Men’s match at Seward Park, July 20, 2024 ( Brian Berger) New York Mini “9-Man” Chinese Volleyball Tournament Brings Mega Action—& Many Women’s Matches Too— to LES A screaming comes across the sky. It’s a red, white and blue volleyball and over the weekend of July 20 and 21— the dates... News 22 Jul 2024 | 09:09
Illustration of the Theodore Roosevelt inauguration, September 14, 1901, in the Ansley Wilcox house, Buffalo, New York. Illustration originally appeared in Nashville, Tennessean, October 13, 1901. ( Public Domain) Remembering Leon Czolgosz, the Assassin who made Teddy Roosevelt President The July 13 assassination attempt against former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, is cause to recall another act... News Alert 22 Jul 2024 | 01:51
I Heard Her Call My Name, book and cover design by Lucy Sante, a talented collage artist as well as writer. ( Penguin Press) Lucy Sante After the Egg Cracked Lucy Sante, as Ezra Pound said of poetry, is “news that stays news.” This was true during her decades as the prolific critic... News 22 Jul 2024 | 02:02
The bloody chess table as seen after the shootings on July 12. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Tompkins Square Park Chess Table Shootings Related to Drug Trade Say Cops (& Everyone) New facts have emerged in the July 12 Tompkins Square Park chess tables shootings case, that left one man shot dead in the... News 21 Jul 2024 | 02:35
Sam Mensah caught on a surveillance camera September 2023. ( NYPD) Stroller Pushing Madman Pleads Guilty to UES Assaults, Faces Five Years in the Can Violent Sam Mensah, the stroller-pushing papa behind a series of surprise attacks against Upper East Side pedestrians last... News 20 Jul 2024 | 08:21
Memorial candles to Emily Ruiz, the fourth and latest victim of the July 4 horror crash at Corlears Hook Park. She was preceded in death by Lucille Pinkney, her son Herman, and Ana Morel. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Horror Crash on July 4 at Corlears Hook Park Claims Fourth Victim A fourth victim of the alleged Corlears Hook Park drunk driving killer, Daniel Hyden, has died. The woman, 30-year-old Emily... News 15 Jul 2024 | 03:30
Production still from “Noogie’s Time To Shine:” Jim Knipfel, with his white blind person’s cane, at left. The movie’s titular star, Brandon Potter is prostate on the beach right. ( Photo: From film Noogie’s Time To Shine) Jim Knipfel: Tapping the Source of the New Indie Film, Noogie’s Time To Shine For decades, Jim Knipfel was one of the great New York City street journalists, ranking as a stylist with Djuna Barnes, Meyer... News 15 Jul 2024 | 01:51
Growing memorial to Yazmeen Williams outside 207 E. 27th St. on July 12 where her remains were discovered on July 5. A wheel chair bound suspect has been arrested and charged with her murder. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Alleged Kips Bay Killer Arrested & Held Without Bail in Murder of 31-Year-Old Woman Nothing ever good happens under scaffolding. This always irksome fact of Manhattan life turned horribly tragic on Friday July... Home 15 Jul 2024 | 12:37
Police say this is a photo of an arsonist walking on Grand St. on July 6. ( Photo: NYPD) Arsonist Torches Lower East Side Hatzalah Truck; Jewish Hate Crime Suspected A brazen but sub-competent firebug tried to set a Jewish emergency medical service vehicle aflame on Saturday evening July... News 15 Jul 2024 | 03:02
Grand Marshal and Assembly Member Charles D. Fall (left) whose district includes part of lower Manhattan as well as Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn, carries an American flag in the Independence Day parade in lower Manhattan on July 4. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Happy Birthday America! Little Known but Lively 4th of July Parade Wows Lower Manhattan Hundreds of ardent patriots gathered in Battery Park on morning of July 4 to participate in the Lower Manhattan Historical... Home 08 Jul 2024 | 12:28
NYPD wanted poster for the then unidentified Anas Selah, issued June 19. ( NYPD Transit Twitter) Man Who Threatened “Zionist” Subway Passengers, Arrested & Arraigned Anas Saleh, the would-be subway vigilante of the June 10 antisemitic protests that began at Union Square and ended outside... News 03 Jul 2024 | 02:49
Shi Yahan, in blue dress, moments before she was brutally beaten by two masked thugs outside 37 Monroe Street, Tuesday June 25, at approximately 2:08 p.m. ( NYPD) Masked Thugs Attack Chinatown Woman in Broad Daylight Beating Two masked savages brutally attacked a 58-year-old Chinese woman, Shi Yahan, on Monroe St. in in broad daylight on June 26.... News 03 Jul 2024 | 12:51
Gov. Kathy Hochul wears an MTA Pride heart shirt at the Pride Parade of June 30— the same date congestion pricing was to begin—as rainbow confetti falls all around her. ( govkathyhochul Instagram) Pride Parade Revelers Brave High Humidity as Rainbows Brighten Cloudy Skies Hundreds of thousands of sweat glazed revelers filled the streets and sidewalks from Madison Square to Christopher Street... News 03 Jul 2024 | 12:33
Left to Right: Council Members Gale Brewer, Justin Brannan, Carlina Rivera, Crystal Hudson at podium. ( Brian Berger) Brewer, Rivera Renew Fight for Library Funding at Sweaty Brooklyn Protest Scores of pro-library advocates including nine New York City Council Members braved the scorching heat and humidity late... News 25 Jun 2024 | 09:20
Map of the northern part of the Second Avenue Subway. The stations at 63rd, 72nd and 96th Streets exist. The others do not and now are being postponed yet again. ( MTA) Second Avenue Subway Construction Halted—Again Work on the Second Avenue subway has been halted—again. The alleged cause this time is Governor Kathy Hochul’s surprise... News 24 Jun 2024 | 10:58