Nurses are returning to work after ending strikes at Mount Sinai on the Upper East Side and Montefiore in the Bronx. Photo: Kay Bontemp Nurses Settle at Mount Sinai and Montefiore After 3 Day Strike Striking nurses at Mount Sinai in Manhattan and Montefiore in the Bronx reached a tentative agreement on Jan. 12, ending... News 12 Jan 2023 | 06:05
Todd J. Stein is campaigning as a community advocate. Photo courtesy of Todd J. Stein For Men Only, District Leader Race in the 76th AD Political potpourri – Welcome 2023 and all the politics that comes with it. The most hyperlocal of the political races this... Voices 30 Dec 2022 | 09:52
West Side Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal (right) and Queens State Senator Michael Gianaris advocated for a new bill banning the sale of animals in pet stores. Photo via Linda B. Rosenthal on Twitter Quart Takes the Bench ... No More Dogs for Sale ... NY Reads Taking up the gavel – UES Assembly Member Dan Quart is moving on. While still a resident of the 73rd AD, which he’s represented... Voices 19 Dec 2022 | 07:58
Jimmy Mulzet at home with his book. Photo: Zachary Weg Jimmy Mulzet’s Improbable Life of Adventure As he shows in his recent uplifting memoir, “Facing the Challenge, Beating the Odds: The Jimmy Mulzet Story” (Archway Publishing,... News 15 Dec 2022 | 12:11
Flyer for the East 67th Street Market The East 67th Street Market’s Back! To Market, To Market to Buy – as the old nursery rhyme goes, contemplates going to market to buy and sell produce. But that... Voices 04 Dec 2022 | 10:04
Guests view exhibit at Beyond the Bricks launch at Ryan’s Daughter on the Upper East Side. Photo: Karen Camela Watson Beyond the Bricks: An Art Collaboration The pub was full – the latest hotspot-on-a-Saturday-night kind of full. But this was Wednesday, and there was no dancing,... News 19 Nov 2022 | 04:26
Governor Kathy Hochul and William Hochul with Mirso Lekic (center) at Tudor City Steakhouse. Photo courtesy of Tudor City Steakhouse Highlights of a Political Season Mother knows best – Congratulations to Russell Squire who was re-elected to a second term as Chair of Community Board 8.... Voices 18 Nov 2022 | 09:34
Governor Kathy Hochul with Rep. Carolyn Maloney (right) on the Upper East Side on Election Day. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Manhattan’s Blue Tsunami Early in the morning on Election Day, Governor Kathy Hochul addressed what was shaping up to be a competitive race between... News 10 Nov 2022 | 04:17
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, after his primary win in August. Photo via Nadler’s Twitter Midterm Election Races To Watch After a long summer with not one, but two primary elections, the November 8 midterm election is now around the corner. There... News 21 Oct 2022 | 02:59
Madame Rouillé, by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr. A Gift That Keeps Giving It’s literally the chance of a lifetime to see a collection of drawings in a history-making promised gift. The Frick Collection,... City Arts 19 Oct 2022 | 11:10
Christine Donovan (right) with former Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2009. Photo courtesy of Mary Covington Living One’s Dreams in New York Restaurant opportunity in Turtle Bay – Back in January of this year the Parks Dept. issued a Request for Proposals (RFP)... Voices 09 Oct 2022 | 06:54
Jahdal Benjamin in the package room at The Andover in Yorkville. Photo: Karen Camela Watson Building Service Workers Award Honoree Jahdal Benjamin: Taking Care of Deliveries at The Andover Just past the sharply dressed doorman, through the lobby and to the left in the all-rental luxury Andover building located... People 28 Sep 2022 | 10:46
Installation view of “Pentachrome” by Michael Lin, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Paul Lachenauer, courtesy of The Met New Art in Old Places at The Met What’s an institution to do when it only has two million square feet and countless ideas? The Metropolitan Museum of Art... City Arts 27 Sep 2022 | 12:42
Myrna Socol Eisenberg’s painting, “Yellow Sky at Dawn.” Photo courtesy of Arlene Kayatt Remembering Those Who Made New York Another street, another naming – The northwest corner of East 29th St. at First Ave. is being co-named for Dr. May Edward... Voices 25 Sep 2022 | 02:45
CB8 members met over Zoom on Tuesday to discuss abortion rights. Photo: Abigail Gruskin A ‘Recipe’ For Defending Abortion Rights Marlene Fried, a reproductive rights champion and scholar, has a “recipe for activist fuel” in the battle to defend abortion... News 22 Sep 2022 | 04:22
