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At this year’s 32nd annual Halloween Dog Parade, we asked the dogs (and their parents) what they think about their costumes. The consensus? Let’s just say, hats off to these little furry friends for tolerating their humans’ antics. Credits: Jules Roscoe, Yael Chiappori, Jessica Quartieri & Alex Brichkowski
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Profile of Sepehr Pirasteh | Iranian Composer and Conductor Based in Philadelphia
Sepehr Pirasteh is a Ph.D. candidate studying music composition at the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University in North Philadelphia. Born in Shiraz, Iran, Pirasteh’s compositions draw on Persian classical and folk, along with contemporary classical music. He uses his work as a medium to express his concerns about the political and […]
Competing for best costume at the Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade
This year marked the 32nd annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade. With over 25,000 spectators and participants from the city and beyond, the event has helped fund the Tompkins Square Dog Run since 1990. This year’s top judges’ picks ranged from Best Group Costume, Current Event Costume to Best Chihuahua Costume. Reported by Trevor with […]
A puppy in the city
Meet Emma Donelly-Higgins, a junior at the New School. She hates when people misspell her last name, loves Starbucks ice matcha lattes (with oat milk and two extra scoops of matcha), and recently got a puppy: Sybil, or Sybbie for short, a 10 week old mini golden doodle. Sybbie loves tearing up paper napkins, pees […]
Strangers Project shares stories in Washington Square Park that make you smile, cry or break your heart
Some days, if you walk past Washington Square Park, you’ll see a rack of papers with handwritten stories. Brandon Doman has been doing the Strangers Project for 13 years, gathering stories and sharing them with other strangers. With more than 65,000 anonymous tales, you can read about love, loss, joy or fear on the pages. […]
The modern-day romantic
Mitali Sapra is a junior at NYU, an avid matcha drinker, a big Bollywood fan, and a lover of all things romance, specifically romance books. She adores reading love stories. Who cares if they’re not her own? She once went through 21 books in a month. But how has this infatuation with romance books affected […]
‘Women, Life, Freedom’: New York rally held in solidarity for Iranian women’s rights
Chants of “Women, life, freedom!” and “Say her name, Masha Amani” echoed throughout downtown Manhattan, as hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in support of the ongoing women’s rights movement in Iran on Oct. 1. In this video, Niyoosha Ahmadikhoo, one of the rally organizers and an NYU alum, shares her thoughts and feelings […]
‘No genocide of ethnic minorities!’: Russian Kalmyks say Putin’s military draft is targeting them disproportionally
On Sept. 23, a group of Kalmyks — an Asian ethnic minority in Russia — called for the end of partial mobilization (military draft) in Russia, which was announced by Vladimir Putin two days prior. They claimed that the process targets the ethnic population in disproportionately large numbers. The protest took place outside of the […]
Buddy the Rat proves you can do anything in New York
Jonothon Lyons had just finished live streaming an hour-long Instagram performance that included walking on all fours and climbing trash cans in Washington Square Park. However, he was not Lyons throughout his performance, he was Buddy the Rat. Lyons had finally sat down on one of the many benches that surrounded the park, Buddy’s mask, […]
Stanley Goldberg’s health may decline, but his husband’s support remains strong
Stanley Goldberg, 83, and Richard Daniels, 70, went for a walk in the West Side Community Garden on an April afternoon in 2022. Daniels had a mission in mind: to help his husband Goldberg regain his passion for photography. Goldberg used to visit this garden for hours at least four days a week to photograph […]