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Dear readers, thank you for your readership over the last five years — and for your support, story tips, photos, reader comments and more, and...
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Editorial: Just say No to COYHO
The City of Yes. … eh, yeah, sure, it sounds positive. But you can’t judge a sweeping, citywide development program just on a catchy name....
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‘It had to go now’: East Village pizzeria owner sheds his shed
BY CHRIS RYAN | Workers recently dismantled Eleven B pizza restaurant’s outdoor dining setup in the East Village. Owner Vincent Sgarlato got a bit of...
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Elizabeth Street Garden’s last stand: Little Italy green dream faces City Hall’s wrecking ball
BY SUSAN SILVER | On the eve of its possible execution, the legendary Elizabeth Street Garden was dotted with afternoon visitors soaking up its perennial...
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Biking’s his life — but Bowery rider says e-bikes are making life hell
BY OTTO FRITTON | As electric bikes have boomed in New York City, enforcement of traffic regulations against scofflaw riders has failed to keep pace....
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Posts tagged as “Charlottesville”

Activist, attorney keeping an eye on AntifaWatch, a new ‘Wikipedia’ tracking left-wing radicals

A new, allegedly open-source Web site, AntifaWatch, is like a right-wing-created Wikipedia "rogues gallery" that lists members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter, as well as anarchists, communists and other activists and protesters that the site and its contributors deem to be far-left.

Activist, attorney keeping an eye on AntifaWatch, a new ‘Wikipedia’ tracking left-wing radicals

May 6, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Like some sort of gonzo mash-up of Wikipedia, Vice magazine and Breitbart News, a new Web site aims to “log and…

Militias, not lone-wolf ‘nutcases,’ are the real threat, photographer warns

At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 2016, an Ohio Minuteman militia member shook hands with a police officer. The militias actively recruit former military and former police officers. (Photo by John Penley)

Militias, not lone-wolf ‘nutcases,’ are the real threat, photographer warns

January 20, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | We all know their photos by now: The “QAnon Shaman,” the Brooklyn judge’s bearskin-bedecked son, the goofily grinning guy toting off…