I’m a fan of the Netflix series Stranger Things. In this sci-fi coming-of-age thriller set in a 1980s small-town America, teenagers face their fears of growing up and transitioning to an adult world with all of its peculiarities.
The Writers Guild of America recently surprised the industry with a new tentative minimum bargaining agreement with the studios, or the AMPTP.
Soon after he was elected president in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) unveiled his New Deal program to save the nation from the Great Depression.
Village Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman and District 2 City Councilmember Harvey Epstein called on Mayor Mamdani to right a towering wrong ─ namely the 30 story, 538 foot tall building approved for 5 West 13th Street, just west of Fifth Avenue.
In towns and cities across the country, concerned citizens have taken action to protect undocumented aliens ─ and indeed all residents ─ against rampaging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Condemning the city’s “coverup” and “lies,” activists rallied to save the shuttered Tony Dapolito Recreation Center, asserting the youth and adult sports hub at Clarkson Street and 7th Avenue South “can be fully repaired,” as the city’s own architect confirmed in newly-released public records.
In New York City, stuff happens. And sometimes — thanks to the concerted efforts of activists and policymakers — the stuff that happens is change for the better.
Newly released records have intensified ongoing debates about the intertwined fates of a beloved neighborhood recreation center and a proposed affordable housing development in Hudson Square.
Carl Wilson has declared victory in the closely watched special election for Manhattan’s District 3 City Council seat, which runs west of 6th Avenue, from Houston Street to 55th Street, defeating Lindsey Boylan, who was endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Assemblymember Grace Lee represents the East Village and Lower East Side and is running for the State Senate in a district which encompasses most of Greenwich Village and SoHo.
