Small businesses, advocates call for rent relief
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Local community organizations and small business groups rallied on Avenue C on Thursday to plead for rent relief for merchants...
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San Fran honors Margo St. James as N.Y. pols, feminists debate decriminalizing prostitution
BY MARY REINHOLZ | The late Margo St. James, proud former prostitute and founder of a famed sex workers rights group called COYOTE (Call Off...
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What kind of planning do we want? Not another Robert Moses!
BY LYNN ELLSWORTH | In 1961, Jane Jacobs, author of "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," called city planning “a pseudo-science” that had...
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Pedestrian shoots at driver on L.E.S., hits elderly woman
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Call it pedestrian rage. A senior woman was blasted in the buttocks on the Lower East Side after a dispute...
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Through the fire: After surviving hellish COVID surge, L.H.G.V. honors its heroic staff
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A jumbo-size sign next to the entrance of Lenox Health Greenwich Village proudly proclaims, "Heroes Work Here." The staff at L.H.G.V....
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Activists fire back at ‘East Village politicians’ over poster flap

Wing Lam, executive director of Chinese Staff and Workers' Association, said the Chinzilla poster is accurate. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Activists fire back at ‘East Village politicians’ over poster flap

December 9, 2020

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Lower East Side and Chinatown activists blasted local politicians Tuesday for unfairly tarring the group East River Park ACTION as racist over…

A Soho artist’s plaint: Up against the city’s upzoning and a greedy co-op board

The writer, Harry Pincus, chose this illustration of his about high-rise development, "Empire State," to run with this column. Pincus sees the city's push to upzone Soho as part of a trend that has been going on for years, as wealthy nonartists — who are not even legally supposed to be living in the district — seek to force out longtime certified artists. (Courtesy the artist)

A Soho artist’s plaint: Up against the city’s upzoning and a greedy co-op board

October 18, 2020

BY HARRY PINCUS | As a certified artist, who bought a space in an old harpsichord factory in 1975, I am concerned about the recent…

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

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

September 10, 2020

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