Our Town (New York City, NY)

Our Town, The West Side Spirit, Our Town Downtown, The Westsider, and The Chelsea Clinton News are trusted sources for local news. Each of these publications has received multiple awards for their outstanding journalism from The New York Press Association. They are known for providing valuable information that matters to the community, such as the best dining spots, the most hazardous intersections, and updates on local events.

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A New Children’s Book Reminds Us of When NYC Girl Scouts Made History

Mar 5, 2025 | ourtownny.com

“Alice in Wonderland doesn’t count,” chanted a troop of New York City Girl Scouts, who realized that out of 22 statues in all 843 acres of Central Park, not one...
Flaco: Owl on the Town

Feb 26, 2025 | ourtownny.com

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 ...
Construction Worker Dies After Bus Crashes into Boom Lift

Feb 3, 2025 | ourtownny.com

Police are investigating a fatal collision between a boom lift and an MTA bus that resulted in the death of a construction worker. On Jan. 26 at approximately 9...
’The Cleaning Lady’ Seeks to Humanize the Migrant Story

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 ...
DOB Halts Work at East Side Site After Worker in Cherry Picker Dies in Freak Accident

Dec 19, 2024 | ourtownny.com

A few votive candles and a memorial wreath resting against a green fence are the only signs that a 45-year-old worker was killed when the cherry picker he was r...
Let’s Give City of Yes Tough Scrutiny Before We Sign Off, Says One Critic

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...
Deepening Housing Crisis Emerges Amid Luxury Resurgence in Manhattan

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.
Still Pursuing his Passion for Photography at Age 86 in his East Village Gallery

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.
Judge Rejects Move To Transfer Sexual Assault Suit Against Rudy Giuliani To Federal Court

Jul 17, 2023 | ourtownny.com | Mary Reinholz

A federal judge has rejected a move by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to transfer a lurid sex assault and wage theft lawsuit against him to federal court in Manhattan’s Southern District. The U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos on July 7th ordered the civil case returned to the New York State Supreme Court where it was filed May 15th by Noelle Dunphy.