BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Danny Paley, the son of short-story writer Grace Paley, died Jan. 1. He was 71. The cause of death was…
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BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Leonard Abrams, the publisher and editor of the East Village Eye, died on April 1 in New Jersey. He was 68.…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Jerry Delakas, a beloved fixture for decades at the Astor Place newsstand, died in August at age 73. His nephew…
BY HANNAH REIMANN | The Cornelia Street Café, an artistic home to thousands of performers, artists, writers and many others for more than 41 years,…
BY MARY REINHOLZ | New York journalist Stanley Mieses, the son of Holocaust survivors and a former longtime writer for The New Yorker who witnessed…
BY ALEX EBRAHIMI | For want of a guitar shop, the guitar was lost. For want of a guitar, the song was lost. For want…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | The term “cultural appropriation” is thrown around a fair bit these days. In fact, a new occasion to declare it —…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | William Anthony, who was dragged from a fire in his apartment by two heroic staff members at Westbeth Artists Housing…
BY CAROLINE BENVENISTE | Maggie Berkvist (née Bellward) died at Bellevue Hospital on Dec. 9, after surgery to repair a broken hip. She was 94.…
Jean-Louis Bourgeois, 82, activist, philanthropist, humorist, son of famed sculptor Louise Bourgeois
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Jean-Louis Bourgeois, an activist, philanthropist and humorist — who supported Occupy Wall Street and the Standing Rock protest, among other causes…