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Shed foes call for end to roadway use, urge ‘equitable’ plan in ‘Community Blueprint for Outdoor Dining’
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | As the City Council works obscurely behind closed doors on a plan to make outdoor dining permanent, community residents have...
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String theory: No storefront, but Matt Umanov, famed guitar fixer, is still at it on Bleecker St.
BY ALEX EBRAHIMI | For want of a guitar shop, the guitar was lost. For want of a guitar, the song was lost. For want...
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Comings & Goings: Sushi, pies and egg sandwiches…plus lots new at Chelsea Market
BY CAROLINE BENVENISTE | This past month there were a number of Asian restaurant openings and anticipated openings (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai), but Korean corn...
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G shock: Rollout of jumbo Link5G towers is roiling the historic West Village
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Feb. 23, 4:20 p.m.: The city's determined rollout of 5G megatowers in the West Village and Soho has, to hear...
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BREAKING — literally: Foundation work on contentious 5th Ave. tower causes evacuation of nearby historic building
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Feb. 22, 10 p.m.: The Department of Buildings on Saturday ordered the emergency evacuation of a residential building a block...
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Posts tagged as “Tompkins Square riots”

Guardians of CHARAS unite to save derelict building

Guardians of CHARAS unite to save derelict building

September 28, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Move over, Avengers. Back off, Justice League. … Make way for…Guardians of CHARAS. A “dream team” of veteran East Village activists —…

Tompkins Riot Reunion concert set to rock this weekend

Wisdom in Chains played at a massive hardcore punk show in Tompkins Square Park in April. The Parks Department was not happy about the large crowd size, among other things, amid the ongoing pandemic, and pulled the organizer's permits for future events in the park. (Photo by Everynight Charley Crespo)

Tompkins Riot Reunion concert set to rock this weekend

August 5, 2021

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Updated Aug. 5, 5:30 p.m.: The Tompkins Square Riot Reunion concert is back — live and also online. That’s the…

A ‘graphic’ look at L.E.S. documentarian Clayton Patterson

The cover of the new graphic novel on Clayton Patterson.

A ‘graphic’ look at L.E.S. documentarian Clayton Patterson

July 14, 2020

BY ISAAC SULTAN | Clayton Patterson and his wife Elsa Rensaa’s renowned residence at 161 Essex St. on the Lower East Side contains a hoarded treasure…