Hilary Greer, a New York-based casting director and actor, loves auditioning. After given hundreds of auditions since she began acting at the age of 8, she had settled into a comfortable routine: “You catch the bus or take the subway. You carry your shoes in
What happens when an occupied building falls into disrepair? Tenants of 410 W. 46th St. in Midtown Manhattan say conditions in their building have only worsened in the three months since a housing court judge toured it as part of a civil lawsuit brought by the
In late spring, children’s writer Rachel Vail made a curious discovery: the imaginary worlds she had carefully conjured for her books were not just hers. ChatGPT had access to it too. When prompted, the generative artificial intelligence model, in under a minute, produced an outline
A regular bus stop on 116th Street and Broadway is covered with two poster-sized paintings depicting demonic-looking bodies. One is called Beyond the Boundary and features a grotesque, two-legged, thorny figure vomiting flames from its mouth. The anthropomorphic being stares with its upturned white eyes. These
For the first time in years, public safety closed the campus to non-CUID holders.
A historic building in Hudson Yards is set to be destroyed after the city claimed it through eminent domain. The space occupied by the pink brick, two-story structure—most recently home to an art gallery and a rare aquatic pet store—will become an access road between
It wasn’t the first time Kervin Castro, 37, had seen death. With crushed garlic in his shoes, the Venezuelan national waded waist-deep through the mud with his two children—Kervin, 11, and Keiver, 9—and prayed. Behind him, the corpses of migrants who had previously attempted the
The Veterans Affairs hospital in Manhattan remains open, after the federal government changed course and decided to keep the medical center operational. Although the Margaret Cochran Corbin VA Campus on East 23rd Street at First Avenue is up and running, there’s still uncertainty about its future. A
Sue Berch was 6 years old the first time she marched on a picket line. Her father, George Berch, was part of the controversial New York City teachers’ strike of 1968, which began with a walkout in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville School District over the firing
