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Pickleball panic in Greenwich Village as pushy players invade playgrounds, squeeze out little kids
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | D-Day saw the Allies storm the Normandy beaches. Now, pickleball fanatics are swarming and taking over the parks and playgrounds of...
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Opinion: Against the anti-bike backlash; Car-centric system drives bad cyclist behavior
BY BILL WEINBERG | Two all-too-telling recent incidents. On the afternoon of Aug. 31, I was biking down the Bowery, and as I passed Broome...
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Latin Mass celebrated in East Village as pope cracks down on ancient rite
BY MARY REINHOLZ | The Reverend Father Sean Connolly faced about 30 parishioners from behind a free-standing altar at the Church of the Most Holy...
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Were a ‘bad shot’ — and a bad actor — to blame for man’s death in Tompkins Square Park?
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | The man found dead on a bench in Tompkins Square Park more than a week ago was a regular who went...
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Security upgrade: Block associations near Washington Square Park hire guards
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | In some countries where police are overwhelmed by crime, it’s not unusual for residents to hire private security in order to...
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Posts tagged as “Carlos “Chino” Garcia”

La Sala de Pepe hosts ‘Loisaida Legends’ Flores, García and Pentecost

“CHARAS, The Improbable Dome Builders,” by Syeus Mottel, tells the story of how Chino García and fellow CHARAS members built a geodesic dome with Buckminster Fuller, the architect and futurist, on a vacant Lower East Side lot. (Photo by Bonnie Rosenstock)

La Sala de Pepe hosts ‘Loisaida Legends’ Flores, García and Pentecost

July 6, 2022

BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK | Local historian and ethnomusicologist Jose Pepe Flores inaugurated La Sala de Pepe (Pepe’s Living Room) and Foto Espacio (Photo Space) in…

CHARAS’s Chino Garcia honored with Assembly proclamation

CHARAS’s Chino Garcia honored with Assembly proclamation

December 18, 2019

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Carlos “Chino” Garcia, the executive director of CHARAS, was honored with a proclamation by Assemblymember Harvey Epstein at the Two…