As principal of Dunaire Elementary School, Sean Deas has seen firsthand the struggles faced by children living in extended-stay hotels. About 10% of students at his school, just east of Atlanta, live in one.The children, Deas said, often have been expo…
By June 2023, nearly 60% of the office space in the 21-story tower at 215 Lexington Ave. in Manhattan’s Kips Bay was vacant, yet another casualty of the pandemic-triggered collapse of the commercial real estate market in New York. Soon, however, city taxpayers would come to the rescue to fill at least some of that […]
Unlicensed vendors who have long sold their wares in front of the massive and long-vacant Kingsbridge Armory say law enforcement officials have been pushing them away over the last two months, hollowing out what had been a bustling streetscape. “It’s stupid. What motive would you have?” a vendor who asked to be identified as Maria […]
Cartoonist Drew Litton observes that, for a few glorious weeks at this point each year, sports fans can immerse themselves in at least four major sports.
Local schools and organizations like the Virginia Department of Corrections mobilized to feed thousands in Southwest Virginia, but as emergency efforts wind down, hunger relief will face challenges.
