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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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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…