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San Fran honors Margo St. James as N.Y. pols, feminists debate decriminalizing prostitution
BY MARY REINHOLZ | The late Margo St. James, proud former prostitute and founder of a famed sex workers rights group called COYOTE (Call Off...
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What kind of planning do we want? Not another Robert Moses!
BY LYNN ELLSWORTH | In 1961, Jane Jacobs, author of "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," called city planning “a pseudo-science” that had...
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Pedestrian shoots at driver on L.E.S., hits elderly woman
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Call it pedestrian rage. A senior woman was blasted in the buttocks on the Lower East Side after a dispute...
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Through the fire: After surviving hellish COVID surge, L.H.G.V. honors its heroic staff
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A jumbo-size sign next to the entrance of Lenox Health Greenwich Village proudly proclaims, "Heroes Work Here." The staff at L.H.G.V....
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Getting the vaccine
BY KATE WALTER | I was so desperate that I started praying to my dead parents: “Mom and Dad, please help me to get an...
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Posts tagged as “NYC Parks Department”

How David Dinkins saved the Bleecker Park sitting area

Bleecker Park. (Courtesy NYC Parks Dept.)

How David Dinkins saved the Bleecker Park sitting area

November 25, 2020

BY ART GATTI | It was 1993. A coalition that took over Community Board 2 were dead set on removing all the benches outside and…

Counterattack! Parks Dept. power-washes graffiti off amphitheater

On Sat., Oct. 10, Parks Department workers power-washed away graffiti from the previous evening's Art Attack on the East River Park amphitheater and plaza. (Photo by Harriet Hirshorn)

Counterattack! Parks Dept. power-washes graffiti off amphitheater

October 10, 2020

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Well, that didn’t take long. … Late Friday afternoon, a crew of artists and graffiti writers unleashed what was dubbed…

This ain’t no disco! Top cop warns protesters about amplified music in Washington Square

Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said tension over amplified music in Washington Square Park had been building for three weeks before Saturday night's arrests near the Sixth Precinct. (Courtesy N.Y.P.D.)

This ain’t no disco! Top cop warns protesters about amplified music in Washington Square

September 30, 2020

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | After a wild melee with police near the Sixth Precinct last weekend, protesters reportedly said they’ll be back in Washington…

Hey, joggers…just do it! Wear a face mask

Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver, modeling conscientious behavior, above, has a message for joggers. (Twitter)

Hey, joggers…just do it! Wear a face mask

April 15, 2020

Thanks to Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver for calling attention to a widespread problem — joggers refusing to wear face masks or any kind of face…