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The scoop: What ever happened to Mikey Likes It?
BY ALEX EBRAHIMI | Mikey Cole hasn’t gone anywhere. He’s just in his corner. Championship round's coming up. He’s not fighting for the belt. He’s...
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Opinion: Bikes aren’t the danger — it’s illegal mopeds, cars and trucks
BY GERSH KUNTZMAN | The other day, a top city journalist asked me, "Some people feel bikes should have license plates. What is the rationale...
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Mount Sinai revives plan to close Beth Israel Hospital
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Updated Sept. 15, 5:20 p.m.: The Village Sun recently reported on persistent fears that Mount Sinai Health System is dismantling...
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Washington Square pot peddlers busted for underage sales
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Police arrested three people in Washington Square Park on Thursday for selling marijuana to underage buyers. Unlicensed pot vendors brazenly...
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Editorial: Target the drug dealers
As The Village Sun has been reporting, Washington Square and the surrounding streets are grappling with serious issues of open drug use and drug dealing,...
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Posts tagged as “Coss Marte”

Coss Marte to open CONBUD pot dispensary on Lower East Side

Coss Marte in front of his soon-to-open cannabis store. (Courtesy Coss Marte)

Coss Marte to open CONBUD pot dispensary on Lower East Side

August 14, 2023

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Coss Marte used to deal drugs at the corner of Delancey and Orchard Streets. Now, he’s opening a legal pot dispensary…

Scooby Scoop: Political fundraiser; From ruins of ‘The Riv’; Ex-Gem Spa space to be coffee shop? McNally Jackson move

City Council candidate Allie Ryan with Mike Cole of Mikey Likes It ice cream at the fundraiser. (Photo by @chrisryanaction)

Scooby Scoop: Political fundraiser; From ruins of ‘The Riv’; Ex-Gem Spa space to be coffee shop? McNally Jackson move

May 1, 2023

BATS HOW THEY LIKE IT: Allie Ryan, running for City Council District 2, and Francesco Gonzalez and Bridget Tuck, East Village candidates for district leader,…

Funding pitch for LES job-training facility for formerly incarcerated persons

Coss Marte and Evie Litwok at Suitcase Sunday, an event that showcases businesses led by formerly incacerated persons. (Courtesy Evie Litwok)

Funding pitch for LES job-training facility for formerly incarcerated persons

March 19, 2023

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Evie Litwok of Witness to Mass Incarceration (WITNESS) and Coss Marte of CONBODY, were both thrilled when they saw the…

New York’s first legal weed shops slated for near Union Square and Astor Place

New York’s first legal weed shops slated for near Union Square and Astor Place

December 12, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | The first two legal, nonmedical pot dispensaries in New York State could soon open in Greenwich Village’s Community Board 2. First,…

Protesters slam Chinatown ‘mega-jail,’ demand Adams honor his pledge, scrap project

Speaking at Sunday's protest outside The Tombs, Coss Marte, who has been through the system, said building more jails is not the answer. (Photo by Dashiell Allen)

Protesters slam Chinatown ‘mega-jail,’ demand Adams honor his pledge, scrap project

February 8, 2022

BY DASHIELL ALLEN | The protesters’ demands are pretty simple: No new jails! It’s actually the same thing that Eric Adams said almost a year…

Claudio, Chris and Coss Marte: A bodega, poetry, politics and ConBody

Claudio Marte, left, and Coss Marte, right, with Clayton Patterson in front of Patterson's front door when the Martes taped a show with him on 8 Ball Radio. (Courtesy Clayton Patterson)

Claudio, Chris and Coss Marte: A bodega, poetry, politics and ConBody

April 2, 2020

BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | I have, for a few decades, documented the people of the Lower East Side. It’s been a wide range of people:…