Melanie Marich

1 month ago | nypost.com | Melanie Marich |Alex Oliveira

Throngs of demonstrators marched through the normally sleepy streets of Sheepshead Bay to protest plans for a family homeless shelter — as locals claimed the city pulled a bait and switch to get the project OK’d.

1 month ago | nypost.com | Joe Marino |Melanie Marich |Zoe Hussain

The United Bodegas Workers of America are renewing urgent calls for ‘life-saving’ panic buttons and real-time NYPD monitoring in every corner store across the city after two violent incidents inside Bronx bodegas in just 48 hours have left workers rattled. Standing in front of Ameer Deli at 4966 Broadway — where a violent fight left one man dead and two hospitalized Wednesday evening — UBA leaders gathered to call for mandatory panic buttons inside city bodegas.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Joe Marino |Melanie Marich |Zoe Hussain

The United Bodegas Workers of America are renewing urgent calls for “life-saving” panic buttons and real-time NYPD monitoring in every corner store across the city after two violent incidents inside Bronx bodegas in just 48 hours have left workers rattled. Standing in front of Ameer Deli at 4966 Broadway — where a violent fight left one man dead and two hospitalized Wednesday evening — UBA leaders gathered to call for mandatory panic buttons inside city bodegas.

1 month ago | nypost.com | Melanie Marich |Katherine Donlevy

Hundreds of cosplayers descended on the High School of Art and Design over for its annual Fanfaire festival – with a homemade Grim Reaper getup winning the gold for best costume. The two-day event hosted over the weekend in the high school’s gymnasium rivals the much larger and more popular New York City Comic Con — but zeroes in on the young professionals who are making their creative dreams a reality.

2 months ago | nypost.com | Carl Campanile |Melanie Marich

There’s the “Rose Garden” strategy — and then there’s the “Cuo Garden” strategy. Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo is running a “Rose Garden” strategy in his comeback bid for mayor, keeping his interactions with the public and press to a minimum, an anti-Cuomo group claims. Front-runner Cuomo entered the campaign nearly a month ago and his camp dismissed the accusation as nonsense. “Andrew Cuomo plays the tough guy, but apparently he’s too scared to take a question from a voter.