The Black Derby—Tasty, Inexpensive, and Comfortable
By George Capsis Few phone calls offer the instant euphoria of: “We would like to advertise,” coupled with (like a drop of olive oil) a […]
Local Greek Family Fare
By David Porat George Capsis is even more at home now in his neighborhood with some classic Greek food almost around the corner and in […]
Meeting Asks Where You Want Hospital
By George Capsis Doctor Kenneth Davis, who heads Mount Sinai Hospital, has agreed to a public meeting Thursday, October 27th at the Mount Sinai Beth […]
How to be a Billionaire: Luck and Diversification
Young John Catsimatidis had just graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic and was contemplating a summer of TV watching on the couch before he started NYU engineering […]
Brewer & GVSHP Demand Pier 40 Area Limits
By Brian J. Pape Manhattan Borough President (MBP) Gale Brewer spoke at the City Planning Commission’s public hearing for 550 Washington (a.k.a. St. John’s Terminal […]
Landmarks Preservation Commission to the Community: “Get Lost!”
By Robert Widmann The good news out of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is: No decision has yet come down on the 11 Jane Street […]
Remembering Ann Harris
By Walter Michael Harris Ann Marie McCanless Harris, 90, a prolific songwriter, actress, dancer, playwright, and mother of six, passed away peacefully in Kingston, NY […]
Scam Alert
One of our ardent readers sent this notice to help other readers avoid fraudulent appeals. This kind of scam looks as legitimate as possible, but […]
A Place Called ‘HOWL!’
By Robert Heide In poet Allen Ginsberg’s seminal beat poem Howl, he makes the pronouncement that, as he saw it, the best minds of his […]
Building a Wall in Front of The American Dream
By Emil Chynn, MD, MBA The worst thing about Trump isn’t that he’s a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” (and that’s from fellow Republican Senator Lindsey […]
Pier 55 Update: Architectural Challenges of Diller’s Island
By Brian J. Pape With a reported $113 million contribution to the Hudson River Park Trust (HRPT, a joint New York State and local government […]
One Designer, Two Egos
By George Capsis Oh, wow! There in the September 15th issue of the Times is an enormous half-page color rendering of a 15-story “theme edifice” […]
Indecent Disclosure
By Catherine Revland In the beginning there was silence. Not a word in the corporate-controlled media about the “water protectors”, a group of Native Americans […]
A Short Comment About Deborah Glick’s “Win”
By Arthur Z. Schwartz As everyone knows, for about six months earlier this year, I undertook to unseat Assembly Member Deborah Glick, who had not […]
It Takes a Village
By Richard Eric Weigle and Michael Anastasio If it takes a village to raise a child, the same can be said for a film festival. […]
Pier 40—St. John’s Terminal Project Must Proceed!
By Arthur Z. Schwartz I am going to keep this simple. On August 24th, the City Planning Commission had before it a proposal, conditionally recommended […]
Asking Secularism Out for a Date (Part Two)
By Reverend Donna Schaper I should tell you about my perch. I am Minister at Judson Memorial Church on Washington Square in Greenwich Village. Judson […]
Seventh Avenue South Intersects with Good-Value Food— Highlighting Bobwhite Lunch and Supper Counter
By David Porat Living in the neighborhood, I have found that many of the places up and down Seventh Avenue South have become fixtures, tourist […]