Dr. Brian Elbel, professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Photo courtesy of NYU Langone Health The COVID Endgame The end of the pandemic is in sight, the World Health Organization said last week, but only if we keep doing what needs to... News 17 Sep 2022 | 12:35
Governor Kathy Hochul provides COVID-19 update and gets a booster shot on September 7, 2022. Photo: Don Pollard / Office of Governor Kathy Hochul Anything But Normal Governor Kathy Hochul said she wants New Yorkers to feel like life is returning to normal. So to help, she lifted the requirement... News 09 Sep 2022 | 10:52
Lobby sign offers workers a chance to win football tickets as an incentive for coming into the office. Photo courtesy of GFP Real Estate When Friday is the New Saturday An existential question hangs like summer thunder clouds over Labor Day this year. Traditionally, the phrases “post-Labor... News 02 Sep 2022 | 12:45
Starbucks Reserve is going in where Longchamps once was. Photo: Michael Oreskes Saving the Starbucks Stairway Preservationists demanded that the Empire State Building and its new tenant, Starbucks, reveal their plans for an historic... News 26 Aug 2022 | 12:44
Mayor Eric Adams (right) announces a new enforcement initiative spotlighting active outdoor dining sheds in the city’s Open Restaurants program and removing abandoned sheds that were part of restaurants that have shut down. West 32nd Street and Fifth Avenue, Thursday, August 18, 2022. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. The Mayor’s Sledgehammer Mayor Eric Adams took a sledgehammer to an abandoned dining shed last week, hoping to remove one of the obstacles to permanent... News 22 Aug 2022 | 12:02
May 2009 photograph by C. Ford Peatross, staircase, former Restaurant Longchamps # 12, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street (Empire State Building), opened 1938. Photo courtesy of C. Ford Peatross Winold Reiss’ Stairway Of the many glorious Manhattan restaurants he designed, all that survived to our age was that one stairway, descending graciously... News 20 Aug 2022 | 01:29
Gov. Kathy Hochul provides an update on Monkeypox during a briefing on August 3, 2022. Photo: Don Pollard/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul Misinformation and Monkeypox To start with, there is that name, Monkeypox. Just say the name and miscommunication has begun. “It got its name, monkey pox,... News 05 Aug 2022 | 02:38
Governor Kathy Hochul of New York at Moynihan Train Hall on Thursday, Jun. 9, 2022 to announce the solicitation of proposals to renovate Penn Station. Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA ( Marc A. Hermann / Metropolitan Transportation Auth) A ‘Yes, But...’ Vote on Penn Station There are days when the actions of government seem to mean the opposite of what they say. Take the “yes” vote Wednesday on... News 28 Jul 2022 | 05:48
Governor Kathy Hochul of New York at Moynihan Train Hall on Thursday, Jun. 9, 2022 to announce the solicitation of proposals to renovate Penn Station. Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA Hochul Pushes Ahead on Penn Station Plan The Hochul administration pressed forward against continued community resistance with its plan to renovate Penn Station and... News 22 Jul 2022 | 04:29
Madison Square Garden. Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim, via Flickr Relocating Madison Square Garden? The Manhattan Borough President and key Manhattan legislators have coalesced around a call to relocate Madison Square Garden... Home 17 Jul 2022 | 01:59
Mayor Eric Adams briefs the media regarding a boating accident on the Hudson River on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office The Summer of Our Discontent If COVID-19, job losses, inflation, more COVID-19, gun violence, soaring rents, shrinking 401k’s, jobs going begging, more... News 13 Jul 2022 | 05:20
Banner at 96th Street and Broadway. Photo courtesy of Say Their Names Vigil Letters to the Editor Cartoons by Marc Bilgrey I just LOVE Marc Bilgrey’s tongue-in-cheek cartoons that always capture the essence of New York life.... News 06 Jul 2022 | 10:46
Duane Reade on Broadway near 72nd Street is among the many Manhattan stores afflicted by retail theft. Photo: Alexis Gelber Taking on the Shoplifting Scourge “Customer service needed in the cough and cold department.” “Customer service needed in the hair care department.” “Customer... News 24 Jun 2022 | 02:20
Governor Kathy Hochul announces that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, with Amtrak and NJ TRANSIT, is requesting proposals to guide the Penn Station reconstruction effort outlined in the fall in the Penn Station Master Plan study. Photo: Don Pollard/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul Battle Lines Over Penn Station Once upon a rather different time, the Pennsylvania Railroad, then the nation’s second largest corporation, decided it could... News 18 Jun 2022 | 04:55
Dr. Drew Weissman and Dr. Katalin Kariko in Manhattan. Photo courtesy of Feinstein Institutes of Medical Research The Message of Messenger RNA They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round, Ira Gershwin reminded us. But that was nothing... News 10 Jun 2022 | 03:11
