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City goes after gougers, sues Hester St. Supermarket

Gotcha, gougers! On Wednesday, Mayor de Blasio and Lorelei Salas, commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, announced three additional lawsuits — carrying...

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Store vacancies ‘will be the norm,’ state Senator Hoylman says

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Downtown small businesses were suffering, with streets blighted by rows of empty storefronts. It's been...

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Sanders drops out, but V.I.D. had already called it

Bernie Sanders withdrew from the Democratic race for president on Wednesday morning. Perhaps he took a hint from the famously progressive Village Independent Democrats club,...

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Composer Keith Patchel: From Ludlow St. basement to the stars

BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | I first met Keith Patchel in the ’90s. He had a recording studio next door to a coke bodega on Ludlow...

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Thugs stab man on Lower East Side

A 26-year-old man was walking to a Lower East Side bus stop around 1:40 in the morning on Sat., March 21, when he encountered several...

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Beth Israel Hospital reactivating 400 unused beds for COVID surge

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated, Tues., April 7, 1:30 p.m.: Mount Sinai Health System confirmed to The Village Sun on Monday that it will be...

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Sham Samaritans help themselves to seniors’ cash

A pair of seeming Samaritans ripped off an elderly Village woman early one morning last month after feigning to help her, police said. According to...

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‘Spacer Joe’s’ doing a good job with social distancing

With the need for personal space now become a life and death matter, Trader Joe's is one supermarket that is really making an effort to...

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East Village bar owner hopes for a puncher’s chance vs. COVID biz crisis

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Things could not be looking any bleaker for small businesses amid the crippling global coronavirus pandemic. A former chairperson of Community...

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Poetry in the Time of Corona

BY CLAUDE SOLNIK | An emergency room doctor recently talked about "scrubbing the coronavirus off my body, if not my soul." While journalism documents events,...

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Claudio, Chris and Coss Marte: A bodega, poetry, politics and ConBody

BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | I have, for a few decades, documented the people of the Lower East Side. It’s been a wide range of people:...

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Puerto Rican pots and pans vs. the pandemic

From The Island to Manhattan Island and beyond, Puerto Ricans will show their outrage at what organizers are calling the "mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic"...

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Gimme Shelter

Tenement buildings have figured prominently in the work of East Village artist Mac McGill. During the 1980s and ’90s, the buildings he drew were formerly...

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Stayin’ Alive

BY KATE WALTER | My life has been canceled and I just want to survive. My last normal day was March 12. I took the...

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On Wednesday morning, Traders Joe’s closed its Hudson Square store, at 233 Spring St., near Sixth Ave., after crew members there tested positive for COVID-19.…

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Trader Joe’s on Spring St. closed after workers test positive