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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.

Middle Collegiate Church, preservationists on different sides on saving damaged facade
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 22, 11:30 a.m.: To quote from Ecclesiastes (and The Byrds), there is "a time to tear down, and a...
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Dorothy Day ferry sets sail, honoring legacy of social justice that activist left in her wake
BY RACHEL deARAGON | On Nov. 4, a new Staten Island ferryboat, The Dorothy Day, was commissioned. Our city has honored a woman who dedicated...
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City orders demolition of landmarked 14 Gay St.; Unclear if 16 Gay St. can be saved
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 13, 12:30 p.m.: In a case of neglect followed by a renovation-and-repair project gone horribly awry, the city has...
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Activists vs. activists in fight to reclaim East Village’s old P.S. 64 as community center
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 1, 5 p.m.: For more than 20 years, East Village activists have battled a developer’s designs on the old...
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One killed, one wounded in Campos Plaza shooting in Alphabet City
BY KEITH J. KELLY | Two young men descended in an elevator in the Campos Housing complex on E. 12th Street Thursday night and when...
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Posts tagged as “Jumaane Williams”

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,…