NYC Live Music This Week: Blue Note Jazz Festival Kicks Off, Baby Keem Hits Brooklyn Paramount, and MonoNeon Takes the Village (June 1–7, 2026)
The Blue Note Jazz Festival’s 15th year launches this week with Arrested Development, MonoNeon, and Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, while Baby Keem hits Brooklyn Paramount and the Village’s jazz rooms keep burning every night.
NYC Subletting and Roommate Rights in 2026: What Your Landlord Can and Cannot Do
Can you sublet your NYC apartment without permission? Do you need your landlord to approve a roommate? New York has specific laws on both — and knowing the difference between a roommate and a subtenant could save you from a housing court battle.
NYC Prescription Assistance Guide: Cut Your Medication Costs
A practical guide for NYC residents on reducing or eliminating prescription drug costs — covering NYC Care, NYRx Medicaid pharmacy, the federal 340B discount program, GoodRx, patient assistance programs, and home delivery options.
NYC Benefits You Should Apply For Right Now: Summer EBT, Fair Fares, SNAP, and Free Summer Programs (2026)
Summer 2026 brings real benefit opportunities for New Yorkers: $120 per child in Summer EBT groceries, 50% off transit with Fair Fares, free summer programming for kids and teens, and SNAP food assistance. Here is what is open right now and how to apply.
Cheap Sunday Brunch in Astoria and Beyond: 6 Spots Under $15 That New Yorkers Actually Eat At
Astoria is one of NYC’s most underrated brunch boroughs. Six verified spots where you eat well for under $15 — from Greek diners to Ukrainian pierogis to the legendary Clinton St. pancake.
NYC Restaurant Openings & Closings: May 31, 2026 — Dishoom Confirms NYC, June Baby Promises 4 AM Last Calls, and Bar Susanne Opens on the Williamsburg Waterfront
Quick Bites: London cult-favorite Dishoom confirms its first-ever U.S. location is coming to Lower Manhattan this year. Filipino-American cocktail bar June Baby is gunning for 4 AM last calls. Bar Susanne is already pouring scallop crudo on the Williamsburg waterfront. And Café Bar J.F. rises from the Llama Inn ashes with a South American soul. […]
Project Hospitality: Staten Island’s Largest Nonprofit Explained
Staten Island has roughly 500,000 residents, its own distinct culture, and a set of challenges that sometimes get less attention than the four boroughs connected to the city by subway. One organization has spent more than four decades trying to make sure that no Staten Islander falls through the cracks: Project Hospitality. Founded in 1982 […]
MinKwon Center: 40 Years Serving Queens’ Korean and Immigrant Community
If you walk up to the second floor of 133-29 41st Avenue in Flushing, you will find the MinKwon Center for Community Action — a small-office organization that has been doing consequential work in Queens since 1984. Founded originally as YKASEC in Jackson Heights, it has evolved over four decades into what it describes as […]
South Bronx Unite’s HEArts Center: A Community Builds Its Own
For more than a decade, the building at 349 East 140th Street in Mott Haven sat empty. It had been the Lincoln Recovery Center — a clinic with a remarkable history, first as a neighborhood health facility, then as the site of a community-driven drug rehabilitation program pioneered by the Young Lords and Black Panthers […]
Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn: 16 Nonprofits Get $1.5M Lifeline
When federal funding cuts started hitting Brooklyn’s nonprofit sector in 2025, Brooklyn Org — the borough’s community foundation — responded with a campaign and a check. In December 2025, the organization announced it had committed more than $1.5 million in new, multi-year grants to 16 nonprofit organizations working across the borough on food access, immigrant […]