First graders at P.S. 6 on the Upper East Side write op-eds for the community Teacher Beth Pereira’s first grade class at P.S. 6, The Lillie Devereaux Blake School, on E. 81st Street between Madison and Park Avenues, is learning to express their opinions in a persuasive writing unit. The six- and seven-year-olds wrote about 
Our four-legged friends have much to teach us in the ways of compassion There’s always too much on my mind to try to get into one 600-word column, something a now-waning bronchial malaise has made a little more daunting. But “malaises” do remind us how much words of concern and empathy help, and how professional 
An accident last week left a construction worker stuck in a pit of mud and lucky to be alive. What does this incident tell us about the safety of the massive project? Last Tuesday, New Yorkers held their breaths as FDNY workers spent four hours rescuing a 2nd Avenue subway construction worker stuck in the 
