Sheldon Silver, former New York Assembly speaker, dies at 77
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Jan. 25, 4:30 p.m.: Sheldon Silver, who was the longtime speaker of the New York State Assembly until an epic...
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West Village BID won’t be big, will focus on sanitation, ‘cultural history’
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A new business improvement district is being planned for the West Village, but to hear advocates tell it, it won’t be...
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Opinion: Beyond broken windows…broken bodies
BY JONATHAN RUSSO | With the recent subway murder of Michelle Go, the city is on edge, once again, from the violence caused by the...
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Ashmi Sheth is challenging Jerrold Nadler, aiming to ‘disrupt politics as usual’
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Ashmi Sheth, a 28-year-old, first-generation American, has big plans for 2022. In June, she plans to take on incumbent Congressmember Jerry Nadler...
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Adams vetoes Chin’s bill hiking fines for Soho/Noho nonartist JLWQA residents, saying it needs work
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Jan. 16, 3:30 p.m.: Mayor Eric Adams in a statement late Friday afternoon reitearated his support for the Soho/Noho upzoning....
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Posts tagged as “Peter Yew”

Corky Lee, 73, legendary Chinatown photographer, dies from COVID

Corky Lee, 73, legendary Chinatown photographer, dies from COVID

January 27, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Jan. 28, 2:30 a.m.: Corky Lee, the preeminent Chinatown documentary photographer and activist, has lost his battle with COVID. Lee,…

When police-brutality protests rocked Chinatown

Chinatown photographer Corky Lee, far right, linking arms with fellow protesters in 1975 at a mass rally over the police beating of Peter Yew. (Courtesy Corky Lee)

When police-brutality protests rocked Chinatown

September 6, 2020

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | In some shades of the present, 45 years ago Chinatown was roiled by protests over an incident of police abuse…