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!BADASS! BURLESQUE PRESENTS: !BADASS! LOVES JANIS 3 FringeNYC veteran, Huffington Post blogger and classically trained soprano Juliet Jeske brings her killer voice and improv chops to the role of Janis, as she hosts a righteous tribe of highly sexualized performers gathered together in the service of “making tantric mojo to Joplin’s jaw dropping battle cries.” The [...]
In protest of The Cooper Union’s recent announcement that it would start charging incoming undergraduates a 50 percent tuition — ending a 100-year tradition of free education — about 50 students occupied President Jamshed Bharucha’s office in the Foundation Building last Wed., May 8. On the evening of May 9, students rallied outside the Foundation [...]
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House of Cupcakes recently opened at Seventh Ave. South at Grove St. And if that wasn’t enough, a few blocks to the south, IHOP (the International House of Pancakes) has opened on Carmine St. near Seventh Ave. South. Only time will tell if this is a mere coincidence or if the “House of” eateries trend [...]
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BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | I have finished my exploration of Soho House. It was interesting, and I’m glad that I took the opportunity to check them out. I see them fitting into this new Lower East Side. No different than the two new luxury hotels going up on Ludlow St. Of course, though — and [...]
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BY ELISSA STEIN | The windows of Barnes & Noble are covered with Kraft paper. The longstanding hat shop across the way recently closed. Shuttered storefronts dot the west end of the block. Looking east, from the corner of Sixth Ave., Eighth St. appears to have been overtaken by scaffolding and “For Rent” signs. The [...]
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Dance of the bike-share protest To The Editor: Re “Bike-share backlash” (editorial, May 2): I didn’t even know there was any public art going on in Petrosino Square before two bike racks got put there. But now that the racks are there, strangely, there still is room for this woman to do her 10 days [...]
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The wait continues for solutions to Lower Manhattan’s perennial school wait lists. In a sense, the problem is unavoidable, given the city until now has decided not to make accurate population projections Downtown. There’s no sense continuing to beat up the Department of Education when there are real, immediate decisions that the city could make [...]
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SWEENEY’S ANTI-BIKE-SHARE JIHAD: The New York Times, catching up to the bike-share backlash story, bit on a quote we reported in our article in last week’s issue on the Community Board 2 “bike-share outrage” forum. The Times, in its article this Wednesday, referred to a community member who slammed Citi Bike at the forum as [...]
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BY SARAH FERGUSON | On Wednesday, more than 150 people marched from the old P.S. 64 on E. 9th St. — former home of the CHARAS/El Bohio Cultural and Community Center — to The Cooper Union to demand that the university reverse its plan to lease up to 196 beds in the new dormitory that [...]
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BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | N.Y.U. — going beyond what was required in its agreement with the city for the O.K.’ing of its N.Y.U. 2031 development plan — is creating space for not one, but two, local nonprofit groups in the university’s Washington Square Village complex. Alicia Hurley, New York University vice president of outreach and [...]
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