BY DONATHAN SALKALN | The exodus of city residents has already begun. With the combination of working remotely now the norm, the fear of future deadly diseases, and the recent civil unrest that included widespread looting to vulnerable sections of New York City, including Chelsea, people are moving to the suburbs like never before. It […]
BY CHRISTINE BERTHET, CO-FOUNDER OF CHEKPEDS | The COVID-19 quarantine has made us all aware of how wonderful New York can be: How clean and fresh the air has been, how quiet without gridlock blocking EMS, and without too many cars! Most significantly, there were no pedestrian fatalities in the last two months in Manhattan[1]. […]
BY DONATHAN SALKALN | Crime is an infectious disease, and should be treated on the scale of the Coronavirus outbreak. A citywide emergency should have been declared after a Barnard College student, Tessa Majors, was murdered on December 11, 2019. The horrific crime in Manhattan’s Morningside Park, allegedly by youths aged 13 and 14 years […]
BY JOHN MUDD, PRESIDENT, MIDTOWN SOUTH COMMUNITY COUNCIL | There are 62,000 plus homeless people hiding out, tucked away, pushed aside, and sprinkled about our city of New York. At least that’s what’s on record. But if you ask the professionals—the ones on the front lines—they will tell you that the numbers are much higher. […]
BY DONATHAN SALKALN | For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a black incisor tooth in the front of my mouth. I only go to the dentist if I have a major toothache, always in the back of my mouth, yet every dentist has always turned their attention and their tapping of pliers […]
BY ASSEMBLY MEMBER RICHARD N. GOTTFRIED | New York badly needs to combat the influence that big-money interests exert on State government—and I’ve been fighting to change the system. This is not a new cause for me. I wrote New York’s first bill on public campaign financing. That bill, modified over the years, has passed the […]
BY DONATHAN SALKALN | Civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel has been visiting Chelsea a whole lot lately. And he’s not Clement Clarke Moore’s fabled St. Nicholas, bringing an overflowing bag of toys by sled and reindeer, to the rooftops of the privileged Chelsea landmarked brownstones, of which Moore wrote in A Visit from St. Nicholas. […]
NOTE: Below, click on the red portions to be taken to articles and info sources. Dear Mayor de Blasio, We are calling on you to return Richard Born’s and Ira Drukier’s campaign contributions and the $90,000 that was raised at the March fundraiser. With the presidential primaries underway and your reputation for standing up for […]
BY MAX BURBANK | It’s been about a week, and I still can’t figure it out. Because you know I love me some Fourth of July. I mean, it’s got two things I’m a total sucker for: Non-violent, brightly colored ordinance exploding in the sky, and the dramatic tension caused by the reverent celebration of […]