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Save Beth Israel coalition holds ‘victory march’ after recent wins

BY PHYLLIS ECKHAUS | Chanting “Save Our Community Hospital!” activists with the Campaign to Save Beth Israel and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary braved...

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Police arrest suspect in brutal sucker-punch of young woman in Greenwich Village

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A 6th Precinct detective recently arrested a man accused of randomly punching a young woman in Greenwich Village — so hard...

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‘Blank ballot’ protest scores 15% in NYC in Dem presidential primary

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Showing the ongoing divide among Democrats over the Israel-Gaza conflict, 15 percent of the party's New York City voters submitted...

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Jose Pepe Flores, Loisaida raconteur and record collector, realizes his dream

BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK | For a number of years, Jose Pepe Flores, ethnomusicologist and record collector extraordinaire, dreamed about creating a Puerto Rican cultural center...

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Erik Bottcher unveils ‘fang-tastic’ rat-control plan

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | One of Erik Bottcher's top issues is sanitation, so perhaps it's not so surprising that he is proposing a groundbreaking...

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BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | It’s an ignominious and dark date, but a Dutch scholar says he has established the exact day and year when the…

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Dutch scholar claims to have found date slavery started in New Amsterdam