City Planning approves Soho/Noho rezoning with only minor changes
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Rubberstamped! After making what opponents call only some minor tweaks to the sweeping plan, the City Planning Commission on Wednesday...
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Residents sue to block Open Restaurants sheds from becoming permanent
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Oct. 20, 1 p.m.: You had to see this one coming. A group of nearly two dozen concerned residents, most...
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Up in smoke: Parks Dept., police crack down on Washington Square pot bazaar
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Oct. 15, 2:45 p.m.: On second thought, maybe don't come to the casbah... . There's a new Parks Department captain...
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Podcast: COVID anti-vaxxers and ‘fascist pseudo-anti-fascism’
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...
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Dee Pop, Bush Tetras drummer, dies at 65; Played with wide array of musicians, from experimental to punk
BY JOHN PIETARO | Dimitri Papadopoulos, known as Dee Pop to a fan base of millions, died in his sleep at his home in Brooklyn...
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Posts tagged as “World Trade Center attack”

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…