Sheldon Silver, former New York Assembly speaker, dies at 77
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Jan. 25, 4:30 p.m.: Sheldon Silver, who was the longtime speaker of the New York State Assembly until an epic...
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West Village BID won’t be big, will focus on sanitation, ‘cultural history’
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A new business improvement district is being planned for the West Village, but to hear advocates tell it, it won’t be...
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Opinion: Beyond broken windows…broken bodies
BY JONATHAN RUSSO | With the recent subway murder of Michelle Go, the city is on edge, once again, from the violence caused by the...
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Ashmi Sheth is challenging Jerrold Nadler, aiming to ‘disrupt politics as usual’
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Ashmi Sheth, a 28-year-old, first-generation American, has big plans for 2022. In June, she plans to take on incumbent Congressmember Jerry Nadler...
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Adams vetoes Chin’s bill hiking fines for Soho/Noho nonartist JLWQA residents, saying it needs work
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Jan. 16, 3:30 p.m.: Mayor Eric Adams in a statement late Friday afternoon reitearated his support for the Soho/Noho upzoning....
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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,…