By Rebecca Redelmeier & Caroline Handel Oct. 12, 2022 A police officer who threatened his ex-girlfriend and shattered a glass door at her Queens home should be fired, a department attorney said at a misconduct hearing Wednesday.  Officer Ernie Moran, 37, was arrested July 8, 2020 and charged with stalking the woman after he smashed a heavy flower… Continue reading

Dec. 7, 2022 As minimum wage workers in New York City struggle with inflated prices, the New York City Council is urging the New York State Legislature to act. At a meeting held on Wednesday, the Council passed a resolution calling for the State Legislature to pass the Raise the Wage Act in its upcoming… Continue reading

Dec. 13, 2022 In 2019, the New York City Council voted to shutter Rikers Island by 2026. The pandemic delayed that plan, pushing the closure back to 2027. While testifying before the Committee on Criminal Justice on Wednesday afternoon, Dept. of Corrections Commissioner Louis Molina expressed doubt that the city would meet that revised goal.… Continue reading

Nov. 30, 2022 As the dust settles around the results of the 2022 midterm election, much has been made about Democratic losses in South Brooklyn. Driving these losses was a shift in Asian-American support from Democrats to Republicans. Nov. 8 saw three Democratic Assembly members in the area lose their seats to Republican challengers. Unofficial… Continue reading

Oct. 28, 2022 Ezras Nashim, an Orthodox Jewish, all-female EMT corps based in Borough Park, succeeded in their quest to operate a private ambulance in October 2020. Two years later, the ambulance has helped the organization amplify its call volume and presence within the community. “Our whole level of treatment has changed so much, and… Continue reading

Families Enjoying the Central Park Children’s District. Credit: The Cultural Landscape Foundation Continue reading

Sept. 9, 2022 About a third of the way into the 2008 romantic comedy 27 Dresses, Jane (a brunette, supposedly mousy Katherine Heigl) stands in the absurdly nice New York apartment that she somehow affords on an assistant’s salary with Kevin (James Marsden), a wedding reporter and—thirteen-year-old spoiler alert—her eventual love interest. Kevin is ostensibly there… Continue reading

Oct. 6, 2022 Six packages a minute was the pace at which groceries were leaving Masbia’s food depot on a Wednesday afternoon in September, bound for neighbors in need. Rosh Hashanah was starting on Sunday and volunteers at Masbia, a network of kosher soup kitchens and food pantries, were racing against the clock, assembling large… Continue reading

A photograph of Marilyn Monroe, one of the most famous women of all time. Public Domain Image. Aug. 28, 2022 In Susan Rice’s comprehensive oral history of Grey’s Anatomy, editor Tony Phelan recalls cutting a romantic scene between beloved on-screen couple Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) and Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo). He might have chosen to move back and forth between… Continue reading

In Michael Che’s Netflix stand-up special Shame the Devil, the comedian discloses to the audience that he’d only recently discovered that periods cause women pain.  As the audience chuckles along in good-natured disbelief, Che jovially defends himself, explaining that nobody had ever presented him with the information. None of the women in his life—not his mother,… Continue reading