Category: Culture
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Where Did Eric Adams Campaign
The City newspaper has tabulated the 800 campaign stops that Adams, Kathryn Garcia, Maya Wiley and Andrew Yang made around the five boroughs between April Fools’ Day and Primary Day. After months of seemingly endless online forums, the location of these campaign stops is fascinating and tells you a lot about who they saw as…
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Tax Cut Today (Thanks, Democrats)
On Thursday, July 15, American working families get a huge tax cut. On that day, initial payments go out to 92% of American families with children: $250-$300 per month, per child, so that a family with three kids, aged two, four, and ten, will get $10.200 per year. (For that family it’s $850/month, on the…
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Randalls Island
At the base of the Triborough bridge (where the pedestrian walkway starts in Astoria) there is a wonderful, vintage and cast metal map of Randalls Island: Note the red button on the right-hand side that indicates where you are. Note how Wards Island was not ‘open’ to the public (greyed out) and had a dock…
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Kudos to Metropolitan Hospital
The Metropolitan Hospital – as a part of NYC Health + Hospitals – has announced it will participate in a “Medical Eracism” initiative to eliminate biased, race-based assessments used for decades in hospitals and clinics across the country to influence medical decisions that have been found to negatively impact the quality of care patients of…
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NBT Make-Over
Our neighbor, the National Black Theater, is not only planning to knock down it’s current building and construct a theater+residential building in its place, it’s also worked to redesign its visual presence and to address the issue of what to do with the art in the current building: NBT houses a diverse art collection that…
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Mice and Rats!
Yikes! MacKenzie Scott Donates to El Museo and The Studio Museum MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the world, promised to keep giving her fortune away “until the safe is empty” following her divorce from Jeff Bezos in 2019. Over the past year, Scott has donated some $6 billion to more than 500…
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The Bronx Documentary Center
The Human Cost | America’s Drug Plague On View (In Person): June 5 – July 5, 2021Gallery Hours: Wed- Fri 3-7PM • Sat- Sun 1-5PM BDC’s Annex Gallery, 364 E 151st St, Bronx, NY 10455RSVP for the June 5th Opening Reception Here This exhibition contains graphic content that may be disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.Last year, America lost…
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Uptown Grand Central, Again!
If you’ve been on East 125th Street recently, you’ve probably noticed that Uptown Grand Central has again restarted their amazing mural project on the otherwise, monotonous green construction hoarding. The UGC project has grown from 50 artists in 2019 who enlivened the area around the Metro-North station at 125/Park. This year, is inviting up to…
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Bitter Root Coming to the Big Screen
For those of us who are graphic novel/comic fans, it was exciting to hear that Regina King is going to directing an adaptation of David F. Walker, Sanford Green, and Chuck Brown’s Harlem Renaissance-set comic book Bitter Root for Legendary Pictures. Set in the ‘20s, the book is about a family of monster hunters called the Sangeryes…
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Still Don’t Know Who To Vote For?
The City has the answer to all the ranked choice confusion swirling around in our collective zeitgeist By going through their version of political online dating, The City will show you which candidate’s answers to the same questions, most parallel yours: https://projects.thecity.nyc/meet-your-mayor/ultimate-match.html And a Great Article on New York’s Fractured Political Landscape from FiveThirtyEight.com The…
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The Lee Building
Founded in 1900, Lee Brothers Storage & Van Co. – a furniture, storage, and moving company – was initially located on 125th Street near 3rd avenue. In 1913 they moved to the northeast corner of 125th Street and Park Ave. into a building they did not build but leased. However, after 9 years in 1922 they purchased…
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Juneteenth!
8598/A. 10628) designating Juneteenth as an official public holiday in New York State. … “I am incredibly proud to sign into law this legislation declaring Juneteenth an official holiday in New York State, a day which commemorates the end to slavery in the United States,” Governor Cuomo said. Harlem Juneteenth Walk/Run/Barbecue Juneteenth Events Today in Marcus Garvey Park MARCUS GARVEY PARKEast lawn 11AM Commemorative…
