What It’s Like To Be a Man with Breast Cancer
For minority health awareness month, a black male breast cancer survivor tells his story of how he fought the stigma
NY City Scene
When Table Tennis Meets Disc Jockey in Midtown New York
A resurgence of ping-pong in the Big Apple
An Abuse Victim Turns Her Pain Into Poetry
Veronica Gonzalez was a victim of domestic violence for over five years, but she’s used her pain for poetry and music
The Oldest House in Manhattan is Rich with Culture and History, and Maybe Even Ghosts
Have the historical figures who used to inhabit the Morris-Jumel Mansion ever left the premises? NYCity Lens went on a paranormal investigation to find out.
Harlem’s Swing Dance Society Keeps “The Lindy Hop” Alive
The dance was born in Harlem during the Great Depression, and that’s where some residents are keeping it going.
Can a Local Winner Go All the Way?
Tacitus wins the Wood Memorial at the Aqueduct in Queens, and is now leading among Kentucky Derby contenders
Orchid Overkill
Orchids are one of the oldest flowering plants on the planet, but due to the increasing threats to the environment they’re starting to head to extinction.
The Meaning of Spelling
When nine-year-old Fatima Ali is restless, and she has trouble falling asleep, she lays down in bed and spells out words in her head to help her get to sleep. She often does it alongside her mother, who isn’t a native English speaker and uses this bedside exercise to practice her pronunciation too. Mom tucks […]
The Right To Their Roots, Literally
The new NYC guidelines giving black people the right to wear their hair however they like will likely drive profits for natural hair influencers and entrepreneurs.
Can an American Become a K-pop Star?
A Jamaican-American woman wants to become a star in the Korean pop music industry. Can she make it as a foreigner?
Climb Vessel, Take a Vesselfie
Postcards from the first weekend at New York City’s newest playground, Hudson Yards
The Women in the Waves
The few female surfers in New York are building their own tight-knit community
The Last Stop
Derrick Richard began his adventure on the subway as a 2-year-old boy taking the hour-long trip with his family from their old home in Brooklyn to their new home in the Bronx. Along the way, Richard, now 22, remembers watching people enter and exit the train cars at each stop. When it was their turn, […]
The Department of Sanitation is Trying to Infiltrate High Fashion
The New York Department of Sanitation doesn’t usually concern itself with high fashion. But it did last week. From 6 to 8 p.m. last Wednesday around 60 shoppers drank champagne, ate cupcakes and got style advice from five New York Instagram influencers, while they browsed racks of secondhand clothes at Housing Works, a thrift shop […]
St. Patrick’s Day Comes Early to the Rockaways
Snow was piled on the ground and temperatures hovered below 40 degrees for the first Saint Patrick’s Day parade of the year out in Rockaway, Queens, yesterday. But the residents turned out strongly anyway. Crowds of bright green lined the parade route, an antidote to the chill weather. Saint Patrick’s Day is not until March […]
New Yorkers Remember Karl Lagerfeld
The Karl Lagerfeld store in SoHo had an arrangement of white roses positioned in its window Wednesday in memory of the iconic fashion designer, who passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 19 in Paris. On the sidewalk outside the shop, passersby and fans also left their own tokens of appreciation—lit candles and a few good bye […]