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Opinion: Congestion pricing would fuel pollution on Lower East Side
BY KATHRYN FREED | Congestion pricing is coming. Most people either love it or hate it. Most of us acknowledge the need to reduce traffic...
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Rep. Goldman: No ceasefire until all hostages freed, Hamas’s ‘removal from Gaza’
BY THE VILLAGE S SUN | On Nov. 27, Congressmember Dan Goldman — representing Manhattan south of 14th Street, plus part of Brooklyn — called...
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Landmarks Preservation Commission in thrall to Big Real Estate, panel says
BY PHYLLIS ECKHAUS | “Time To Reform Our Landmarks Preservation Commission?” That was the question before an Oct. 18 panel at Grace Church High School...
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City pulls permit for illegal Soho penthouse as wealthy West Broadway neighbors battle on
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A wealthy Soho co-op owner is trying to score a "takedown," literally, against his even more monied neighbor. The Department of...
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The eagle-owl has landed: Free bird Flaco spotted on Lower East Side
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Flaco — New York City's favorite celebrity owl — touched down at the Grand Street co-ops on Wednesday night. Robin Herbst, ...
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Posts tagged as “Carlos “Chino” Garcia”

Talking CHARAS / El Bohio with Chino at Two Boots

The Bard students enjoyed meeting with Chino Garcia, fourth from right. (Photo by Phil Hartman)

Talking CHARAS / El Bohio with Chino at Two Boots

February 26, 2023

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | A group of Bard College architecture students met with Carlos “Chino” Garcia, the legendary leader of CHARAS, over pizza at…

Judge orders developer to sell old P.S. 64 as two-decade-long fight to reclaim building still going strong

Carlos "Chino" Garcia, at left, and supporters rallied in December to restore the old P.S. 64 as a cultural and community center. (Photo by David Sanders)

Judge orders developer to sell old P.S. 64 as two-decade-long fight to reclaim building still going strong

January 1, 2023

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Supporters of CHARAS El Bohio rallied outside the old P.S. 64 on Dec. 17 to mark the 21st anniversary of the…

Carlos ‘Chino’ García mosaic unveiling brings outpouring of love and accolades

García with muralist Juan Carlos Pinto. (Photo by Bonnie Rosenstock)

Carlos ‘Chino’ García mosaic unveiling brings outpouring of love and accolades

December 6, 2022

BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK | Herman Hewitt was speaking of his longtime friend and colleague Carlos “Chino” García, who was being memorialized with a stunning mosaic,…

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…