Bella Defia shows off a finishers medal after completing the 40-mile course. Photo: Facebook 5 Boro Bike Tour Hit by Controversy By Allowing E-Bikes to Participate More than 32,000 cyclists gleefully traversed New York City, from Tribeca to Staten Island, during the 42nd Annual TD Bank... News 06 May 2024 | 02:53
Ruairí Curtin relaxes before the crowd arrives at Albert’s. Photo Courtesy of Ruairí Curtin Ruairí Curtin Brings Irish Hospitality to Upscale Gastropubs Across City When The Penrose opened in a neighborhood often considered “unhip,” owner Ruairí Curtin said people were surpised. But he... People 11 Apr 2024 | 02:20
Casa Adela on the Lower East Side is a favorite of Carlina Rivera, who represents city council district 3. Photo: Brian Berger Here’s Where Your Political Leaders Dine Across Manhattan While the life of the local politician is usually one of hard-working days and glamorous nights, they still need to eat.... News 08 Apr 2024 | 01:59
Karoline Bjerkel Grovdal, 33,of Norway break the tape to win women’s race at the NYC Half Marathon on March 17 with a time of 1:09:09 averaging 5:17 per mile. Photo: NY Roadrunners Record 27,000 Runners Kick Off ‘24 Season in NYC Half Marathon More than 27,000 runners traversed 13.1 miles on Sunday March 17, from the eastern edge of Prospect Park in Brooklyn to the... News 23 Mar 2024 | 10:50
City Council member Carlina Rivera leads a rally decrying $58 million in additional budget cuts for the city’s libraries, which have already been forced to close on Sundays. Photo: John McCarten, NYC Council Media Unit Library Leaders Rally Against Proposed $58M Budget Cuts Representatives of the city’s three public library systems—New York, Brooklyn and Queens—rallied to protest the Adams administration’s... News 18 Mar 2024 | 11:29
Under a new Greenway, bicyclists in the future would be able to drive up the Harlem River Greenway all the way to Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. Photo: Dept. of Transportation A Harlem River Greenway? Whoa! New York City cyclists—including those on Manhattan’s East Side— received good news on Monday March 11, when Department of... News 11 Mar 2024 | 04:39
The lottery for the Parks Department’s seven week summer day camp opened March 4 and runs to March 23 The seven week camps cost $500 per child for the 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. camps. Photo: NYC Parks Dept. Parks Dept Finally Opens Its Summer Day Camp Lottery After months of anxious waiting by kids and parents alike, registration for the New York City Parks Department summer camps... News 04 Mar 2024 | 02:46
About 200 protestors gathered on the steps of the Department of Education HQ on Chambers Street, calling on Chancellor David Banks to do more to confront anti-Semitism in public schools. Banks had delivered his own address on the topic only days earlier. Photo: Brian Berger Jewish Protestors Worry About Unchecked Anti-Semitism in Public School System Days after Schools Chancellor David Banks spoke at a roundtable event outlining plans to combat anti-Semitism and Islamophobia... News 07 Feb 2024 | 02:27
About 400 members of the Conde Nast union staged a one day strike against the publisher of glitzy magazines. Photo: Conde United/Instagram Wintour of their Discontent: Conde Nast Union Stages One-Day Walkout, Pickets WTC HQ Approximately 400 members of Condé Nast Union staged a one-day strike—the first ever in the company’s history— to protest... News 29 Jan 2024 | 02:31
For nearly three years, the East River Esplanade from the East 30s to the Williamsburg Bridge has been a patchwork of boarded up pathways and chopped down oak and cherry trees. But City planners say this is what the entire East River Greenway will look like when it is finally completed and runners and bikers can navigate from uptown to downtown on most of the East Side. Photo: NYC Parks Dept. Partial Reopening of East River Esplanade Welcome News to Runners and Bikers Runners and bikers rejoice! This was the feeling many felt when the news came that the East River Greenway had reopened a... News 15 Jan 2024 | 04:53
A community center called Charas/El Bohio was banished when Gregg Singer bought the former PS 64 for $3.1 million in 1999 and said he wanted to build dorms for Adelphi University on the site. But it never happened and many local activists agitate to bring back the community center. Photo: Brian Berger What’s Next Now That Singer’s Out at Former Charas/El Bohio Center? And Who’s New Owner? It’s the East Village real estate saga that seemed like it would never end: P.S. 64, later the beloved CHARAS / El Bohio... Home 07 Jan 2024 | 07:21
Steve Millington, the general manager of media hot spot Michael’s Restaurant on W. 55th St., says since his outdoor dining area is “open air,” he believes it will be spared from any dining shed rules that call for enclosed sheds to be taken down for the winter. So he’s safe, he says, at least for this year. Photo: Keith J. Kelly Confusion Reigns as DOT Goes Slow in Enforcing Dining Shed Rules Outdoor dining: it’s the controversy that comes with a side of confusion so large that, even in late 2023, nobody was sure... News 30 Dec 2023 | 10:30
Fort Hamilton, which had troops housed in temporary shelter in World Wars I and II, is the last operational Department of Defense fort in the five boroughs, housing an Army Reserve unit and a NY National Guard Army unit. Photo: Brian Berger Gimme Shelter: Why Not Here? If there’s one thing nearly all New Yorkers can agree upon, it’s that the city and federal government have not handled the... Voices 27 Dec 2023 | 09:03
Author Mark Chiusano with his just released book “The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos from Atria/One Singal Publishers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Tangoing with Author of “The Fabulist” on the Rise and Fall of George Santos When it was announced last February that Mark Chiusano was writing a book about the then-Congressman George Santos—the MAGA-loving... News 21 Dec 2023 | 02:26
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, which holds 2,400 people, was filled to capacity on Dec. 12 for the celebratory Mass following a procession for Our Lady of Guadalupe which began in the West Village and headed uptown. Photo: Brian Berger Mexicans Celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe with March From West Village to St. Patrick’s Thousands of Mexican New Yorkers and other Latinos took to the streets Dec. 12 in celebration of the feast of Our Lady of... News 15 Dec 2023 | 05:11
