Councilmember Erik Bottcher has announced this year’s participatory budgeting ballot items — nine altogether — ranging from sidewalk curb extensions and public bathroom upgrages to…
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Participatory budgeting empowers residents to decide how to spend public money in their community. Projects typically on the ballot include things like street tree plantings,…
BY ANDREW BERMAN | Are you a resident of the West Village in Council District 3, currently represented by Erik Bottcher? If so, though you…
BY ALETA LaFARGUE | In under two years, the policy of UBI (universal basic income) has gone from a fringe idea to one of the…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | While Village attorney Arthur Schwartz is known for his lawsuit against the 14th St. busway, it’s not the only issue…
BY ARTHUR Z. SCHWARTZ | For several years I have played with the idea of running for the City Council in a part of New…
BY ARTHUR Z. SCHWARTZ | I stood tonight for a half hour on the corner of 12th St. and Sixth Ave., and watched some 25,000…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Updated Sat., May 23, 6:45 p.m.: Arthur Schwartz is raring to go. The Village district leader is on the verge…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Sun., March 22: You read it first in The Village Sun. Village District Leader Arthur Schwartz is launching a campaign…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Erik Bottcher, the chief of staff to Council Speaker Corey Johnson, has announced he is running to succeed his boss.…