Batching It on Bank Street
The Pleasures of Willa Cather and Staying Warm By D. Silverman Recently, great winter winds,...
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Year: 2023
What Do You Attract?
By Joy Pape, FNP-C, CDCES, CFCN When Brian and I moved to New York from the Midwest, many people...
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The View From the Inside
A lot of people have wondered why everyone got fired or left. It’s what Dusty wanted. She kept her loyalists and purged the rest. Like Trump firing staff. She has pushed out several contributors like Trump iced out those he feared. She is running the paper with or without George’s input. The last few issues were terrible and long. George would never do that.
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View From the Outside
The paper’s history, the staff rebellion, and the war of words playing out across the two papers (and being meticulously covered by the Village Sun) has been dramatic. What follows is a brief rundown of the dueling papers and the assemblage of local personalities, world historic events, and A-list celebrities caught in the crossfire.
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Saving Cornelia Street
Like anyone else on this block I grew to love our restaurants and their owners as they were, local and respecting boundaries. Nothing is perfect, but Cornelia always had a pretty good balance I thought.
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Decision Against Planned Seaport Tower Good News for the Village
The $850 million project was planned to include 190 market-rate condos and 80 below-market apartments, with a five-story base of office, retail and community uses. Work on the site so far has involved excavation and removal of soil contaminated by a thermometer factory that once occupied the property.
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NYU and BOE versus Morton Williams and LaGuardia Gardens
By Roger Paradiso The last time I got involved with New York University’s insatiable appetite for...
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Village Temple Leader Sponsors Ukranian Family—Community Responds with Support
Torah teaches members of the Jewish faith to remember the stranger because we were strangers in...
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Gansevoort Peninsula Park Progresses Along West Village Waterfront
Construction is progressing on the park, a new 5.5-acre public recreational space on the Hudson River waterfront in the West Village.
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Facing Broad Opposition, Landmarks Balks at Plan for Massive Excavation and Alterations at 131 and 131 1/2 Charles Street
Village Preservation led off testimony from the public, slamming the plan and pointing out concerns about the danger of the proposed excavation—especially in light of recent destruction of the landmarked 14 Gay Street and 351-55 West 14th Street/44-54 Ninth Avenue—and the inappropriateness of many of the planned alterations.
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NYU Study: Christopher St. PATH Most Polluted Station in NYC; Subways Have Problems Too
By Arthur Z. Schwartz “A key health burden question for commuters and transit workers is whether...
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West Villager and Retired FBI Agent Arrested as Double Agent!
est 13th Street residents were amazed to find out that one of their neighbors, Charles McGonical, was not only a former Special Agent in Charge of the FBI New York Counterintelligence Division, but was also indicted and arrested for conspiring to commit money laundering and money laundering at the behest of a Russian oligarch
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NYC Nurse Strike —Victory for Us All
The nurses’ fight for safe staffing measures and other changes drew national attention to Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore’s business practices, including their lavish compensation of executives.
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The New West Village Rehearsal Co-Op Space Opens
A unique rehearsal space has been created in an unprecedented collaboration
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Retirees Descend on City Hall
New York City’s 250,000 retired workers —teachers, crossing guards, firefighters, plumbers, elected officials, office workers, and so on and so forth – are embroiled in an ongoing confrontation over the medical benefits
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America at 250
- When Losing a Pet Feels Like an Amputation
Recently, I experienced the loss of my 18-year-old dog, Rosie. For nearly two decades, she was woven into the rhythm of my daily life — present through ordinary days, major milestones, moments of joy, and periods of hardship.