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Community Board 2 and 3 Wrap up for Summer Break in August and Prepare for Community Summer Events, by Sherica Daley

Community Boards 2 and 3 head into summer break in August. For their respective July meetings, that meant housekeeping on last-minute issues and updates on upcoming events in the East and West Village. Community Board 2’s meeting covered several new bills and programs that will impact the West Village, including a bill signed by Gov.

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The complex religious history of East Village’s “Kleindeutschland,” by Asar John

The East Village is now recognized for its nightlife, vintage clothing shops and the bustle of St. Mark’s Place – but there’s also a past time where German churches were the neighborhood stronghold. Richard Haberstroh, a genealogist and native New Yorker with German roots, hosted an illustrative talk at the Trinity Lower East Side Lutheran

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Queen del Scene Marcia Resnick’s Legacy Bad Girl Elegies and Angel Doll Epiphanies by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Haute punk art star Marcia Resnick leaves us a legacy, both in photographs by her … and of her. Smart, sophisticated and sexy, she rode the crest of Downtown Manhattan’s ascendance a half century ago. She was a regular at the hotspots, appearing in her trademark Hell’s Angel/ seductive schoolgirl attire and taking studio portraits

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Old-world craftsman keeps the bookbinding trade alive on the Lower East Side, by Raanan Geberer

Bookbinding, like book publishing in general, is on the decline. But if you walk down the stairs at the front of the old-tenement building at 135 Henry St. on the Lower East Side, you’ll find a man plying that trade the same way he did 40 years ago — and moreover, he’s still very active.

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