While on a rescue mission in Ukraine, Sergiy Ivanchuk was shot in the lungs, apparently ending his chance at opera stardom. His recovery is a marvel of medicine, chance and his own spirit.
There are more important things than making music. Sometimes, staring the loss of our careers in the face helps put our art in perspective, so we can better understand what made us performers in the first place.
When that perspective includes having brought 100 people to safety out of a war zone, the appreciation and satisfaction are that much deeper. On whatever stages Mr. Ivanchuk sings, his voice, his art, his soul, will all be richer for his heroism, sacrifice, and recovery.
When a new landlord bought their building in the Bronx and threatened to raise rents and kick them out, tenants banded together. They never expected how far they might get: the chance to buy their apartments for $2,500 each.
A nonprofit organization paid the landlord $2.6 million for the property in February 2022, and plans to eventually hand it over to the tenants, who will be able to buy their apartments for $2,500 each. Over the past five years, only 11 rental buildings have converted to this type of limited equity co-op, called a Housing Development Fund Corporation co-op, where tenants buy their apartments at prices set by the city, and can sell them for a limited profit.
In this case, the tenants made the deal happen without any funding from New York City, an even rarer victory. There are roughly 1,100 H.D.F.C. co-ops in the city, most converted decades ago, according to the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. That’s out of about 7,100 co-ops citywide, according to Ariel Property Advisors, a commercial real estate brokerage.
On the cusp to become homeowners, the tenants’ feat comes at a time when rents are spiraling and speculative development is rampant in South Bronx neighborhoods like Port Morris. They navigated a long and complicated legal case, staving off multiple attempts by the landlord to evict them.
The family of Brendan Costello gathered in the hospital half-light. He had overcome so much in life, but the profound damage to his brain meant he would never again be Brendan. It was time.
Brendan had spent four months enduring three surgeries and a lengthy rehab after infections further destabilized his damaged spine. He had returned to his apartment on the Upper West Side in late December to…
For more than a decade, the United States has nurtured a secret intelligence partnership with Ukraine that is now critical for both countries in countering Russia.
Everyone who sided with Ukraine was siding with US imperialism. We fucking told you so. The American Left STILL doesn’t get it. The Democrats are and always have been the far more effective fascists because even the Left imagines the Democrats are on our side even as they fund and arm fascism.
