Columbia University will require COVID-19 vaccinations
Columbia University will require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to campus in the fall.
'In The Heights' to open TriBeCa Film Festival on June 9
The big-screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's "In the Heights" will kick off the Tribeca Film Festival on June 9, two days before the film opens in theaters and begins streaming.
NBA scouts take interest in star Yeshiva U. combo guard
Ryan Turell has been working hard to be a standout basketball player since he was 5. The rising senior at Yeshiva University could become the NBA's first Orthodox Jewish player.
Vaccine may be less effective against New York COVID variant, expert says
The former head of the Food and Drug Administration says the New York variant could infect those vaccinated.
Yeshiva basketball players revel in their winning streak
The Yeshiva Maccabees stretched the nation's longest active winning streak at any level of college hoops to 36 games.
101-year-old New Yorker shows her strong survival spirit
Lee Fruchtman, who was born in Munich, escaped Nazi Germany when she was 17. Now 101, she reflects on the sadness and joys of her life.
Woman in labor on George Washington Bridge
On little Jordan Goldfarb's birth certificate, "front car seat" is listed as the place of birth.
NYPD to help vaccinate residents of public housing
Police officers will vaccinate NYCHA residents who are 65 and older and who have registered for appointments.
NYC restaurants 'hibernating' or shifting services for the winter
The coronavirus pandemic has forced many NYC restaurants to close, but now, other establishments are going into 'hibernation' or adjusting their services to survive.
Defying pandemic, theaters get creative to stage shows anyway
More than a hundred blocks north of Manhattan's theater district but on that same famed thoroughfare, Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays recently read his lines from a stage. But there was no applause.
Upper Manhattan enters yellow zone as COVID cases quickly rise
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that upper Manhattan was entering the yellow zone of COVID restrictions as the number of coronavirus cases increased statewide.
2 women die in high-rise apartment fire in Washington Heights
Authorities say two women have died in a high-rise fire in upper Manhattan.
Federal charges for former NYC doctor accused of sexually abusing patients
A former New York gynecologist accused of sexually abusing more than two dozen patients, including the wife of former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, now faces federal charges.
Columbia taking slave-owning doctor's name off campus dorm
Columbia University is taking the name of its medical school’s founder off of a campus dormitory because he owned slaves and once advertised a reward for the return of one who ran away.
Mob attacks man, daughter in Manhattan deli
A man was knocked unconscious and his daughter beaten with beer bottles in a Manhattan deli.
Switch to remote learning a new challenge for Spanish-speaking families in NYC
The switch to remote learning has been difficult for families all across New York City, but it is particularly hard for families whose first language is not English.
NYC's iconic street ball courts go quiet during pandemic
In the six weeks since New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's actions, iconic street ball landmarks such as Rucker Park in Harlem, Brooklyn's Gersh Park, "The Cage" on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village, Dyckman Park in Washington Heights and others have all been void of the typical soundtrack that help usher in the spring warmup across the five boroughs.
2 two men found dead on NYC subway trains
Two men, both believed to be homeless, were found dead in New York City subway trains in less than 24 hours over the weekend.
Beloved Manhattan bar Coogan's permanently closed
Coogan's announced on its Facebook page that COVID-19 had forced it to close—but not just temporarily.
Bilingual coronavirus testing site opens in Washington Heights
SOMOS is a network of 2,400 physicians who care for almost 1 million patients in underserved communities across New York City.