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 “hip hop”

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…