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Letters, Week of June 13, 2013 Your Letters

Letters, Week of June 13, 2013

Jane and the death and life of a great American park Talking Point

Jane and the death and life of a great American park

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Jumping Joey: Shadow Warrior

Jumping Joey: Shadow Warrior

V PET SET Joseph Anthony, a.k.a. Joey, is a rescue cat from Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, “but before Sandy,” explained his best buddy, Toni Dalton. “Most folks there are Italian and that is the most popular name in the neighborhood,” Dalton said. “That’s why I named…

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Ira Blutreich

Ira Blutreich

Isn’t it wonderful…the stock market is going great!…

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Check it out: P.S. 41 chess team are national champs

Check it out: P.S. 41 chess team are national champs BY A.G. BASOLI | The P.S. 41 chess team made all the right moves at…

June 6, 2013No CommentRead More

G.V.L.L. and Harlem go head to head on Memorial Day

G.V.L.L. and Harlem go head to head on Memorial Day BY DANIEL JEAN-LUBIN | The third annual Downtown Little League Memorial Day Tournament was three…

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Evan Forsch, Week of June 6, 2013

Evan Forsch, Week of June 6, 2013 …

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Honoring L.E.S. avant-garde with first annual Acker Awards

Honoring L.E.S. avant-garde with first annual Acker Awards BY CLAYTON PATTERSON  |  As the tide of gentrification and the money it brings in…

May 30, 2013No CommentRead More

Ira Blutreich
Wild times in Austria
Evan Forsch
Conceal and carry: And the lead poisoning is free!
Soho House has my support, but won’t get Acker Awards
Scene, Week of June 13, 2013

Scene, Week of June 13, 2013

  At Sunday’s Solidarity Occupy Gezi protest at Zuccotti Park, a serial painting of “The Woman in Red” referred to the now-iconic news photo of a woman in a red dress being tear-gassed in the face at close range by Istanbul police. Opposition to building…

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Jane and the death and life of a great American park

Jane and the death and life of a great American park

V TALKING POINT BY CATHRYN SWAN | The community around Washington Square Park is currently debating whether a private conservancy is a legitimate way to “improve” the park or just a “scheme” for New York University and other private interests to increase their real estate…

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Letters, Week of June 13, 2013

Letters, Week of June 13, 2013 Lucky no one’s been killed To The Editor: Re “‘Wild Man of Soho’ is causing…

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Fighting future Sandys

Fighting future Sandys If you go all the way back to 1900, three of the 10 worst storms…

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Will a Democrat for mayor stand up for small stores?

Will a Democrat for mayor stand up for small stores? BY SHARON WOOLUMS | After listening intently to each candidate at the Village Independent Democratic…

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Letters, Week June 6, 2013

Letters, Week June 6, 2013 Tammany Hall to be landmarked? To The Editor: After almost three decades of citizen lobbying…

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Pitting bikes vs. art
Theft of Apple devices drove Big Apple crime spike
Letters, Week of May 29, 2013
Seeing the light & After the rollout…
Carrots, sticks, air conditioning and N.Y.U. 2031
Kareem, scientists — and the brain — team up for fest

Kareem, scientists — and the brain — team up for fest

Trevor came in from Queens for the World Science Festival and went home with some major bragging rights, having had the chance to hold an actual human brain. Washington Square Park and some of the adjoining streets were taken over Sun., June 2, by the festival,…

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HOWL! blows into Tompkins with art, music, poetry

HOWL! blows into Tompkins with art, music, poetry

  With poetry, rock and roll, Butoh, drag queens, burlesque, healthcare info booths, a whole section devoted to kids and art that stretched around most of the park, the 10th annual HOWL! Festival indeed had something for everyone. The weekend-long event at Tompkins Square Park began with a…

June 6, 2013No CommentRead More

125 years at famed Katz’s Deli; It’s a lot to digest

125 years at famed Katz’s Deli; It’s a lot to digest Katz’s Deli, at E. Houston and Ludlow Sts., celebrated its 125th anniversary Sunday with a…

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Bono and The Edge get some el-eh-vay-tion on 8th St.

Bono and The Edge get some el-eh-vay-tion on 8th St. Bono, The Edge and drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. of U2 (bassist Adam Clayton might have…

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First Citi Bike, next…Citi World?

First Citi Bike, next…Citi World? For many, what irks them most about Citi Bike is its branding aspect. Indeed, some…

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Dog in distress, needs drugs

Dog in distress, needs drugs …

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Crazy cab crash on 1st Ave.
Cronut craze has them craving in Soho (and Portland)
New Whitney right on track
Musical garden get-together
Wild times in Austria
Espresso, booze or shoes, all fail at ‘doomed corner’

Espresso, booze or shoes, all fail at ‘doomed corner’

BY ELISSA STEIN  |  Last summer, with a fair amount of fanfare, a successful European espresso bar chain established its first outpost in New York City. Reportedly spending thousands upon thousands of dollars on renovations, Segafredo opened its sleek, upscale doors, planning to make a…

May 2, 20134 CommentsRead More

Making all the right moves

Making all the right moves

The renovation of Washington Square Park several years ago cramped the style of chess players there, leading to a new chess scene quickly developing in Union Square’s southern plaza. Saravuth Inn has earned a living playing chess in Union Square since 2008. He says his…

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The write stuff for people seeking a quiet workspace

The write stuff for people seeking a quiet workspace BY MAEVE GATELY  |  Halfway down 14th St., between Fifth and Sixth Aves., a nondescript door…

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Where the legend of Washington Irving lives on

Where the legend of Washington Irving lives on BY REY MASHAYEKHI | As a born-and-bred New Yorker who became one of America’s first…

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Acclaim is rising for famous Israeli bakery’s bread shop

Acclaim is rising for famous Israeli bakery’s bread shop BY REY MASHAYEKHI  |  Since it first opened 12 years ago, Lehamim Bakery has become…

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Greenmarket ramps up for spring and summer season

Greenmarket ramps up for spring and summer season BY MAEVE GATELY  |  Last Wednesday, the Union Square Greenmarket was “on a rampage.” So said…

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Chants meeting in the park
Pining for some new public art
Surfin’ safari in the park with better Wi-Fi
With retro décor and restaurants, hotels are in the mix
High tech makes life in square a bit easier, tidier
TEA FOR THREE: LADY BIRD, PAT & BETTY

TEA FOR THREE: LADY BIRD, PAT & BETTY

TEA FOR THREE: LADY BIRD, PAT & BETTY  Three gold frames hang on the back wall of a room in the White House — where we’re about to meet a trio of first ladies in the waning hours of their reign. There’s no portrait or…

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Just Do Art!

Just Do Art!

ROBERT SEYFFERT: URBAN AUTOMOBILES Bronx-based third generation artist Robert Seyffert, whose grandparents were close friends with Edward Hopper, readily admits the artist’s influence on his own paintings. “Whether it’s a big tree or a 1965 Pontiac,” notes Seyffert, “there’s something about the light hitting the…

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The unsinkable River to River rises, again

The unsinkable River to River rises, again Photo by Stephanie Berger Every year, a glorious noise: River to River favorite Bang on…

June 12, 2013No CommentRead More

Contemplating family, the future and fracking

Contemplating family, the future and fracking Talking Band’s latest digs deep below the surface  BY MARTIN DENTON (of nytheatre.com and indietheaternow.com)…

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Aiming high, with a low budget

Aiming high, with a low budget B.Y.O.B. film fest lubricates life on L.E.S.  BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Shoestring filmmakers, and cinephiles…

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Just Do Art! Week of June 6, 2013

Just Do Art! Week of June 6, 2013 THE PENALTY Like a rundown carnival’s dark ride attraction, Clay McLeod Chapman packs his monologues,…

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Brick up your ears
Just Do Art!
ARC’s CD, LP sale is summer’s number one hit
The films are alive, with the Sound of Silent
Buhman on Art