Governor Kathy Hochul of New York at Moynihan Train Hall on Thursday, Jun. 9, 2022 to announce the solicitation of proposals to renovate Penn Station. Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA Hochul Pushes Ahead on Penn Station Plan The Hochul administration pressed forward against continued community resistance with its plan to renovate Penn Station and... News 22 Jul 2022 | 04:29
Dr. Ashwin Vasan, the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene commissioner, presented on monkeypox at a City Council town hall on Monday, July 18. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Monkeypox Is Here Hundreds in New York City have now likely come down with a fever and body aches not caused by COVID-19. They may have suffered... News 21 Jul 2022 | 04:14
Community members attended a town hall on the UES a week after the fatal shooting of Azsia Johnson. Photo: Abigail Gruskin What’s Being Done About Guns? An Upper East Side town hall grew rowdy on Wednesday night at P.S. 77 when locals implored a panel of elected officials and... Home 08 Jul 2022 | 04:36
Sign at a May protest in Foley Square after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion on Roe v. Wade. Photo: Abigail Gruskin New York Politicians on the End of Roe v. Wade Americans across the country now face a very different world, following a Supreme Court decision on Friday morning that ends... News 24 Jun 2022 | 05:15
City Council members after passing FY 2023 budget. Photo via Gale A. Brewer on Twitter City Council Passes Record-High $101.1 Billion Budget Following a City Council vote that wrapped up late Monday evening — and a handshake agreement with Mayor Eric Adams only... News 16 Jun 2022 | 04:19
Mayor Eric Adams announced his FY 2023 preliminary budget in mid-February. Photo via the Mayor’s Office YouTube ‘Homelessness Solutions,’ Mental Health Care in Council Budget Process Budgeting the city’s spending is no small task — and it’s not one left solely to the mayor’s discretion, either. That’s why,... News 07 Apr 2022 | 02:56
Corinne Low is the co-founder and executive director of Open Hearts Initiative, a local volunteer organization. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Activists Back ‘Safe Havens’ For Homeless After Shootings In a flurry of snow and freezing temperatures last weekend, activists huddled together in Downtown Manhattan near the site... News 18 Mar 2022 | 11:07
Colleen Goddard Ph.D., expert in early childhood development. Photo courtesy of Colleen Goddard Masks, Young Children and Learning As the city opens back up (again), Mayor Eric Adams is at the helm of those eager to ditch masks and mandates, declaring... News 16 Mar 2022 | 05:36
The city honored Rupert Jee (second from left) and his business partner May Chin (holding document) with a proclamation from Mayor Eric Adams on Jan. 31, 2022 “to celebrate the Hello Deli’s contribution to the fabric of the neighborhood.” Photo courtesy of Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment America’s Deli Turns 30 “I’m probably the first deli owner to have to join the union,” said Rupert Jee, referring to the SAG-AFTRA membership he... News 21 Feb 2022 | 08:31
Photo: Office of Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine Levine’s Pillars to a Comeback On his first full day as Manhattan borough president, Mark Levine issued a detailed, 16-point plan to confront a crisis he... News 09 Jan 2022 | 10:56
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio in early December. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office De Blasio’s Vaccine Mandate Leaves Some Part-Time Workers and Small Business Owners Confused By now, most New Yorkers are aware of former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s employer vaccine mandate, which required that by December... News 07 Jan 2022 | 03:23
Mayor Eric Adams is sworn in as the 110th Mayor of New York City in Times Square minutes after midnight on Saturday, January 1, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office ‘We Are Ready for a Major Comeback’ New York is a great city to be rich in, it has been observed, and not the worst place to be poor, either. But the folks in... News 01 Jan 2022 | 06:01
Jomo Williams, candidate for City Council in District 7. Photo: Agha Haider Raza BLM on the Ballot At first glance, wearing a black tie and pants with a white shirt, Jomo Williams is reminiscent of a lawyer from England.... News 24 Oct 2021 | 10:22
Mayor Bill de Blasio at a press briefing on Tuesday, September 7, 2021. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. A Patchwork Pandemic Economy The Delta wave of COVID-19 may, just possibly, have crested in New York, but its economic disruption will be with us for... News 11 Sep 2021 | 03:06
Curtis Sliwa in the early days of the Guardian Angels. Courtesy of Curtis Sliwa. Our Town & Sliwa, Now & Then With Our Town hitting 50 year, I’m always scoping out stories where there’s some connection between the paper’s past and... Voices 30 Aug 2021 | 06:38
