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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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Getting the vaccine
BY KATE WALTER | I was so desperate that I started praying to my dead parents: “Mom and Dad, please help me to get an...
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Posts tagged as “Governors Island”

Governors Island rezoning is wrong on so many levels

One of the few truly great open spaces in New York City, Governors Island would be developed with a campus of 20-to-30-story buildings for a "climate-research center" under the de Blasio administration's plan. (Courtesy M.A.G.I.C.)

Governors Island rezoning is wrong on so many levels

January 25, 2021

BY ALLIE RYAN | The Trust for Governors Island has applied to upzone the island potentially to make way for a climate-change research center. The…

No dice! Pols say Yang’s Gov’s Island casino idea is a no-go

No dice! Pols say Yang’s Gov’s Island casino idea is a no-go

January 24, 2021

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang thinks a casino on Governors Island would be a great idea. But Manhattan politicians say that,…

‘Stop racist rezonings,’ cry community groups from across the city

Community groups from around the city blasted Mayor de Blasio's rezoning schemes as racist against indigenous and black people and people of color. (Photo by The Village Sun)

‘Stop racist rezonings,’ cry community groups from across the city

December 17, 2020

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Thurs., Dec. 17, 6:30 p.m.: Soho and Noho may be only the latest battle, but New Yorkers have been fighting…