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Dear readers, thank you for your readership over the last five years — and for your support, story tips, photos, reader comments and more, and...
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Editorial: Just say No to COYHO
The City of Yes. … eh, yeah, sure, it sounds positive. But you can’t judge a sweeping, citywide development program just on a catchy name....
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‘It had to go now’: East Village pizzeria owner sheds his shed
BY CHRIS RYAN | Workers recently dismantled Eleven B pizza restaurant’s outdoor dining setup in the East Village. Owner Vincent Sgarlato got a bit of...
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Elizabeth Street Garden’s last stand: Little Italy green dream faces City Hall’s wrecking ball
BY SUSAN SILVER | On the eve of its possible execution, the legendary Elizabeth Street Garden was dotted with afternoon visitors soaking up its perennial...
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Biking’s his life — but Bowery rider says e-bikes are making life hell
BY OTTO FRITTON | As electric bikes have boomed in New York City, enforcement of traffic regulations against scofflaw riders has failed to keep pace....
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Posts tagged as “Fly Orr”

OWWWWWW!! Artist slammed by e-bike tells her tale in a comic — with a message for the mayor

"Broken & Broker," Fly's first "Lefty PEOP." (Illustration by Fly)

OWWWWWW!! Artist slammed by e-bike tells her tale in a comic — with a message for the mayor

January 11, 2024

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Like the creative that she is, Fly Orr has turned the trauma of being injured by an e-bike into art.…

Not right: Hit by e-bike, artist must now draw left-handed

Fly Orr was recently selling her Peops comics and other artwork at a holiday market at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS). Three days earlier and about six blocks away she had been flattened by an e-bike. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Not right: Hit by e-bike, artist must now draw left-handed

December 28, 2023

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Fly Orr is known for her Peops comics — booklet-sized drawings of East Village artists, squatters and activists encircled by handwritten…

PEOPS: Steve Cannon

PEOPS: Steve Cannon

October 6, 2019

Poet Steve Cannon, the founder of the legendary East Village literary and arts salon A Gathering of the Tribes, died this July 7 at age…