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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 “term limits”

Planners pitch Soho/Noho rezoning but mute (literally) community concerns

The latest map of the proposed Soho/Noho rezoning shows in yellow the areas where the city would seek to "maximize" development. The yellow zone at the lower left has been shaved down a bit since an earlier version of the map, leading locals to surmise that Councilmember Corey Johnson has cooled on the initiative. (Dept. of City Planning)

Planners pitch Soho/Noho rezoning but mute (literally) community concerns

October 28, 2020

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | There weren’t a lot of fireworks at Monday’s meeting about the city’s suddenly revived push to rezone and upzone Soho…

Blaz revives Soho/Noho rezoning, hopes to pass it before leaving office

A map of the Soho/Noho rezoning study area with yellow areas representing what the city sees as so-called "housing opportunity areas" for new development.

Blaz revives Soho/Noho rezoning, hopes to pass it before leaving office

October 8, 2020

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | The Soho/Noho rezoning push is suddenly back on, to the chagrin of many local residents of the neighboring Downtown enclaves.…

Bottcher, Marte, Maron, Rivera raise big bucks for Council races; Schwartz filing soon

Council candidate Chris Marte, above, helped Scarr's Pizza, at 22 Orchard St., fundraise for PPE to be distributed to home health attendants with the Ain't I a Woman?! campaign. Marte's fundraising was on hold due to the pandemic, but he recently finished strong before the filing deadline. (Courtesy Chris Marte)

Bottcher, Marte, Maron, Rivera raise big bucks for Council races; Schwartz filing soon

July 17, 2020

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Downtown candidates for City Council are in the money. Races for the First and Third Council Districts include three of…