BY LESLIE CLARK | There are two tests of whether a public hearing is a truly effective way for citizens to engage with their government:…
Posts published in “Voices”
BY MICHELE HERMAN | With COVID on the uptick this summer, I revisited a few of my snapshots from the hard summer of 2020. …
BY LESLIE CLARK | Should a restaurant be allowed to have a dining shed on a street that is so narrow that emergency vehicles might…
BY HARRY PINCUS | Poor Old Joe I like you… So it’s really sad That it’s time to go Just like Willie When he…
BY ERIC ADAMS | As the second Black mayor of New York City, I am proud to celebrate Juneteenth, a day that commemorates June 19,…
BY ART GATTI | Twenty years after D-Day. Americans old and young, Black and white, mounted a second assault on the forces of repression —…
Community activists in two separate fights for light and air — as well as grass, trees and contextual development — in Downtown and Lower Manhattan…
BY MARNI HALASA | Paul Gilman, a passionate advocate for social change, environmental justice and ending all wars who was a well-known local member of…
BY LYNN PACIFICO | Sometimes we find an unloved one, one whose life holds no joy or hope. One Thanksgiving Day years ago, there was…
BY CLAUDE SOLNIK | Dan Perino recently walked briskly up First Avenue and, as many artists have done throughout history, stood not far from, if…