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The scoop: What ever happened to Mikey Likes It?
BY ALEX EBRAHIMI | Mikey Cole hasn’t gone anywhere. He’s just in his corner. Championship round's coming up. He’s not fighting for the belt. He’s...
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Opinion: Bikes aren’t the danger — it’s illegal mopeds, cars and trucks
BY GERSH KUNTZMAN | The other day, a top city journalist asked me, "Some people feel bikes should have license plates. What is the rationale...
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Mount Sinai revives plan to close Beth Israel Hospital
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Updated Sept. 15, 5:20 p.m.: The Village Sun recently reported on persistent fears that Mount Sinai Health System is dismantling...
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Washington Square pot peddlers busted for underage sales
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Police arrested three people in Washington Square Park on Thursday for selling marijuana to underage buyers. Unlicensed pot vendors brazenly...
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Editorial: Target the drug dealers
As The Village Sun has been reporting, Washington Square and the surrounding streets are grappling with serious issues of open drug use and drug dealing,...
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Posts tagged as “independent bookstore”

Village Works bookstore closes after two-year run on Lower East Side

Village Works offered books about all things New York, especially the Downtown scene, including art, music and street culture. (Photo by Zachary Lau)

Village Works bookstore closes after two-year run on Lower East Side

May 6, 2023

BY ZACHARY LAU | Updated May 8, 1:15 p.m.: In 1983, Joseph Sheridan moved from Los Angeles to New York City, specifically, the Lower East…

Incorporeal bookstore soon to re-manifest? An interview with Jim Drougas

Jim Drougas in June 2022, shortly before the closing of his Carmine Street bookstore after having suffered through the pandemic's economic impact. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Incorporeal bookstore soon to re-manifest? An interview with Jim Drougas

April 13, 2023

BY DANIEL BARENBLATT | A specter is haunting the Village. The specter of an unoppressive, non-imperialist, nonexistent bookstore: that sorely missed, people’s landmark of Carmine…

The sound and the furry: Bookstore cat is a story unto herself

Jim Drougas and Alex. (Photo by Stacy Kim)

The sound and the furry: Bookstore cat is a story unto herself

September 3, 2022

BY BEN TOGUT | Before Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books relocated from its Carmine Street location in June, one of its greatest attractions was a 2-year-old…