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S.L.A. suspends more Downtown bar licenses for COVID health violations

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Over the past month, the State Liquor Authority "cut off" several more bars in the East Village, Lower East Side...

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Keep on truckin’: Rockin’ out outdoors during the pandemic

Charley Crespo a.k.a. Everynight Charley covered what he dubbed the "Sweet Sounds of September" last month as musicians continued to fill the parks with tunes....

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LUNGS Harvest Fest will be a bounty of art and fashion

BY CHARLES KREZELL | Come out of your cells or your shells! Take the smells out of your ears and your eyebells! Get the hell...

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This ain’t no disco! Top cop warns protesters about amplified music in Washington Square

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | After a wild melee with police near the Sixth Precinct last weekend, protesters reportedly said they'll be back in Washington...

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Art or vandalism? How my relationship with graffiti changed since the ’70s

BY GAYLE KIRSCHENBAUM | I’ve been away from my West Village home for longer than expected. With my 97-year-old mother suddenly ending up in the...

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‘50 percent! Now!’ Bar, restaurant owners demand more indoor seating

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | With bagpipes skirling and a coffin marked "RIP NYC Bars and Restaurants," hundreds of owners and staff from beleaguered Big...

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Chinatown mega-jail plan blocked by community lawsuit

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Neighbors United Below Canal’s lawsuit against the de Blasio administration's new Lower Manhattan jail plan won an injunction against development...

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Police arrest 12 outside Cowgirl after protesters ‘tried to enter precinct’

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Police didn't take kindly to protesters reportedly trying to enter the Sixth Precinct on Saturday evening. Cops cracked down on...

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Landmark the AMP! Protect L.E.S. hip hop

BY KEVIN HARRIS | We demand that a plaque be affixed to the East River amphitheater — "the AMP" — to celebrate and honor all...

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Cops collar man in wild W. 14th St. garage slashing

Police on Friday announced an arrest in a vicious slashing inside a Greenwich Village garage one month ago. David Young, a 31-year-old man described as...

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Chelsea’s Liz Crotty running for D.A., vows to crack down on white-collar crime

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Liz Crotty, a Chelsea resident and former assistant district attorney, on Friday announced a pledge to go after white-collar crime...

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Applepalooza hits the sweet spot of fruit and fun

An apple a day keeps the doctor away — plus, well...apple picking is just a whole lot of fun! And fun and delicious fruit is...

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Hoylman calls for arrest of anti-Semitic graffitist

What the truck? State Senator Brad Hoylman is calling for the arrest of whoever spray-painted anti-Semitic and white supremacist graffiti on a truck that was...

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‘Say her name!’ Protesters take to streets after cops cleared in Breonna shooting

Outrage over a Kentucky grand jury's decision in the Breonna Taylor case sent hundreds of protesters marching through Manhattan and Brooklyn on Wednesday night. [caption...

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BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL | Labor Day was no holiday for housing activists who turned out in large numbers to protest the displacement of communities of…

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We’ll displace YOU, rezoning foes cry outside Johnson’s home