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 supposedly mousy Katherine Heigl) stands in the absurdly nice New York apartment 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 to gather 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 special Shame the Devil, the comedian discloses to the audience that he’d only recently discovered that periods were painful. As the audience chuckles along in good-natured disbelief, Che explains that none of the women in his life—not his mother, or his sisters, or even his ex-girlfriend—would ever verbally express their discomfort to Continue reading