NYC Sentinel

New Work City: A co-working space blossoms in the Big Apple

New Work City is one of a handful of co-working spaces in New York City. On November 1st the space will celebrate its one-year anniversary.

— Alexander Hotz

Healthcare debate hits NY streets: Protesters target Aetna

Chaos blocked the entrance to the Aetna Health Insurance building on Park Avenue and East 40th Street on Tuesday morning as protesters carried placards demanding “Medicare for all.” With the help of a single snare-drum, charged with anger and determination, a crowd of nearly 30 loudly chanted slogans like “People, not profit” and carrying placards [...]

Transit workers take fight to the streets

Transit Workers Union members are seething mad. Mad at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Mad at Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mad about not having their contracts honored. And they are threatening to shut down the city.

“We’re gonna bring hell to this town,” said Kenny Onunkwo, the former vice chairman of the motorman division, which oversees train operators.

Cannoli and the Church in Little Italy

The Feast of San Gennaro, a 10-day festival celebrating the eponymous Neapolitan Saint, comes off as less a religious event and more as a celebration of Italian heritage.
Arches of shimmering green, white and red bunting hang over several blocks of Mulberry Street in downtown Manhattan, the air suffused with the scent of fried dough and [...]

Healthcare and the coming immigration battle

“You lie!”
When Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) leaped to his feet to question the veracity of President Obama’s claim that undocumented immigrants would not receive access to healthcare, he offered what many are calling a preview of how the two issues could become inextricably linked.
Just as some of the most contentious rhetoric surrounding the healthcare debate [...]

Signs that Ahmadinejad is in New York City

A day before activists gathered outside the United Nations in mass protest of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Tuesday a smaller group of Iranian critics came together to voice their displeasure in Ahmadinejad’s policies.
Shary Ali, 48, came all the way from Toronto to join the protest and give the UN her message.
“Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not [...]

A slow day at the poll booths

Amanda Cruz, 23, flipped through the pages of an urban thriller novel, resting her chin in her hand on Sept. 15 at the primary elections in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
As a poll worker for the 74th Election District, she didn’t have much to do. By 2 p.m. her eyes started to droop.
“I got [...]

Beer garden transforms Long Island City neighborhood

By Spencer Bailey
Studio Square – on 36th Street near 35th Avenue – attracts packs of outside commuters, by train and by car, mostly on the weekends. Since opening over four months ago, the beer garden has estimated about 30,000 customers each week.

MTA cuts agents at 17 Brooklyn subway stations

Some Brooklyn subway riders felt lonlier this week.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority eliminated positions at 17 Brooklyn stations. The staffing cuts, part of MTA’s plan to cut agents at 86 stations across New York City, removes 772 subway employees, according to New York City Transit spokesman Charles Seaton.


Juilliard and the job market

By Clare O’Connor
Violinist Jane Hunt realizes that to make any money as a musician, she must be savvy. Rather than resign herself to a precarious and often financially risky life of constant auditions for orchestras, she has taken a modern, populist approach to classical performance: marketing, networking, publicizing.