The Whitney Independent Study Program Moves
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was one of the most influential and innovative artists of the second half of the twentieth century.
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Lower East Side Street Corner Named After Housing Activist
New York City celebrated a trailblazing housing and social justice advocate on October 5th by co-naming the northeast corner of East 4th Street and Cooper Square “Frances Goldin Way.”
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Strange and Beautiful Sounds at Zinc Bar
Haunting, beautiful, insane, incendiary, bizarre, meditative, and alien. These are just a few words that only begin to describe the sounds I heard coming from the trio of Theo Bleckman, Ben Monder, and Tom Rainey at the final performance of the Guitar Master Series
Read MoreMammoth Corrective Structure at 14-16 Fifth Avenue
Last November, when two drilling rigs were beginning work on the foundations of 14-16 Fifth Avenue, located between Eighth and Ninth Streets a block north of Washington Square Park, problems arose and the excavators that were awaiting work in the fall had been removed.
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NYU Adjuncts Rally At President’s Inaugural Event
NYU Adjuncts Rally At President’s Inaugural Event By Arthur Schwartz On Tuesday, October 17th,...
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The End of Memory
The End of Memory by Lynn Pacifico Apathy reigns as real estate and corporate sports conspire with...
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Jefferson Market Library – Meet Molina
The Jefferson Market Library is without doubt a neighborhood icon, but we’re not just a pretty face! It’s our staff who keep the place thriving, day after day. If you’ve come to check out a book or movie in the last 20 years, chances are, you’ve encountered our Queen of the Circulation Desk: Molina.
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Housing on Hudson Street— Just What We DO Need
My medical office is in Vista on 5th, a non-profit, community-run, Medicaid-supported assisted living facility off 108th Street and Fifth Avenue, right across from Central Park. I’ve noticed over the years that many of the older adults who come to the facility from lower Manhattan, especially Little Italy, SoHo, and Greenwich Village, come for one unexpected reason.
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The Vanguard Orchestra Speaks Out
Some musicians have spent their entire adult lives in the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. Below are some of their reflections from the bandstand.
Read MoreCouncil Member Bottcher Passes Urban Forest Master Plan
With the leadership of West Village-Chelsea-Hells Kitchen, City Council Member Erik Bottcher passed a new law that requires the city to form an Urban Forest Master Plan to protect and expand the city’s canopy.
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A message from the Public Advocate
I see the inhumanity of slaughter, and can be guided only by the humanity of grief. Borders and backgrounds do not determine or define humanity, and grief looks the same across them all. I have been to vigils, memorials, synagogues and mosques across our city in the last several weeks, and pain looks the same. Death looks the same.
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You Don’t See THAT Every Day
Fall and spring migration is a time when birds can get so close you can nearly touch them. After a long night flying, possibly hundreds of miles, like this morning, they’re hungry. Hungry and they’re less wary of all the dangers around them. This includes ignoring the threat of that tree stump of a person rooted in the middle of the lawn festooned with binoculars and a camera.
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Ghost Stories Meet Modern Music at the Village Trip
Ghost Stories Meet Modern Music at the Village Trip By Lionelle Hamanaka Spooky ghost stories...
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The Holidays Are Coming. The Holidays Are Coming.
Well, it’s that time of the year. We are now getting serious about the holiday season. The pressure of looking good in swim wear is in the rearview mirror. Yes, with cold weather one tends to be wrapped up in winter attire
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Opinion | Being a Muslim American Right Now is Like Living On Borrowed Time
“A Palestinian boy was killed in Illinois,” shared Abed. This sequence of foreign-to-domestic murder was a familiar one. Being American, like six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume was, does not protect us from the stigma of being Palestinian or Arab, Muslim and from the “Middle East.
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- The Story of Rupert & Lulu
Rupert Pupkin and Lulu Bean both hail from the great state of Texas, arriving one year apart via a rescue group called Peyton’s Safe Haven. They’re Heelers born to herd, manage, supervise, and occasionally micromanage ─ and they take this responsibility very, very seriously.