Staying Grounded in Difficult Times
By Lynn Pax “Get yourself grounded and you can navigate even the stormiest roads in peace.” Steve Goodier We live in a nature-deficient society. It is […]
Teaching English Online to Kids in China
By Dan Schlesinger The New York Amateur Computer Club holds free monthly meetings open to the public at NYU. Presentations cover computer technology and trends. […]
This Article Might Save Your Life
By Alec Pruchnicki The dramatic, and sometimes deadly, confrontations between civilians and the police reminded me that growing up in The Bronx we also had […]
Memories of Saint Vincent’s Hospital
By Toby Bellin In 1985 I attended my first meeting as a supportive care volunteer at St. Vincent’s. The class of 24 was a very […]
What Will Happen When It’s Time to Pay the Piper?
FDR-Style Program Urgently Needed to Address Looming Post-Covid Housing Crisis By Diane Sare, Candidate for U.S. Senate-NY 2022 The national news media is filled with […]
Revolution in the Air on a Maine Island
By Hannah Reimann I spent two weeks in June on Vinalhaven Island, Maine. Reachable by ferryboat from Rockland, it has a year-round population of 1200. […]
Riding to Make a Statement: A History of Horses in Protests
By Anastasia Kaliabakos Mankind’s relationship with horses dates back millennia to when a horse’s ability to carry a human was first discovered. This use of […]
All About Andy
By Robert Heide The bigger than big book entitled simply Warhol by Blake Gopnik just published by Ecco, a Harper Collins imprint, is 39 pages […]
Plywood & Pomp: The New Soho
Mid-Lockdown New York’s Artists Take Back the Streets By Katie Cercone As Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the May 25th police murder of George […]
The Plight of New Yorkers Who Have No Homes
By Carol F. Yost On May 12, 2020, an op-ed appeared in the Daily News with the title, “Why I Slept on the Subways: They […]
The Rainbow Flag
By Bruce Poli In 1978, Gilbert Baker—who called himself the Gay Betsy Ross—hand dyed the first LGBT Rainbow Flag to fly in the San Francisco […]
Operation CoviDance: Mia’s Pandemic Mission
There’s Flash Dance. Dirty Dancing. And then there’s CoviDance. By Mia Berman Maybe I’m not as agile as Ginger Rogers. I admit it. I never […]
Relief During the Shutdown: Online Delivery Service
By Jennifer Brozost Throughout this pandemic—this time of fear, uncertainty and frustration—I have been scared. Scared of what the future holds, scared of getting sick, […]
90 Morton Street Renaissance
By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Development in NYC takes a long time, and it may also have to weather Great Recessions. Such is the […]
For the Love of It
By Debra Camitta Imagine you changed careers and started a new business and then suddenly the World and New York City went on pause. Like […]
The Window
By Lynn Pacifico Until the birth of my sister when I was four, my family lived in a little two-bedroom house that was owned by […]
A Radically Inclusive Proposal for the Future of NYC Pride
By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. Since the first Gay Liberation marchers took their first steps in the West Village on June 28th, 1970, “Pride” has gone […]
Independence Day—The People Take Charge
By Jesse Robert Lovejoy The last time this happened was 50 years ago. The president and the generals appeared on TV nightly, reporting scores of […]