Kelly Kreth

Let’s face it: While we all felt somewhat virtuous for repurposing the plastic bags we got from stores, in reality we weren’t doing our planet any favors. Maybe this bag ban could be an opportunity to change our ways. But first, we need to get through the coronavirus pandemic.

Gabriella, a native New Yorker, enjoyed sharing an artist’s space in Bushwick. But when she became a single mother, she moved to Morningside Heights to be closer to her family, and so her son could enjoy living in a spacious apartment. Here’s Gabriella’s story.

Nadine has lived in the East Village for 38 years and has seen a lot of change, including major new stores and a new entrance to the L train. She says, "while these new things certainly can make my life easier in many ways—transportation and affordable wares—there are indeed downsides." Her neighborhood feels more anonymous and more like a mall. 

“Premature” is a newly released movie co-written by Rashaad Ernesto Green and Zora Howard, who stars as Ayanna, a 17-year-old aspiring poet that falls in love with an older man, Isaiah (Joshua Boone). The couple first locks eyes on the subway headed to 145th and Broadway, and everything about their love affair rings true, from the couple’s furtive glances, initial shyness, and later, immature fits of jealousy.

Here's the tale of the San Francisco transplant who loved living in the East Village, until she grew out of her a cramped apartment on the fourth floor of a walkup in the East Village and decamped for a bigger and quieter apartment in a Brooklyn Heights mansion.

Life with two young and active boys in a New York City apartment was hard at times, but taking dance classes at Alvin Ailey next door made all the difference.