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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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Marte: ‘More balanced approach’ needed on Washington Square Park
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Updated Aug. 28, 6 p.m.: Art vendors and buskers in Washington Square Park are being "unfairly targeted and ticketed" due...
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Opinion: Anatomy of a noise complaint — trying to get help on a dining shed’s din
BY GILBERT BATES | On consecutive Monday nights, this July 24 and July 31, One and One bar at 76 E. First St. on the...
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Posts tagged as “Diem Boyd”

Kill Bill (31-B), dining shed foes cry as Council poised to make pandemic gutter structures permanent

A restaurant shed on First Avenue in the East Village. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Kill Bill (31-B), dining shed foes cry as Council poised to make pandemic gutter structures permanent

May 23, 2023

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Get outdoor dining out of the gutter already! That’s what members of CUEUP (Coalition United for Equitable Urban Policy), who…

Council removes D.O.T. — for now — as lead agency for Open Restaurants as it drafts bill for permanent program

A large, walkway-narrowing, on-sidewalk, temporary dining shed at Local 92, at 92 Second Ave., illustrates the city's current free-for-all, in terms of sidewalk cafes and roadway dining sheds. Though the COVID-inspired Open Restaurants program was meant to provide well-ventilated spaces, this shed appears to be completely enclosed. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Council removes D.O.T. — for now — as lead agency for Open Restaurants as it drafts bill for permanent program

February 18, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | So what exactly is on the menu now for Open Restaurants — and, for that matter, for stressed-out Downtowners driven to…

Dining sheds are driving them crazy — but they don’t drive

Stu Waldman, 80, who biked across town to join the press conference, said the dining sheds should be replaced with bike racks. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Dining sheds are driving them crazy — but they don’t drive

October 21, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | It’s not about being for or against “breaking car culture” — but about residents being pushed to the breaking point. Downtown residents…

How Hell Square became hell…some history

Clayton Patterson. (Photo by The Village Sun)

How Hell Square became hell…some history

June 25, 2021

BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | People are outraged at the videos of a wild late-night street party posted in Diem Boyd’s talking point in The Village Sun,…

Hell Square sinks to a new level of hell

A police car rolls past a rollicking street party with amplified music in Hell Square. (Courtesy LES Dwellers)

Hell Square sinks to a new level of hell

June 22, 2021

An open letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio, all local politicians and Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, cc’d to S.L.A. Chairperson Vincent Bradley,…