This past April, Arias had just left her apartment and was walking down Northern Boulevard in Queens when the sirens of a passing fire truck drowned out her phone call with a friend. When she finally heard what her friend was trying to tell her, what she dreaded the most had come true.
Posted inPolitics
Our new City Council’s agenda
Welcome to the latest edition of this NYC election-focused newsletter. I’m independent journalist Felipe De La Hoz, and this week we’re going to look forward a little bit, to some interesting and big-ticket city legislative debates that have yet to be resolved and may end up getting punted to our next City Council when it takes office next year.
Posted inDay Trips
Fruit picking
People have been asking where to find the fruit this fall. We offer these four recommendations; send us your tips too. Kelder’s Farm, Kerhonkson, N.Y. Kelder’s still has plenty of passes to pick […]
Posted inFeatured Artist
Deborah Wasserman
Migrating Crops, 2020, Ink, acrylic, oil, and torn clothes on canvas, 60’’ x 72’’ This week we welcome Deborah Wasserman. Wasserman was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, grew up in […]
Posted inCovid-19
We asked a doctor about vaccines for those with autoimmune conditions
Some of our neighbors living with autoimmune conditions have recently asked us whether it’s safe for them to get their COVID-19 vaccine.
Posted inFeatures
The 9/11 stories we’re still finding
Once, I was trying to explain what it was like to be a reporter on and after Sept. 11, 2001 and I told my friend: “We thought there’d never be another story we cover. It felt like this day would basically be the rest of my career.”
Posted inFeatured Artist
Deborah Sherman
Colors of a Nightmare (Section Two of Diptych), Painted photocopy This week we welcome Deborah Sherman. Sherman is an artist living on the Upper West Side in Manhattan with a studio […]
Posted inDay Trips
Returning to NYC
This week we welcome Ruth Chon Saiki, returning to New York City from her current home in L.A. Once a New Yorker, always a New Yorker. Nearly a decade after […]
Posted inHousing
She has no plans to leave her basement apartment after Ida
Eleven of the 13 people who died in last week’s storm were trapped in flooding basements across the city. The majority of the dead were immigrants who rented apartments below ground, a common but oft-illegal practice (among not just immigrants but across all five boroughs and many demographics).
Posted inSchools
Parents, teachers and students share their thoughts on schools reopening
So much uncertainty is surrounding students’ return to school with the rise of the Delta variant. Khanom spoke to a variety of stakeholders — students, parents and teachers — to get their thoughts on what they think going back to school might look like.
