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Yo(gurt)! Rats fight back as dining shed is demolished on 8th Street
BY MARC ADLER | On Sunday, around 10:30 a.m., I was walking down Eighth Street by the intersection of Sixth Avenue, and I noticed some...
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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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Posts tagged as “meat market”

What meatheads! Developer undermines nine landmarked buildings in Meatpacking District and city orders their demolition

The nine landmarked 1840s row houses as they appeared before work began (top) and as they were projected to look with approved work and new construction (below). (Courtesy Village Preservation)

What meatheads! Developer undermines nine landmarked buildings in Meatpacking District and city orders their demolition

October 8, 2021

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Updated Oct. 9, 10 p.m.: In shocking news, the city has ordered the near-complete demolition of nine landmark buildings on the northeast corner…

A Few Blocks North of Helmut Lang

The Robert Fulton Houses in Chelsea, with The Edge viewing platform in the background. (Photo by The Village Sun)

A Few Blocks North of Helmut Lang

June 4, 2020

BY MICHELE HERMAN | How quiet it is in the projects at noon in this terrible year on a Tuesday in June. I walk with…

The Day of the Plywood

Workers putting up plywood on the Nordstrom Rack store at Union Square on Sunday. A bit to the west, in the Meat Market, workers were doing the same. (Photo by © Jefferson Siegel)

The Day of the Plywood

June 1, 2020

BY MICHELE HERMAN | I take the dog for a walk but he’s too old and stiff so I gather him in my arms and…