Summer on The Hudson in 2023 will stretch from 59th St. to 181st St on the UES thanks to increased funding. ( (Riverside Park Conservancy)) Summer On The Hudson Returns With 300 Events, Stretching into Northern Portion of 6-Mile Long Park on West Side Summer on the Hudson is back this year offering the largest-ever season to date. The outdoor arts and culture festival now... News 22 Apr 2024 | 05:45
Pro-Palestinian protesters gather on the South Lawn at Columbia University. (Photo: Anonymous). As Campus Is Roiled by Protests, Arrests and Threats, Columbia Makes All Classes Remote Columbia University moved to make all classes remote on April 22 after the Ivy League campus was roiled by clashes tied to... News Alert 22 Apr 2024 | 10:27
The cover of ”The Lincoln Zoo.” Co-author Larry Belling died before completing the book, prompting lifelong friend and co-author Art Twain to finish on his own. The book hit on Feb. 29. Photo: Vargoice He Turns His Innate Appreciation for Animals into a Children’s Book As a teen in Oakland, California, Art Twain had over 25 animals in his garage zoo, and always stopped to save creatures that... News 22 Apr 2024 | 06:39
Construction inside the former Ascension School where the Department of Education wants to move West Prep middle school is well underway the West Side Spirit found during a recent visit even though a final vote on the pending move by the DOE won’t come until May 22. Photo Credit: Alessia Girardin. Controversy Rages as DOE Plans to Move West Prep Academy into Shut Down Catholic School Controversy is rocking West Prep Academy, an Upper West Side Middle school that the Board of Education plans to move to the... Home 22 Apr 2024 | 05:15
Madison Square Garden will be rocking this playoff season with both Knicks and Rangers in the hunt for a championship. Photo: Wikimedia Commons As Rangers and Knicks Start Post Season Journey, Can Either Win a Championship? New York sports fans haven’t experienced this kind of rapture from their hockey and basketball teams since 1994. That year,... Voices 19 Apr 2024 | 01:27
It’s all in the shorthand. Just as a baseball player would used RBI instead of “run batted in” after a hit enabled a runner on his team to cross home plate, nutritionists also have a language all their own. Photo: Wikimedia Commons How to Make a Nutritionist’s Word Salad a Little More Digestible Every profession has its own verbal shorthand. Cops abbreviate unknown suspects to “perps” short for “perpetrators.” Sportswriters... News 19 Apr 2024 | 01:15
There is a fine art to building a campfire as campers at the Nature Place Camp in Chestnut Ridge in Rockland County discover. This camp here will not find competitive sports, loudspeakers, or screens. Instead, campers get outside, explore, create, cooperate, play, and wonder. Photo: The Nature Place The Best Way To Prepare Your Kids for Summer Camp With just a few months to go until the school year ends and summer vacation starts, you want to make sure that you and your... News 19 Apr 2024 | 12:20
Author Elle Evans (left) with Elle culture writer Lauren Puckett-Pope (center) and Kathleen Harris, executive editor of Zibby Books. Photo: Lorraine Duffy Merkl Chick Lit Author Who Wrote “Wedding Issues” Under Pen Name Has Day Job: M.D. I think of myself as somewhat of a Jack of all trades but Elle Evans has me trumped by most counts. This ambitious Boston... City Arts 23 Apr 2024 | 03:59
The newest interpretive exhibit at the Tenement Museum, “Union of Hope 1869” notes the lives of Joseph and Rachel Moore, Black Americans who left rural New Jersey for a better life in New York City. Photo: Tenement Museum Tenement Museum Opens Exhibit on First Black Family That Moved into Area After Civil War We are all proud of our original heritages and those that we identify with as Manhattanites. For everyone, New York City... City Arts 22 Apr 2024 | 09:40
NYC Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch (left) and City Council Member Erik Bottcher preparing to unveil a new–and hopefully rat-proof–trash can on the corner of 9th Ave. & 43rd St., which is within Bottcher’s Hell’s Kitchen district. ( Photo by Jack Ahern ) Bottcher and Sanitation Commish Tisch Unveil New Anti-Rat Trash Bins Purportedly rat-proof public trash cans are still coming to the corners of Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, where they will... News 17 Apr 2024 | 06:25
Jean-Marie Haessle, who arrived in NYC 56 years ago from France, passed away this week, shortly after conducting what turned out to be his final interview with our reporter. Photo: Lorriane Duffy Merkl Noted Artist Who Vowed to Paint ‘Until My Last Breath’ Dies Shortly After Final Interview “I was going to be the next Van Gogh, but I found my own way.” Famed 84-year-old expressionist artist Jean-Marie Haessle... News Alert 18 Apr 2024 | 05:03
NY Times columnist Dan Barry (left) discusses the anthology “Breslin: Essential Writing,” which he compiled during a recent lecture with veteran city reporter Michael Daly at Hunter College. Photo: Matt Capowski Newspaper Men Dan Barry and Michael Daly Speak About the Legendary Jimmy Breslin “So what do we talk about?” Michael Daly asked, laughing and somewhat quietly like someone who has so much to say, he doesn’t... News 16 Apr 2024 | 09:28
The word “pickleball” is now splayed across the front of the Life Time facilities at PENN 1. ( Photo by Jack Ahern ) New Pickleball Courts Open Across From Madison Square Garden Life Time Fitness, the upscale gym behemoth that has opened eight separate spots in Manhattan, is now offering seven fresh... News 20 Apr 2024 | 04:31
When Anna Meshcheri arrived in the US from Russia, she thought she’d land a 9-to-5 office job, but when that didn’t materialize, she turned to creative pursuits and now is a fashion photographer with a studio in Times Square. Photo: Times Square Photo Studio She Combines High End Fashion Work with Keepsake Photo Shoots for Tourists Since Anna Meshcheri was once a tourist in Manhattan, she now loves offering vacation photoshoots to visitors here. The Russian... News 15 Apr 2024 | 04:26