Soho/Noho rezoning incentivizes demolition and displacement: And landlords know it
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Housing activists and preservationists fear the Department of City Planning’s proposed Soho/Noho/Chinatown rezoning would make rent-regulated tenants vulnerable to one of...
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Doris Diether, legendary Greenwich Village activist, dies at age 92
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Fri., Sept. 17, 11:30 p.m.: Doris Diether, the iconic Community Board 2 member who was an ally of Jane Jacobs,...
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Toxic shock: Seaport tower foes fear mercury-site cleanup would endanger schoolkids
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Temperatures are boiling in the South Street Seaport area as a developer hopes to start cleanup of a toxic former thermometer-factory...
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Kips Bay woman, 28, reported missing
Police are seeking the public's help in locating a Kips Bay woman who was reported missing on Sat., Sept. 4. According to cops, Brittany Hobart,...
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Brewer balks at Soho/Noho rezoning, locals lambaste plan at six-hour session
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | They just kept on coming, one after the other...for six hours. Longtime Soho and Noho artist residents testified in droves against...
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Posts tagged as “Jumaane Williams”

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,…