Category: Manhattan

Members of the New York Yo-Yo Club letting it all hang out Photo by Bob Krasner Take a gander at Washington Square Park on any given Sunday and you’ll find anything and everything involving music, art, poetry and comedy — but last Sunday, there were also 50 or so naked people covered head-to-toe in body…

Julia Fatum is released from hospital after being stabbed last week. Photo by Dean Moses The EMT who was stabbed by a patient in the back of an ambulance on the Upper West Side last week was released from hospital Wednesday to a flood of emotion from fellow paramedics. Julia Fatum, 25, was stabbed by…

The three suspects, cops say, beat up two teens before attempting to rob them as they exited a Manhattan subway station last month. NYPD Police are looking to identify three would-be crooks they say assaulted a young man and woman before trying to rob them as they exited a subway station near Union Square last…

Security camera footage of the suspect, cops say, stole a cell phone from a woman as she stepped off a Q train in Manhattan last month. NYPD Cops are still looking for the crook who robbed a woman of her cell phone inside an Upper East Side train station last month. At around 9:10 a.m.…

File photo/Lloyd MItchell Two people, including a 4-year-old boy, were injured in a shooting on the Upper West Side early on Wednesday morning, police reported. The search continues for the shooter responsible for the assault that occurred at the corner of West 94th Street and Amsterdam Avenue at about 12:30 a.m. on July 26. Though…

Activists hold up the name of the recently deceased Curtis Davis at a City Hall rally. Photo by Dean Moses Activists continued to demand sweeping change at Rikers Island on Tuesday, after the fourth detainee died on the penal island this month. Curtis Davis, 44, was found unconscious in his George R Vierno Center cell…

Laura Bell Bundy (Sylvia) and Eric McCormack (Beau) in ‘The Cottage.’ Photo by Joan Marcus New Yorkers wouldn’t know it, but Sandy Rustin is one of the country’s most popular playwrights. Her stage version of “Clue” (which is based on the popular board game and the 1985 film adaptation) has been the most popular play…

A model painted by an artist poses during Human Connection Arts Annual NYC Bodypainting Day in Union Square Park, Sunday, July 23, 2023, in New York. AP Photo/Andres Kudacki If you’ve ever dreamed of standing naked in New York City with dozens of strangers while artists turn your skin into a work of art, you…

Scuba diving. Estuary restoration. Search and rescue. While none are likely integral at most American high schools, they’re essential to students at Urban Assembly New York Harbor School on Governors Island, just south of Manhattan. Located on two campuses, one for classroom-centered learning and the other for water-based research, the 20-year-old Harbor School requires its…

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy at Hudson Yards in January 2023. File Photo by Paul Frangipane New Jersey filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking to block New York’s congestion pricing program, arguing that the Biden administration had made a “decision to rubber-stamp” a plan that officials contend will hammer the Garden State financially and environmentally.…