Local Voices

By Michael Milton, "The Art of Seeing" In 1984, my boyfriend Jim moved from California to share my apartment--a tall-ceilinged space housed in a late 19 th century wreck-of-a-hotel on Manhattan's then wild and crazy Upper West Side.

We see the first day of school - Monday, September 13 - as a homecoming.

By Michael Milton/"The Art of Seeing" I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.

The Art of Seeing by Michael Milton Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving grounds. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of personal prejudices.

By: Kim Council, Candidate for Brooklyn Borough President A little over a year ago, I lost my father to COVID. He was taken to the nearest hospital in Brooklyn by ambulance.

By: Rita Joseph, District 40 City Council Candidate If you meet two New Yorkers, you're guaranteed to hear at least three opinions from them.

More than half of New York City’s 1.1 million students will be going back to the same overcrowded, under-resourced schools they left behind in 2020.  

New York City has taken homelessness prevention for veterans seriously, and it shows.

This year has demanded that all New York City families and students do so many things differently

Tuesday, May 25, 2021, is the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.