The Queens Night Market will be back again this year, and you can get a sneak peek next Saturday, April 23. To attend the preview you must book your $5 ticket online (children under 12 are free) by 1 p.m. on Saturday. If not, you will have to purchase tickets at the door for $8. The Queens Night Market will be free to the public when it officially opens on May 7. There is no timed entry this year, so you can arrive any time between 5 p.m. and midnight.
Elisabeth Condon
This week we welcome Elisabeth Condon. Condon is known for paintings that overlap natural and built environments. Linking scroll painting with the decorative wallpapers of her childhood home, she incorporates […]
Will the mayor keep control?
As you may remember from our March 9 newsletter, Mayor Eric Adams was pushing for state lawmakers to renew mayoral school control for the 2023 budget. While Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed a four year extension of mayoral control, it was ultimately left out of the $220 billion budget passed this past Saturday. Adams is now pleading with legislators to grant the extension and Gov. Hochul has promised that she will make sure it happens by the June 30 expiration date.
The Brooklyn subway attack, and what comes next
We still don’t know what exactly prompted Tuesday morning’s subway attack, though suspect Frank James’ extensive online record shows he was disturbed, afflicted with overwhelming anger toward official systems and plagued by conspiracy theories and fantasies of a race war. Investigators and journalists will spend the next several weeks parsing the man’s history and activities, including how he managed to legally purchase the firearm he used. But now that he’s in custody the more immediate question is how the authorities will respond to the public’s fear and apprehension.
Maria Flores Galindo
This week we welcome Maria Flores Galindo. Galindo was born and raised in Spain, and has been living in New York City for the past eight years. Since moving to […]
Uber app is helping yellow taxi drivers get out of the red
Without its iconic yellow taxis, New York City … simply wouldn’t be New York City. When taxi drivers to earn a living. However, things have been looking up for yellow taxi drivers. In October 2021, they received a much-needed debt relief package, and on March 24, Uber announced it was partnering with existing taxi software like Curb and Creative Mobile Technologies and integrating them into its app.
Eric Adams’ controversial homeless sweeps
If you’ve turned on the news at all or scrolled through social media (provided you’re following New York activist or community organization types) you’ve probably seen images of city sanitation workers, flanked by outreach workers from the Department of Homeless Services and NYPD officers, throwing homeless people’s possessions into trash compactor trucks.
Students learning hydroponic farming
It’s not what you think. The nonprofit organization New York Sun Works has set up a hydroponic farming program in almost 200 schools across New York City and New Jersey and about 65,000 students are harvesting their crops this year.
NYC public schools faced with chronic absenteeism
The absenteeism rate in NYC schools has hit 40%. That is equivalent to around 375,000 students. This number is up from 26% before the pandemic. A student is considered chronically absent when they miss 10 percent or more of the academic year—at least 18 days of excused or unexcused absences.
Olga Alexander
This week we welcome Olga Alexander, a native New Yorker who obtained her bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley and her master of […]