The Rise and Fall of the YIMBY Consensus
The lack of affordable housing is a complex problem. And every complex problem, as the saying goes, has an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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Year: 2026
Activists Decry Wall Street, Call for NYC Public Bank
The acoustics weren’t great but the message was crystal clear. Big banks are systematically screwing ordinary New Yorkers by using taxpayer money to underwrite schemes that promote usury, risk destabilizing financial markets, support ICE, endanger tenants, and deprive regular New Yorkers of services and resources.
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Congressman Goldman Responds to Village View Article
In our February issue we published an article titled Brad Lander Takes On Congressman Dan Goldman in Battle Over How to Best Fight for Sanity.
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A Defiant Community Returns a Flag to Sacred Ground
Village community members and city leaders came together on a freezing February afternoon to re-raise the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument after a directive from the Trump administration caused it to be taken down a few days prior.
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Another Open Position in the Village, Yet Another Primary!
There was a time, beginning around 1998, when Greenwich Village, Chelsea and parts north shared a state senator. The first one was Tom Duane, a gay pioneer in the electoral arena, who was first elected as a City Council member to the “gay seat” created in 1991.
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HOW TO WRITE YOUR OWN VALENTINE CARD
Valentine’s Day is a holiday one best not mess with.
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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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America at 250
- Driving With Your Pet
We were recently car shopping and were pleasantly surprised to see how pet friendly car companies have become. This led us to check information at the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and The Center for Pet Safety (CPS).