Ferry Father Mychal Judge ablaze, August 29, 2024, with “Lady Liberty” behind. ( Photo: X @DSignore) Fire Erupts on Ferry Fr. Mychal Judge; FDNY and Ferry Frank Sinatra Rescue Passengers and Crew Black smoke billowing into bright blue sky in late summer—this was the most striking image taken of fire aboard the NYC Waterway... Home 30 Aug 2024 | 03:10
NYPD leading the line of march. ( @NYPDDesi Instagram) India Day Parade Transcends Disputes to Delight of Thousands Along Madison Ave. Route Madison Avenue came alive as thousands of celebrants took to the streets for the 2024 India Day Parade on Sunday August 18.... News 26 Aug 2024 | 11:00
A proud co-parent, Grubbs shows off the three lp vinyl box version of Gastr del Sol We Have Dozens of Titles. ( Photo: David Grubbs @blackfaurest Instagram) David Grubbs: This Indeed Is Music! “The American poets,” proclaimed Walt Whitman in the first, epochal 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, “are to enclose old... News 19 Aug 2024 | 08:25
Manhattan Bridge Plaza, south side, August 16, 2024. ( Brian Berger) Adams Addresses Manhattan Bridge Plaza Shantytown: “You Can’t Do It One and Done” It’s easier to build a shantytown than to take it down. This—according to both Our Town Downtown observation and recent comments... News 18 Aug 2024 | 06:42
Tania Kinsella in yellow NYPD Running Club singlet at the Percy Sutton 5K Run. ( X @NYPDFirstDep) Harlem Week 2024 Is Now More Than 7 Days Long — Huzzah! Drop me off in Harlem! This is the ecstatic call of all those who knew the classic 1933 Duke Ellington song of that name—later... News 12 Aug 2024 | 04:18
Tent City South, Manhattan Bridge Plaza, July 31, 2024. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Manhattan Bridge Plaza Homeless Do as They Please — Despite Repeated Efforts to Remove Them This is a tale of two tent cities—one on either side of the Manhattan Bridge Plaza. Or you might call it a shantytown—this... Home 12 Aug 2024 | 03:55
The Mayoral phalanx, with First Deputy NYPD Commissioner Tania Kinsela to Hizzoner’s left. ( X @NYCMayor) Dominican Day Parade Delights Many Before Route Crashing Rowdies Ruin It for All Hundreds of thousands of red, white and blue adorned spectators and participant crowded 6th Avenue from the 30s to Central... Home 12 Aug 2024 | 01:57
Venezuela Quiere Libertad y Paz: Venezuela wants freedom and peace. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Venezuelan New Yorkers Protest Election Results in Homeland—Decry President Maduro’s “Fraud” & “Oppression” Hundreds of impassioned Venezuelan New Yorkers converged on Union Square Saturday Aug. 3 to protest the fiercely disputed... News 05 Aug 2024 | 11:39
Summer Streets is back with closures for three weekends in Manhattan in August. ( Photo: DOT) Summer Streets 2024 Takes Manhattan Ring-a-ding-ding!! Ring-a-ding-ding!! That’s not the title—twice repeated— of the classic 1961 Frank Sinatra album but rather... News 05 Aug 2024 | 11:24
John Strausbaugh: The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned ( Public Affairs Books) John Strausbaugh: The Cosmonautical Eye “Sputniks and muttniks flying everywhere. They’re so ironic, are they atomic? Those funny missiles have got me scared!” So... News 05 Aug 2024 | 09:32
Migrant Violence: 2 Arrested, 1 on Lam for Kicking Cop Outside 8th Ave Hotel; 2 Others in Guilty Pleas for Times Sq Brawl The Strip of Despair—that long, often lawless swath of 8th Avenue from the upper 20s just below Madison Square Garden to... News 01 Aug 2024 | 06:16
From page of New York World June 15, 1904 ( New York World) Remembering the General Slocum Disaster 120 Years Later If one were to make a 1970s-style disaster movie about old New York, the 1904 burning of the ferry boat PS General Slocum... Voices 30 Jul 2024 | 07:16
So I Dub Thee Unforgiven: Surveillance photo of the suspected Temple Emanu-El vandal. ( NYPD) Temple Emanu-El Graffiti Vandal in Metallica T-shirt Sought by Cops Call it a heavy metal blunder. A likely anti-Semite in a black Metallica t-shirt defaced Temple Emanu-El on 1 East 65th Street... News 29 Jul 2024 | 05:40
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) Teen Busted for Baseball Bat Beating of Chinatown Woman; Partner in Attack Still on Lam One of the two thugs sought for the brutal June 15 attack on 58-year-old Shi Yanan on Monroe Street, on the edge of Chinatown,... News 29 Jul 2024 | 03:45
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
