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Save Beth Israel coalition holds ‘victory march’ after recent wins
BY PHYLLIS ECKHAUS | Chanting “Save Our Community Hospital!” activists with the Campaign to Save Beth Israel and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary braved...
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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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Lefty lawyers disagree on whether Israeli civilians are ‘legitimate targets’ — but agree Gaza Strip is an ‘open-air prison’

Attorney Stanley Cohen, right, in the Gaza Strip in 2012 with Hamas Chairperson Ismail Haniyeh. An Israeli airstrike in Gaza Tuesday reportedly killed 14 family members of Haniyeh, who currently lives in Qatar. (Facebook)

Lefty lawyers disagree on whether Israeli civilians are ‘legitimate targets’ — but agree Gaza Strip is an ‘open-air prison’

October 18, 2023

BY MARY REINHOLZ | Radical left-wing lawyer Stanley Cohen once lived in an Avenue D loft while defending squatters, hackers, drug dealers, anti-war activists and…

Curtis Sliwa, running for mayor, wants to ‘Refund N.Y.P.D.,’ save shelter pets

Curtis Sliwa, the Guardian Angels founder, at a press conference on April 18, calling for no-kill animal shelters in New York City. (Photo by Mary Reinholz)

Curtis Sliwa, running for mayor, wants to ‘Refund N.Y.P.D.,’ save shelter pets

April 25, 2021

BY MARY REINHOLZ | Freshly minted Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa showed up last Sunday afternoon at a city-run Animal Care Center in East Harlem.…

Sheldon Silver set to report for jail and finally start his sentence

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and his wife, Rosa, leaving federal court on Centre St. after his sentencing on July 20. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Sheldon Silver set to report for jail and finally start his sentence

August 25, 2020

BY MARY REINHOLZ | Unless Sheldon Silver’s sentencing judge changes her mind at the last minute (or he performs a Houdini-like disappearing act), the once-powerful…