Ambulance in the rain. Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim, via Flickr Ambulance Sirens: A Reckoning As a physician living in New York City, my frustration with the extremely high decibel level of virtually every ambulance... Voices 27 Apr 2022 | 10:47
A new positive home test. Photo: Michael Oreskes Doctor’s Rx: Stop Testing Stop testing, said the doctor, it will be fine. In my chronicle of these plague years this may well have been the most memorable,... News 26 Apr 2022 | 10:52
Danced-through shoes. Photo: Tania Cade Dancing Through the Pandemic When the city shut down in March 2020, so ended my newfound passion for going social dancing. I had only discovered this... Voices 12 Apr 2022 | 02:01
Construction on March 20. Photo: Lauren Trapanotto The Noise from East 90th Street If you live near 424 East 90th Street, you’ve probably had a migraine since December from the multiple hydraulic jackhammers... Voices 27 Mar 2022 | 01:14
Matthew O’Reilly at camp. Photo: Rob Foldy Ninjas in the Night As our counselors yell at us to wake up early in the morning for a daunting canoe trip across the vastness of the lake, we... Camp Guide 07 Mar 2022 | 10:04
H.D. Wright alongside representatives from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland, the UNHCR, Unicef, and the European Union. Photo courtesy of H.D. Wright The Power of the Youth Voice In American society, there is an unfortunate propensity to elevate the opinions of established “experts,” while excluding... Voices 01 Mar 2022 | 01:51
The Invasion of Ukraine We are all in a state of shock and disbelief as we watch from our front row seats as Russia wages war on Ukraine. We have... Voices 27 Feb 2022 | 07:34
Entrance to The Abraham Joshua Heschel School. Photo: Zachary Weg And They’ll Stand Majestic Heschel High School was hard but it saved me. As the Upper West Side building turns twenty this year, at a time when students... Voices 12 Feb 2022 | 06:51
Mount Sinai ambulance outside of the Mount Sinai/Morningside Hospital. Photo: Susan Crawford EMS, Your Sirens Are Driving Me Crazy! It’s 3 a.m. From 20 to 30 blocks away I start to hear it: the higher-than-high-pitched shriek of an ambulance siren. As it... Voices 02 Feb 2022 | 05:45
A group of Physicians for a National Health Program advocates at a recent demonstration. Photo courtesy of PNHP Health Care Delivery at a Crossroads Health care delivery, like our democracy, is now at a crossroads between social progress and, alternately, chaos. The Direct... Voices 22 Dec 2021 | 09:26
Dive 106 on Amsterdam Ave. has a heated outdoor shed. Photo: Gerry Khermouch How About a City-Sponsored Design Contest for a ‘Moveable Feast’? If necessity is the mother of invention, is it possible that the gnarly problem of what to do with all those outdoor dining... Voices 22 Nov 2021 | 04:13
Bobby Ochs (left) wearing the jacket a reviewer called “absolutely hideous.” With (left to right) his wife Carolyn and Ashford and Simpson. Photo courtesy of Bobby Ochs A Reformed Restaurateur Reviews Restaurant Reviewers I always believed a judge should have to serve three months in prison before being admitted to the bench and able to sentence... Voices 10 Nov 2021 | 11:49
Larry Kelly at the Dive Bar on Amsterdam and 96th Street, his favorite watering hole. The bar tracked Kelly’s recovery and celebrated his homecoming after 128 days in the hospital and rehab center with COVID. Photo courtesy of Dawn Kelly Thoughts on the Pandemic Aftermath With the advent of the COVID-19 vaccine, the proliferation of the booster and the slog to return to the things we love doing,... News 05 Nov 2021 | 09:55
Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer welcomes students back to school. Photo: Office of the Borough President Brewer: Offer Families a Remote Learning Option Fully reopening our schools is critical for our city to heal from the collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although... News 13 Sep 2021 | 03:35
TikTok and Eating Disorders In many ways, the social media app TikTok has a culture of disordered eating. Videos of extremely thin girls go viral, and... Voices 03 Sep 2021 | 12:37
