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Mayor’s op-ed: Permanent outdoor dining is equitable, sustainable and beloved
BY ERIC ADAMS | Summer weather is here, and there is no better time to be on the streets of New York — especially at...
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Kill Bill (31-B), dining shed foes cry as Council poised to make pandemic gutter structures permanent
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Get outdoor dining out of the gutter already! That's what members of CUEUP (Coalition United for Equitable Urban Policy), who...
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‘Always there when you needed him’: Sean Kavanagh-Dowsett’s friendship, charm and irreverence recalled at packed memorial
BY SHARON WOOLUMS | The service for Sean Kavanagh-Dowsett at Greenwich Village Funeral Home on May 9 drew an overflow crowd, with some mourners stranded...
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Ralph Lee, Greenwich Village Halloween Parade founder, theater artist, dies at 87
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Ralph Lee, the legendary father of the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, died Fri., May 12, at Westbeth Artists Housing. He was...
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Foxface sandwiches owner wins Theatre 80 St. Mark’s with $8.8 million bid; Otherwise, not many bites at auction
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | The winning bidder for Theatre 80 St. Mark's used to sell some mean muffulettas there. Ori Kushnir and his life partner...
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Posts tagged as “hip hop”

Leonard Abrams, 68; In covering the arts scene, his East Village Eye created ‘a community in print’

Leonard Abrams, 68; In covering the arts scene, his East Village Eye created ‘a community in print’

April 18, 2023

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Leonard Abrams, the publisher and editor of the East Village Eye, died on April 1 in New Jersey. He was 68.…

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…