Waiting for baby Suarez. Photo courtesy of Mandy Suarez Setting Intentions for 2021 As we embark on a New Year, I love to use this as an opportunity to reflect on the year that was and set intentions for the... Voices 06 Jan 2021 | 09:47
Nick Krkuti, one of the owners of Uncle Paul’s Pizza. Photo courtesy of Uncle Paul’s Pizza New Year’s Resolutions Head to Uncle Paul’s Pizza on Vanderbilt Ave - Fortunately, Uncle Paul’s Pizza is alive and making pizza and a full menu... Voices 03 Jan 2021 | 08:12
“Don’t worry,” my sister told me. “Sababa loves everyone.” Photo: Jaden Satenstein How My Quarantine Pup Finally Made Me a Dog Lover I was always a bit hesitant around dogs. My parents say my aversion started back when I was five years old and a big one... Voices 02 Jan 2021 | 11:47
Photo courtesy of Mona Finston The Unspoken Benefits of the Much-Maligned Mask I recall my very first face mask as if it were constructed yesterday. I cut up a thick teal colored cotton tee-shirt and... Voices 24 Dec 2020 | 11:30
New York Stock Exchange, Dec. 16, 2020. Photo: Anthony Quintano, via Flickr Wall Street Can Spare a Nickel Right now, New York City and New York state are waiting for a federal bailout that may or may not happen in the first quarter... Voices 22 Dec 2020 | 01:05
Sammy Cohen Eckstein, for whom Brad Hoylman’s bill is named. Photo: Joan Dean Introducing ‘Sammy’s Law’ Sammy’s Law - On Dec. 8, which would have been the 20th birthday of Sammy Cohen Eckstein, a 12-year-old killed by a driver... Voices 18 Dec 2020 | 05:50
Times Square, April 2020. Photo: Hrag Vartanian, via Flickr Figures of City Speech Thanks to COVID-19, there are some New York-centric references that just no longer apply. Some can be shelved temporarily,... Voices 15 Dec 2020 | 04:03
Outdoor dining. Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim, via Flickr Kicked to the Curb News of the indoor dining shutdown has put New Yorkers on tenterhooks about the all-but-imminent closures of other non-essential... Voices 09 Dec 2020 | 11:57
Sable’s Smoked Fish. Photo courtesy of Sable’s Smoked Fish. Desperately Seeking Sable’s It seemed like forever. And it was. Closed for three months, after 30 years at the same location, Sable’s the Upper Eeast... Voices 06 Dec 2020 | 02:36
David Dinkins and Rudolph Giuliani at the Mayoral debate in November 1989. | Photo by Sergio Flores/AP/Shutterstock via City & State A Tale of Two Mayors In the award-winning Broadway musical “Hamilton,” there is a haunting song performed by a few of the Founding Fathers: “Who... Voices 04 Dec 2020 | 10:18
The world’s largest Hanukkah menorah is raised by a crane in New York City on Wednesday, December 18, 2019. Photo: Itzik Roytman / Chabad.org via Flickr Hanukkah’s Gift: Eight Nights That Make us One Hanukkah is early on this year’s Jewish calendar, but it can not come fast enough. At a time that Jews are dangerously divided,... Voices 25 Nov 2020 | 02:10
Photo: BravoTV ‘Odd Mom Out’: A Pandemic View Let’s binge-watch like it’s 2015. “Odd Mom Out,” aka the UES-skewering Jill Weber (Jill Kargman) is back, this time on the... Voices 25 Nov 2020 | 02:03
Emma Savonije and Lily Leshanski. Photo: Lily and Emma Spreading the Wildlife Word Imagine learning about wildlife from two teenagers on a pandemic day on the third floor community terrace of an urban apartment... Voices 17 Nov 2020 | 03:47
Rep. Carolyn Maloney. Photo: U.S. House Office of Photography We Need to Crack Down on Anonymous Shell Companies For nearly 30 years, a 36-story office building in the heart of midtown Manhattan — around the corner from Radio City Music... Voices 12 Nov 2020 | 10:44
Photo courtesy of Efrem Sigel. It Took a Murder Trial to Get How Schools Matter I never imagined that it would take a murder trial to bring home for me the difference between high performing schools like... Voices 11 Nov 2020 | 12:24
