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News On his way out the door, Eric Adams does his best to demolish Dapolito and build Hudson Street mega tower
Ignoring community opposition, less than two weeks before ex-Mayor Adams’ term drew to a close, his administration gave the green...
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News Pro-Tenant Law Stalled Following Adams Veto; Advocates Remain Hopeful, By Phyllis Eckhaus
On a freezing December afternoon, tenants and their advocates rallied outside 331 East 14th St, decrying their landlords’ years of...
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News End-of-year deadline for City Council to enact COPA legislation, by Phyllis Eckhaus
“New York City housing stock is being gobbled up by multinational investment companies, investment funds, and people who have tons...
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Features EAST VILLAGE, THE BOWERY and BROOKLYN BRIDGE MEMOIRS. by Mark Tunstall
Wandering through the East Village it’s easy to get caught up on traversing the busy roads, with stop lights that...
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Features Grateful for a New Year: On Keeping a Gratitude Journal
story and photos by Kate Walter As a new year begins and I celebrate another birthday this month, I’m grateful...
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Features Edgar Allan Poe worked there before it was built
For nearly 120 years, the Hudson Park Library, the first public library built in the Village, has been serving its...
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Features Drinking with Katherine: Egg Nog
Last month, as the weather dipped and the days got shorter, eggnog returned to the dairy aisle. I found myself...
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Features Quinn on Books: Review of “The Heart of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’: How the Most Inspirational Movie of All Time Still Inspires the Spirit,” by Jimmy Hawkins
Christmas Eve. A snowy night. A distraught man stands on a bridge, staring down at the icy water. Suddenly he...
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Arts JANUARY IN THE BOHEMIAN CONTINUUM
Sometimes a bohemian has to jump right in with both feet and enjoy the splash. Something tells me that 2026...
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Arts Film Review: “Obex” is the Surreal “Tron” Clone David Lynch Never Directed
Nostalgia slop, from AI-generated trash to IP-leveraging franchise flicks, is belched out so regularly our culture practically runs on the stuff....
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Arts My Season with Hudson Guild, by Michele Herman
The well-made theater at Hudson Guild hides unassumingly inside the Community Center in the NYCHA Elliott-Chelsea Houses on West 26th...
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Arts Someday soon we all will be together, if the fates allow, by Kate Walter, photos by SuZen
I always had this fantasy about becoming an official tour guide in the Village. But I never got beyond taking...
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Arts Fernando’s Liquid Architectures, by Lee Klein
The current oeuvre of Fernando Pomalaza, a Peruvian-born, New York City based artist (who for many years showed at the...
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Arts Film Review: “The Mastermind” is a Throwback Tonic for Our Streaming Slop Moment, by Dante A. Ciampaglia
Kelly Reichardt might be one of our era’s most subversive filmmakers. In this attention-addled age, cinema has gone increasingly loud,...
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Arts Quinn on Books: Pabst Blue Ribbon, by Michael Quinn
Review of “The Director,” by Daniel Kehlmann; translated from the German by Ross Benjamin by Michael Quinn A director has...
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Arts BOHEMIAN VIBES IN THE DOWNTOWN CONTINUUM, by Stephen DiLauro
I used to be half of a musical act named Working Class Bohemians. The name choice was mine. I got...
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