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3 weeks ago | 
gothamist.com | Christian Santana |Tiffany Hanssen
It's spring in New York City, and you know what that means: Cherry blossom season is upon us. Although peak bloom season won't be for another few weeks, a number of parks and gardens in the city have rolled out cherry trackers, including Central Park, the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. You can also check out the parks department's citywide Bloom Guide for details on where to catch these and other flowering trees throughout the five boroughs.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
gothamist.com | Tiffany Hanssen |Joseph Capriglione
As the winter season sets in, New Yorkers are contending with more than just colder temperatures and shorter days. The annual surge of respiratory viruses — flu, COVID-19 and RSV — is in full swing, straining health systems and sparking concerns across the city. With flu cases spiking by 70% in recent weeks and all three viruses actively circulating, health officials have urged residents to take precautions to protect themselves and vulnerable populations.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
gothamist.com | Tiffany Hanssen |Elizabeth Shwe
Emergency response times in New York City have been getting longer, year after year. That's according to Mayor Eric Adams’ annual management report. City Councilmember Joann Ariola, who represents parts of Queens, and Oren Barzilay, president of EMS Local 2507 Uniformed EMTs, Paramedics, and Fire Inspectors of FDNY, joined WNYC’s Tiffany Hanssen to talk about the dangers of increases wait times. The following interview has been lightly edited for clarity.
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May 3, 2024 | 
gothamist.com | Tiffany Hanssen |Elizabeth Shwe
Sixty years ago, the Beatles made their first visit to the United States. As part of their tour, they stopped in New York City, where a 21 year-old Paul McCartney captured their visit on his Pentax camera.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
gothamist.com | Tiffany Hanssen |L. Malik Anderson
You can change your life in any decade. Just ask Lyn Slater, 70. A decade ago, the former professor of social work started chronicling her fashion choices on a blog called “Accidental Icon.” She soon amassed over a million followers from her blog and her Instagram account. She landed an agent and modeling deals with global brands, including Valentino. But around 2019, Slater decided she didn’t want the life she had.
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Jan 28, 2024 | 
gothamist.com | Tiffany Hanssen
The winter doldrums are upon us — and they may be exacerbated by the inability to find something (anything!) new and interesting to watch on TV. So whether you’re feeling stuck in a search algorithm that feeds you the same suggestions over and over, or you’re looking for a shot of nostalgia, Kathryn VanArendonk has some suggestions. She’s a critic for Vulture and New York magazine, and she recently sat down with WNYC’s Tiffany Hanssen to run down a list of what to watch.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
gothamist.com | Tiffany Hanssen |Kerry Shaw
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Village Halloween Parade, a spectacle along Sixth Avenue known for uniting thousands of people, enormous puppets, marching bands and floats. Perhaps no one knows the event better than Jeanne Fleming, who has been its artistic director for the past 43 years. Fleming, who describes herself as a “celebration artist,” plans other productions, but this is the one for which she works 17-hour days, and spends all year organizing.
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Oct 8, 2023 | 
gothamist.com | Tiffany Hanssen
Even amid the ongoing actors strike — which keeps SAG-AFTRA members from promoting their films — the Montclair Film Festival goes on. Over nine days this month, the North Jersey festival will celebrate cinema with a slate of events and screenings that includes some of the year’s most talked-about films. Audiences will hear from big-name directors, and get a look at some lesser-known, independent, documentary and local works.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
gothamist.com | Herb Pinder |Arun Venugopal |Tiffany Hanssen
Last week, with the number of migrants in New York City shelters reaching some 60,000, demands for solutions to the long-simmering crisis reached a crescendo – as did the finger pointing. Mayor Eric Adams, in one corner, renewed demands that the Biden administration step in and address the crisis, while the White House, in another corner, argued that the city needs to do a better job of managing the migrants who are here.
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
gothamist.com | Tiffany Hanssen
A new exhibit featuring art from the Harlem Renaissance is coming to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2024. “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” will include the works of more than 100 artists from the early 20th century — a time early in the Great Migration, when Black life and Black art was being transformed.
