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Save Beth Israel coalition holds ‘victory march’ after recent wins
BY PHYLLIS ECKHAUS | Chanting “Save Our Community Hospital!” activists with the Campaign to Save Beth Israel and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary braved...
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Police arrest suspect in brutal sucker-punch of young woman in Greenwich Village
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A 6th Precinct detective recently arrested a man accused of randomly punching a young woman in Greenwich Village — so hard...
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‘Blank ballot’ protest scores 15% in NYC in Dem presidential primary
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Showing the ongoing divide among Democrats over the Israel-Gaza conflict, 15 percent of the party's New York City voters submitted...
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Jose Pepe Flores, Loisaida raconteur and record collector, realizes his dream
BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK | For a number of years, Jose Pepe Flores, ethnomusicologist and record collector extraordinaire, dreamed about creating a Puerto Rican cultural center...
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Erik Bottcher unveils ‘fang-tastic’ rat-control plan
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | One of Erik Bottcher's top issues is sanitation, so perhaps it's not so surprising that he is proposing a groundbreaking...
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Highway to hell — or heaven? Congestion pricing hits roadblocks

It’s not in dispute that traffic and pollution on the Lower East Side along the F.D.R. Drive would rise under congestion pricing. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Highway to hell — or heaven? Congestion pricing hits roadblocks

March 26, 2024

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | With America’s first-ever congestion pricing plan set to start in June, intense pushback is building — notably including from the man…

Road rage: Local congestion fee foes sue for enviro study

Susan Lee of New Yorkers Against Congestion Pricing Tax spoke at the Jan. 18 press conference announcing the lawsuit. To the left of her is former Councilmember Kathryn Freed, another plaintiff. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Road rage: Local congestion fee foes sue for enviro study

February 1, 2024

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Charging that the traffic, health and socioeconomic impacts of congestion pricing have not been adequately studied — as required under law…

Constitutional challenge filed against Soho/Noho rezoning

This vulnerable, low-scale corner at Grand and Lafayette Streets is in the Chinatown section of the Soho/Noho rezoning, though the plan "misleadingly" calls it "Soho East," a new lawsuit says. (Photo by Harry Pincus)

Constitutional challenge filed against Soho/Noho rezoning

February 11, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A lawsuit seeking to “annul and vacate” the Soho/Noho/Chinatown rezoning charges that the scheme would cause “mass displacement” of thousands of…