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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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Posts tagged as “Jumaane Williams”

Taking it to the banks: Tran tenants demand to meet with ‘bad landlord”s underwriters

Tenants and housing activists protested outside the banks' Midtown headquarters. (Cooper Square Committee)

Taking it to the banks: Tran tenants demand to meet with ‘bad landlord”s underwriters

February 25, 2024

BY PHYLLIS ECKHAUS | Fed-up East Village tenants of real estate mogul Sonny Tran led a boisterous band of activists to Midtown, where they loudly…

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams endorses Yuh-Line Niou for Congress

Yuh-Line Niou.

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams endorses Yuh-Line Niou for Congress

August 8, 2022

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Public Advocate Jumaane Williams on Monday announced his endorsement of Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou for Congress in New York’s 10th District.…

Opinion: Arthur Schwartz voting for Deborah Glick? Is the world about to explode?

Arthur Schwartz, right, with Jumaane Wiliams at City Hall Park last summer when Schwartz and other candidates received the endorsement of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Courage to Change PAC. Schwartz was running for City Council in District 3.

Opinion: Arthur Schwartz voting for Deborah Glick? Is the world about to explode?

June 22, 2022

BY ARTHUR SCHWARTZ | On Tues., June 28, we have an important election. The first of two primaries. Remember, elections have consequences, as we learned…

Scooby Scoop: Jumaane Williams, AOC PAC back Arthur Schwartz for City Council

City Council candidate Arthur Schwartz with Jumaane Williams in City Hall Park at the Courage to Change event with Alexandria Osasio-Cortez. (Courtesy Arthur Schwartz)

Scooby Scoop: Jumaane Williams, AOC PAC back Arthur Schwartz for City Council

June 6, 2021

Arthur Schwartz is racking up some key progressive endorsements in his bid for City Council District 3 in the June 22 primary election. On Saturday,…

Arthur Schwartz gets Bernie group’s backing

Arthur Schwartz is in the first round of endorsements for the 2021 New York City elections by Our Revolution, a national group continuing the Bernie Sanders movement.

Arthur Schwartz gets Bernie group’s backing

January 29, 2021

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Arthur Schwartz’s City Council campaign has gotten a big mittened thumbs up from a national organization created by Bernie Sanders.…

‘Hell no, we won’t go!’ Cynthia Nixon, pols, parents blast schools reopening chaos

The marchers made their way along Essex St. on the way down to Columbus Park. As the man's sign indicated, the defiant protesters are not about to let the Department of Education (D.O.E.) pressure them to send their children to school before they feel it's safe. (Photo by Clayton Patterson)

‘Hell no, we won’t go!’ Cynthia Nixon, pols, parents blast schools reopening chaos

September 19, 2020

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Call it “Pile on de Blasio 101.” On Thursday, Cynthia Nixon, a battery of politicians and School District 1 parents,…