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
A CB8 meeting to discuss the future of the Knickerbocker Greys attracted a record number of attendees. Photo: Abigail Gruskin UES Rallies Behind The Knickerbocker Greys A fiery Community Board 8 Youth, Education and Libraries Committee meeting shattered attendance records of recent memory... News 29 Apr 2022 | 05:10
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
New Council Member Julie Menin (at podium) met with New York City Department of Sanitation officials on January 12 to announce the allocation of $120,000 in the city’s fiscal year budget to increase litter basket pickups in her district. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Julie Menin’s Early Days as Council Member On the second day of the new year, now-Council Member Julie Menin took to Twitter to announce that she and her 3-year-old... News 20 Jan 2022 | 05:00
Council Member Julie Menin (second from right) with NYPD officials inspecting barricades around Carl Schurz Park and East End Avenue. Photo: Office of Council Member Julie Menin Down Come the Barricades Barricades on East End Avenue, as well as in and around Carl Schurz Park and Gracie Mansion, have long plagued Upper East... News 14 Jan 2022 | 06:44
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
Menin Announces Participatory Budgeting Council Member Julie Menin announced an allocation of one million dollars to continue participatory budgeting for Council... News 07 Jan 2022 | 11:27
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... News 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
Mike and Dan Friedman with a display of Tall Order Socks. Photo courtesy of the Friedman family Twins Tower Above 9/11 Loss On September 10, 2001, the Friedman family was engrossed in Monday Night Football. 11-year-old twins Dan and Mike were camped... News 20 Sep 2021 | 09:33
Sleep-in protest at Gracie Mansion on July 22. Photo: @homehumanright, via Instagram Confusion Over Homeless Hotel Moves On Sunday, July 11, Earl, a homeless man living at the Upper West Side’s Belleclaire Hotel was notified by letter dated in... Home 24 Jul 2021 | 04:45
Rep. Jerry Nadler speaks at rally celebrating the state halting plans to build a monument honoring essential workers next to the Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City. Photo: Emily Higginbotham Essential Workers Monument on Ice Neighborhood advocates and politicians joined in an impromptu celebration at the Irish Hunger Memorial Monday afternoon after... News 14 Jul 2021 | 10:43
Screenshot of New York State Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright addressing the CB8 board. The Shadow Pandemic Community Board 8’s Women and Families Committee met via Zoom to speak about the rising rates of Domestic and Intimate Partner... News 17 Jun 2021 | 11:23
Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright. Photo: Andre Beckles Seawright, Expert Panel to Discuss Domestic Violence Manhattan’s Community Board 8 will be putting on a virtual panel discussion Tuesday, June 15 to address a rise of domestic... News 11 Jun 2021 | 12:16
