Photo: Office of Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine Levine Announces Community Board Appointments Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine announced his 2022 class of community board appointments – the first since taking... News 18 May 2022 | 12:30
Donation sign at the front desk of the Sustainable Fashion Community Center. Photo: Ava Manson Bring Five, Take Five It’s a Tuesday afternoon at East Harlem’s Sustainable Fashion Community Center, and tenth grader Arielle Gin is hanging up... News 13 May 2022 | 12:45
Gale Brewer (right) invited Upper West Siders in City Council District 6 to place their votes for projects to receive funding in a process known as participatory budgeting. Photo: City Council Photography UWS Votes To Fund Security Cameras, School Upgrades And New Trees Upper West Siders — over 1,700 in City Council District 6, to be precise — placed their votes in recent weeks for community... News 27 Apr 2022 | 10:41
Prototype of the mobile museum. Photo courtesy of the Office of Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright Seawright Announces Mobile Museum of Tolerance As incidents of hate crimes continue to mount, a mobile museum is coming to teach tolerance and combat antisemitism and... News 11 Mar 2022 | 11:57
An array of speakers addressed antisemitism during a virtual town hall hosted by Council Member Julie Menin on the evening of Wednesday, February 9. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Town Hall Addresses Antisemitism on Upper East Side, Citywide A virtual town hall hosted by Council Member Julie Menin on Wednesday evening drew a crowd of over 200 attendees to confront... News 11 Feb 2022 | 12:09
Thomas Perry (right) with the Rt. Rev. Clifton Daniel III, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Photo courtesy of Archives, Cathedral of St. John the Divine A Job with a Purpose to Help Those in Need “Every day, I come to work and say, ‘How do we make a difference to help someone?’” said Thomas Perry, director of Cathedral... News 10 Jan 2022 | 03:08
City Council Member Gale A. Brewer. Photo via Gale A. Brewer on Twitter Brewer Announces Participatory Budgeting Council Member Gale A. Brewer announced last week that her office will conduct a Participatory Budgeting process for the... News 07 Jan 2022 | 06:29
Kamila Myzel and Alex Jackson at a preview Ice Cream Social at the M Social Hotel. Photo: Karen Camela Watson A Sweet Idea When Alex Jackson, the new Director of Programming at M Social Hotel Times Square, heard about the financial challenges that... Home 18 Dec 2021 | 11:15
A West Side senior receives her home-delivered meal from ENCORE Community Services. Photo courtesy of ENCORE Community Services It’s Time to Help Older New Yorkers Become Food Secure In recent months, the city has coped with everything from COVID variants to unprecedented flooding. At every step, sadly,... Voices 27 Oct 2021 | 01:40
Mike and Dan Friedman with a display of Tall Order Socks. Photo courtesy of the Friedman family Twins Tower Above 9/11 Loss On September 10, 2001, the Friedman family was engrossed in Monday Night Football. 11-year-old twins Dan and Mike were camped... News 20 Sep 2021 | 09:33
Sleep-in protest at Gracie Mansion on July 22. Photo: @homehumanright, via Instagram Confusion Over Homeless Hotel Moves On Sunday, July 11, Earl, a homeless man living at the Upper West Side’s Belleclaire Hotel was notified by letter dated in... Home 24 Jul 2021 | 04:45
Rep. Jerry Nadler speaks at rally celebrating the state halting plans to build a monument honoring essential workers next to the Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City. Photo: Emily Higginbotham Essential Workers Monument on Ice Neighborhood advocates and politicians joined in an impromptu celebration at the Irish Hunger Memorial Monday afternoon after... News 14 Jul 2021 | 10:43
Corinne Low (center, in black) hosting an UWS Open Hearts Initiative send-off event outside of the Lucerne the night before the move. Photo: Wendy Strauss After the Lucerne The end of June ushered in a “bittersweet” farewell when roughly 60 men experiencing homelessness were transported by bus... News 01 Jul 2021 | 03:02
Photo courtesy of West End Fridge on Instagram An End to the West End Fridge On a humid afternoon last week, Leslie Cohen walked down the stretch of West End Avenue with bags of food in tow to donate... News 01 Jul 2021 | 08:53
The Lucerne Hotel. Photo: Alexis Gelber Shelters Closing - and Opening - on the West Side A controversial Upper West Side shelter and one that has been there for nearly two decades are leaving the community. While... News 07 Jun 2021 | 08:33
