What is the NYCity News Service? The NYCity News Service is a new multi-media, Web-based wire service that feeds New York neighborhood stories to news organizations – including newspapers, broadcast stations, wire services and Internet service providers – throughout the world.Where is the News Service based? The News Service is based in Midtown Manhattan and run out of a state-of-the-art multi-media newsroom at the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism. The news service aims to serve as a graphic example of how print, broadcast and online techniques are converging in the multi-media news desk of the future.Who provides the content? Stories and other content are reported, written and prepared by students, under the close supervision of the school’s News Service Director and professors – all veteran journalists, led by Dean Stephen B. Shepard.
In New York, block letters on façades of buildings are often all that remains of the original occupants. The employees of Hartley House still proudly claim the masthead above the doors of their Hell’s Kitchen brownstone as their own. The non-profit organization, which offers the community afterschool programs, GED classes, and other recreational services, is located in the building in which it was founded a century ago. Hartley House recently got a helping hand from some neighbors.
Earlier this month, Consumer Reports ranked McDonald’s basic burger as lowest in its class. ; That apparently hasn’t hurt the company's bottom line, though.
Every week, a group of mostly native-born Americans travel from a church in Manhattan to a detention facility in New Jersey.They call themselves the Sojourners and their mission is to change the immigration detention experience, largely through friendship.Through the clear security barriers that separate them, the Sojourners, part of the social justice mission at Riverside Church, develop relationships with detainees via simple conversations about life. It's the group's simple response to the ...
The Dalai Lama's four-day New York City visit ends with an interfaith dialogue at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The cathedral is home to 10 monks from South India’s Drepung Loseling Monastery, who are creating a Sand Mandala in honor of the Tibetan spiritual leader's visit.The colorful mandalas, which take hours of painstaking work to construct, are destroyed as a symbol of the Buddhist belief in the fleeting nature of the material life.
A grassroots organization is stepping up its efforts to combat harassment on the streets, buses and trains.For years, Holla Back NYC has been encouraging women to snap pictures of cat callers and harassers, and post the photos on the group's site. Now the founders want to make that process easier. They are planning to launch an iPhone application this summer that will immediately send the photo and other information to a database. From there, Holla Back will compile data that organizers hope w...
New Yorkers often fester in silence when they encounter rude subway behavior – the man who saunters up the left side of the stairs during rush hour, the woman who files her nails in the seat next to you, the kid who sings out loud to his iPod.But Brooklyn comedian Tom Sibley doesn't let public transit offenders off so easy. He targets them with his camera phone.Sibley's blog, Subway Douchery, exposes subway riders who violate the understood rules of public transportation, by plastering their p...
St. Vincent's Hospital, a Greenwich Village mainstay for 160 years, is coming off life support, unable to survive $700 million in debt. The hospital is phasing out operations, though Lenox Hill Hospital will at least temporarily run a so-called urgent care operation out of the storied Village medical center.Meanwhile, some 3,500 St. Vincent's employees are spending the hospital's final days saying their final farewells – and looking for work.
With the Islanders out of the playoff picture, the Rough Riders are hoping to bring some hockey glory to Long Island.The Rough Riders play sled hockey, a sport that lets mentally and physically challenged athletes live out their ice dreams. The team is headed to Ottawa for an international competition.
Art from every period of Pablo Picasso’s career will soon be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The new exhibit opens April 27 and features 34 paintings, 58 drawings, 12 sculptures and more than 200 of his works on paper, all from the museum’s collection.Just outside of the city, in Larchmont, N.Y., one artist is showing off Picasso’s work in a different way. Jitka Exler makes plush toys based on concepts made famous by Picasso and other modern artists. Exler hopes her creations wil...
Nathan Sawaya is a New York-based artist with an unusual medium: LEGO building blocks. He used more than 1 million of them to create the sculptures featured in his latest exhibit, “The Art of the Brick.” Sawaya’s work, recently featured in Chelsea’s Agora Gallery, is currently traveling to museums across the country.
