Peter Kramer

5 days ago | lohud.com | Peter Kramer

We asked dozens of our friends and neighbors across the Lower Hudson Valley to complete the sentence: "It's not summer until I..." — and they didn't disappoint. We're calling them “The Summer 100,” although we ended up talking to more than 100 people. At the very least, our Summer 100 will give you some options to consider. This week, we're hungry for summer. For these local folks, summer means dining with a water view.

5 days ago | lohud.com | Peter Kramer

What are summer go-to's for Journal News staffers? The "lohud Summer 100" fill-in-the-blank — "It's not summer until I …" — got us thinking. Visual journalists Tania Savayan and Seth Harrison fanned out across the Lower Hudson Valley in search of summer, finding folks in parks and ballgames and events and asking them what is their surest sign of summer. Their answers demonstrate the breadth of options and opinions, some of them very firmly held.

6 days ago | lohud.com | Peter Kramer

Summer doesn’t start, officially, until 10:43 p.m., June 20, with the arrival of the summer solstice. But that’s just for those of an astronomical bent. For many, Memorial Day weekend was the unofficial start of summer. But for nearly all of us, summer starts in more personal and particular ways. What, exactly, makes it summer? Is summer a place? An event? A food?

1 week ago | lohud.com | Peter Kramer

Thousands of Puerto Ricans call Yonkers home, so they held a parade. They came out by the thousands and lined nearly two miles of South Broadway in Yonkers, and they were rewarded with an eyeful and an earful at the Puerto Rican Day Parade on June 23, 1996. Over several hours, 65 groups and 18 floats, plus bands and balloons, made their way up South Broadway, from McLean Avenue to Getty Square, putting a red-white-and-blue Puerto Rican ribbon on a three-day ethnic festival.

1 week ago | northjersey.com | Peter Kramer

Lohud.com and The Journal News are the official media outlet for the 2025 Metro Awards, live from Purchase PAC on Monday, June 2. The night kicks off at 5:30 p.m., with Pete Kramer's Blue-Carpet Interview Show. Pete will talk to nominees and the night's hosts: Kate Rockwell and Grey Henson of Broadway's "Mean Girls."The live ceremony begins at 7:30 p.m. with awards presented in dozens of categories.