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2 days ago | 
opencampus.org | Jonathan Custodio
Simíra Smith came to New York City during the height of the pandemic, lived in a shelter for more than a year, survived a fire and struggled with impostor syndrome. Now, she’s a budding scientist as one of 465 Macaulay Honors College students to earn a diploma this year from the CUNY honors program. “Even though I know what I’m capable of, I always underestimate myself,” she told THE CITY.
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3 days ago | 
thecity.nyc | Jonathan Custodio
THE CITY partners with Open Campus on coverage of the City University of New York. Simíra Smith came to New York City during the height of the pandemic, lived in a shelter for more than a year, survived a fire and struggled with impostor syndrome. Now, she’s a budding scientist as one of 465 Macaulay Honors College students to earn a diploma this year from the CUNY honors program. “Even though I know what I’m capable of, I always underestimate myself,” she told THE CITY.
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4 days ago | 
thecity.nyc | Jonathan Custodio
A longtime Bronx community organizing group and the team picked by the city to develop the Kingsbridge Armory have announced an unprecedented deal that will allow the nonprofit to own 20% of the long-abandoned landmark.
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4 days ago | 
thecity.nyc | Jonathan Custodio
Affordable New York, a local super PAC affiliated with property rental company Airbnb, is spending $100,000 on a City Council contest to replace term-limited Democrat Diana Ayala in the South Bronx and East Harlem, according to the latest campaign finance disclosures. The super PAC is throwing its weight behind Ayala’s chief of staff, Elsie Encarnacion and has already spent big on other Bronx Council races.
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1 week ago | 
thecity.nyc | Jonathan Custodio
The first free Muslim settler in Manhattan, Anthony Jansen Van Salee, landed in 1633. Six years later, the Dutch and North African rabble-rouser, who’d become one of the largest landowners in what was then New Amsterdam, was banished to the hinterlands of Brooklyn for a litany of colorful misdeeds, including paying wages with a dead goat.
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3 weeks ago | 
thecity.nyc | Jonathan Custodio
The CEO of a local super PAC spending big money to support City Council candidate Wil López has fallen flat in an unprecedented effort to knock five competing candidates off of the ballot — including a member of the Central Park Five, Raymond Santana, hoping to join fellow exoneree Yusuf Salaam on the Council.
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3 weeks ago | 
thecity.nyc | Jonathan Custodio
The Trump administration has cut off support that has sustained a teaching model that for decades has been instrumental in catapulting students into careers as scientists. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE) supports the pursuit of advanced degrees by students in the biomedical field, who are offered tuition assistance, mentorship, registration to professional conferences and, crucially, lab experience.
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1 month ago | 
thecity.nyc | Jonathan Custodio
Clarisa Alayeto, who is running to replace term-limited Councilmember Diana Ayala in Mott Haven, East Harlem and Randall’s Island, won her appeal to remain on the Democratic primary ballot next month. It’s a big win for the first-time candidate against a big-money special interest group that brought the legal challenge to try to kick her off the primary lineup.
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1 month ago | 
opencampus.org | Jonathan Custodio
Dr. Denis Nash was at an HIV conference in San Francisco last month when rumors began to swirl that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was canceling research grants awarded to universities across the country to study vaccines or vaccine hesitancy. “We actually heard something along the lines of, ‘They were all canceled yesterday, and all of the investigators were informed,’” Nash, an epidemiology professor at the City University of New York School of Public Health, told THE CITY on Monday.
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1 month ago | 
thecity.nyc | Jonathan Custodio
Michael Jenkins, a founder of the Wall Street trading firm Jane Street, contributed $650,000 earlier this month to the political action committee Ending Homelessness & Building a Better NYC, which has been backing City Council candidate Wilfredo López in The Bronx. The donation, filed on April 16, follows $950,000 Jenkins gave in November that was first reported by New York Focus.
