Ryder Kessler, Open New York candidate, takes on Deborah Glick in Assembly Democratic primary
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Ryder Kessler, a young politico endorsed by Open New York, among others, is running against longtime incumbent Assemblymember Deborah Glick in...
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Adams cancels Grand St. homeless shelter in Chinatown allegedly due to Hotel Trades Council opposition
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated May 2, 9:00 p.m.: In a stunning reversal and a major victory for Chinatown residents and merchants, Mayor Adams has...
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Stuy Town parking on loop roads is loopy: D.O.T./N.Y.P.D. reject 15-minute grace period in no-standing zones
BY KEITH J. KELLY | New York Police Department ticket agents are apparently no longer honoring a decades-old agreement reached between the Department of Transportation...
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Famed Little Italy cheese store trying to raise enough cheddar to remain
BY JULIET CAMA | Little Italy’s prized Alleva Dairy faces an impending threat of closure. Established in 1892, Alleva Dairy is the oldest cheese store...
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Stuy Town mayhem trifecta: Armed robbery, man carted off after domestic incident, hard-luck shoplifter
BY KEITH J. KELLY | There was a mini crime wave in the Stuyvestant Town area on Thursday. A shoplifter was detained at a hardware...
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Posts tagged as “Dorothy Day”

East Village pacifist Carmen Trotta freed from jail for anti-nuke protest only to face COVID outbreak at St. Joe’s

Carmen Trotta, third from left, with the rest of the Plowshares 7, including Martha Hennessy, Dorothy Day's granddaughter, to the right of Trotta. (Courtesy Plowshares 7)

East Village pacifist Carmen Trotta freed from jail for anti-nuke protest only to face COVID outbreak at St. Joe’s

December 25, 2021

BY MARY REINHOLZ | East Village pacifist Carmen Trotta left a low-security prison camp at the Upstate Otisville federal correctional facility on early release from…

East Village pacifist starts sentence for ’18 nuke-sub protest action

Pacifist Carmen Trotta in the soup kitchen of St. Joseph's House of Hospitality on E. First St. (Photo by Mary Reinholz)

East Village pacifist starts sentence for ’18 nuke-sub protest action

December 16, 2020

BY MARY REINHOLZ | Updated Fri., Dec. 18, 3 a.m.: Prominent East Village pacifist Carmen Trotta, a Catholic Worker volunteer who opposed the war in…

No room at the inn: Housing at Nativity Church site won’t have affordable units

William Arroyo, who lives in the Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association, at a rally for affordable housing outside the closed Church of the Nativity in January. (Photo by The Village Sun)

No room at the inn: Housing at Nativity Church site won’t have affordable units

September 3, 2020

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Updated Thurs., Sept. 3, 12 p.m.: Permits were filed on Aug. 31 for a new 11-story building on the site…