Our Town Downtown

07/16/2024

Restaurant owners who keep sheds up without submitting a new application to meet the deadline will face fines:

The public may soon be seeing a lot fewer outdoor dining establishments, unless fresh paperwork applications from restaurants suddenly picks up in the...

12/24/2023

MTA chairman Janno Lieber, says the reconstruction of Penn Station is being held “hostage” by Amtrak and New Jersey Transit.

Even as it pours billions of dollars into rebuilding the northeast rail corridor, The Biden administration has rejected the MTA’s application for fund...

12/23/2023

Here are at least ten suggestions that are sure to enhance the visits of friends and relatives who descend on you this holiday season ❄️

Maybe you’ve seen some of these sights, maybe not. But when friends and relatives descend on you this holiday season, here are at least ten things tha...

12/22/2023

The predatory incidents, which spanned Midtown and Lower Manhattan, reportedly occurred in a 12-day span between Nov. 27 and Dec. 9.

A 37 year-old man is being sought by police for three sexual assaults in Manhattan, which he reportedly committed over a 12-day period. The incidents ...

03/26/2020

Check in with our daily Coronavirus Watch for news and updates.
Today: The death toll jumps; Elected officials support suspending rent payments; Lighthouse Guild offers telehealth services for the visually impaired.
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Updated Thursday, March 26, 5:15 p.m. Quote of the Day: "We now have enough PPE [personal protective equipment] for the foreseeable future" Gov. Andre...

03/25/2020

New York is now the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., and life in our crowded metropolis is unlike anything we have known before.

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Not long ago, New York as it is now would have been unimaginable: Times Square without tourists. Empty streets and subway cars. Previously packed bars...

03/24/2020

Today in Coronavirus Watch:
Council Member Mark Levine says he assumes he has coronavirus; MTA faces $4 billion loss; Council Member Chin wants relief for street vendors. And more:

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Updated Monday, March 23, 5:30 p.m. Quote of the Day: “If we don’t get the equipment, we’re literally going to lose lives." Mayor de Blasio, on CNN, t...

03/22/2020

The Trump administration issued a Major Disaster Declaration for New York State on Saturday, making the state eligible for billions of dollars from the federal Disaster Relief Fund.
Check in with our Coronavirus Watch for the latest news and updates:
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Updated Saturday, March 21, 5:00 p.m. Quote of the Day: “New York City is the most dense environment. This virus spreads in dense environments.” - Gov...

03/20/2020

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03/20/2020

Cuomo workforce reduction order now 75 percent as cases rise in NYC. Check in for the latest news and updates on our daily Coronavirus Watch:
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Updated Thursday, March 19, 7:15 p.m. Quote of the Day: "We are the new epicenter." - Council Member Mark Levine, on Twitter Mayor: Need for Federal A...

03/18/2020

Photographer Allan Tannenbaum recalls New York in the 70s, working with John and Yoko, and the horror of 9/11

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In 1973, Allan Tannenbaum became the staff photographer for the Soho Weekly News, which was started that year by publisher Michael Goldstein to cover ...

03/18/2020

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said expert projections show the expected peak of coronavirus in New York will occur in 45 days, on May 1.

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At a press conference Tuesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo likened our world to a snow globe. Like a child, the coronavirus pandemic has shaken our world and tu...

03/17/2020

The novel coronavirus is greeted with a classic mix of anxiety, gallows humor and a rolling series of adaptations

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Until a very few days ago, social distancing conjured for most New Yorkers an image of, say, the rich and famous rising above the rest of us as they s...

03/12/2020

Coronavirus advice, information and insight from a Manhattan-based epidemiologist

http://www.chelseanewsny.com/news/confronting-the-coronavirus-ED959060

Dr. Stephen Morse, professor of epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, has spent his career confronting outbreaks...

03/10/2020

The way we live now: School closings, sanitizer shortages, empty shelves, Wall Street shocks and an ever-longer list of cases

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In the narrow aisles of Joseph’s Pharmacy on the Upper West Side, customers scoured the shelves for anything they could find to kill the coronavirus. ...

03/08/2020

Gov. Cuomo declares state of emergency as number of cases statewide rises to 76. Check in with our Coronavirus Watch for updates:

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Updated Saturday, March 7, 6 p.m. The COVID-19 toll: Worldwide: More than 100,000 cases, more than 3,400 deaths U.S.: More than 300 cases, mostly on t...

02/29/2020

How a popular podcast became a theater portrayal of pre-Stonewall LGBT activists:

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Joe Salvatore is no Broadway baby. As a writer, director, and professor of educational theater at NYU Steinhardt, Salvatore has spent the past 25 year...

02/27/2020

The most recent FEC filings reveal which Democratic presidential candidates New Yorkers are opening their wallets for. See who your neighbors are backing:

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In the 2020 Democratic primary race, Manhattan residents are putting their money on the moderate mayor of a city one-sixteenth the population of their...