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News Landmarked Soho building at risk due to loophole
“Please allow me to demolish this building so I can build luxury condos.” That, in a nutshell, is a derelict...
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News Village special election less than two months away
The campaign to replace Erik Bottcher as councilmember for the 3rd Council District is up and running, with a special...
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News These are the people running to replace Bottcher, who saw greener pastures elsewhere
ICE’s abuses of power, affordable housing, and the planned demolition and redevelopment of NYCHA’s Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses were front...
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Features Eve Zanni: A Different Kind of Capital, by Layla Law-Gisiko
On Friday afternoons, the community room at Westbeth artist building performs a small act of defiance. The room itself is...
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Features A Boston Sojourn
My husband and I went to Boston for the weekend for a friend’s surprise birthday party. I used to go...
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Features The Break Up
“It was so romantic,” my best friend Jennifer said, “the way he’d walk you home after he made you...
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Features “Anarchy on Avenue C”
I lived on the Lower East Side in the 1990s. The neighborhood was very different then. There were still vacant...
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Features Drinking with Katherine – Sake version
The cold hurt my bare fingers and my phone was almost dead, making me loath to double-check the directions on...
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Arts Valentine’s Day poems
Small Pleasures of a Long Marriage I asked my husband: Cumulus and cirrus, but what’s the third one? Thromboid,...
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Arts Brain Insurance: “The Reservoir” marks NYC debut of playwright Jake Brasch
“Here we go. Here comes the sober. I hate this part, when the dam breaks and the questions come pouring...
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Arts IN THE BOHEMIAN CONTINUUM – February
Feeling Violated, Authors? “Move fast and break things” has been a recurring motif in the rise of tech moguls. In...
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Arts The Brood in Revue
I spent the first week of October aka the official beginnings of spooky season reading The Brood, Rebecca Baum’s latest...
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Arts Quinn on Books: Protect the Dolls
Review of “Green Lankton: Could It Be Love,” edited by Francis Schichtel, Jordan Weitzman, and Nan Goldin A photograph shows...
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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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