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
The community activist group CUEUP is pushing to scale back dining sheds in the downtown region. Photo: Keith J. Kelly CB 1 Votes to Scale Back Outdoor Dining Sheds; Wants No More Than Two Per City Block Opposition appears to be mounting to scale back the outdoor dining sheds which helped restaurants survive during the darkest... News 08 May 2023 | 10:41
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... News 17 Aug 2022 | 06:09
Chelsea tree canopy. Photo: Zoey Lyttle A Greener Future for District 3 Councilman Erik Bottcher’s office recently tallied District 3’s votes for this year’s Participatory Budgeting program. After... News 31 May 2022 | 01:05
At the AAPI Care Fair in Chinatown’s Columbus Park. Photo courtesy of Michelle Tran, of Soar Over Hate Chinatown Care Fair Provides NYC’s Asian-American Community With Healing Volunteers gathered in Chinatown’s Columbus Park last Sunday to help the local Asian-American community heal from the recent... News 20 May 2022 | 11:31
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
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
The Red Door Place at The Church of the Village. Photo: Ava Manson The Door That Stayed Open During Lockdown By just one year after NYC declared the pandemic a state of emergency on March 12, 2020, the number of New Yorkers experiencing... News 09 Mar 2022 | 03:39
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... Home 20 Jan 2022 | 05:00
Thomas Perry (right) with the Rt. Rev. Clifton Daniel III, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Photo courtesy of Archives, Cathedral of St. John the Divine A Job with a Purpose to Help Those in Need “Every day, I come to work and say, ‘How do we make a difference to help someone?’” said Thomas Perry, director of Cathedral... News 10 Jan 2022 | 03:08
Menin Announces Participatory Budgeting Council Member Julie Menin announced an allocation of one million dollars to continue participatory budgeting for Council... News 07 Jan 2022 | 11:27
