Ryder Kessler, Open New York candidate, takes on Deborah Glick in Assembly Democratic primary
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Ryder Kessler, a young politico endorsed by Open New York, among others, is running against longtime incumbent Assemblymember Deborah Glick in...
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Adams cancels Grand St. homeless shelter in Chinatown allegedly due to Hotel Trades Council opposition
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated May 2, 9:00 p.m.: In a stunning reversal and a major victory for Chinatown residents and merchants, Mayor Adams has...
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Stuy Town parking on loop roads is loopy: D.O.T./N.Y.P.D. reject 15-minute grace period in no-standing zones
BY KEITH J. KELLY | New York Police Department ticket agents are apparently no longer honoring a decades-old agreement reached between the Department of Transportation...
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Famed Little Italy cheese store trying to raise enough cheddar to remain
BY JULIET CAMA | Little Italy’s prized Alleva Dairy faces an impending threat of closure. Established in 1892, Alleva Dairy is the oldest cheese store...
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Stuy Town mayhem trifecta: Armed robbery, man carted off after domestic incident, hard-luck shoplifter
BY KEITH J. KELLY | There was a mini crime wave in the Stuyvestant Town area on Thursday. A shoplifter was detained at a hardware...
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Posts tagged as “substance abuse”

Lower East Side arson victim dies two weeks later

Police say they need help identifying this man, who was fatally burned at the Samuel Gompers houses on the Lower East Side. (Courtesy N.Y.P.D.)

Lower East Side arson victim dies two weeks later

November 20, 2021

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | An alleged drug user who was set on fire earlier this month while sleeping in a Lower East Side public-housing…

B.P. Brewer calls for funds to ‘mitigate challenges’ of drug use in Midtown and Harlem — but not Washington Square Park

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, left, with members of the Greater Harlem Coalition, at a press conference in Times Square Sunday on addressing drug use on the streets. (Photo by The Village Sun)

B.P. Brewer calls for funds to ‘mitigate challenges’ of drug use in Midtown and Harlem — but not Washington Square Park

October 19, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Citing Washington Square Park as a model of “some success” in fighting untreated substance abuse, Borough President Gale Brewer is advocating…