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News Jacob Riis tenants’ 20 year fight for clean water and NYCHA accountability
Tenants and organizers gathered outside City Hall the morning of Feb. 26 ahead of a hearing on NYCHA’s Permanent Affordability...
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News CB 2 advises on ICE enforcement at schools
“Get a warrant.” That’s still official policy if agents from Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) show up at the school...
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News Protesters march to Washington Square Park at National Day of Protest
Thousands of protesters gathered in Union Square on President’s Day, February 17th, 2025, for the National Day of Protest and...
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Music ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST TURNS INTO A PIANO (almost)
Anthony Haden-Guest turned 88 and, as part of the celebration, he got body painted in the middle of the dance...
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Music David Lynch: Memorializing the Mysteries
David Lynch sat in a strange seat of power during the 1990s. He had put a tale of psychic terror...
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Features Dealing with the First Presbyterian Church’s slaveholding legacy
If nations were born with original sin, America’s would be slavery. When Thomas Jefferson penned our Declaration of Independence from...
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Features More than meets the eye at East Village’s indie bookstores
Guests entering indie bookstore, art gallery, and streetwear shop Village Works might notice they’re asked to do something they never...
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Features Giving away Staten Island with a triangle and a bird claw
I went down to the Surrogate’s Courthouse on Chambers Street to check out an exhibit called New Visions of Old...
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Features Looking for America
The week after Trump’s inauguration my weird dreams started again. I dreamt I was at BMCC, the community college where...
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Features Drinking with Katherine: Book Bars with Katherine Rivard
A few years ago, I arrived early for my middle school reunion at a bar, thinking it would be fun...
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Arts Willard Morgan, The Mayor of West Eighth Street
He’s an impresario. He’s a musician. He’s a performance artist, an actor, a singer, and a producer. He’s Willard Morgan,...
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Arts Art Review – capturing the beauty in nature – Sylvie Covey at Noho
Anyone who loves beauty and botanical prints should rush to Chelsea and see Sylvie Covey’s exhibit. It is another brilliant...
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Arts MUSIC: Wiggly Air, music of the month
Apparitions of the Eternal Earth. On their monolithic 2022 debut, Eyes Like Predatory Wealth, the Houston, TX trio Apparitions set forth...
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Arts LUNA LUNA: A dazzling art carnival revived at Hudson Yards
The Canadian Rapper and mogul Drake not only makes cakes (lol) but he buys whole art amusement parks and sends...
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Arts Defiant Jazz
What is the sound of being ghosted after going through a job interview? According to the prog-rock band KADAWA, it’s...
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Arts Carson Lund on his new baseball movie “Eephus”
“Baseball isn’t statistics,” legendary New York sports columnist Jimmy Cannon once wrote. “Baseball is DiMaggio rounding second.” I wonder if...
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Arts Charas returning to its neighbors, someday
After decades of fighting, the former PS 64 building — which for some time, following the closing of the school,...
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Arts Books: A Valentine for New York
Review of “Days Without Number, New York City,” photographs by Giovanna Silva, with a text by Sasha Frere-Jones Review by...
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