Kathryn Garcia, NYS’s Director of State Operations, holding up a pair of I LOVE NY eclipse sunglasses. The free shades, intended for use during April 8’s eclipse, are available at LIRR windows in the Moynihan Train Hall–while supplies last. ( Photo via Mike Groll/Office of Gov. Kathy Hochul on Flickr) Free Glasses For April 8 Eclipse Available At Moynihan Hall A total solar eclipse will be visible to many upstate New Yorkers on April 8, but Big Apple residents will still be able... News 28 Mar 2024 | 06:05
MTA Chair Janno Lieber during the final sign-off vote on congestion pricing, which passed 11-1. ( Photo via MTA ) Congestion Pricing Gets Final MTA Sign-Off, Remains Relatively Unchanged Congestion pricing seems like a done deal, barring any surprise lawsuit victories by its opponents, after the MTA issued... News Alert 28 Mar 2024 | 04:37
Eric Adams signing an extension of NYC’s rent stabilization law on March 25, which will now expire in April 2027. ( Photo via NYC’s Mayor’s Office ) NYC’s Rent Stabilization Law Is Extended To 2027, Defying Landlord Lobby Mayor Eric Adams signed a City Council bill that extends NYC’s Rent Stabilization Law–which sets the rate of rent increases... News 28 Mar 2024 | 10:31
A tree that had stood since Stuyvesant Town opened over 75 years ago came tumbling down in Peter Cooper Village adjacent to an empty basketball court on March 23. Photo: Tim McCann Trees Tumble, Central Park Floods, As Rainfall Record Falls Manhattan was slowly drying out early this week after being drenched by a storm that dumped a record rainfall totaling 3.66... News 27 Mar 2024 | 09:22
A Link5G tower installed in Brooklyn. Preservationists in Manhattan on the Upper East Side and Greenwich Village have argued that the 5G towers are needlessly large and visually incompatible with their historic neighborhoods. ( Photo by Tdorante10, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Link5G Redesign a Possibility, Says Chief Technology Officer LinkNYC’s metallic, 32-foot-tall 5G towers have faced no shortage of backlash since they were first announced in 2022—especially... News 25 Mar 2024 | 04:56
Samuel Kleinplatz, one of the speakers at a rally on March 24, said he survived a heart attack after being rushed to Beth Israel last year, but warned that a heart attack victim only has an eight minute window to start receiving treatment. Lack of nearby health care could mean death, he claimed. Photo: Keith J. Kelly With Closure Looming, Residents and Politicos Step Up Efforts to Save Beth Israel ”It’s an eight minute window,” said Samuel Joseph Kleinplatz, a heart attack survivor who was treated at Beth Israel and... News 28 Mar 2024 | 08:16
Brad Holyman-Sigal (bottom screen) attending a March 20 District 2 school board meeting, where a resolution passed that called for a “review” of trans women playing school sports. He later slammed it as bigoted and lacking evidence. ( Photo via DOE ) Anti-Trans Vote By District 2 Ed Board Draws Fierce Protest Manhattan’s Community Education Council District 2, the borough’s largest school board, has passed an 8-3 resolution asking... News 26 Mar 2024 | 10:22
The company founder, the late CK Chu, (in yellow) was a college professor when he launched the CK Chu Tai Chi School 50 years ago. It is now run by his wife, Carol Chu. They met when both were students at NYU. Photo: Carol A. Chu Teaching the Art of Tai Chi Amid Bustle of Times Square for Five Decades ”We say if you can do tai chi or meditation in Times Square, you can do it anywhere,” said Carol Chu, owner of CK Chu Tai... News 25 Mar 2024 | 12:47
The exterior of 705 and 709 W. 170th St., two Washington Heights buildings owned by Daniel Ohebshalom, where tenants have at times lived without heat, hot water, and electricity, and instead with leaks, mold, chipped lead paint and roach and rodent infestations. ( Image from Google Street View) NYC’s ‘Worst Landlord’ is in Jail. What Led Up to His Arrest? Daniel Ohebshalom is currently serving a 60-day jail sentence on Rikers Island after turning himself in to New York City... News 25 Mar 2024 | 01:18
Karoline Bjerkel Grovdal, 33,of Norway break the tape to win women’s race at the NYC Half Marathon on March 17 with a time of 1:09:09 averaging 5:17 per mile. Photo: NY Roadrunners Record 27,000 Runners Kick Off ‘24 Season in NYC Half Marathon More than 27,000 runners traversed 13.1 miles on Sunday March 17, from the eastern edge of Prospect Park in Brooklyn to the... News 23 Mar 2024 | 10:50
Stormy Daniels, the adult film star whose real name is Stephanie Cliffords, is introduced by Andrew Barret Cox, at a viewing party at the Three Dollar Bill for a new documentary about her life entitled “Stormy.” Photo: Marie Pohl Stormy Daniels Storms Into Town Ahead of Latest Trump Trial As the criminal trial against former president Donald Trump inches closer to a start date, one of the principal witnesses... News 23 Mar 2024 | 01:48
Some people would prefer to not spring forward in daylight saving time each March. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Daylight Danger Time: Most People Prefer No Time Changes A lot of doctors are betting you didn’t sleep well recently. Their explanation: Daylight Saving. Benjamin Franklin was a big... News 23 Mar 2024 | 10:02
Police say that Nadia Vitels, 52, was killed by two teenagers squatting in her late mother’s Kips Bay apartment around March 13. She had planned on moving in. ( Photo via Facebook ) Squatters Who Fled Kips Bay Pad After Killing Woman Are Arrested In PA Nadia Vitels, a 52 year-old woman found dead inside of a duffel bag in the Kips Bay neighborhood on March 14, was allegedly... News 26 Mar 2024 | 04:33
Protestors at a rally during the summer held photos which they said documented years of neglect and horrendous conditions inside buildings owned by the city’s “worst landlord,” Daniel Ohebshalom. ( Photo by Priyanka Rajput) NYC’s ‘Worst Landlord’ is Finally Arrested, Taken to Rikers Island Daniel Ohebshalom, New York City’s “worst landlord” for two consecutive years, has been arrested, Straus News has learned.... News 24 Mar 2024 | 02:05