BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Jasmin Sanchez, a lifelong resident of the Baruch Houses on the Lower East Side, wants to become the first NYCHA tenant…
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BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Grace Lee, a community activist, organizer and small business owner, announced Tuesday that she’s running for state Assembly in Lower Manhattan’s…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Opponents of the East River Park resiliency plan have been making lots of noise lately. Though, admittedly, it’s been hard to…
Updated Fri., Dec. 17, 6:30 a.m.: One man died and three others were injured in a roaring apartment fire at the Riis Houses on Thursday…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Thurs., Dec. 16, 6:30 p.m.: Fearing that the tide is turning in the P.R. war over the East River Park…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Four protesters were arrested Monday as the city sealed off the southern end of East River Park, readying it for total…
On Nov. 20, Vision Urbana kicked off what it called the largest Thanksgiving turkey distribution on the Lower East Side, delivering delicious holiday birds to…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Police on Friday evening announced that a woman who was fatally shot in the Vladeck Houses a week earlier was…
It’s car pollution, stupid. That’s a central message of the Sixth Street Community Center’s new “Save East River Park” video. In short, the video argues,…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Updated Wed., Dec. 23, 2:45 p.m.: Roberto Napoleon, the long-serving tenant association president at the Bernard Baruch Houses, died on…