Google will be laying off close to 900 employees in the Big Apple--about 7.4 percent of the cuts being made nationally. The largest number of those being axed in NYC work at Google’s Chelsea offices on Ninth Ave. Photo: Google Maps Google, Amazon, Meta Axing Total of 2,000+ Workers in NYC Some workers at Google won’t be able to enjoy the largest rooftop park in the city, which Google opened on a site overlooking... News 30 Jan 2023 | 10:13
Governor Kathy Hochul with Rep. Carolyn Maloney (right) on the Upper East Side on Election Day. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Manhattan’s Blue Tsunami Early in the morning on Election Day, Governor Kathy Hochul addressed what was shaping up to be a competitive race between... News 10 Nov 2022 | 04:17
The playground at P.S. 11. Photo: Abigail Gruskin An Influx Of Asylum-Seeking Students — and a Community’s Response When Mario’s two children started school on Friday, October 14, they hadn’t attended a class since March — and that was in... News 04 Nov 2022 | 04:43
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, after his primary win in August. Photo via Nadler’s Twitter Midterm Election Races To Watch After a long summer with not one, but two primary elections, the November 8 midterm election is now around the corner. There... News 21 Oct 2022 | 02:59
Traffic on the West Side Highway near Hudson Yards. Photo: Abigail Gruskin The Crackdown On Loud Cars Is On A Roll Noise in New York City, like the vibrating drilling of construction or the booming sound of music coming from the apartment... News 30 Sep 2022 | 12:18
A line of parents waiting to drop off their children on the first day of school wrapped around the block at P.S. 87, on West 77th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Is This What Normal Feels Like? On paper, little about the upcoming school year felt settled in the weeks — and even days — leading up to September 8, the... Education Guide 21 Sep 2022 | 12:10
Erin Reppenhagen (left) as Miss Todd and Juliet Morris as Laetitia in the Opera Next Door’s production of “The Old Maid and the Thief.” Photo: Kathryn Tornelli What’s More NYC than an Opera on a Stoop? Opera is an art form often enjoyed in gilded halls not accessible to all. Yet last Saturday a group of talented performers... News 15 Sep 2022 | 05:29
Rep. Jerrold Nadler celebrated a landslide victory over Rep. Carolyn Maloney and attorney Suraj Patel. Photo via Nadler’s Twitter Easy Nadler Win Settles East-West Face-Off After an extra two months of campaigning, the contentious Democratic primary race in Manhattan’s newly-drawn 12th Congressional... News 26 Aug 2022 | 11:58
Incumbent State Senator Brad Hoylman has represented the current District 27 for nearly a decade. Photo courtesy of Brad Hoylman’s campaign Hoylman Campaigns In West Side District With New Lines — and a New Number State Senator Brad Hoylman, who’s represented parts of Chelsea, Midtown and the East Village for nearly a decade, is now... News 14 Jul 2022 | 02:53
NYS Assembly District 73 candidate Russell Squire (left), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (second from left), Governor Kathy Hochul (center), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (second from right) and District 76 Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright (right) on the campaign trail on the morning of the primary at East 86th Street and Second Avenue. Photo courtesy of Rebecca Seawright’s campaign Where Were the Voters? New York’s first of two summer primary elections drew to a close on Tuesday night, after a long — but extremely low-turnout... News 30 Jun 2022 | 05:46
Congressional candidate Suraj Patel has devoted his campaign efforts to the Upper East Side as of late. Photo courtesy of Suraj Patel’s campaign Districts — and Campaigns — In Limbo The world is in a troubling state of tumult, according to third-time congressional candidate Suraj Patel — think crime rates... News 13 May 2022 | 03:32
Chelsea Factory Resident Artists Leonardo Sandoval and Gregory Richardson rehearsing with their company, Music From the Sole. Photo: Joe Carrotta Chelsea Factory Welcomes Artists In From a garage built to house factory equipment in 1914, to a photographer’s studio, a dance company, then events venue, the... City Arts 08 Apr 2022 | 01:43
Headmaster Kim Smith greets students as they arrive for classes at Xavier High School in Chelsea. Photo courtesy of Xavier High School A Year in Leadership at Xavier High Kim Smith’s days are full. “One of the things I started doing my first week, and I’ve kept it up, I greet the boys when they... News 01 Apr 2022 | 04:57
Traci Johnson with “Freeform” soft sculpture. Photo: Kahdeem Prosper Traci Johnson’s ‘Safe Space’ The annual Affordable Art Fair made a return to Chelsea last week, bringing mazes of gallery booths to the Metropolitan Pavilion... News 27 Mar 2022 | 10:48
Karl Haendel, installation view of “Praise New York” at Mitchell-Innes Nash. Photo courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York An Homage to NYC’s Religious Leaders Artist Karl Haendel has been thinking about the idea of portraiture for a number of years, but as a contemporary artist,... City Arts 25 Mar 2022 | 03:01
