HOW TO WRITE YOUR OWN VALENTINE CARD
Valentine’s Day is a holiday one best not mess with.
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Year: 2026
Patsy Fang Chen
Patsy Fang Chen, a longtime leader in the New York Taiwanese community and artistic director of the New York Young Lions Youth Orchestra, passed away on January 4 at the age of 78.
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Robert Heide, Playwright, Passes Away at Age 86
Robert Heide, playwright and friend, passed away on December 17 in New York City. He spent the last year and a half of his life at Isabella Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care under the care of a nurturing and attentive staff.
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Searching for My True Self in Greenwich Village
For most of my life, stillness eluded me. I struggled to be present in any moment, to experience joy or comfort, let alone peace. My mind was a relentless scanning machine, forever searching for what was wrong or what came next.
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Grove Street – Then And Now (Part 1)
How is it possible that one tiny street in Greenwich Village could have such an impact on history, pop culture, film, literature and lifestyle?
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A Tail of Two Rescues
Beth, who works at Greenwich Village Animal Hospital’s front desk, recommended we write about this family which has two rescue dogs with unusual stories. Thank you Greenwich Village Animal Hospital!
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NYC Building Code Changes Announced
You might think in this great city of millions of people and billions of building square footage, that the city leaders would be very thorough with their construction codes, having instituted one of the first codes in 1867. To their credit, city leaders made regular updates to the city’s building codes since, but have been paying a lot of attention to our current building codes in the last few years.
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Community Opportunity to Purchase Act
Apparently there used to be a time in New York when apartments weren’t run through private equity. Back in the 1960s, community activists in Harlem and across the city had to take control of their building’s utilities as landlords mass-abandoned apartments that were no longer seeing returns.
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Cruelty and Injustice to the Homeless in the West Village
My homeless friend, James Tarangelo, has been helping me with my dogs. He was living in an old car I had given to him on Greenwich Street near Clarkson & Houston streets after his own car was towed and destroyed by the city.
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Local business updates.
Read MoreTrump is Immune — But His Lawyers Aren’t
It’s very frustrating to watch Trump’s minions testifying before Congress where their statements are often misleading if not possibly perjurious.
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Renee Good was Bending the ‘Moral Arc of the Universe’ Towards Justice
The killing of Renee Good, by a U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 7, has sparked protests and outrage across the United States.
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Valentines to Women and Girls I Love
Thanking the important women in my life.
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- A Tail of Two Rescues
Beth, who works at Greenwich Village Animal Hospital’s front desk, recommended we write about this family which has two rescue dogs with unusual stories. Thank you Greenwich Village Animal Hospital!