East Siders Rally Again to Stop Transfer Station
Hundreds of Upper East Side residents gathered at the Stanley Isaacs NYCHA Housing Development on Tuesday to once again protest the building of a marine transfer station at East 91st Street.
In ‘Touch’ with the Dying
Hospice massage offers support for caregiving
By Huini Gu
Irene Smith usually begins by adjusting her breath, calming the room with her even exhales. Her job is to be present with the dying, to give them comfort and relief from pain. She has lost three clients in the past two weeks, but when she goes to work she must be fully present and completely at peace.
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Stick It to the Pain
Headaches and migraines may be effectively treated by regular acupuncture, according to some experts
“Many people who come to me say they never experienced migraines before moving to New York,” said Dr. Alexander Mauskop, director of the New York Headache Center. Mauskop, a board-certified neurologist (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) and licensed acupuncturist specializing in headache medicine, has been treating New Yorkers suffering from headaches for over 20 years.
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Our Town 40th Anniversary
Anniversary Letters:
Back to the Future
Chasing the Elusive Beast
Our Town History:
A Paper’s Power
The First ‘Our Town’
Honoring the families that have made a difference on the East Side:
Tisch
Rudin
(Shelly) Silver
Rubenstein
Morgenthau/Franks
Winfield
Miller
Rapfogel
Our Favorite Moments:
As Not Seen on Local TV
Mayhem, Scandal and Bare-Knuckle Political Brawls
Writing about Yom Kippur While Reporting to the Vatican
Goodman vs. Krueger: When Giants Did Battle
Reflections of a Trail-Blazing Reporter
Thanks and Happy Birthday
How ‘Our Town’ Fought LaRouche
Once a Dangerous Neighborhood
10 Crazy Races, One Crazy Night
A Cartoon- like Staff
East Side Stories:
A look at Our Town’ articles over the last 40 years
A look at Our Town’ articles over the last 40 years
Written and compiled by Lisa Chen, Ashley Welch and Catharine Daddario.
We scoured our bound archives and the New York Public Library’s Our Town microfilm files trying to pick out the biggest or most interesting article of the year—or ones we just liked for this highly subjective review.
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A Cartoon- like Staff
Our Town published a cartoon of its staff done by artist Joe Belvedere on Dec. 23, 1977. One noteworthy person depicted is columnist Cindy Adams, at center wearing pearls and talking on the phone. To the left of her is publisher Ed Kayatt, sitting at the desk in front of his wife, editor Arlene Kayatt, and a cat. On the top far right with a microphone is Barry Gray, who had a radio show at the time, and next to him is Bette Dewing, who writes columns for the paper to this day.
10 Crazy Races, One Crazy Night
Primary night 2005. The last phone call came in from a freelancer we had sent to bounce between the campaign parties in Spanish Harlem to get some color and election results from a Council race split between a former union organizer, a one-time Fox 5 newscaster-turned-self-styled beat poet, a local activist making her second run for office and a man who wanted people to know him as the rapping fireman.
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Once a Dangerous Neighborhood
I worked at Our Town as a reporter in 1997.
I knew there had been some good writers there before me, like Andrew Jacobs and Justin Brown, so I knew I had some big shoes to fill. I also knew that the paper was well respected and had a loyal readership.
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How ‘Our Town’ Fought LaRouche
By Dennis King
On a hot afternoon in late July 1979, I sat in Our Town’s basement office on York Avenue discussing with publisher Ed Kayatt an idea for a freelance series. I wanted to take a close look at Lyndon LaRouche, a former presidential candidate with headquarters in midtown Manhattan, who appeared to be emerging as a major player on the U.S. ultra-right. Little did I or Kayatt know that we would be embarking on a seven-year odyssey that would involve multiple lawsuits, death threats, street demonstrations, national media attention and, eventually, an FBI investigation that would put LaRouche and over a dozen of his followers behind bars.
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Thanks and Happy Birthday
By Bette Dewing
Couldn’t be more grateful you were born, Our Town! And so is the whole city, or it should be!
And here’s to the readers and advertisers that kept you going all these years. We can’t say enough about you in this piece by one who’s been “in the paper” for about 36 of them, which prompted editor Allen Houston’s request for an “anniversary piece.” In general readers should save 40-plus copies of Our Town an issue and certainly this one in particular. Thankfully, the paper is also online, a nowadays must, but the many without Internet and even those who have it need those printed editions.
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