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Yo(gurt)! Rats fight back as dining shed is demolished on 8th Street
BY MARC ADLER | On Sunday, around 10:30 a.m., I was walking down Eighth Street by the intersection of Sixth Avenue, and I noticed some...
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Middle Collegiate Church, preservationists on different sides on saving damaged facade
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 22, 11:30 a.m.: To quote from Ecclesiastes (and The Byrds), there is "a time to tear down, and a...
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Dorothy Day ferry sets sail, honoring legacy of social justice that activist left in her wake
BY RACHEL deARAGON | On Nov. 4, a new Staten Island ferryboat, The Dorothy Day, was commissioned. Our city has honored a woman who dedicated...
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City orders demolition of landmarked 14 Gay St.; Unclear if 16 Gay St. can be saved
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 13, 12:30 p.m.: In a case of neglect followed by a renovation-and-repair project gone horribly awry, the city has...
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Activists vs. activists in fight to reclaim East Village’s old P.S. 64 as community center
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 1, 5 p.m.: For more than 20 years, East Village activists have battled a developer’s designs on the old...
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Posts tagged as “hip hop”

Hip hop icon Snoop hip to Tahanie Aboushi for D.A.

Snoop Dogg tweeted his endorsement for Tahanie Aboushi. (Twitter)

Hip hop icon Snoop hip to Tahanie Aboushi for D.A.

June 4, 2021

Tahanie, for shizzle. Legendary rapper Snoop Dogg has endorsed civil-rights attorney Tahanie Aboushi in the Manhattan district attorney’s race. All the way from the LBC!…

Power Malu is…not running for City Council

Volume 2, Issue 6 of Kevin Harris's L.E.S. Movement features a call for Power Malu to run for City Council. (Photo illustration by Kevin Harris)

Power Malu is…not running for City Council

February 25, 2021

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Power Malu is a lot of things: a hip hop icon who hosted MTV’s “Lyricist Lounge” in the early 2000s,…

Preserve LES Black and Brown culture: From DeWitt Reformed Church to amphitheater

The DeWitt Reformed Church, located on the Baruch Houses grounds, is the remnant of a historic "little mission" that ministered to African slaves who worked on the plantations of Peter Stuyvesant and others on what is today the Lower East Side. (Courtesy DeWitt Reformed Church)

Preserve LES Black and Brown culture: From DeWitt Reformed Church to amphitheater

October 15, 2020

BY KEVIN HARRIS | Quick story: Slaveowners bring slaves to the Lower East Side, capture local Native Americans, force them to cut a road along…

Save New York City’s last historic amphitheater, and save hip-hop history

DMC and End of the Weak performing at the East River Park amphitheater in 2008. (Photo by Kevin Harris)

Save New York City’s last historic amphitheater, and save hip-hop history

October 3, 2020

BY KEVIN HARRIS | We DEMAND that the East River Park amphitheater, where legendary artists performed at the epic “Wild Style” event be saved, replaced…

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

Scenes from the seminal 1983 hip hop movie "Wild Style" were filmed at the East River Park amphitheater.

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

September 27, 2020

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