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Gov busts a move on Avenue A hip-hop bar, suspends liquor license

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | As infection rates have been inching up, two more East Side bars were recently caught in Governor Cuomo's COVID dragnet....

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Planners pitch Soho/Noho rezoning but mute (literally) community concerns

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | There weren't a lot of fireworks at Monday's meeting about the city's suddenly revived push to rezone and upzone Soho...

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Trump hits a wall — of his own lies — in Soho

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | The Trump "Wall of Lies" lives — and now in two boroughs, to boot. After the initial outdoor mural —...

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A little love for Washington Street

BY MICHELE HERMAN | Washington is way up high on lists of the most common street names in the U.S — on some lists it...

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Whizbang subway shooting as man blasts urinator

This gunman must have been pretty pissed off. The subway slogan is "If you see something, say something" — not "If you see someone pee,...

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Huge turnout at start of early voting

BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL AND LINCOLN ANDERSON | This past weekend the anxiety and frustration of countless New Yorkers seemed to evaporate as they lined up...

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Cops arrest youth, 15, in East Village murder

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Police announced the arrest of a local teenager in the murder of Tyrell Williams in the East Village earlier this...

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The Strand needs a hand; Owner fears COVID could write famed bookstore’s ending

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Could this be the final chapter for The Strand? Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the famed Village bookstore's revenue has...

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The Met’s Sackler wing hacked as memorial for teen OxyContin OD victim

BY PAUL DeRIENZO | Last week the Department of Justice announced felony convictions against the bankrupted drug company Purdue Pharma, maker of the opioid painkiller...

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An East River Park amphitheater memory

BY BARBARA KAHN | On the heels of the upcoming irrevocably altered East River Park on the Lower East Side, a distant memory came to...

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Captain Ralph Clement tapped to head Ninth Precinct

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Captain Ralph A. Clement was recently appointed the commanding officer of the East Village's Ninth Precinct. Born in Guyana, he...

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Circumambulating Tompkins Square Park

BY JACK BROWN | Dedicated to Allen Ginsberg, who circumambulated Mt. Tamalpais and Tompkins Square Park Twenty uptown blocks to the mile. Five times around....

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Man shot in leg outside Riis Houses

A man was shot outside the Jacob Riis Houses last month, police said. According to cops, on Tues., Sept. 15, about 10 minutes after midnight,...

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Hoylman needles Trump on vaccine rush, calls him ‘superspreader in chief’

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Brad Hoylman has confidence in the process to find a vaccine for COVID-19. In fact, he's even participating in one of the...

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