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News 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...
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News Who is our unexpected Assemblyman David Siffert?
In June, David Siffert won a 15-vote victory to succeed 35-year incumbent Deborah Glick as the next state Assembly member...
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News Newsstand makes a Village style comeback
A long-shuttered newsstand in the bowels of the West Fourth Street subway station has found new life as a shrine...
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Features The old Village lives on in our Movie Houses
We Villagers have been watching our bohemian neighborhood character leach away for a very long time, but we remain blessed...
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Features A Beach Chair Dilemma
Would two inches really make a difference? No, I wasn’t taking a sex quiz. I was buying a new beach...
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Features A physician’s decades-long fight for “Medicare for all”
In 1968, a friend of Dr. Alec Pruchnicki returned from study abroad with a revelation: in Italy, healthcare doesn’t require...
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Features When I ended up at an orgy in the Village by mistake
I was a Person of the Village many years ago, when graffiti slathered the subways, fires devoured the Bronx, doggy...
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Features Wandering Witness: Daniel Root Finding New York City
At six in the morning, long after last call, Daniel Root is most at home. The dive bars and restaurants...
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Arts 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...
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Arts 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...
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Arts 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...
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Arts DOWNTOWN IN THE BOHEMIAN CONTINUUM
Bowery Poetry (formerly known as The Bowery Poetry Club) is being reimagined, according to Bob Holman. Possibly America’s most well-known...
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Arts ROOTS OF THE PUNK BEAT PUNK GENERATION – PART TWO
I WILLL NOT GO TO WAR (TODAY TOMORROW OR EVER FOR YOUR LOST MIND MR. PRE-SIDENT) You want me to...
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Arts A Conversation with Filmmaker John W Kim About His New Comedy “Reunion”
Sure, high school reunions can be a chance to reconnect with old friends and share some laughs over those woebegone...
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Arts Action Painting with Jackson Pollock and Barnaby Ruhe
With Jackson Pollock’s huge historic work "7A" from 1948, which seems like the fairy tale cow to leap up in...
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Arts Eric Andersen Evokes the Village of the’60s
“I was walking down the street with Phil Ochs as we often did,” said singer-songwriter Eric Andersen at The Bitter...
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