A Chinatown tenant group, protesting the proposed rent hike for stabilized units during a public comment hearing on June 12th. They bore signs reading “Adams Wants To Raise The Rent: Rent Rollback Now”. ( Photo via Rent Guidelines Board Zoom ) Tenants & Landlords Fight Over Proposed Rent Hikes At RGB Public Comment Meeting During a public comment meeting of the Rent Guidelines Board on Monday, June 12th, landlords, tenants, and politicians patiently... News 14 Jun 2023 | 03:58
The Epiphany School's Early Childhood Center, a Catholic institution on E. 29th St., is roughly 424 ft. away from a storefront where Smiley Exotics was recently granted a license to open a cannabis delivery store by Community Board Six. Smiley plans to open around the corner on E. 30th St. Photo: Jack Ahern ( Photo via Google St. View) CB6 Doesn't Object To Weed Store Within 500 Ft. Of Catholic School, Sparking Opposition From Principal Community Board Six didn't object to a new cannabis take-out establishment on the East Side, over strenuous objections from... News 08 Jun 2023 | 10:34
Lunch on the street. Photo: David Axelbank ‘The Longest Table’ Lights Up West 21st Street It started with a simple idea - to gather neighbors and share a meal around a table down the middle of an NYC block. After... News 18 Oct 2022 | 12:11
Lori Zabar’s book, published in May. Photo via Zabar’s Instagram. Lox of Love for Zabar’s Zabar’s customers have their favorites. An onion bagel with nova, capers, red onion and scallion cream cheese. A cinnamon... News 09 Sep 2022 | 04:14
Doorway for Westbeth Artists Community. Photo: Elisa.rolle, via Wikimedia Commons Living the Westbeth Life “[It is] really the best, greatest moment of your life.” After decades on a waitlist, residents like Karen Santry recall a... City Arts 17 Aug 2022 | 06:09
Chelsea tree canopy. Photo: Zoey Lyttle A Greener Future for District 3 Councilman Erik Bottcher’s office recently tallied District 3’s votes for this year’s Participatory Budgeting program. After... News 31 May 2022 | 01:05
At the AAPI Care Fair in Chinatown’s Columbus Park. Photo courtesy of Michelle Tran, of Soar Over Hate Chinatown Care Fair Provides NYC’s Asian-American Community With Healing Volunteers gathered in Chinatown’s Columbus Park last Sunday to help the local Asian-American community heal from the recent... News 20 May 2022 | 11:31
Photo: Office of Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine Levine Announces Community Board Appointments Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine announced his 2022 class of community board appointments – the first since taking... News 18 May 2022 | 12:30
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
The Red Door Place at The Church of the Village. Photo: Ava Manson The Door That Stayed Open During Lockdown By just one year after NYC declared the pandemic a state of emergency on March 12, 2020, the number of New Yorkers experiencing... News 09 Mar 2022 | 03:39
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
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
City Council Member Erik Bottcher. Photo courtesy of the Office of Erik Bottcher Bottcher Announces Participatory Budgeting Participatory Budgeting (PB) empowers residents to decide how to spend public money in their community. In this year’s capital... News 10 Jan 2022 | 10:18
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... Home 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
