Coronavirus No Sleep Till Brooklyn: Protesters sleep outside of Senator Schumer’s home demanding pathway to citizenship Posted on October 6, 2021
Politics Mayor says city is on track to pre-pandemic crime levels; God Squad speaks Posted on October 6, 2021
Lower Manhattan Can’t buy freedom: Pols, justice activists call on DAs to end cash bail system for low-level offenders Posted on October 6, 2021
Politics Biden to meet top U.S. bank and business leaders as debt limit chaos looms Posted on October 6, 2021
Coronavirus NYPD touts drop in murders, shootings in September – but rates remains far higher than before COVID-19 pandemic Posted on October 6, 2021
Coronavirus Lower Manhattan pols hope to set boundaries with Open Restaurants program Posted on October 6, 2021
Politics Ethics panel seeks probe into its own approval of $5.1M Cuomo COVID-19 book deal Posted on October 5, 2021
NYC Transit Hochul, Queens pols call for alternatives to LaGuardia AirTrain Posted on October 5, 2021
Politics Schumer sets U.S. debt ceiling vote for Wednesday as tensions rise Posted on October 5, 2021
Lower Manhattan City doubles investment in reconstruction of charred Chinatown building Posted on October 5, 2021
Chinatown Clash in Chinatown: Activists spar with area landlord, cultural museum over city funding, alleged ‘quid pro quo’ Posted on October 5, 2021
Politics FBI raids NYPD Sergeants union HQ in Manhattan, boss’ Long Island home Posted on October 5, 2021
Video PoliticsNY with Skye: Behind the Curtain – Ep. 36 – Linda Beigel Schulman, Scott J. Beigel Memorial Fund Posted on October 5, 2021
Politics Biden says Republican stonewalling on debt ceiling risks U.S. default Posted on October 4, 2021
Health U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to New York tax on opioid companies Posted on October 4, 2021
Business Curbside enthusiasm: Report finds NYC food scraps pickup must get buy-in to work financially Posted on October 4, 2021
Lower Manhattan ‘Rikers equals death’: Street demonstration symbolic of growing public pressure on city to close jail for good Posted on October 3, 2021
Politics Give up the ghost guns! Schumer calls on feds to speed up crackdown on phantom firearms Posted on October 3, 2021
Politics Democrats will be ‘disappointed’ as party pares agenda: White House Posted on October 3, 2021
Politics Texas law sparks hundreds of U.S. protests against abortion restrictions Posted on October 3, 2021
Elections As redistricting gets under way, Democrats’ prospects looking brighter Posted on October 2, 2021
NYC Transit Derailed Biden infrastructure package could mean loss of $10B for New York Transit Posted on October 2, 2021
Coronavirus Supreme Court’s Sotomayor allows New York school vaccine mandate Posted on October 2, 2021
Politics State assembly dissects Rikers in questioning; inmate families speak Posted on October 1, 2021
Politics One crisis averted: House, Senate approve spending bill to avoid government shutdown Posted on September 30, 2021
Politics De Blasio vows ‘full investigation’ into NYPD officers linked to militant right-wing Oath Keepers Posted on September 30, 2021
Politics Congress seeks to ward off government shutdown as Biden agenda at risk Posted on September 30, 2021
Health City develops new public health corps for post-COVID wellness initiatives Posted on September 29, 2021
Midtown Manhattan ‘Resignation isn’t accountability’: Kim, Williams press Hochul to seek ‘justice’ for COVID-19 nursing home victims Posted on September 29, 2021
Politics De Blasio suggests he’s not responsible for rash of Rikers Island inmate deaths this year Posted on September 29, 2021
Coronavirus DOE administers thousands more shots ahead of vaccine mandate deadline Posted on September 29, 2021
Coronavirus Hochul names NYC’s former top doc Mary Bassett as state health commissioner Posted on September 29, 2021
Politics Senate working to fund gov’t until early December, avoid shutdown -Schumer Posted on September 29, 2021
Oct. 9, 5 pm Nou Akoma Nou Sinèji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
Oct. 10, 9:30 am Discover Treasures at Marble Church’s Second Chance Tag Sale Marble Collegiate Church
Oct. 10, 7 pm Unspoken//Unbroken: Performance and Art in Observance of Domestic Violence Awareness CPR-Center for Performance Research
Brooklyn Paper ‘Something has to give’: FDNY ambulance response times rise for fourth year, union blames staffing crisis
Gay City News Lawmakers demand answers from Amtrak after hundreds of arrests at Penn Station men’s bathroom