Lifelong Lower East Side resident Carlina Rivera is a frontrunner to be a City Council member representing District 2, where her current boss Rosie Mendez is…
Bushwick Directors On What It’s Like to Bring Civil War to Brooklyn
Cary Murnion and Jon Milott have teamed up to direct Bushwick, an action movie about a Texas army that invades the Brooklyn neighborhood. Starring Brittany…
What A Day Without Immigrants Looks Like in NYC
Uniting under #adaywithoutimmigrants, businesses across the nation remained closed today in powerful defiance of Trump’s crackdown on immigration. The protesters, enraged that Immigration and Customs…
Satanic Gallerist JJ Brine Created This Valentine For Donald Trump
Last time we spoke to JJ Brine, the man behind “the official art gallery of Satan,” he told us that Donald J. Trump was “pure poison.” That…
Bushwick City Council Rep Denounces Trump’s Latest Series of Executive Orders
On the heels of President Trump signing three executive orders “designed to restore safety in America,” City Council Member Antonio Reynoso is condemning the actions as…
A Trump Voodoo Doll and 7 Other Highlights of the Nasty Women Show
By the time I arrived at Knockdown Center on Saturday night for day two of Nasty Women– the four-day, all-women exhibition and giant middle finger directed at Trump–the place…
5 Ways New Yorkers Can Fight the ‘Shocking Turn’ Our Country Has Taken
You might have noticed that since the election, stories of hate crimes and swastika sightings have been everywhere. But the increase isn’t simply due to a greater…
Westminster Cares? Tenants of Trump Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Say Not So Much
After months of pleading with Westminster City Living to restore cooking gas and address a litany of repairs in her aging East Village tenement building,…
After Trump’s Victory, Local Immigrants Brace For Impact
With the announcement of Donald Trump’s jaw-dropping victory on Wednesday morning, a massive question mark now hangs over the country. Will Trump’s reign be equally as volatile…
Vist Trump’s Tombstone and Some Other Art Shows This Week
Arlene Schulman: The First 100 Years Reception Tuesday September 20 at The David N. Dinkins Municipal Building, 5 pm to 7 pm. On view through…