BY SOMMER OMAR | For more than a decade, extreme weather events have battered Lower Manhattan. In 2012 Hurricane Sandy plunged Downtown beneath as much…
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‘CORNELIA STREET’ CRASHES: Well, we saw “Cornelia Street,” the new musical by Simon Stephens and Mark Eitzel, at the Atlantic Theater’s Stage 2 in Chelsea…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Local community boards are no longer “bogarting” the full list of panelists at the upcoming forum on the legalized pot…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | It’s ganja happen — in person. Community Board 2 has nailed down a venue for a “joint forum” by the…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | It’s time to get blunt about legal pot, according to Mar Fitzgerald. People are selling weed from vans, from tables on…
There’s plenty on the agendas at this month’s local community board meetings. Community Board 2’s Traffic and Transportation Committee will be discussing ideas for Neighborhood…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Members of the Coalition For An Affordable Tower Five rallied outside Four World Trade Center last Thursday before the Port Authority’s…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | They just can’t stomach it. A pair of local asssemblymembers stood with Downtown community board leaders, residents and activists on…
BY REED IDE | They were three Community Board 2 Titans — people with no compensation — who were our watchdogs. Ruth Wittenberg (1899-1990) kept…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Fri., Sept. 17, 11:30 p.m.: Doris Diether, the iconic Community Board 2 member who was an ally of Jane Jacobs,…