Small businesses, advocates call for rent relief
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Local community organizations and small business groups rallied on Avenue C on Thursday to plead for rent relief for merchants...
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San Fran honors Margo St. James as N.Y. pols, feminists debate decriminalizing prostitution
BY MARY REINHOLZ | The late Margo St. James, proud former prostitute and founder of a famed sex workers rights group called COYOTE (Call Off...
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What kind of planning do we want? Not another Robert Moses!
BY LYNN ELLSWORTH | In 1961, Jane Jacobs, author of "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," called city planning “a pseudo-science” that had...
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Pedestrian shoots at driver on L.E.S., hits elderly woman
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Call it pedestrian rage. A senior woman was blasted in the buttocks on the Lower East Side after a dispute...
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Through the fire: After surviving hellish COVID surge, L.H.G.V. honors its heroic staff
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A jumbo-size sign next to the entrance of Lenox Health Greenwich Village proudly proclaims, "Heroes Work Here." The staff at L.H.G.V....
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Posts tagged as “Village Alliance”

Land grab! Residents, C.B. 2 members slam plan for ‘permanent’ outdoor seating

A graphic created by Valerie De La Rosa showing some responses to a C.B. 2 survey on the Open Restaurants program. (Courtesy C.B. 2)

Land grab! Residents, C.B. 2 members slam plan for ‘permanent’ outdoor seating

October 14, 2020

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | An outrageous “land grab” for the real estate industry. A blatant privatization of public space for the hospitality industry. A quality-of-life —…

A cut above: Veggies, fruit and more at Tuesday Astor Place Greenmarket

Councilmember Carlina Rivera, far right, along with the Village Alliance's William Kelley, to the left of her, and GrowNYC representatives cut the ribbon on the new Astor Place Greenmarket. (Courtesy Village Alliance)

A cut above: Veggies, fruit and more at Tuesday Astor Place Greenmarket

September 4, 2020

Call it the Green Real Deal. Councilmember Carlina Rivera recently joined GrowNYC and the Village Alliance Business Improvement District in celebrating the opening of the…

A taste of honey and more at Tuesday Astor Place Greenmarket

Tomatoes from Wilklow Orchards.

A taste of honey and more at Tuesday Astor Place Greenmarket

August 10, 2020

A new Greenmarket at Astor Place was set to kick off last Tuesday — but, well, Tropical Storm Isaias had other plans. The new East…

BIDs for BLM: Hard-hit Downtown biz districts support protests

Black Lives Matter protesters passed the boarded-up Paragon Sports store on Saturday after a mass rally in Washington Square Park. Paragon's bike shop had been looted previously. (Photo by The Village Sun)

BIDs for BLM: Hard-hit Downtown biz districts support protests

June 9, 2020

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Many local businesses took a beating during the recent looting, no question about it. Nevertheless, despite all the damage, local…