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The Bleecker Area Merchants and Residents Association tries some new/old ideas

The Bleecker Area Merchants and Residents Association tries some new/old ideas

On a sunny September morning I was sitting outside at Caffee Reggio on Bleecker Street with Jack Killcoyne of the...

October 7, 2026
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The battle between Abundance and Preservation

The battle between Abundance and Preservation

The West Village and Lower East Side could see thousands of new homes added over the next five years under...

October 7, 2026
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Down by the Riverside at Pier 57

Down by the Riverside at Pier 57

After a relaxing vacation at the Jersey Shore. I returned to Westbeth where the construction noise never stops, (except on...

August 17, 2026
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Feature Story

BULLETINS FROM THE MAGIC UNIVERSE, GREENWICH VILLAGE DIVISION, DEATH COMES TO NEW YORK 1982

BULLETINS FROM THE MAGIC UNIVERSE, GREENWICH VILLAGE DIVISION, DEATH COMES TO NEW YORK 1982

Once I stood on a rock in Manhattan’s night with everything to come and death out of sight, listening to...

October 18, 2026
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Bruno’s Weekly: Passing Paris

Bruno’s Weekly: Passing Paris

Bruno's Weekly was published in the Village for a couple of years starting in 1915. Muriel Ciolkowska was a French...

October 7, 2026
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I Remember the East Village

I Remember the East Village

I love autumn in New York; it always seems like a time to reset. Time to look forward and backward....

October 7, 2026
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Coffee corner: Coffee as skincare

Coffee corner: Coffee as skincare

There is a lot of focus these days on health and wellness. Many people are realizing that if they take...

September 24, 2026
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Mysteries of my building

Mysteries of my building

My husband and I have long lived in a converted early 20th-century cold-storage warehouse in the Far West Village. When...

September 10, 2026
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Arts

Notes from NYFF 2026: The Audacious Humanism of ‘South of Tehran’ and Clinical Brutality of ‘NAZA’

Notes from NYFF 2026: The Audacious Humanism of ‘South of Tehran’ and Clinical Brutality of ‘NAZA’

Is it possible for the best film at this year’s New York Film Festival to be an 8-minute short? There’s...

October 9, 2026
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An Artist’s Statement

An Artist’s Statement

The Jets just proved they suck again but it was fun while it lasted … for a week. I was...

October 7, 2026
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Almodóvar, Herzog and Godzilla Take Manhattan for the 64th New York Film Festival

Almodóvar, Herzog and Godzilla Take Manhattan for the 64th New York Film Festival

The other day, sitting through previews before a screening of the Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony, I watched trailers for Behemoth!,...

September 24, 2026
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Wiggly air: August, 2026

Wiggly air: August, 2026

Nina’s New Wonderland. The New Eve is Rising by the New Eves was one of the most exciting debut albums...

September 24, 2026
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Facing a changed audience, “Hairy Ape” returns to Irish Rep this fall

Facing a changed audience, “Hairy Ape” returns to Irish Rep this fall

Irish Rep Co-founder Ciarán O’Reilly Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape—subtitled “A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life in Eight Scenes”—spins...

September 3, 2026
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Jazz by Grella: Incivility

Jazz by Grella: Incivility

What can white musicians say in jazz? That’s no small question, particularly today. The goal of the Trump regime and...

June 21, 2026
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Barks and bites: Bailey Williams’ The Family Dog at Clubbed Thumb examines familial relations in the digital age

Barks and bites: Bailey Williams’ The Family Dog at Clubbed Thumb examines familial relations in the digital age

Family dramas have been a staple of American theater at least since Eugene O’Neil thought, Hmm, maybe I’ll write something...

June 21, 2026
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The Village Star-Revue Theater Section, June 2026, edited by Asal Azari

The Village Star-Revue Theater Section, June 2026, edited by Asal Azari

Pleasure, Dilation, and Mythology in the Works of Reza Abdoh: A Historical Profile by Asal Azari Contradiction, infection, and a...

June 21, 2026
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