A few minutes before noon on the hottest day of the year (so far), East River Park is nearly empty. A lone woman sits a blanket down under the minimal shade of a young tree. Nearby, a mother sits in the sun admiring her two children playing in a sprinkler, and the basketball court at […]
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After decades of fighting, the former PS 64 building — which for some time, following the closing of the school, housed the CHARAS/El Bohio Cultural and Community Center — on 605 East 9th St. will be restored and turned back into a building for the community. The building was sold in January 2024 to an
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Sweden is a place of plenty of holiday celebrations. My American friends usually say midsummer with the fertility pole and the wacky dances when I tell them about Swedish holidays, but to me — and I’d wager few Swedes would argue against this — no holiday is as anticipated as Christmas. Further, I would argue
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