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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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Where have all the normal bicycles gone?
BY MICHELE HERMAN | It’s been just over 30 years since the publication of The Bicycle Blueprint, the award-winning book-length master plan for New York...
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Posts tagged as “rat infestation”

Shed hits fan as outdoor dining foes go full ‘yuck’ at City Council protest

Enjoying plein air dining — a la rats — in the Yuckmobile were, from left, former Mayor Bill de Blasio, Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez, the Hospitality Alliance’s Andrew Rigie, Mayor Eric Adams and Councilmembers Julie Menin, Marjorie Velazquez and Keith Powers. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Shed hits fan as outdoor dining foes go full ‘yuck’ at City Council protest

December 4, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | They brought the Yuckmobile and — despite some of them having tape over their mouths — they brought the noise. Scores…

Yo(gurt)! Rats fight back as dining shed is demolished on 8th Street

A pile of garbage, including dead rats, was left after the Culture An American Yogurt Company's dining shed was dismantled. (Photo by Marc Adler)

Yo(gurt)! Rats fight back as dining shed is demolished on 8th Street

November 28, 2022

BY MARC ADLER | On Sunday, around 10:30 a.m., I was walking down Eighth Street by the intersection of Sixth Avenue, and I noticed some…

‘We want our streets back!’ Shed foes sue to shut down ‘lawless’ outdoor dining program — now

A graffiti-strewn dining shed on First Avenue in the East Village. (Photo by The Village Sun)

‘We want our streets back!’ Shed foes sue to shut down ‘lawless’ outdoor dining program — now

July 31, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Shed the sheds — as in, right now! Residents from across the city have filed an Article 78 lawsuit to end…