Duane Reade on Broadway near 72nd Street is among the many Manhattan stores afflicted by retail theft. Photo: Alexis Gelber Taking on the Shoplifting Scourge “Customer service needed in the cough and cold department.” “Customer service needed in the hair care department.” “Customer... News 24 Jun 2022 | 02:20
Governor Kathy Hochul announces that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, with Amtrak and NJ TRANSIT, is requesting proposals to guide the Penn Station reconstruction effort outlined in the fall in the Penn Station Master Plan study. Photo: Don Pollard/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul Battle Lines Over Penn Station Once upon a rather different time, the Pennsylvania Railroad, then the nation’s second largest corporation, decided it could... News 18 Jun 2022 | 04:55
Dr. Drew Weissman and Dr. Katalin Kariko in Manhattan. Photo courtesy of Feinstein Institutes of Medical Research The Message of Messenger RNA They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round, Ira Gershwin reminded us. But that was nothing... News 10 Jun 2022 | 03:11
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
COVID testing site on the Upper West Side. Photo: Alexis Gelber A New COVID Gap Way more New Yorkers are being infected with COVID-19 these days than the official numbers report, and, compounding the challenge,... News 27 May 2022 | 01:08
A fashion tour of Harlem. Photo: Nidal Qannan Brixton Comes to Harlem They are legendary neighborhoods, an ocean apart, yet connected by parallel histories and similar challenges. Both are predominantly... News 15 May 2022 | 09:36
Dr. Dave Chokshi at a COVID briefing. Photo courtesy of Dr. Dave Chokshi A Concern Over COVID ‘Collective Amnesia’ Debra Fraser-Howze says we must not go back to a pre-pandemic normal. “We died in normal,” said Fraser-Howze, the legendary... News 12 May 2022 | 10:32
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
A new positive home test. Photo: Michael Oreskes Doctor’s Rx: Stop Testing Stop testing, said the doctor, it will be fine. In my chronicle of these plague years this may well have been the most memorable,... News 26 Apr 2022 | 10:52
A positive home test. Photo: Michael Oreskes The Case of the COVID Chronicler It had to happen eventually, right? I tell myself that, in any case. After more than two years of chronicling COVID-19 in... News 15 Apr 2022 | 02:59
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine giving out “COVID Safety Bags” at 125th Street and St. Nicholas Ave. on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Photo courtesy of Office of Mark Levine Is This the Last Wave? “I just want to acknowledge, before we even start, the level of frustration that many New Yorkers have.” This was Dr. Dara... News 10 Apr 2022 | 05:04
Screenshot of Sara Hobel, executive director of the Horticultural Society of New York, during a Zoom meeting of the Alfresco Coalition. Nature and Outdoor Dining: From Rats to Ground Bees If you think about it, even for a moment, the city’s position did not really make much sense. All those thousands of restaurants... News 02 Apr 2022 | 10:38
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
Lesley Ware (left) and Anita Durst at Art to Ware in the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Photo: Michael Oreskes Filling All Those Empty Storefronts There are hundreds of vacant storefronts darkening Manhattan streets and stalling our economic recovery. But thanks to Lesley... News 11 Mar 2022 | 12:24
