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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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Posts tagged as “School Construction Authority”

N.Y.U. has ‘amnesia,’ reneges on supermaket pledge; Union, locals poised to protest

A public school is now planned on the site of the current Morton Williams supermarket at Bleecker Street and LaGuardia Place. (Google Street View)

N.Y.U. has ‘amnesia,’ reneges on supermaket pledge; Union, locals poised to protest

December 4, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Dec. 5, 12:30 p.m.: They didn’t put it in writing. During the planning process a decade ago for its megadevelopment…

Let them eat cake: Bleecker St. supermarket owner, locals want answers from N.Y.U. on key food source’s future

The Morton Williams at Bleecker Street and LaGuardia Place is Greenwich Village's primary full-service supermarket. (Courtesy Avi Kaner)

Let them eat cake: Bleecker St. supermarket owner, locals want answers from N.Y.U. on key food source’s future

November 28, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A new public school is terrific — but people need to eat, too. Saying they were blindsided by the news, local…

Super panic: What happens to Morton Williams market with Bleecker school now green-lighted?

Residents living near the Morton Williams supermarket at Bleecker Street and LaGuardia Place are concerned about losing it, now that the city says it will build a public school at the site. (Google Street View)

Super panic: What happens to Morton Williams market with Bleecker school now green-lighted?

November 22, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 22, 5:30 p.m.: The news that the city has finally committed to build a long-delayed public school at Bleecker…