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 ( Marc A. Hermann / Metropolitan Transportation Auth) A ‘Yes, But...’ Vote on Penn Station There are days when the actions of government seem to mean the opposite of what they say. Take the “yes” vote Wednesday on... News 28 Jul 2022 | 05:48
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
Madison Square Garden. Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim, via Flickr Relocating Madison Square Garden? The Manhattan Borough President and key Manhattan legislators have coalesced around a call to relocate Madison Square Garden... News 17 Jul 2022 | 01:59
Mayor Eric Adams briefs the media regarding a boating accident on the Hudson River on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office The Summer of Our Discontent If COVID-19, job losses, inflation, more COVID-19, gun violence, soaring rents, shrinking 401k’s, jobs going begging, more... News 13 Jul 2022 | 05:20
Banner at 96th Street and Broadway. Photo courtesy of Say Their Names Vigil Letters to the Editor Cartoons by Marc Bilgrey I just LOVE Marc Bilgrey’s tongue-in-cheek cartoons that always capture the essence of New York life.... Letters to the Editor 06 Jul 2022 | 10:46
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
