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The East Village has always been a hub for wellness — come explore why!
@coopersquare and @evimanyc are partnering up for East Village Wellness Week, a neighborhood-wide celebration from November 9th to 15th. Discounts, specials, events, and more can be found at evimanyc.org/wellness Plus, we’re raffling off lots of wellness goodies donated by local small businesses. Proceeds benefit Cooper Square’s Senior Wellness Programming.
And don’t miss the East Village Wellness Week Closing Party, free and open to all, taking place at Caravan of Dreams (405 E 6th St) on Thursday, November 12th, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM. Please RSVP online. Celebrate your neighborhood small businesses and take some time to practice self care while you’re at it!

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Hot off the press - the latest edition of New York’s Newspaper announcing the 2026 @davidprizenyc winners!!!

Over the years, we’ve found ourselves spending more time on storytelling. While our bread and butter is cash to New Yorkers with no strings, spotlighting the stories and ideas we hear along the way has become a big part of how we do what we do — what we describe as “investing in New Yorkers potential.”

This newspaper has been somewhat of an evolving project. It first was an internal memo in a word doc that then we started to share. It morphed into an ugly Canva booklet I designed (scary). Then when we turned five, we made a coffee table book to honor the stories of winners as they deserved.

This newspaper is the culmination of all of those iterations. So far, we’ve published three papers with many more coming. And we are working on yet another iteration to come soon.

Our newspapers are distributed at the @w4newsstand every so often, so swing by to see if you can snag a copy. (Or dm me!)

To the beautiful humans who made this possible, thank you. @mariahespada @irinananana @ginabygina 🫶

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THE MOST NEW YORK PARTY🗽 Our favorite night of the year! This time, we celebrated the future of our favorite city. 🛸

Thank you everyone who showed out to celebrate this year’s winners and every vendor that made the event possible! We’re still recovering from our Bolder Brighter Bash. There were fortunes told, dim sum consumed and collectible cards traded.

Until the next one!

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🗽 OUR OPEN CALL IS LIVE!🗽 We're giving five New Yorkers $200,000 for their big idea to make this city even better. Our application is open now until Monday, November 30 6pm ET.

Five New Yorkers just won $200K each to push the city forward. (Swipe to meet this year's winners!) Now we're looking for the next five.

Whether you're an artist, organizer, entrepreneur, educator, or just someone with a big idea we want to hear from you! Know a New Yorker with an audacious dream and a plan to make it real? Nominate them!

🔗 thedavidprize.org (Go ahead and click the link in our bio!)

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📸 A sneak peek into our announcement process… This year’s winners were photographed by the incredible @evelynfreja in her Brooklyn studio!

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One year ago I left journalism to help with storytelling at @davidprizenyc 🙂‍↕️ The Prize funds five New Yorkers every year with $200K to further their innovative idea for NYC. It’s been surreal to get to learn so much more about a place I care so deeply about. I’ve written profiles on some of the most impressive New Yorkers, hosted dinner parties to discuss complex questions facing the city, traveled across the boroughs with @seenycofficial, made silly videos with @ginabygina, @john_the_robot & @e_n_y_c and SO much more. There are countless people doing the most imperative work for this city and I have hope for the future because of every single one of them 💛

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Every year, we ask New Yorkers a simple but ambitious question: “What’s your big idea to make this city even better?” The David Prize gives five of them $200,000 of no-strings-attached funding to help turn their vision into a reality.

Nearly a year since opening our last Open Call, we’re thrilled to introduce five New Yorkers who belong on your radar. They’re building a better New York through housing, civics, sustainability, education and public health, and they were doing the work long before anyone handed them a check.

Here are your 2026 David Prize Winners! ➡️

📸: @evelynfreja

🗽 Aaliyah Duah is a Brooklyn-born finance guru teaching New York’s youngest how to make, save, and invest money. Through her company Financial Revolutionn, Aaliyah brings relatable financial education to public school students across the boroughs. Think: learning stocks through Roblox and investing through Jordan sneakers.

🗽Dave Ores is a Lower East Side doctor running a one-man practice on the premise that all New Yorkers deserve access to healthcare. Whether at his free medical booth at Tompkins Square Park or his ‘Pay What You Can Wednesdays’ program, Dr. Dave is bringing healthcare to every New Yorker at the lowest possible cost.

🗽 Isaac Adlerstein is a nonprofit leader helping turn more of NYC’s houses of worship into nightly shelters for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness. He’s created a model at Broadway Community, a one-stop shelter located in the basement of the Broadway Presbyterian Church, where Isaac turns crisis into stability.

🗽 Oded Oren is a public-defender-turned-tech-founder holding New York’s courts and judges accountable to the New Yorkers they serve. Through his organization Scrutinize, New York now has its first and only judicial transparency organization that helps New Yorkers use data to understand a judge’s record, compare judges, and draw their own conclusions.

🗽Regina Carter is a NYCHA Tenant Association President rerouting excess furniture to NYC residents who need it most. Her organization Repurposed Life has distributed over half a million pounds of furniture headed to the landfills to low-income New Yorkers through free pop-ups and drop o

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Happy birthday, @frankikauffman!

Six is the new four, you beautiful girl.

#birthdaygirl
#dogoftheday

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Painted a ceiling tile in a doctor’s (!) office - officially the most unusual doctor’s office in New York @drdavemd 🩻🩺

SKY GAZER
24 × 24 in.

Some inspiration from Magritte and O’Keeffe🗿🪜👁️

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How wonderful to see my painted envelope in Dr Ores’ street window in the East Village!! Daylight picture, courtesy to Dr David Ores. @drdavemd #art #artist #artwork #newyorkart

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#restinpeace #children #babies #Gaza #Palestine

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The best bathhouses are free.

East 2nd st and Ave B. Thanks to @drdavemd, neighborhood hero, for the neighborhood pool.

And @ilpostoaccanto for the home-cooked two-hour lunch yesterday.

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