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News 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...
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News 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...
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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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Features 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...
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Features 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...
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Features 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....
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Features 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...
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Features 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...
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Arts 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...
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Arts An Artist’s Statement
The Jets just proved they suck again but it was fun while it lasted … for a week. I was...
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Arts 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!,...
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Arts 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...
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Arts 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...
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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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