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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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Where have all the normal bicycles gone?
BY MICHELE HERMAN | It’s been just over 30 years since the publication of The Bicycle Blueprint, the award-winning book-length master plan for New York...
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Kill Bill (31-B), dining shed foes cry as Council poised to make pandemic gutter structures permanent

A restaurant shed on First Avenue in the East Village. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Kill Bill (31-B), dining shed foes cry as Council poised to make pandemic gutter structures permanent

May 23, 2023

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Get outdoor dining out of the gutter already! That’s what members of CUEUP (Coalition United for Equitable Urban Policy), who…

Served! Judge rules against city on Open Restaurants; Says enviro impact review needed

In October, attorney Michael Sussman, center, joined Diem Boyd of the LES Dwellers, to the right of him, and other local plaintiffs at a press conference on their lawsuit to force the city do a proper environmental impact study on the Open Restaurants program. (Courtesy CUEUP)

Served! Judge rules against city on Open Restaurants; Says enviro impact review needed

March 24, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Thurs., March 24, 8 p.m.: Holy shed! Calling New York City’s actions “arbitary and capricious,” a state Supreme Court justice…

That Paris feeling…ugh! LES Dwellers video shreds mayor over sheds

Mayor Adams and D.O.T. Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez ride into a hanging electrical wire stretched across a bike path to a dining shed in the spoof video.

That Paris feeling…ugh! LES Dwellers video shreds mayor over sheds

March 18, 2022

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | “We’ll always have Paris,” Bogey told Ingrid Bergman in “Casablanca”… . While some gauzily call New York City’s Open Restaurants…