E.V. Historic District
The approval of the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District on Tuesday comes as wonderful news. And it’s long overdue. As opposed to surrounding neigh- borhoods like Greenwich Village and Soho,...
View ArticleLincoln Anderson, Editor in Chief
As Publisher of The Villager I am pleased to announce that Lincoln Anderson has been named Editor in Chief of The Villager and East Villager & Lower East Sider newspapers. Since 1998 when Lincoln...
View ArticleMerchants need grants
In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, small businesses throughout Lower Manhattan have once again found themselves in an economic swamp. Struggling mom-and-pop shops from Avenue C to the Meatpacking...
View ArticleThe war on guns
After the latest bloody mass shooting — last week at an elementary school in Newton, Connecticut — we are once again left numb and feeling helpless at the senseless violence. Twenty-six lives wiped out...
View ArticleN.R.A. on the ropes
Following the horrific mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the nationwide soul-searching and debate about gun control continues to widen. Last Friday, Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of...
View ArticleSandy relief betrayal
Condemnation was swift for the House Republicans’ heartless abandonment of people devastated by Hurricane Sandy. No one put it better than Representative Peter King of Long Island. He said anybody from...
View ArticleGetting tough on guns
It was a proud day for New York on Tuesday when Governor Cuomo signed off on the toughest gun laws in America. Better known for its dysfunction, Albany came together under Cuomo’s leadership and pushed...
View ArticleHizzoner Ed Koch
It was hard to imagine New York City ever being without Ed Koch. Whether you loved him, hated him or fell somewhere in between, Koch was a larger-than-life figure who always seemed to embody the very...
View ArticleHigh noon at high court
About two weeks from today, the U.S. Supreme Court will be concluding oral arguments on two major marriage equality cases On March 26, the federal lawsuit challenging the Defense of Marriage Act filed...
View ArticleQuinn on the spot
At a candidates forum sponsored last week by Gay City News, our sister paper, the five Democrats running for mayor spent 90 minutes with hundreds of members of the L.G.B.T. community, and the results...
View ArticleTrust at the Seaport
Another year, another big plan to “save” the South Street Seaport. Downtowners have coexisted with corporations running the Seaport mall for a few decades. There have been some good initiatives, and...
View ArticleCommunity news
The news industry is in flux, and has been for the last six or seven years. That’s no secret — certainly not anymore. Some things, however, remain constant, foremost among them, the demand for solidly...
View ArticleBoston and 9/11
As we were going to press on Wednesday night, the investigation was continuing into Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and left 170 injured. The F.B.I. was denying reports that a...
View ArticleBike-share backlash
As our Page 1 article in this week’s issue notes, a plan to show a movie by Community Board 2 on bike-share has been scrapped in favor of a large discussion forum on bike-share, and specifically the...
View ArticleStreet fair oversight
Street fair season is back — and with it, the perennial issues surrounding this very public, and much-debated, feature of city life. Community Board 2, which includes Greenwich Village, annually has...
View ArticleSeeing the light & After the rollout…
Seeing the light More than half a year after Hurricane Sandy’s surge deluged Hudson River Park, the park’s Village section is finally poised to get its electricity restored, so its lights can be turned...
View ArticlePitting bikes vs. art
Well, bike-share is off and rolling in New York City, and as of this past weekend, the new program is now open to users on a daily and weekly basis, as opposed to annual membership. The Citi Bikes are...
View ArticleFighting future Sandys
If you go all the way back to 1900, three of the 10 worst storms to hit the Battery occurred after 2009. That’s one of the more staggering things revealed in the Bloomberg administration’s...
View ArticleConservancy concerns
This Thursday evening June 20, Community Board 2 may — or may not — vote on whether or not to recommend approval of a new conservancy for Washington Square Park. We have no issues with a private,...
View ArticleUniting the two Americas
Four years after launching federal litigation against Proposition 8, Chad Griffin, now president of the Human Rights Campaign, has reason to be happy. His hope of settling the question of a federal...
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