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Dear readers, thank you for your readership over the last five years — and for your support, story tips, photos, reader comments and more, and...
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Editorial: Just say No to COYHO
The City of Yes. … eh, yeah, sure, it sounds positive. But you can’t judge a sweeping, citywide development program just on a catchy name....
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‘It had to go now’: East Village pizzeria owner sheds his shed
BY CHRIS RYAN | Workers recently dismantled Eleven B pizza restaurant’s outdoor dining setup in the East Village. Owner Vincent Sgarlato got a bit of...
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Elizabeth Street Garden’s last stand: Little Italy green dream faces City Hall’s wrecking ball
BY SUSAN SILVER | On the eve of its possible execution, the legendary Elizabeth Street Garden was dotted with afternoon visitors soaking up its perennial...
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Biking’s his life — but Bowery rider says e-bikes are making life hell
BY OTTO FRITTON | As electric bikes have boomed in New York City, enforcement of traffic regulations against scofflaw riders has failed to keep pace....
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Violent night, holy night

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…