When Eric Adams rolled out the $12,500 robot cop in September, he said it represented the future of hi-tech policing. The experiment was quietly scrapped. Photo: NYC Mayor’s Photography Office and NYPD Robot Cop in Times Square, a Fiasco from the Start, Quietly Gets Scrapped by NYPD When, this September, Mayor Eric Adams, flanked by police captains, unveiled the new police robot patrolling the Times-Square... Voices 09 Feb 2024 | 02:37
Kids and parents braved a driving rain to pick up free books donated by Upper West Side residents. Photo: Courtesy Gale Brewer’s City Council Office Book Fair Pulls in Over 3,000 Donated Titles for Kids The rain fell so hard it turned white on the pavement on Dec. 3 as dozens of children and their parents still lined up at... News 11 Dec 2023 | 12:44
Stephanie Hill Wilchfort is jumping to the Museum of the City of New York. as its new president from the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, where she was its president & CEO for eight years. Photo: ( Joseph Sinnott) Master Fundraiser Tapped as New Head of the Museum of the City of New York Congratulations on the job! What would you like to see the Museum of the City of New York doing that it isn’t doing right... News 03 Aug 2023 | 04:31
For the first time in more than a decade, the Whitney Museum of American Arts has a new curator-at-large as its pushes more diversity and avant garde art.. Photo: Whitney Museum of American Arts Pushing More into Avant Garde, Whitney Museum Taps Meg Onli as Curator-At-Large Congratulations on being the Whitney’s first curator-at-large in a decade. Why do you think the role’s been reinstated for... News 13 Jul 2023 | 06:18
Eleanor Williamson taught in her native Jamaica and then Canada before starting as a teacher at the Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction 14 years ago. Photo: Department of Education Developing Sense of Community Is Greatest Joy for Award Winning NYC H.S. teacher New York City public school teacher Eleanor Williamson has won the Math for America MfA Muller Award and a $20,000 prize,... News 12 Jun 2023 | 12:48
Team USA coach Don Landolphi, author of two baseball books and a former teacher and Hall of Fame baseball coach at Brooklyn College, gives the sight challenged and blind youths a pep talk before leading them onto the field. Photo: Lighthouse Guild Team USA for Blind Baseball Players Kicks off Clinic for Kids in Central Park When Ed Plumacher went blind at forty-nine years old, baseball was the last thing on his mind. Though he had loved playing... News 12 May 2023 | 04:28
