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Halloween screaming and streaming at Theater for the New City

The Halloween show must go on! Not to be put off by the pandemic, Theater for the New City's Village Halloween Costume Ball — an...

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Hoylman SLAPPs back at Trump, Jvanka in Times Square

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | With the giant smiling faces of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner looming behind him on billboards as a backdrop, state...

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Still resilient: Save East River Park!

BY PAT ARNOW | It’s been eight years since Superstorm Sandy flooded our neighborhood. It has been two years since the city decided to demolish...

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Ex-cop must be criminally charged for Avenue D arrest, pols protest

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Local politicians are demanding that Francisco Garcia face criminal charges for his aggressive arrest in May of Lower East Side...

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Day of the Dead, in Year of COVID, at Campos Community Garden

Sadly, the Day of the Dead is taking on new meaning this year, in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Anthony Feliciano, the East Village's...

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Gov busts a move on Avenue A hip-hop bar, suspends liquor license

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | As infection rates have been inching up, two more East Side bars were recently caught in Governor Cuomo's COVID dragnet....

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Planners pitch Soho/Noho rezoning but mute (literally) community concerns

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | There weren't a lot of fireworks at Monday's meeting about the city's suddenly revived push to rezone and upzone Soho...

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Trump hits a wall — of his own lies — in Soho

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | The Trump "Wall of Lies" lives — and now in two boroughs, to boot. After the initial outdoor mural —...

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A little love for Washington Street

BY MICHELE HERMAN | Washington is way up high on lists of the most common street names in the U.S — on some lists it...

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Whizbang subway shooting as man blasts urinator

This gunman must have been pretty pissed off. The subway slogan is "If you see something, say something" — not "If you see someone pee,...

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Huge turnout at start of early voting

BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL AND LINCOLN ANDERSON | This past weekend the anxiety and frustration of countless New Yorkers seemed to evaporate as they lined up...

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Cops arrest youth, 15, in East Village murder

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Police announced the arrest of a local teenager in the murder of Tyrell Williams in the East Village earlier this...

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The Strand needs a hand; Owner fears COVID could write famed bookstore’s ending

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Could this be the final chapter for The Strand? Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the famed Village bookstore's revenue has...

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The Met’s Sackler wing hacked as memorial for teen OxyContin OD victim

BY PAUL DeRIENZO | Last week the Department of Justice announced felony convictions against the bankrupted drug company Purdue Pharma, maker of the opioid painkiller...

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BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Local politicians rallied at Avenue D and Ninth St. last Friday demanding that a cop be fired for a rough…

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Rivera, pols call for firing of cop in Avenue D ‘Floyd-style’ arrest