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Historical New map to detail history of slavery in our neighborhoods
Slavery in New York? For many New Yorkers, accustomed to associating slavery with Southern plantations, the fact that slavery existed...
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Health Fate of Beth Israel still in courts, by Phyllis Eckhaus
“If this hospital closes, people will die.” So declared attorney Arthur Schwartz to New York State Supreme Court Justice...
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Music MUSIC: Medea Hoar frosts electric
Hi there fellow musical aficionados, it's your friendly music slut, Medea Hoar, bouncing from borough to borough to bring you...
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Arts Music: Wiggly Air, by Kurt Gottschalk
Simple pleasures. On Only the Void Stands Between Us (LP and download released last month by Silver Current Records),...
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Arts Grella on Jazz: Best Jazz Albums 2024, by George Grella
This is just one calendar year, which may be sufficient time in the pop music manufacturing industry to spot a...
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Music Music Column: Wiggly Air, by Kurt Gottschalk
The beginning of another new age. The year that’s just passed might go down in history as the one...
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Features Food: A holiday tradition with a long history
One frigid afternoon in late December, many years ago, my brother and I hopped on a train headed for Grand...
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Features Celebrating Christmas in Sweden
Sweden is a place of plenty of holiday celebrations. My American friends usually say midsummer with the fertility pole and...
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Features Unassuming repositories of history
Over the years I’ve spent a whole lot of time at our two Village library branches, and as a result...
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Features A paean to the Village
The New York Public Library is really bringing it all back home with its small but stunning exhibit Becoming Bohemia:...
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Features The Greatest Love of All…The Relationship Between a New Yorker and Their Coffee.
New York City is known for many things, arts and culture, food, fashion, a diverse population, a fast pace, an...
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Environment Community gardeners rally at City Hall, by George Fiala
Just last summer, a global NGO named Food Tank wrote about community gardens in their newsletter. "Urban agriculture offers a...
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Features Book Serialization: Fishes,Purple Tiny… a Sixties Tale, by Bob Racioppo
Introduction “Fishes, Purple,Tiny…a “60s tale” is a somewhat anthropological snapshot of a time before the digital revolution of computers and...
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Features Fragments of life, Short Stories by Joe Caccamo
THE RACE IS ON I moved to Venice yesterday. A woman smiled at me as I walked into Café Gratitude. ...
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Arts Jon Tsoi performing and painting for peace at White Box Art Space
“Peace and health – this is my journey as an artist,” Jon Tsoi says. “It’s who I am as a...
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Arts THEATER: Weird birds don’t quite stick the landing in Fowl Play: Conference of the Birds, review by Oscar Fock
Fowl Play: Conference of the Birds is an experimental play. Let’s get that out of the way before anything else,...
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Simple pleasures. On Only the Void Stands Between Us (LP and download released last month by Silver Current Records),...
Read More Arts Grella on Jazz: Best Jazz Albums 2024, by George Grella
This is just one calendar year, which may be sufficient time in the pop music manufacturing industry to spot a...
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