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Yo(gurt)! Rats fight back as dining shed is demolished on 8th Street
BY MARC ADLER | On Sunday, around 10:30 a.m., I was walking down Eighth Street by the intersection of Sixth Avenue, and I noticed some...
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Middle Collegiate Church, preservationists on different sides on saving damaged facade
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 22, 11:30 a.m.: To quote from Ecclesiastes (and The Byrds), there is "a time to tear down, and a...
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Dorothy Day ferry sets sail, honoring legacy of social justice that activist left in her wake
BY RACHEL deARAGON | On Nov. 4, a new Staten Island ferryboat, The Dorothy Day, was commissioned. Our city has honored a woman who dedicated...
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City orders demolition of landmarked 14 Gay St.; Unclear if 16 Gay St. can be saved
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 13, 12:30 p.m.: In a case of neglect followed by a renovation-and-repair project gone horribly awry, the city has...
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Activists vs. activists in fight to reclaim East Village’s old P.S. 64 as community center
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 1, 5 p.m.: For more than 20 years, East Village activists have battled a developer’s designs on the old...
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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…