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Leave the gun — take the book! If you enjoy reading true crime Mafia stories, “The East Village Mafia” reveals a virtually unknown, seven-decade Cosa Nostra stronghold in the tenements and storefronts just south of East 14th Street in Manhattan. This book profiles the most notorious Mafia gangsters who came from or frequented the East Village. Venture into the enclave where they planned and perpetrated headline-grabbing murders, international heroin trafficking, extortion, counterfeiting, gambling, and loan-sharking. Discover the social clubs, bars, restaurants, and coffee houses where the Mob changed the course of organized crime. “The East Village Mafia” is available on Amazon.

Court nixes prior ruling against Open Restaurants, but dining-shed foes vow, ‘It’s not over!’
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Oct. 5, 12 p.m.: Just as in comedy, when it comes to community lawsuits, timing is everything. An Appellate court...
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Pickleball panic in Greenwich Village as pushy players invade playgrounds, squeeze out little kids
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | D-Day saw the Allies storm the Normandy beaches. Now, pickleball fanatics are swarming and taking over the parks and playgrounds of...
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Opinion: Against the anti-bike backlash; Car-centric system drives bad cyclist behavior
BY BILL WEINBERG | Two all-too-telling recent incidents. On the afternoon of Aug. 31, I was biking down the Bowery, and as I passed Broome...
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Latin Mass celebrated in East Village as pope cracks down on ancient rite
BY MARY REINHOLZ | The Reverend Father Sean Connolly faced about 30 parishioners from behind a free-standing altar at the Church of the Most Holy...
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Were a ‘bad shot’ — and a bad actor — to blame for man’s death in Tompkins Square Park?
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | The man found dead on a bench in Tompkins Square Park more than a week ago was a regular who went...
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Amazon closes six Whole Foods stores across U.S. but adds food hall at Union Square, new NoMad store

The Whole Foods Market at Union Square has added a new food hall. (Photo by Mary Reinholz)

Amazon closes six Whole Foods stores across U.S. but adds food hall at Union Square, new NoMad store

July 1, 2022

BY MARY REINHOLZ | Whole Foods Market at 4 Union Square South has been a fixture in this Downtown neighborhood since 2005, long before Amazon.com,…

May Day rage is Amazonian, with a latte Starbucks anger, too

A costumed May Day demonstrator at Union Square on May 1. (Photo by Milo Hess)

May Day rage is Amazonian, with a latte Starbucks anger, too

May 10, 2022

Union workers, immigrant-rights groups, socialists, communists and guerilla theater actors rallied in Union Square on May Day, Sun., May 1, before marching off to various…

Wallace Shawn’s ‘The Fever’ is the perfect antidote

Lili Taylor gives a deceptively captivating performance in "The Fever." (Photo by Daniel Rader)

Wallace Shawn’s ‘The Fever’ is the perfect antidote

October 14, 2021

BY STEPHEN DiLAURO | It is impossible for me to imagine any other show being a more perfect antidote to the last however long it’s…