Patient Kayla with Professor. (Photo: Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital) Providing Some Fun in a Child’s Hospital Stay For the kids at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital, having to undergo medical treatment can have a bright side because... News 03 Aug 2020 | 09:55
Council Member Keith Powers (left) and Assembly Member Dan Quart (right) on the East Side on July 29, 2020. (Photo: Assembly Member Dan Quart on Twitter, @AMDanQuart) Powers Pushes to Help Small Businesses As New Yorkers continue to struggle to get by during the pandemic and businesses are barely surviving, one elected official... News 02 Aug 2020 | 02:18
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo created a poster to depict the “mountain” of New York’s COVID experience. (Photo: Don Pollard / Office of Andrew M. Cuomo) New York’s State of Anxiety Megadoses of anxiety have always been essential to the New York state of mind. But this really does feel different. Existential... News 01 Aug 2020 | 02:55
The Belleclaire Hotel on Broadway. Photo: Eden, Jim and Janine, via flickr Hotels for the Homeless Spark New Controversy Since March, hotels on the Upper West Side have been closed to regular bookings due to the pandemic. In an effort to protect... News 31 Jul 2020 | 06:47
Letters to the Editor The Unseen Electorate In the midst of a renewed civil rights movement and a devastating pandemic, one of the best actions... News 28 Jul 2020 | 12:14
J.J. Pinckney’s “2511 Atlantic Ave” (mix medium on wood). (Photo courtesy of J.J. Pinckney) An Artistic Reckoning in Chelsea As race and inequity are brought to the fore in every aspect of the American social fabric — major league sports, media institutions,... News 28 Jul 2020 | 11:05
Peggy Rey and Wilfredo Salaman. (Photo: Emily Higginbotham) Pandemic Roommates Peggy Rey says not many people understand her friendship with Wilfredo Salaman. Rey is a 76-year-old former childcare provider.... News 27 Jul 2020 | 12:56
Commissioner Anne del Castillo at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019. (Photo: NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment) After NYC Went into Culture Shock, She Had to Pick Up Its Pieces Before COVID hit, there were 80 TV shows and 300 films being made in the city annually. That is just one of many staggering... News 27 Jul 2020 | 09:28
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a coronavirus (COVID-19) briefing at the White House on April 22, 2020. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead) Verifying Valuable Vaccines Suppose they made a vaccine and no one would take it? A raft of recent polls show that’s not impossible. In fact, if Operation... News 24 Jul 2020 | 09:47
Atlas staying safe. Photo: Brenda Rezak Word on the Street If you look out the window, you may see the sun By Elizabeth Haller-Walsh If you look out the window, you may see the sun Trees,... News 22 Jul 2020 | 04:57
Rep. Carolyn Maloney. ( Photo: U.S. House Office of Photography) Ballot Bonanza Traditionally, with election night comes a deep exhale. For candidates and staffers, it’s the culmination of many months... News 20 Jul 2020 | 04:54
Left to right: Professor Mark Siddall and President Ellen Futter of the American Museum of Natural History with former President Jimmy Carter, at the 2015 AMNH exhibition from the Carter Center. ( Photo: American Museum of Natural History) The Next COVID Challenge New York has used up the margin of safety it built this spring to contain the coronavirus. That is a blunt way to describe... News 19 Jul 2020 | 02:51
Instructor Rachel Eisenman offers a Strength and Motion class. ( Photo courtesy of Project FIND) Senior Centers Find Success in Remote Programming Al Kirchen, 88, was in his bathroom when he almost slipped. “It was automatic, my body went into a way that I prevented the... News 17 Jul 2020 | 10:21
