Michele Herman in front of the Jane West Hotel, above, in 1985. (Photo by Jonathan Kuhn) BY MICHELE HERMAN | Willy, Lucille, Billy, Eddie and Jimmy.…
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Lucien Bahaj, who opened his eponymous Lucien on First Ave. in 1998, died in Florida earlier this year at age 74. Here, Clayton Patterson shares…
Ray Alvarez a.k.a. Asghar Ghahraman, of Ray’s Candy Store, at Avenue A and E. Seventh St., gave the new newspaper on the block, The Village…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Educator and author Keen Berger will discuss her new book “Grandmothering: Building Strong Ties With Every Generation,” at Judson Church,…
Ethan Minsker is a Manhattan-based writer, artist, filmmaker and a founder of the Antagonist movement. Punk music has always fueled his artistic passion. His most…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Susan Leelike, a longtime East Village activist on tenant issues, community gardens, small business and quality of life, died on…
BY KATE WALTER | The neighbor who used to live in my Westbeth apartment knocked on my door to ask if I had gotten any…
Clayton Patterson a.k.a. the “Lower East Side Documentarian,” has been photographing the East Village and Lower East Side since the 1980s. Originally from Western Canada…
BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | Todd Phillips’s “Joker” is a strange and twisted tale with a serious message that the public should pay attention to. “Joker”…
Poet Steve Cannon, the founder of the legendary East Village literary and arts salon A Gathering of the Tribes, died this July 7 at age…