a polling place on the Upper West Side during the first summer 2022 primary. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Voting While Older One of the confusing things about American elections is that the outcome is usually determined not by who people decide to... News 28 Oct 2022 | 07:17
Rendering of a redesigned Penn Station. Photo: Office of Governor Kathy Hochul Stopping Penn Redevelopment Opponents of Governor Kathy Hochul’s plan to redevelop the Penn Station neighborhood sued the state alleging that the plan... News 27 Oct 2022 | 05:59
Layla Law-Gisiko, chair of CB5’s land use, housing and zoning committee committee. Photo: Katrina Hajagos Starting Over on Penn Station Dissatisfied with current plans for redeveloping the Penn Station neighborhood, the local community board voted Thursday... News 15 Oct 2022 | 06:07
Surprise statement: City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (left) said at a Citizens Union breakfast (with moderator John Avlon) that outdoor dining should be confined to sidewalks. Photo via Adrienne Adams on Twitter Booze and Bike Lanes Nothing is ever simple in the Great City. Take the revolution in outdoor dining wrought by the pandemic. Ok, we still aren’t... News 02 Oct 2022 | 11:43
Dr. Brian Elbel, professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Photo courtesy of NYU Langone Health The COVID Endgame The end of the pandemic is in sight, the World Health Organization said last week, but only if we keep doing what needs to... News 17 Sep 2022 | 12:35
Governor Kathy Hochul provides COVID-19 update and gets a booster shot on September 7, 2022. Photo: Don Pollard / Office of Governor Kathy Hochul Anything But Normal Governor Kathy Hochul said she wants New Yorkers to feel like life is returning to normal. So to help, she lifted the requirement... News 09 Sep 2022 | 10:52
Lobby sign offers workers a chance to win football tickets as an incentive for coming into the office. Photo courtesy of GFP Real Estate When Friday is the New Saturday An existential question hangs like summer thunder clouds over Labor Day this year. Traditionally, the phrases “post-Labor... News 02 Sep 2022 | 12:45
Starbucks Reserve is going in where Longchamps once was. Photo: Michael Oreskes Saving the Starbucks Stairway Preservationists demanded that the Empire State Building and its new tenant, Starbucks, reveal their plans for an historic... News 26 Aug 2022 | 12:44
Mayor Eric Adams (right) announces a new enforcement initiative spotlighting active outdoor dining sheds in the city’s Open Restaurants program and removing abandoned sheds that were part of restaurants that have shut down. West 32nd Street and Fifth Avenue, Thursday, August 18, 2022. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. The Mayor’s Sledgehammer Mayor Eric Adams took a sledgehammer to an abandoned dining shed last week, hoping to remove one of the obstacles to permanent... News 22 Aug 2022 | 12:02
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 Winold Reiss’ Stairway Of the many glorious Manhattan restaurants he designed, all that survived to our age was that one stairway, descending graciously... News 20 Aug 2022 | 01:29
Gov. Kathy Hochul provides an update on Monkeypox during a briefing on August 3, 2022. Photo: Don Pollard/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul Misinformation and Monkeypox To start with, there is that name, Monkeypox. Just say the name and miscommunication has begun. “It got its name, monkey pox,... News 05 Aug 2022 | 02:38
Governor Kathy Hochul of New York at Moynihan Train Hall on Thursday, Jun. 9, 2022 to announce the solicitation of proposals to renovate Penn Station. Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA ( Marc A. Hermann / Metropolitan Transportation Auth) A ‘Yes, But...’ Vote on Penn Station There are days when the actions of government seem to mean the opposite of what they say. Take the “yes” vote Wednesday on... Home 28 Jul 2022 | 05:48
