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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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Posts tagged as “vaccine protesters”

Podcast: COVID anti-vaxxers and ‘fascist pseudo-anti-fascism’

A man wore a five-pointed yellow star, a riff on the yellow badge that Jews were forced to wear in Nazi-occupied Europe, at an anti-COVID-vaccine rally in Union Square on Labor Day, Sept. 6. Yellow Jewish stars, which the Nazis used for segregation and for identification for deportation to concentration camps, have been co-opted to represent opposition to vaccines. (Photo by © Jefferson Siegel)

Podcast: COVID anti-vaxxers and ‘fascist pseudo-anti-fascism’

October 11, 2021

In Episode 92 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg takes note of what he decries as “the increasingly extremist anti-vax ‘protesters,'” who don the yellow star and explicitly…