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Union Square Faces
Photos by Tequila Minsky Farmers showcased their fresh produce at the Union Square Greenmarket. The Greenmarket is open on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Looks like the fix is in for the children’s playground
Photo by Milo Hess Union Square’s Evelyn’s Playground has been closed for a few weeks for a $150,000 renovation of its safety surface. Generous contributions of local residents and businesses who...
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Restaurant finally opens in Union Square pavilion
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Well, in the end, Mayor de Blasio didn’t nix the contract for the new seasonal restaurant concession in the renovated Union Square pavilion. Local advocates and politicians, at...
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Ex-Pride Agenda director at home at settlement house
Alan van Capelle on a terrace at the new Manny Cantor Center. BY SAM SPOKONY | In a sense, Alan van Capelle’s first midlife crisis came at age 34. It was then, in January 2010, that he stepped down...
View ArticleA new model for building the Morton St. school
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, left, at a May 19 town hall meeting, told the 75 Morton Task Force, “Yes…you can have a seat at the table.” To the right of her were C.E.C. members President Shino...
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Super-luxe building soaring next to God’s Love
Works in progress: One Vandam, left, and G.L.W.D. Photo by The Villager BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | The skyline is rapidly changing around Spring St. and Sixth Ave. On the corner, God’s Love We Deliver is...
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Janet Freeman Way honors tireless tenant advocate
Holding up an honorary co-naming sign that was given to Freeman’s family members, from left her brother, Ed, Councilmembers Rosie Mendez and Margaret Chin, Borough President Gale Brewer, Congressmember...
View ArticleN.Y.U. pitches in for nonprofits
BY SERGEI KLEBNIKOV | N.Y.U.’s Office of Civic Engagement recently awarded nearly $100,000 in grants to 87 community-based nonprofit organizations. The grants were given out at a June 3 ceremony to...
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Pink boxes proliferate throughout Lower East Side
One of the dubious pink clothes-donation boxes, at Delancy and Ridge Sts. Photo by Zach Williams BY ZACH WILLIAMS | Within 30 minutes via bicycle, The Villager found nine illegal sidewalk...
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The last of the Meow-hicans
Despite initial reports that a long-running feral cat colony at Grand St.’s Amalgamated Dwellings had been snuffed out back in June, it turns out there was one survivor. Yet, on July 15, Tuxedo, the...
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Chico’s Robin Williams wall draws admiration, and tears
Members of The Street Artists Collective used an image from the Robin Williams movie “Toys” to create a chalk artwork of the late actor in Washington Square Park. Photo by Tequila Minsky BY ZACH...
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Through all the changes, accordionist plays on
Helen Stratford playing one of her accordions in Tompkins Square Park. Photo by Yannic Rack BY YANNIC RACK | Heroin, Heineken, Haagen-Dazs and Henry. In that order.” These are the things that Helen...
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Don’t change Orchard St. too much, BID is told
A concept drawing showing the “grove concept” in place on Orchard St. BY ZACH WILLIAMS | Aplan to improve the safety, traffic and appearance of Orchard St. received support from a Community Board 3...
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Dig it! ’60s flashback at garden
Photo by Jefferson Siegel The 6th and B Community Garden was rocking at its recent ’60s sing-along party / fundraiser. The mini-Woodstock — thankfully, without the rain and mud — hosted a sea of...
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In drag-out fight, neighbors say to give queens the boot
Posters for drag queen performers at Boots N Saddles posted outside the bar on Christopher St. Photos by Lincoln Anderson BY CLARISSA-JAN LIM | Emotions ran high last week at a Community Board 2...
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No last-minute miracle for O.L. Vilnius Church? Tower plan is filed
Development plans have been filed for the padlocked Our Lady of Vilnius Church, at Broome St.’s western end. Photo by Yannic Rack BY YANNIC RACK | A pending permit application could see another...
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Forty-five years later, an East Village school has changed radically, just...
Ms. Oliver and her class at P.S. 61 in 1950. BY YANNIC RACK | When Joyce Pearlman started teaching kindergarten in the East Village 45 years ago, the neighborhood was, to put it mildly, a little...
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Shaoul agrees he will remove seventh floor of E. 5th building
In June 2013, workers removed material from the illegal seventh-floor penthouse at 514-516 E. Sixth St. The B.S.A. had ruled in fall 2012 that Ben Shaoul had to take the penthouse down. The developer...
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‘Drop the appeal!’ N.Y.U. project opponents cry
All for one! From left, Connie Masullo, of 505 LaGuardia Place; veteran activist Doris Diether and former Parks Commissioner Henry Stern at last Wednesday’s “Save the Village” rally. PHOTOS BY TEQUILA...
View ArticleCar kills elderly woman on Canal St.
On Tues., Oct. 14, at 4:08 a.m., police responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle accident involving a pedestrian near the intersection of Canal and Elizabeth Sts. Upon arrival, officers observed an...
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