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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 “systemic racism”

This illustration, “The Five Dollar Flop,” is named for the cost of a caged booth in a Bowery flophouse 40 years ago. The writer had a friend, Lance, descended from South Carolina’s Gullah Island people, who lived in an old bed up on the writer’s roof, in the bulkhead. One evening, Lance came by with the old man in the drawing, and asked if the writer could help put him up, too. There was no more room, so the writer gave him $5 for a night’s flop on the Bowery. "He had such a beautiful face," the writer recalled, "that I asked if I could take his picture. And when he held up the $5 bill, I thought that the face of Lincoln was ironic. I did the drawing from the photo I took that night." (Illustration by Harry Pincus)

Violent night, holy night

June 1, 2020

BY HARRY PINCUS | Nice weather we’re having! This lovely spring evening is rather unusual, however, as thousands of demonstrators, wearing masks, have just marched…