Letters to the Editor Dear Editor: Thank you Madeline Farr for your thoughtful coverage of our recent Combating Antisemitism: A Community Town Hall... Voices 25 Aug 2025 | 12:32
A youngster sits in the front seat of a police cruiser and gets to sound the siren at the National Night Out event staged by the 19th Precinct at St. Catherine’s Park on the UES. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Kids, Politicos, and of Course Police, Mark National Night Out on the East Side Local residents were lining up at the gates of St. Catherine’s Park long before the 4pm start of the 19th Precinct’s National... News 11 Aug 2025 | 10:54
Pro-Palestine demonstrations, such as this one outside the United Nations on July 29, have become a regular occurrence as Israel steps up its military campaign in Gaza and is accused to denying aid from reaching a starving popultion. ( Photo: Madeline Farr) Antisemitism on the Rise and So Is Condemnation of Israeli Actions in Gaza Recent events in the Gaza strip have deepened local divides regarding Israel and Palestine even as local leaders protest... Voices 10 Aug 2025 | 04:54
Upper East Side State Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright says that she will be holding an event to address antisemitism on Tuesday, July 29. ( Photo: Rebecca Seawright) Rebecca Seawright to Hold Town Hall on Antisemitism Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright is putting on a town hall “to address the nationwide rise in antisemitism,” her office... News 25 Jul 2025 | 05:24
State Assmembly Member Rebecca Seawright is touting new bills that will streamline aging-at-home and other eldercare programs for seniors statewide, including in her Upper East Side district, which has one of the highest concentrations of seniors in the city. ( Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Seawright Heralds Passage of Bills That Streamline Elder Care Upper East Side State Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright is touting two freshly passed bills that she says will streamline... News 08 Jun 2025 | 06:49
CB8 members met over Zoom on Tuesday to discuss abortion rights. Photo: Abigail Gruskin A ‘Recipe’ For Defending Abortion Rights Marlene Fried, a reproductive rights champion and scholar, has a “recipe for activist fuel” in the battle to defend abortion... News 22 Sep 2022 | 04:22
Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright at Gov. Kathy Hochul’s bill signing event for the first step in a constitutional amendment. Photo courtesy of the Office of Rebecca Seawright Fighting Against a ‘Supreme Setback’ Stunned, devastated, fearful, and outraged were just some of the reactions shared with me on that Friday in June when the... Voices 13 Jul 2022 | 03:41
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
District Leader Rebecca Weintraub on the Upper East Side. Photo courtesy of Rebecca Weintraub New York State Needs an Equality Amendment Before the end of this year’s state legislative session, lawmakers took important steps to shore up abortion access in New... Voices 26 Jun 2022 | 05:07
Protesters in Washington Square Park on June 24. Photo: Leah Foreman Grief and Anger Over Roe June 24 felt like a usual Friday at first. The summer air hot, yet welcoming. The birds chirping, the horns honking, the... News 25 Jun 2022 | 12:36
Sign at a May protest in Foley Square after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion on Roe v. Wade. Photo: Abigail Gruskin New York Politicians on the End of Roe v. Wade Americans across the country now face a very different world, following a Supreme Court decision on Friday morning that ends... News 24 Jun 2022 | 05:15
New congressional districts. Photo: davesredistricting.org The Fur Flies in the 12th CD Is it East v. West or West v. East? – The fur’s begun to fly. West Siders are incensed at my assuming, in last week’s column,... Voices 05 Jun 2022 | 02:51
Prototype of the mobile museum. Photo courtesy of the Office of Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright Seawright Announces Mobile Museum of Tolerance As incidents of hate crimes continue to mount, a mobile museum is coming to teach tolerance and combat antisemitism and... News 11 Mar 2022 | 11:57
NYS Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright in the Assembly Chamber presenting a proclamation to Sarah Weddington in 2019. Photo: Haley Hershenson Seawright: A Tribute to Sarah Weddington Sarah Weddington, the attorney who argued and won the Roe v. Wade case before the Supreme Court, died at her home in Austin,... News 27 Dec 2021 | 03:36
Center left to right: Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Howard Teich at a ceremony on Nov. 9, 2021 honoring Women’s Veterans Day at the Women’s Flagstaff and Grove in Central Park. Photo: Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of the Governor Honoring Women of Service Ahead of Veterans Day, New York State Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright presented the “Exceptional Women in Service Award”... News 10 Nov 2021 | 01:49
