BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | Since day one, our administration has had a clear mission: build a safer, more affordable city for working-class New Yorkers, and every day, we are delivering on that mission. Jobs are up, our streets are safer with crime down across the city every month this year, and we have […]
BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | For November 10’s Jewish Comics Experience (JewCE), I dressed as Supergirl. There aren’t many cosplayers at small, one-day comic conventions like this. But I always cosplay at cons. And I have to be on good behavior when I’m dressed like Supergirl; wearing that big red “S” on my chest obligates me […]
Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): Curbside Composting Info Session / The 13th Precinct Community Council Meeting / Geraldine Page Centennial Celebration: A Screening Series / The Green Room, a live music and arts series at Verdi Cannabis / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / Kimchi-Making with Hooni Kim Curbside Composting Information […]
NOTE: This preview of Manhattan Community Board 4 (MCB4) November committee meetings will be updated throughout the month. Once a meeting has taken place, a link to its recorded Zoom session will be added, and the writeup will be moved to the bottom of the list. BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Normally held on the first […]
Here’s What’s Happening (in order of appearance): The Green Room, a live music and arts series at Verdi Cannabis / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / Earlier in the Week: Curbside Composting Info Sessions / Album Release Party for Puma Perl and Joe Sztabnik’s new album / The Green Room, a Live Music and […]
BY NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS | New York City is not often associated with the kind of drought we see in other areas of the country, but this fall has been a stunning exception. This past October saw the second-longest rainless streak in city records, dating back 155 years, to 1869. With November continuing to […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | West Chelsea residents and other area stakeholders spent the spring and summer of this year in a state of smoldering unease, following an April public gathering whose host–the financially faltering General Theological Seminary (GTS)–acknowledged the frontrunner to lease the lion’s share of their buildings was a “nonprofit partner” (the School of […]
TEXT & PHOTOS BY CHRISTIAN MILES Manhattan Plaza & Other Polling Locations | Tuesday, November 5, 2024: My Election Day coverage began with casting my own vote at the ground level polling site of 400 West 43rd Street’s Manhattan Plaza (where I reside). The morning’s line extended from the voting room, winding 50 feet down […]
BY TRAV S.D. | There’s a lot going on at the moment, so you can perhaps be forgiven for missing news about the upcoming Geraldine Page centennial. The widely respected stage and screen actress, who passed away in 1987, would be turning 100 this coming November 22. To mark the occasion, Torn Page, the family-run […]
Between Two Worlds | BY PUMA PERL The day after, 2016. Sky, gray, colorless. Lower East Side streets silent, locked down. Nobody knew what to say, where to look. “Good Morning” greetings sounded almost obscene. Last night, rather than witness the country turning red, I decided to walk my dog, Fae. Through the Vladek […]