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A 26-year-old man was walking to a Lower East Side bus stop around 1:40 in the morning on Sat., March 21, when he encountered several...

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Beth Israel Hospital reactivating 400 unused beds for COVID surge

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated, Tues., April 7, 1:30 p.m.: Mount Sinai Health System confirmed to The Village Sun on Monday that it will be...

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Sham Samaritans help themselves to seniors’ cash

A pair of seeming Samaritans ripped off an elderly Village woman early one morning last month after feigning to help her, police said. According to...

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‘Spacer Joe’s’ doing a good job with social distancing

With the need for personal space now become a life and death matter, Trader Joe's is one supermarket that is really making an effort to...

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East Village bar owner hopes for a puncher’s chance vs. COVID biz crisis

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Things could not be looking any bleaker for small businesses amid the crippling global coronavirus pandemic. A former chairperson of Community...

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Poetry in the Time of Corona

BY CLAUDE SOLNIK | An emergency room doctor recently talked about "scrubbing the coronavirus off my body, if not my soul." While journalism documents events,...

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Claudio, Chris and Coss Marte: A bodega, poetry, politics and ConBody

BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | I have, for a few decades, documented the people of the Lower East Side. It’s been a wide range of people:...

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Puerto Rican pots and pans vs. the pandemic

From The Island to Manhattan Island and beyond, Puerto Ricans will show their outrage at what organizers are calling the "mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic"...

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Gimme Shelter

Tenement buildings have figured prominently in the work of East Village artist Mac McGill. During the 1980s and ’90s, the buildings he drew were formerly...

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Stayin’ Alive

BY KATE WALTER | My life has been canceled and I just want to survive. My last normal day was March 12. I took the...

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Chilling sight: COVID morgue outside Village healthcare center

Updated April 4, 4:15 p.m.: Village activist Sharon Woolums snapped these photos outside of Lenox Health Greenwich Village, the stand-alone emergency department and comprehensive-care center...

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Town hall for artists and freelancers on COVID’s impact

On Wed., April 1, at 7 p.m., federal, state and city politicians and freelance advocates will hold a virtual town hall for artists, freelancers and...

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The view from London

BY LIZ THOMSON | I’ve always felt that Britain’s voting for Brexit contributed in some way to the election of Donald Trump, so let me...

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Coping with COVID after heading for the hills

BY SCOTT OGLESBY | I knew we were in trouble when I found my wife soaking a fresh package of cherry tomatoes in a bowl...

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