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Pot dispensary to open on Bleecker St., maybe in Meatpacking, too
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Jan. 12, 12:30 p.m.: The "flowers" are starting to bloom all over. Several more legal cannabis dispensaries are slated to...
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Opinion: Listeners demand return of Paul DeRienzo’s ‘Evening News’ program to WBAI
BY MARNI HALASA | I have been a devoted listener of WBAI for decades. Whether I am listening to Michael G. Haskins explain how land-use...
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Cornelia appropriation? The curious case of ‘Cornelia Street’ and the cafe
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | The term “cultural appropriation” is thrown around a fair bit these days. In fact, a new occasion to declare it —...
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Comings & Goings
BY CAROLINE BENVENISTE | A new newspaper, a new column. Like we did before, we’ll try to report on all the retail and restaurant activity...
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Opinion: There is no false choice — Haven Green needs to be built
BY AUSTIN CELESTIN | There are three constants in life: death, taxes and affordable housing projects mired in controversy. Haven Green is no exception. Meant...
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Posts tagged as “Ydanis Rodriguez”

Scooby Scoop: Smokin’ CHARAS, celeb sightings, Lynne Brown retires from N.Y.U.

’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the park, nary a creature was stirring, save for some tourists by the arch (and a couple of crack smokers on the park's west side). In a warm van Park Enforcement Patrol sat in comfort, sheltering from the Arctic "bomb" front... . (Photo by The Village Sun)

Scooby Scoop: Smokin’ CHARAS, celeb sightings, Lynne Brown retires from N.Y.U.

December 25, 2022

AVENUE REDO: Ydanis Rodriguez, the commissioner of the Department of Transportation, is set on restoring the glory of the Avenue of the Americas, i.e., Sixth…

Editorial: The elephant on the scooter in the room

D.O.T Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Editorial: The elephant on the scooter in the room

November 28, 2022

Ydanis Rodriguez, the commissioner of the city’s Department of Transportation, recently met with the city’s community and ethnic media to give an update on “citywide…

That Paris feeling…ugh! LES Dwellers video shreds mayor over sheds

Mayor Adams and D.O.T. Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez ride into a hanging electrical wire stretched across a bike path to a dining shed in the spoof video.

That Paris feeling…ugh! LES Dwellers video shreds mayor over sheds

March 18, 2022

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | “We’ll always have Paris,” Bogey told Ingrid Bergman in “Casablanca”… . While some gauzily call New York City’s Open Restaurants…

Shack to the future (not): At nine-hour hearing, city claims dining sheds to be phased out next year

At the Feb. 8 City Council hearing on making Open Restaurants permanent, Councilmember Erik Bottcher said a "one size fits all" approach is not working. The hearing also concerned the city's plan to lift all existing geographic restrictions on where sidewalk cafes can be located.

Shack to the future (not): At nine-hour hearing, city claims dining sheds to be phased out next year

February 9, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Feb. 10, 12:45 p.m.: One of local residents’ biggest issues with the Open Restaurants program — the much-maligned roadway sheds…