Toxic shock: Seaport tower foes fear mercury-site cleanup would endanger schoolkids
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Temperatures are boiling in the South Street Seaport area as a developer hopes to start cleanup of a toxic former thermometer-factory...
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Kips Bay woman, 28, reported missing
Police are seeking the public's help in locating a Kips Bay woman who was reported missing on Sat., Sept. 4. According to cops, Brittany Hobart,...
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Brewer balks at Soho/Noho rezoning, locals lambaste plan at six-hour session
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | They just kept on coming, one after the other...for six hours. Longtime Soho and Noho artist residents testified in droves against...
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Chin, Rivera silent after demanding Soho/Noho rezoning actually create affordable housing
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A month ago, they called on the Department of City Planning to "return to the table now" and improve the Soho/Noho...
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Rocco’s, famed Bleecker Street pastry shop, dishing out vaccine defiance
BY ART GATTI | The Bleecker Street Italian restaurant, Pesce Pasta, tells us, “Yes, we are checking vaccination status for those dining indoors," while across...
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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…