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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 “Dorothy Day”

Dorothy Day ferry sets sail, honoring legacy of social justice that activist left in her wake

The Dirty Rotten System performed at the dedication of the Dorothy Day. (Photo by Tom Turner)

Dorothy Day ferry sets sail, honoring legacy of social justice that activist left in her wake

November 18, 2022

BY RACHEL deARAGON | On Nov. 4, a new Staten Island ferryboat, The Dorothy Day, was commissioned. Our city has honored a woman who dedicated…

Dorothy Day’s ship comes in: Catholic activist’s name graces new Staten Island ferry

The Dorothy Day en route to New York City last month. (Courtesy Eastern Shipbuilding Group)

Dorothy Day’s ship comes in: Catholic activist’s name graces new Staten Island ferry

October 21, 2022

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | While Pete Davidson and Colin Jost were thinking up a goofy name for their decommissioned Staten Island Ferry bacchanalia boat…

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…