A Chinatown tenant group, protesting the proposed rent hike for stabilized units during a public comment hearing on June 12th. They bore signs reading “Adams Wants To Raise The Rent: Rent Rollback Now”. ( Photo via Rent Guidelines Board Zoom ) Tenants & Landlords Fight Over Proposed Rent Hikes At RGB Public Comment Meeting During a public comment meeting of the Rent Guidelines Board on Monday, June 12th, landlords, tenants, and politicians patiently... News 14 Jun 2023 | 03:58
Lori Zabar’s book, published in May. Photo via Zabar’s Instagram. Lox of Love for Zabar’s Zabar’s customers have their favorites. An onion bagel with nova, capers, red onion and scallion cream cheese. A cinnamon... News 09 Sep 2022 | 04:14
Doorway for Westbeth Artists Community. Photo: Elisa.rolle, via Wikimedia Commons Living the Westbeth Life “[It is] really the best, greatest moment of your life.” After decades on a waitlist, residents like Karen Santry recall a... City Arts 17 Aug 2022 | 06:09
Good Neighbor award winners with Goddard Riverside Executive Director Rod Jones (right). Photo: Zoe Kava How to Be a Good Neighbor Community members gathered in the Phelps Garden at Goddard Riverside Community Center on Monday to celebrate the annual “Good... News 27 Jul 2022 | 12:27
Banner at 96th Street and Broadway. Photo courtesy of Say Their Names Vigil ‘Say Their Names’: A Vigil’s Second Anniversary The intersection on 96th and Broadway isn’t just any ordinary intersection. If you pass by on a Friday afternoon at five... News 24 Jun 2022 | 10:13
Packing bags is part of the experience. Photo courtesy of Gale Brewer’s Office Fresh Food for Seniors Fresh Food For Seniors, a program that connects seniors with local farmers and fresh regionally grown produce, will return... News 17 Jun 2022 | 09:33
Photo: Office of Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine Levine Announces Community Board Appointments Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine announced his 2022 class of community board appointments – the first since taking... News 18 May 2022 | 12:30
Donation sign at the front desk of the Sustainable Fashion Community Center. Photo: Ava Manson Bring Five, Take Five It’s a Tuesday afternoon at East Harlem’s Sustainable Fashion Community Center, and tenth grader Arielle Gin is hanging up... News 13 May 2022 | 12:45
Gale Brewer (right) invited Upper West Siders in City Council District 6 to place their votes for projects to receive funding in a process known as participatory budgeting. Photo: City Council Photography UWS Votes To Fund Security Cameras, School Upgrades And New Trees Upper West Siders — over 1,700 in City Council District 6, to be precise — placed their votes in recent weeks for community... News 27 Apr 2022 | 10:41
Prototype of the mobile museum. Photo courtesy of the Office of Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright Seawright Announces Mobile Museum of Tolerance As incidents of hate crimes continue to mount, a mobile museum is coming to teach tolerance and combat antisemitism and... News 11 Mar 2022 | 11:57
An array of speakers addressed antisemitism during a virtual town hall hosted by Council Member Julie Menin on the evening of Wednesday, February 9. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Town Hall Addresses Antisemitism on Upper East Side, Citywide A virtual town hall hosted by Council Member Julie Menin on Wednesday evening drew a crowd of over 200 attendees to confront... News 11 Feb 2022 | 12:09
Thomas Perry (right) with the Rt. Rev. Clifton Daniel III, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Photo courtesy of Archives, Cathedral of St. John the Divine A Job with a Purpose to Help Those in Need “Every day, I come to work and say, ‘How do we make a difference to help someone?’” said Thomas Perry, director of Cathedral... News 10 Jan 2022 | 03:08
City Council Member Gale A. Brewer. Photo via Gale A. Brewer on Twitter Brewer Announces Participatory Budgeting Council Member Gale A. Brewer announced last week that her office will conduct a Participatory Budgeting process for the... News 07 Jan 2022 | 06:29
Kamila Myzel and Alex Jackson at a preview Ice Cream Social at the M Social Hotel. Photo: Karen Camela Watson A Sweet Idea When Alex Jackson, the new Director of Programming at M Social Hotel Times Square, heard about the financial challenges that... Home 18 Dec 2021 | 11:15
A West Side senior receives her home-delivered meal from ENCORE Community Services. Photo courtesy of ENCORE Community Services It’s Time to Help Older New Yorkers Become Food Secure In recent months, the city has coped with everything from COVID variants to unprecedented flooding. At every step, sadly,... Voices 27 Oct 2021 | 01:40
