At the conclusion of his awesome live performance with Oz Noy, Will Lee, and Steve Ferrone at the Bitter End on Dec. 17, I was fortunate to begin a fascinating conversation backstage with modern blues guitar master and music historian Joe Bonamassa.
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She has been the talk of every serious die-hard musician for years. A true prodigy, she has toured and performed professionally on various world stages as a renowned bass player with groups for nearly 19 years since she was a little girl in India.
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On February 14, a protest was mounted at the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village’s Christopher Street Park. State Senator (and candidate for Manhattan Borough President) Brad Hoylman-Sigal released this press announcement.
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Women underestimate themselves all the time. And in this hierarchical and hostile world, increasingly antagonistic to those of us who are not straight white native-born Christian men, it is so important to share stories of women—women who remind us of what we can be. And indeed, that’s a huge part of why I love the Village. In reputation and real life, it’s been a hotbed of women’s freedom.
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Greenwich Village lost one of its longest-lived community members when Lillie Miller recently passed away at the age of 103. Lillie and her husband Joseph Miller were married in 1945 in their home at 2 West 16th St., moved to East 9th St. around 1954 and then moved to a brownstone on West 9th St. in 1963, where Lillie lived until her death on January 6, 2025.
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The West Village CSA is a program that brings fresh and organic vegetables and fruits right from the farm to your kitchen in Manhattan. Community Supported Agriculture is a contract to buy produce from a local farm. Signing up for a CSA share usually starts in the fall.
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What began as a routine construction permit for two of the oldest landmarked rowhouses in Manhattan soon turned into a full-fledged historic preservation disaster.
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While Mount Sinai is intent on shutting down health care at Beth Israel, Northwell Health/Lennox Hill Hospital is opening a new cardiac catheterization lab in the West Village and will be bringing its in-patient capacity up to 21. And they are doing this while also planning a $2 billion expansion of Lennox Hill Hospital on 70th Street and Lexington Avenue.
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A building superintendent’s job consists of many things. From the obvious daily maintenance and cleaning – to the not so obvious; bringing the temperature down between two feuding residents. But we also try our best to bring your packages to you while fending off porch pirates and package thieves throughout the year.
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The “Gansevoort Square” proposal by the City of New York has been a hot topic in the news lately. A 60-story, 600’ supertall residential tower has been offered up as a way to maximize the site for new development, along with expansion potential for the Whitney Museum of American Art on the same block as the current Whitney.
Read MoreThe Pier Park and Playground Association Facility (P3) has used an indoor space on the south side of Pier 40 as a youth baseball and softball training facility for the last 25 years. The P3 training facility has been the Greenwich Village Little League’s (GVLL) “home base” as League President Toni Ann Bonade wrote in a letter to parents.
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I live on a corner in the West Village near a lot of restaurants. Now we have a new place across the street called Edith’s Sandwich Counter. And it is usually packed with people, even at 8 am when it opens.
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As 2025 unfolds, New Yorkers are grappling with the impact of federal policies that shape everything from transportation to local governance. At the recent President’s Day protest in Greenwich Village, demonstrators not only voiced their opposition to national housing and civil rights policies but also raised concerns about congestion pricing and the possibility of presidential intervention for Mayor Eric Adams.
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I’m a born and raised OG Village Kid from Westbeth; a uniquely diverse building where art and activism were intertwined, and neighbors looked out for one another. Apartment doors were always open, and kids roamed freely. It definitely shaped my worldview and I love that we’re raising our daughter in the same apartment where I grew up.
Read More“Highway robbery.” That’s how city comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander characterized the actions of the Trump administration mid-February, in clawing back approximately $80 million dollars in federal migrant funds already expended by the city—funding approved by the Biden administration and recently disbursed to a municipal Citibank account.
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