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Opinion: Bikes aren’t the danger — it’s illegal mopeds, cars and trucks
BY GERSH KUNTZMAN | The other day, a top city journalist asked me, "Some people feel bikes should have license plates. What is the rationale...
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Mount Sinai revives plan to close Beth Israel Hospital
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Updated Sept. 15, 5:20 p.m.: The Village Sun recently reported on persistent fears that Mount Sinai Health System is dismantling...
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Washington Square pot peddlers busted for underage sales
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Police arrested three people in Washington Square Park on Thursday for selling marijuana to underage buyers. Unlicensed pot vendors brazenly...
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Editorial: Target the drug dealers
As The Village Sun has been reporting, Washington Square and the surrounding streets are grappling with serious issues of open drug use and drug dealing,...
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Marte: ‘More balanced approach’ needed on Washington Square Park
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Updated Aug. 28, 6 p.m.: Art vendors and buskers in Washington Square Park are being "unfairly targeted and ticketed" due...
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Posts tagged as “World Trade Center attack”

Stanley Mieses, 70, Downtown journo who reported on 9/11 and ‘broke hearts in five boroughs,’ gets loving sendoff from his ‘family of friends’

Stanley Mieses in his younger days, presumably when he was at The New Yorker, where he penned Talk of the Town columns for 13 years.

Stanley Mieses, 70, Downtown journo who reported on 9/11 and ‘broke hearts in five boroughs,’ gets loving sendoff from his ‘family of friends’

March 17, 2023

BY MARY REINHOLZ | New York journalist Stanley Mieses, the son of Holocaust survivors and a former longtime writer for The New Yorker who witnessed…

20 years later: Scenes from the 9/11 anniversary memorial

On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, a man held aloft an American flag with, in the background, from left, The Oculus transit hub, One World Trade Center and Seven World Trade Center. All three structures were built on the destroyed site in the years after the 2001 attack. (Photo by Q. Sakamaki)

20 years later: Scenes from the 9/11 anniversary memorial

September 11, 2021

From family members arriving at the World Trade Center for Saturday’s memorial service to the many others who came to pay their respects from a…

Village Preservation shares nearly 1,000 crowdsourced photos of 9/11 attack and aftermath

Smoke and flames spew from 1 World Trade Center, the North Tower, just after the first plane hit on 9/11. (Photo by Richard Corman)

Village Preservation shares nearly 1,000 crowdsourced photos of 9/11 attack and aftermath

September 10, 2021

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, Village Preservation has released nearly 1,000 images donated to it by…

Ministering at Ground Zero; Praying for peace

Four days after Sept. 11, 2001, a firefighter called for 10 more rescue workers to make their way into the rubble of the World Trade Center. (Photo by Preston Keres, U.S. Navy journalist first class)

Ministering at Ground Zero; Praying for peace

September 13, 2020

Frank Morales, a former pastor at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery in the East Village, wrote this piece on Dec. 8, 2001, after visiting…

‘You can do it,’ I told them

The World Trade Center on fire and smoking before it collapsed on 9/11. (Photo by Michael Foran)

‘You can do it,’ I told them

September 11, 2020

BY ART GATTI | I stood at home plate as Jeff Hardy was cooking on the mound, but I never sat before a plate of…