NYC Sentinel

Keeping the Fulton Fish Market spirit, not smell, alive

By Spencer Bailey
For artist Naima Rauam, the Fulton Fish Market no longer resembles the place, full of fishy fragrances, she found 40-some years ago. In 2005, the market moved to Hunts Point, in the Bronx, after decades of development, mostly facilitated by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s investment in the seaport area. Last Sunday, Rauam presented the fourth annual Fulton Fish Market Day, featuring an exhibit of her sketches, drawings and paintings and a panel of local historians.

Council grills NYPD, MTA on sexual harassment on subways

Council member Darlene Mealy has been groped on the subway. She has been touched and rubbed against.
“I am still traumatized by it,” said the Brooklyn Democrat, chair of the Women’s Issues Committee, about her trips across town in the early 1990s.
“You have to think about what women go through everyday. It should be better than [...]

Transit museum is a ride down memory lane

By Ruth Schneider
The museum store, tucked in the back of the Metro-North terminal at Grand Central, attracts its fair share of people who revel in mass transit nostalgia. But it also attracts little boys who pore over bins of track pieces, trying to construct the tracks of their dreams. And tourists who enjoy the novelty of the city’s transportation infrastructure.

Mother remembers daughter after death by drunk driver

Melissa Giorgio, a college student, is remembered by her mother. Giorgio died in 2008, a result of a drunk driving accident in Lower Manhattan. Her mother is now active in Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

— Misha Rezvi and Ruth Schneider

A Times Square-lit vigil for homeless youths

By Lynsey Chutel
For 30 minutes on a chilly evening last week, the JumboTrons of Time Square beamed the images and stories of some of America’s homeless children taken in by Covenant House. Below the bright light of the screens, Covenant House held a vigil to raise awareness of the plight of more than a million homeless young people across the country.

John McNamara: Husband, fireman, 9/11 rescue worker

As a New York City firefighter, John McNamara rushed to Ground Zero on Sept. 11, 2001. He spent 500-plus hours working in the aftermath. He died in August 2009 from Stage IV colon cancer, which doctors believe was directly linked to the toxins he inhaled during the rescue work.

— Spencer Bailey and Amy Brittain

Classical Latin America

Anyone who believes that classical music is the sole province of old Europe, think again. Or better yet, just listen to Polly Ferman play the piano.
Ferman, 65, grew up a precocious pianist in Uruguay. She started playing at age three, gave her first concert when she was seven, and by 11 had played with a [...]

Anna Catherine Strasser (1918-2009)

A tribute to the life of the recently departed Anna Catherine Strasser. Narrated by Steve Strasser.

— Marlow Stern and Paulina Villegas

123 Sesame Street, New York, New York

On November 10, 1969, Ernie and Bert had their first sketch and Gordon took a girl named Sally on a tour of the neighborhood. The 8-foot-2-inch Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Kermit the Frog, Susan and Bob all entered the scene, and the numbers two and three, the letter W and how milk is made [...]

Video: The next frontier of NYC Web innovation

By Alex Hotz and Radhika Marya
It’s no secret that Americans love TV. Although the vast majority of viewers (99 percent) still watch shows on a television set, it’s clear that at least some couch potatoes are moving online. Today approximately 131 million Americans watch about three hours of online TV every month, according to a study by two industry research agencies.