BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL  |  Around midday on Saturday Anthony Campanelli, the co-owner of Joe’s Dairy on Sullivan St., was bent over a sink in the store’s back room. He reached into a pan filled with balls of smoked mozzarella and, one by one, washed the gritty residue off each. Saturday was the last day Campanelli, [...]

  Updated Saturday, May 18, 2 p.m. BY SARAH FERGUSON Developer Serge Hoyda staged a surprise attack on the Children’s Magical Garden Tuesday, when he dispatched a security detail and work crew to erect a chainlink fence to cordon off the portion of the garden he owns. Hoyda and his partners at S&H Equities own [...]

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON  |  It was Monday afternoon and President Obama was due in the Village for another high-powered fundraiser at movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s home. Around 3:20, The Villager — noticing that police had closed off the westbound lanes of Canal St. that feed onto the West Side Highway — started keeping an eye [...]

Rene Otero, appearing in Manhattan Criminal Court on Fri., May 10, above, center, had been arrested days before and charged with groping a 9-year-old girl in the East Village on April 14. At his court appearance, where he would learn if a grand jury had indicted him on the charge, Otero unexpectedly agreed to a [...]