"Of all the people in the country the Mercure Hotel could have upgraded and put in the room next to the bird netting, with 10 dead birds rotting in it, I was just the worst person." Kevin Newell was ...

Animal lovers on the Upper East Side are pushing back against a system of scaffold netting they say is trapping and harming birds — netting the city says shouldn’t have been installed at all.

Nick Caloway is a multi-skilled journalist who was thrilled to join the CBS News New York news team in August 2019. Since then, Nick has covered crime, politics, the pandemic and more across the ...