In my March essay (Enemy of the People) I wrote of behaviors the American Psychiatric Association characterize as narcissism. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was my source. As I said in March, Donald Trump exhibits substantially all of the behaviors listed, including those for malignant narcissism.
Housing expert Ron Shiffman condemned the current “affordable housing” agenda as a “Trojan horse” benefiting real estate developers, a stealth strategy that actually results in luxury condos, higher rents, and displacement of low-income renters.
In January 2017, I woke up one morning and knew something was wrong. I felt like a spear was going through my left shoulder, I was sweating and nauseous. Instantly, I knew it was a heart attack. My wife quickly drove me the one block to what is now Northwell Hospital. They took an EKG and a blood test and said, “You are going to Beth Israel.”
For more than two years, the Parks Department has been pursuing demolition of the landmarked Tony Dapolito Recreation Center at Carmine Street and Seventh Avenue South.
It was stunning to learn that the Greenwich House Music School building on Barrow Street is up for sale. Founded in 1905 by Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, the school offers classes in a variety of instruments including piano, guitar and violin; classes in voice and composition; as well as rehearsal and performance space and grants to emerging musical artists.
I cut my teeth in politics in the 1960s. That’s when the Democratic Party, led by President Lyndon Johnson was, to my young cohorts, the epitome of evil.
After 35 years of Deborah Glick holding the Assembly District seat which covers Greenwich Village (west of First Avenue), Noho, Soho, Hudson Square and Tribeca, we have a new nominee in the State Assembly ─ David Siffert. (Note: Siffert has to win in the November election to be formally crowned.
The Covid-19 pandemic had a traumatic medical, political, and economic effect on the world with a 1-2% mortality rate. But there are diseases around the world right now, and potential diseases in the future, which could be much more deadly. Here are just a few.
The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) is a bill designed to give qualified non-profits the opportunity to bid on a multi-family apartment building of four or more rental units when a landlord decides to sell.
A battle for Maine’s Senate seat and with it a possible U.S. Senate majority for the Democrats in 2027 has grown from a seed to a forest since a September 2025 New Yorker article launched Graham Platner’s career in politics.
