Rupert Murdoch accepts an award from the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank, in 2015. Photo: Hudson Institute The Murdoch’s Can’t Afford to Shake Up Fox News Here we go again. When Rupert Murdoch, 92, announced he is stepping back and appointing his 52-year-old son, Lachlan Murdoch,... Voices 27 Sep 2023 | 04:38
The FDNY Emerald Society Pipe and Drums near Ground Zero on 9-11, 2023 near House 10 on Liberty St, the closest to the Twin Towers on 9/11 which lost two members of ladder 10 and 3 from engine 10 and saw the firehouse itself destroyed. It was rebuilt thanks to a $1.45 million grant from FEMA to following year. Photo: FDNY Why We Must Never Forget and Make 9-11 a National Holiday September 11th, 2001 left an indelible mark on our nation’s history. On that day, we took a solemn pledge to those who lost... Voices 15 Sep 2023 | 03:47
Front cover of the New York Press from a 2006 fashion edition. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Letters to the Editor 09.21.23 Missing the New York Press. September 2023 marks the twelfth anniversary of the demise of the original New York Press after... Voices 13 Sep 2023 | 02:10
In August 2016, Suits actress Meghan Markle starred in a photo shoot for the US version of Good Housekeeping. She had met Prince Harry a year earlier. Now her work on the drama “Suits”, pre-Duchess of Sussex fame, or infamy, is gained new attention on Netflix as the most watched streaming show ever. ( M Douchette Productions/Wikimedia Commons) Suit Yourself: The Drama “Suits” Takes on a Whole New Look the Second Time Around OK, I’m guilty. I binged Suits, the New York City-based legal procedural aka the latest Netflix sensation. When I first heard... News 08 Sep 2023 | 02:45
An Upper East Woman recalls some bittersweet memories involving Yom Kippur candles used by her mother long ago. Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Mystery of the Third Candle one Yom Kippur Long Ago Lulu, whom I called Ma, loved to light the candles. Every year when sweater weather came and the leaves weren’t so green... Voices 08 Sep 2023 | 02:04
Run DMC lead singer Darryl McDaniels performing at Madison Square Garden. Photo: MSG Entertainment Run DMC Latest to Back MSG, Urges City Council to Renew Arena’s Permit “in Perpetuity” Coming up with Run-DMC, I knew the moment we made it: the 1987 kickoff of our tour with the Beastie Boys at The World’s Most... Voices 28 Aug 2023 | 11:25
For the past four years, Ken Frydman, a one-time press secretary for Rudy Giuliani, has turned into an unrelenting critic of his recent turn. Photo: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons Figuring Out What Really Happened to Rudy Giuliani Figuring out what happened to Rudy Giuliani has been my side-job these past four years. It started with a New York Times... Voices 25 Aug 2023 | 12:34
Catherine Kassenoff, seen here with two of her three children took her own life in an assisted suicide in a Swiss clinic in May. Although she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she claimed in a final Facebook post that it was the Family Court blocking her from seeing her three children for years that triggered her decison to take her own life at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland Author Spearheads Drive to Investigate Family Court System After Suicide of Young Mother Former Democratic Manhattan Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney reached out to me via email back in June when Straus News reported... Voices 14 Aug 2023 | 12:46
A military child looks back as he makes his way up the rock climbing wall during the first Headquarters and Support Battalion Kids Boot Camp, aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. ( Photo: United States Marine Corps) Helicopter Parents Who Delayed Their Kids Development, Now May Be Paying Cruel Price In the brownstone next door, an adult is yelling at a child. They are screaming, but nobody else in the house is concerned.... News 03 Aug 2023 | 12:02
The New York Times is replacing its sports department with content from the digital sports site The Athletic, which it bought in 2022 for $550 million ( Photo: Ajay Suresh, Wikimedia Commons) Sign of the Times: Turmoil At NYT’s Sports Section Means Less Coverage of Local Teams The New York Times Co. recently made a controversial decision to replace its homegrown sports section with the Athletic,... News 04 Aug 2023 | 02:07
War Trudges On and On and On...Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers and Ukraine The recent death of Daniel Ellsberg offers an opportunity to recall what leaking The Pentagon Papers accomplished and ask... Voices 11 Jul 2023 | 10:46
As NYPD’s top cop, Keechant Sewell has overseen a decline in crime incident reports in five of the seven major crime categories in the first half of 2023. Photo: NYPD As Keechant Sewell Steps Away as Top Cop, Could Her Next Move Be a Run for Mayor? This week we agree. Normally we don’t. How about Keechant Sewell for Mayor? Mayor Adams earned kudos for choosing Sewell... Voices 29 Jun 2023 | 11:24
Letters to the Editor 07.06.23 To the Editor: Our fundamental freedoms are being attacked by the Supreme Court. The partisan right-wing majority on the bench... Voices 29 Jun 2023 | 11:59
Catherine Youssef Kassenoff plays with one of her three daughters in photos she posted on Facebook before she said she was taking her own life on May 27 because she said NY Family Court would not let her spend time with her three daughters. She was in the midst of a bitter divorce from her husband. Photo: Facebook Tragic Suicide of NY Lawyer Shines Unforgiving Light on Family Court System Last month when a former federal prosecutor and special counsel to Governors Cuomo and Hochul posted a chilling suicide note... News 12 Jun 2023 | 01:41
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
