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For a year, he was one of our most famous celebrities, celebrated for literally flying free and high above the city. Still, The Year of Flaco, an exhibition at ...

Jan 23, 2025 | ourtownny.com

“I would have never left [my children] if I had known that I couldn’t [eventually] bring them with me.” So says Marisol Reina (a pseudonym), the subject of The ...

Aug 26, 2024 | ourtownny.com

The City of Yes debate continues: New York’s City Council amended and approved the first two sections of Mayor Adams’ and Big Real Estate’s three-part City of Y...

Mar 7, 2024 | ourtownny.com | Christian Spencer

Housing is the borough’s “biggest crisis,” Manhattan borough president Mark Levine said in his state of the borough address on March 3.

Feb 26, 2024 | ourtownny.com | Christian Spencer

Alex Harsley was coming of age in the segregated South Carolina in the 1930s, when his family moved to the Bronx just after the end of World War II. In New York City, he said he found his neighborhood was surprisingly integrated, especially compared to the Jim Crow south. Through school yard friends of different ethnicities, he said it first began to open his eyes to the wider city. He first began photographing sports events that he became involved in including row skating and bicycling.