Cancel rent: Artists and many others need relief
BY KAZU MAKINO, CARLA PHILLIPS AND ALPHONSE DiPILATO | We are all hard-working longtime residents of the Lower East Side who, like everyone, have been...
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Small businesses, advocates call for rent relief
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Local community organizations and small business groups rallied on Avenue C on Thursday to plead for rent relief for merchants...
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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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Push for rent freeze for regulated tenants, #CancelRent for COVID unemployed

Push for rent freeze for regulated tenants, #CancelRent for COVID unemployed

March 27, 2020

Mayor de Blasio on Thursday called for a rent freeze for rent-regulated tenants amid the COVID-19 epidemic. The freeze would affect 2.3 million tenants in…