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My View Around the Village

What do you do when you are thrown out of your shop because of high rents? If you are Jim Drougas of Unoppressve Non-Imperialist Bargain Books you buy and stock a bookmobile.

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.

Tariffs Hit The Village

Since Trump instituted wide-spread tariffs on imports, economists have been predicting who will be hurt by them. One consensus is that small businesses that don’t have the deep pockets of the big retailers will be least able to take the financial strains.

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Village Pet Pages

  • The Story of Thackery Binx
    My boyfriend, being a big fan of the 1993 Hocus Pocus film, named her Thackery Binx. Well…she did bear the name Suba for the first couple weeks as she was first found in a Subaru, but why keep the trauma all her life?

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