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Save Beth Israel coalition holds ‘victory march’ after recent wins
BY PHYLLIS ECKHAUS | Chanting “Save Our Community Hospital!” activists with the Campaign to Save Beth Israel and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary braved...
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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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Posts tagged as “Neighbors United Below Canal”

Protesters decry Chinatown ‘megajail’ as Adams goes all in on disruptive project he vowed to oppose

Yubao Dai, an East Broadway insurance agent, spoke at Monday's rally against building a new Chinatown jail. Behind him on a jumbo-size screen on a truck, a video played of Eric Adams pledging while on the campaign trail last year that he would not build any more new jails if elected. (Photo by Dashiell Allen)

Protesters decry Chinatown ‘megajail’ as Adams goes all in on disruptive project he vowed to oppose

April 12, 2022

BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Armed with posters, megaphones and boxes of Dunkin doughnuts in hand, community members from across Lower Manhattan gathered at the break…

D.I.D. backs Chris Marte for Council District 1; Maud Maron grilled on schools record at forum

D.I.D. backs Chris Marte for Council District 1; Maud Maron grilled on schools record at forum

October 7, 2020

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Christopher Marte, a native Lower East Sider and community activist, won the nod of the Downtown Independent Democrats for City…

Chinatown mega-jail plan blocked by community lawsuit

Chinatown activist Jan Lee, left, spoke at a press conference last week after community opponents won an inunction against the Lower Manhattan jail project. (Photo by Caitlin Kelmar)

Chinatown mega-jail plan blocked by community lawsuit

September 28, 2020

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Neighbors United Below Canal’s lawsuit against the de Blasio administration’s new Lower Manhattan jail plan won an injunction against development…

Lawsuit filed against Chinatown mega-jail

Lawsuit filed against Chinatown mega-jail

February 16, 2020

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Opponents of the city’s embattled plan to build a new borough-based “mega-jail” in Chinatown sued on Friday to quash the…