One High Line Park Opens on 10th Avenue
One High Line, a twisting 36- and 26-story residential and hotel development at 500 West 18th Street, alternately addressed as 76 Eleventh Avenue in Chelsea, has had a twisting history of its own.
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Year: 2025
The Transformation of Sixth Avenue at 14th Street
Ever since the pandemic of 2020, not a month has gone by that 14th Street has not had major new construction occurring at the intersection of Ninth and Sixth avenues, espcially on Sixth Avenue.
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Village Alliance Launches $2 Million “Project Green” Campaign to Transform Greenwich Village Streetscape
Recently, Scott Hobbs, the executive director of Village Alliance, took me for a walk down 8th Street from his office to Astor Place Plaza. He was showing me examples of “Project Green,” a new fundraising initiative by the Village Alliance Business Improvement District (BID) to dramatically improve the green infrastructure of the Village.
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The Village Independent Democrats Fight Back Against King Trump
In preparation for the October 18 No Kings Rally, The Village Independent Democrats, a local West Village political organization, hosted a pizza night and poster making party at St. John’s Lutheran Church on Christopher Street.
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Downtown Roundup
ICE Raid on Canal Street
A major enforcement operation unfolded October 21 on Canal Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents targeted street vendors suspected of distributing counterfeit goods.
Buoyed by New Hope Villagers Rally Again to Save Landmarked Rec Center
On a recent windy weekday, nearly 100 protesters rallied outside the shuttered Tony Dapolito Recreation Center to light a fire under city officials. Buoyed by recent events, they demanded the city save the beloved building on Clarkson and Carmine streets, long a major city hub for youth and community activities.
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Andrew Berman, Preservationist and Activist
Anyone living or working in lower Manhattan has probably heard of Andrew Berman. He has been the face and voice of historic preservation in Greenwich Village and beyond since 2002, when he became executive director of the Village Preservation organization.
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Theater Review: Crooked Cross
In the years following the first World War, Gertrude Stein referred to American expatriates living in Paris in the 1920s as a Lost Generation. That also described many young Germans a decade later when the Depression, inflation, and a collapsing economy turned their futures opaque. This is the setting of the Mint Theater’s current production of Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross. It’s the first time the play has been performed in the US.
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Karin Battin Is Swimming In Color and Mars
Karin Battin’s exhibit at the June Kelly Gallery is an immersion in artwork that offers waves of shapes and colors, that pivot between organic and geometric shapes, uniting land and water, humans and nature, past and future, earth and the cosmos.
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Double, Double
Whenever I board the A train heading to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens to walk the mudflats of the East Pond in knee-high boots, I feel like I may end up in Tolkien’s Middle Earth—the haunt of Godwit and Whimbrel, Dowitcher and Phalarope—fanciful creatures of a netherworld.
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The Carnegie Hall of Classic Rock—The Fillmore East and Legendary Promoter Bill Graham
I recently walked in the East Village to 105 Second Avenue where the former Fillmore East is now a bank. It wasn’t a bank that killed the beast it was greed and power or something like that.
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LEAVING A LEGACY—Barbara J. Steinberg to be Honored at the Greenwich Village Film Festival
Some people are good talkers while others are doers, and there are a few who manage to do both. Longtime Morton Street resident, Barbara J. Steinberg, who passed away in 2023 at the age of 91, was an example of the latter. Barbara could talk and talk, but she was also a doer.
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Pure Bliss—Jazz for singers−and those who think they can’t sing!
Celebrated jazz vocalist Eve Zanni and distinguished composer and jazz pianist Isaac Raz are offering a free weekly jazz choral experience–the Bliss Singers–every Friday at 4:30 p.m. in the Westbeth Community Room.
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Alternative Coffee House for Emerging Singer-Songwriters
On September 6, I had the pleasure to cover two very talented Latino singer-songwriters at the People’s Voice Cafe on 239 Thompson Street. This alternative coffeehouse offers quality entertainment and a place for emerging singer-songwriters to perform and show their wares. It has also been a space for artistic expression and a wide variety of humanitarian issues and concerns since 1979.
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At The Jefferson Market Library
September was a busy month at Jefferson Market Library. We welcomed back all of those families of school children who spent their summer traveling, and a new class of college students arrived in town, eager to get their first New York Public Library cards.
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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.