It’s been more than a decade since the 2012 Super Bowl winning NY Giants became the last NY area pro team to be honored with a parade down the Canyon of Heroes. Photo: Wikipedia Commons Which NY Pro Team Will Bring Next Champ Trophy to Gotham? To the dismay of New York sports fans, no local pro team has hoisted a championship trophy and been feted with a ticker tape... News 15 Jan 2023 | 10:49
Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan issue health guidance ahead of the holiday season. City Hall, Tuesday, December 20, 2022. Photo: Caroline Willis/Mayoral Photography Office Bypassing the Bivalent Booster If the Great City were granted one holiday wish it should probably be this: All we want for Christmas is for everyone to... News 28 Dec 2022 | 09:19
Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams at announcement for New New York panel’s action plan. Photo: Don Pollard / Office of Governor Kathy Hochul ( Don Pollard) Penn Station and the New New York Governor Kathy Hochul was told by a key legislator that she must come up with a new plan for rebuilding Penn Station and... News 15 Dec 2022 | 03:33
Mayor Eric Adams announces a new pathway forward to address the ongoing crisis of individuals experiencing severe mental illnesses left untreated and unsheltered in NYC streets and subways. City Hall, November 29, 2022. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. Action, Care and Compassion: My Administration’s Approach to Addressing Severe Mental Illness Our city is facing a crisis. New Yorkers with severe and untreated mental illness are living out in the open, on our streets... Voices 06 Dec 2022 | 03:25
Mayor Eric Adams (right) announces a new enforcement initiative spotlighting active outdoor dining sheds in the city’s Open Restaurants program and removing abandoned sheds that were part of restaurants that have shut down. West 32nd Street and Fifth Avenue, Thursday, August 18, 2022. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. The Mayor’s Sledgehammer Mayor Eric Adams took a sledgehammer to an abandoned dining shed last week, hoping to remove one of the obstacles to permanent... News 22 Aug 2022 | 12:02
Gov. Kathy Hochul provides an update on Monkeypox during a briefing on August 3, 2022. Photo: Don Pollard/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul Misinformation and Monkeypox To start with, there is that name, Monkeypox. Just say the name and miscommunication has begun. “It got its name, monkey pox,... News 05 Aug 2022 | 02:38
A lifeguard monitors the Hamilton Fish Pool on the Lower East Side amid nationwide staffing shortages. Photo: NYC Parks / Daniel Avila The Lifeguard Shortage of 2022 The 2022 outdoor pool season started with a splash. Specifically, a splash from NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue as she... News 29 Jun 2022 | 12:33
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine handing out meals, COVID tests, masks and sanitizers in Morningside Heights, June 2, 2022. Photo: Mark D. Levine on Twitter Where is My Paxlovid? Her healthy, 29-year-old nephew in Michigan got Paxlovid when he came down with COVID-19. So did several of her friends,... News 03 Jun 2022 | 03:42
Charlotte showing how she’s cleaned up the subways as mayor. Ilustrator: Ena Hodzic. Photo courtesy of Lese Dunton If I Were Mayor: Ideas From the City’s Most Innovative Leaders I had the honor of meeting the most imaginative and innovative new leaders of New York. They are forward-thinking, creative... Voices 21 May 2022 | 05:44
Dance Parade participants. Photo: Jim Casler One Big Dance Parade This is just what New York City needs right now – music and dance and color as thousands of dancers shimmy and leap and tango... News 15 May 2022 | 10:11
Crowd outside of the Met Gala on Monday, May 2, 2022, which New York City Mayor Eric Adams attended. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office COVID, COVID Everywhere If it feels as if everyone around you has been getting COVID-19, that is probably because, epidemiologically speaking, they... News 08 May 2022 | 08:36
The new rooftop park at Pier 57. Photo courtesy of Pier 57 Pier 57: NYC’s Newest and Largest Rooftop Park On Monday, April 18, Governor Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams, Hudson River Park Trust President & CEO Noreen Doyle, RXR CEO... News 21 Apr 2022 | 09:48
Dr. Daniel Baker, medical director of Lenox Hill Hospital, speaking at the one-year anniversary of COVID during a day of remembrance, thanking the staff for their selfless service. Photo: Northwell Health COVID Spring’s Hard Choices Perhaps it is the legacy of all the loss he and his colleagues have endured that the number zero – the absence of anything... News 26 Mar 2022 | 05:15
Kadiatou Diallo, holding a photo of her son Amadou Diallo. Photo: Michael Oreskes ‘Aggressive Policing is Something I Totally Oppose’ “My hope,” the mom said gently, “is that history will not be repeated.” Kadiatou Diallo is talking about that horrifying moment... News 20 Mar 2022 | 03:22
Mayor Eric Adams makes a pandemic-related announcement in Times Square on Friday, March 4, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office ‘It’s Time to Open Our City’ For a moment in his State of the Union Address, Joe Biden seemed to be speaking directly to Manhattan. “It’s time for Americans... News 05 Mar 2022 | 01:22
