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Yo(gurt)! Rats fight back as dining shed is demolished on 8th Street
BY MARC ADLER | On Sunday, around 10:30 a.m., I was walking down Eighth Street by the intersection of Sixth Avenue, and I noticed some...
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Middle Collegiate Church, preservationists on different sides on saving damaged facade
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 22, 11:30 a.m.: To quote from Ecclesiastes (and The Byrds), there is "a time to tear down, and a...
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Dorothy Day ferry sets sail, honoring legacy of social justice that activist left in her wake
BY RACHEL deARAGON | On Nov. 4, a new Staten Island ferryboat, The Dorothy Day, was commissioned. Our city has honored a woman who dedicated...
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City orders demolition of landmarked 14 Gay St.; Unclear if 16 Gay St. can be saved
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 13, 12:30 p.m.: In a case of neglect followed by a renovation-and-repair project gone horribly awry, the city has...
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Activists vs. activists in fight to reclaim East Village’s old P.S. 64 as community center
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 1, 5 p.m.: For more than 20 years, East Village activists have battled a developer’s designs on the old...
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Posts tagged as “churro vendor arrest”

OPINION: The churro vendor controversy: Facts vs. political correctness

A screen-grab from a video, above, shows a female churro vendor inside a Brooklyn subway station being confronted by police. (Twitter/@SofiaBNewman)

OPINION: The churro vendor controversy: Facts vs. political correctness

November 28, 2019

BY ROBERT LEDERMAN | As you have no doubt seen and heard, two recent arrests of immigrant women vending churros (a long donut-like pastry) has…