With drums, dance, song and inspirational words, Harlem commemorated Juneteenth, the new national holiday, on Sat., June 19. Juneteenth marks the day, two months after…
The Village Sun
Sweet! They used to give out turkeys around election day. Leslie Boghosian Murphy is dishing out ice cream. The candidate is going around City Council…
BY PAUL DeRIENZO | Next month marks 202 years since the last execution in Washington Square Park. A 19-year-old Black woman, still enslaved, named Rose…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A woman was left bleeding from her head in Washington Square Park Saturday morning after she was run over by stampeding…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | More than 100 people packed an emergency police meeting in the Village about Washington Square Park on Wednesday evening. In the…
An elderly man buying a cup of coffee at a bodega near the Seward Park co-ops was assaulted and had his can stolen after refusing…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated June 17, 3:15 p.m.: In a medical miracle Beth Israel Hospital has been saved. That is, the existing hospital will…
It’s time to “take the handcuffs” off police and “restore order” to Washington Square Park, a candidate for Manhattan district attorney says. According to a…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Erik Bottcher is on the attack against a super-PAC whose support he says he neither asked for nor wants. The City…
Everynight Charley Crespo is constantly in both Washington Square Park and Tompkins Square Park checking out the live music scene and taking photos. Here he…