From left to right: Zack Fink (the moderator), Stephanie Reckler, Andy Gaspar, Anna Marcum, Lois Uttley, Richard Scharf, and George Janes. ( Photo by Jack Ahern ) UES Crowd Packs Local High School to Decry Lenox Hill’s Proposed $1.6B Expansion Plan As Northwell Health moves forward on a $1.6 billion Lenox Hill expansion that is estimated to take 11 years, community opposition... News 02 Oct 2023 | 03:37
A Chinatown tenant group, protesting the proposed rent hike for stabilized units during a public comment hearing on June 12th. They bore signs reading “Adams Wants To Raise The Rent: Rent Rollback Now”. ( Photo via Rent Guidelines Board Zoom ) Tenants & Landlords Fight Over Proposed Rent Hikes At RGB Public Comment Meeting During a public comment meeting of the Rent Guidelines Board on Monday, June 12th, landlords, tenants, and politicians patiently... News 14 Jun 2023 | 03:58
The Epiphany School's Early Childhood Center, a Catholic institution on E. 29th St., is roughly 424 ft. away from a storefront where Smiley Exotics was recently granted a license to open a cannabis delivery store by Community Board Six. Smiley plans to open around the corner on E. 30th St. Photo: Jack Ahern ( Photo via Google St. View) CB6 Doesn't Object To Weed Store Within 500 Ft. Of Catholic School, Sparking Opposition From Principal Community Board Six didn't object to a new cannabis take-out establishment on the East Side, over strenuous objections from... News 08 Jun 2023 | 10:34
Lori Zabar’s book, published in May. Photo via Zabar’s Instagram. Lox of Love for Zabar’s Zabar’s customers have their favorites. An onion bagel with nova, capers, red onion and scallion cream cheese. A cinnamon... News 09 Sep 2022 | 04:14
Doorway for Westbeth Artists Community. Photo: Elisa.rolle, via Wikimedia Commons Living the Westbeth Life “[It is] really the best, greatest moment of your life.” After decades on a waitlist, residents like Karen Santry recall a... City Arts 17 Aug 2022 | 06:09
Good Neighbor award winners with Goddard Riverside Executive Director Rod Jones (right). Photo: Zoe Kava How to Be a Good Neighbor Community members gathered in the Phelps Garden at Goddard Riverside Community Center on Monday to celebrate the annual “Good... News 27 Jul 2022 | 12:27
Greg Morris, former president and executive director of Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Center. Photo courtesy of Greg Morris ‘Our Older Adult Neighbors are Having to Make Very Difficult Decisions’ Greg Morris served as president and executive director of Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Center on the Upper East Side starting... News 13 Jul 2022 | 11:12
In the Armory basement. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Storming The Armory After school let out on Tuesday, a group of kids and parents trickled into the Park Avenue Armory. They entered through the... News 26 May 2022 | 02:03
Photo: Office of Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine Levine Announces Community Board Appointments Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine announced his 2022 class of community board appointments – the first since taking... News 18 May 2022 | 12:30
Donation sign at the front desk of the Sustainable Fashion Community Center. Photo: Ava Manson Bring Five, Take Five It’s a Tuesday afternoon at East Harlem’s Sustainable Fashion Community Center, and tenth grader Arielle Gin is hanging up... News 13 May 2022 | 12:45
A CB8 meeting to discuss the future of the Knickerbocker Greys attracted a record number of attendees. Photo: Abigail Gruskin UES Rallies Behind The Knickerbocker Greys A fiery Community Board 8 Youth, Education and Libraries Committee meeting shattered attendance records of recent memory... News 29 Apr 2022 | 05:10
Prototype of the mobile museum. Photo courtesy of the Office of Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright Seawright Announces Mobile Museum of Tolerance As incidents of hate crimes continue to mount, a mobile museum is coming to teach tolerance and combat antisemitism and... News 11 Mar 2022 | 11:57
An array of speakers addressed antisemitism during a virtual town hall hosted by Council Member Julie Menin on the evening of Wednesday, February 9. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Town Hall Addresses Antisemitism on Upper East Side, Citywide A virtual town hall hosted by Council Member Julie Menin on Wednesday evening drew a crowd of over 200 attendees to confront... News 11 Feb 2022 | 12:09
New Council Member Julie Menin (at podium) met with New York City Department of Sanitation officials on January 12 to announce the allocation of $120,000 in the city’s fiscal year budget to increase litter basket pickups in her district. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Julie Menin’s Early Days as Council Member On the second day of the new year, now-Council Member Julie Menin took to Twitter to announce that she and her 3-year-old... News 20 Jan 2022 | 05:00
Council Member Julie Menin (second from right) with NYPD officials inspecting barricades around Carl Schurz Park and East End Avenue. Photo: Office of Council Member Julie Menin Down Come the Barricades Barricades on East End Avenue, as well as in and around Carl Schurz Park and Gracie Mansion, have long plagued Upper East... News 14 Jan 2022 | 06:44
