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This is my first column for the Village Star Revue. Getting the attention of people on the frantic streets of Manhattan is more challenging than getting people to talk to me on the laid-back streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn which I do every month for my People of Red Hook column. So, for my virgin […]

In the NYC 2025 Primary Election Voter Guide, sixteen of the twenty mayoral candidates listed affordability or a related factor as one of their top three issues. Rent is high, MTA trips add up, and even a bacon, egg, and cheese feels more like a special treat these days. But despite the uphill financial battle

When I was a kid, I had a dream, a wonderful dream. I would dress up in my parents’ clothes or my toy-store tutu, bound into my parents’ bedroom, fling open my arms, yell ta-da and do a little song and dance. Before long, shyness and trouble singing on key knocked the budding entertainer right

The coffee flower…these delicate white blooms are not only beautiful but also integral to the coffee plant’s life cycle and important to the development of the beans that turn into the brew in our daily cup. Coffee flowers grow on the coffee tree and are typically small, white, star-shaped blossoms. The flowers have a jasmine-like

Cameras in hand, around 15 sightseers traversed packed West Village streets on July 20 to snap photos of the Blue Note Jazz Club, Cornelia Street and over a dozen other renowned spots. Tour guides dotted chronicled histories with personal accounts in their retellings of the social and political nuances that built Lower Manhattan. The group,

It’s probably an unwinnable debate to determine who is happier to have dell’anima back downtown: the team behind it or the diners in front of their dinners.  The restaurant, an inveterate regular on “Best of” Lists, debuted in Abingdon Square in 2007, with much of the same team that still operates it now.  In 2018, with skyrocketing

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

When the trees begin to turn green in the early days of spring, there’s usually a buzz of excited activity in anticipation of warmer days in New York City. But, this year, many international students were racked with uncertainty as they anxiously checked the news and their emails, waiting to find out if they would

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