A fashion tour of Harlem. Photo: Nidal Qannan Brixton Comes to Harlem They are legendary neighborhoods, an ocean apart, yet connected by parallel histories and similar challenges. Both are predominantly... News 15 May 2022 | 09:36
Dr. Dave Chokshi at a COVID briefing. Photo courtesy of Dr. Dave Chokshi A Concern Over COVID ‘Collective Amnesia’ Debra Fraser-Howze says we must not go back to a pre-pandemic normal. “We died in normal,” said Fraser-Howze, the legendary... News 12 May 2022 | 10:32
Crowd outside of the Met Gala on Monday, May 2, 2022, which New York City Mayor Eric Adams attended. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office COVID, COVID Everywhere If it feels as if everyone around you has been getting COVID-19, that is probably because, epidemiologically speaking, they... News 08 May 2022 | 08:36
A new positive home test. Photo: Michael Oreskes Doctor’s Rx: Stop Testing Stop testing, said the doctor, it will be fine. In my chronicle of these plague years this may well have been the most memorable,... News 26 Apr 2022 | 10:52
A positive home test. Photo: Michael Oreskes The Case of the COVID Chronicler It had to happen eventually, right? I tell myself that, in any case. After more than two years of chronicling COVID-19 in... News 15 Apr 2022 | 02:59
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine giving out “COVID Safety Bags” at 125th Street and St. Nicholas Ave. on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Photo courtesy of Office of Mark Levine Is This the Last Wave? “I just want to acknowledge, before we even start, the level of frustration that many New Yorkers have.” This was Dr. Dara... News 10 Apr 2022 | 05:04
Screenshot of Sara Hobel, executive director of the Horticultural Society of New York, during a Zoom meeting of the Alfresco Coalition. Nature and Outdoor Dining: From Rats to Ground Bees If you think about it, even for a moment, the city’s position did not really make much sense. All those thousands of restaurants... News 02 Apr 2022 | 10:38
Dr. Daniel Baker, medical director of Lenox Hill Hospital, speaking at the one-year anniversary of COVID during a day of remembrance, thanking the staff for their selfless service. Photo: Northwell Health COVID Spring’s Hard Choices Perhaps it is the legacy of all the loss he and his colleagues have endured that the number zero – the absence of anything... News 26 Mar 2022 | 05:15
Kadiatou Diallo, holding a photo of her son Amadou Diallo. Photo: Michael Oreskes ‘Aggressive Policing is Something I Totally Oppose’ “My hope,” the mom said gently, “is that history will not be repeated.” Kadiatou Diallo is talking about that horrifying moment... News 20 Mar 2022 | 03:22
Lesley Ware (left) and Anita Durst at Art to Ware in the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Photo: Michael Oreskes Filling All Those Empty Storefronts There are hundreds of vacant storefronts darkening Manhattan streets and stalling our economic recovery. But thanks to Lesley... News 11 Mar 2022 | 12:24
Mayor Eric Adams makes a pandemic-related announcement in Times Square on Friday, March 4, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office ‘It’s Time to Open Our City’ For a moment in his State of the Union Address, Joe Biden seemed to be speaking directly to Manhattan. “It’s time for Americans... News 05 Mar 2022 | 01:22
Mayor Eric Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul announce the subway safety plan at the Fulton Street subway station on Friday, February 18, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office A City on Edge The West Sider was in a hurry to get home from her office in Times Square. “My thing is to get the heck out of the subway... News 26 Feb 2022 | 05:08
New outdoor dining structure going up on East 18th St., Feb. 12, 2022. Photo: Peter Burka, via Flickr Alfresco Forever Jane Jacobs stressed the value of eyes on the street to bind the neighborhood and keep it safe. What would the great urbanist... News 19 Feb 2022 | 12:42
Governor Kathy Hochul holds a COVID-19 briefing in New York City on February 9, 2022. Photo: Don Pollard / Office of the Governor Ending Mask Mandates Governor Kathy Hochul made it clear she was following more than just the science. “Everybody I could think of received a phone... News 13 Feb 2022 | 10:42
Mayor Eric Adams visits P.S. 60 Alice Austen School on Staten Island on January 7, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office The Public School Challenge To grasp the scale of disruption COVID-19 has wrought on the public schools, consider this one number: 16,916 students have... Education Guide 04 Feb 2022 | 06:06
