Afzal Hossain, Untitled, Oil on canvas, 48″ x 36″ This week we welcome Afzal Hossain. Hossain is a painter, gallery director and business owner based in Queens. His paintings and […]
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Bourdain’s picks, adopt trees, help India, white parents
Dear Neighbor, The city is coming back to life. Do you ever look around at the nature within New York and wonder how to be even more at one […]
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How to become an NYC Super Steward
Dear Neighbor, The city is coming back to life. Do you ever look around at the nature within New York and wonder how to be even more at one with […]
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Vaccine apartheid is literally going to kill us
Vaccine apartheid is indeed upon us.
Consider a March 22 email to Epicenter from a 69-year-old man in Germany who was ready to fly to New York City: “As you probably know, the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine here in Germany has been incredibly slow and we have not yet received an appointment for our first doses.”
Posted inPolitics
Subway crime, what it means to defund NYPD, Haitian candidates
Hello, voters! Welcome to the third edition of this NYC election-focused newsletter! I’m independent journalist Felipe De La Hoz, and our goal is to bring you some coverage of the […]
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Sara Ann Rutherford
Sara Ann Rutherford, Nebula, 2019 This week we welcome Sara Ann Rutherford. Rutherford grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and rural Western Pennsylvania. Her interest in creating began at an […]
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Birria taco pizza, mutual aid, flower power and Run DMC
Dear Neighbor, “Mutual aid” has become part of our Covid-era vocabulary. And we hope it’s here to stay. Mutual aid is, at its core, neighbors helping neighbors — similar […]