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BY HEATHER DUBIN | SantaCon is coming to town, and not everyone is thrilled about it. The annual booze-fueled bacchanal features large crowds dressed in Santa Claus costumes who travel from bar to bar throughout the city for a day. A national and international event, SantaCon started in Manhattan in 2000, and has since boomed read more here »
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BY HEATHER DUBIN | More than warm holiday meals were delivered last week to those in need, thanks to a partnership that is raising awareness about elder abuse. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, Citymeals-on-Wheels and the Weinberg Center for Elder Abuse Prevention at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale have joined forces to help train staff and read more here »
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BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Bill de Blasio won more than 73 percent of the vote in New York City on Nov. 5 in his landslide victory against Joe Lhota. The pattern more than held true in Downtown Manhattan, where Democrat de Blasio practically swept the grid from river to river. After the election, read more here »
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BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Reverend Billy and His Stop Shopping Choir are known for mixing soulful music, satirical shtick and righteous politics in their performance art and protest actions. But a manager of a Midtown JPMorgan Chase bank branch and the Manhattan district attorney claim that Reverend Billy, a.k.a. Bill Talen, was the “ringleader” of read more here »
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BY BOB KRASNER | Why a book? For that matter, why a bookshop? If you are holding this newspaper in your hands, you probably already have an answer to those questions. For Terry McCoy and Bob Contant, the owners of the struggling St. Mark’s Bookshop, there is no question that the East Village needs them, and read more here »
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By SAM SPOKONY | The city’s Department of Education is not planning to fund a public school within the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, or SPURA, until at least 2020. But local politicians and Lower East Side school advocates say the commitment should be made right now. A recent D.O.E. statement on the issue came in response read more here »
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BY ROBERT S. TRENTLYON | I must differ with The Villager editorial of Oct. 31, “Being prepared for the hurricane next time,” specifically, the statement, “We think Mayor Bloomberg’s idea of removable storm barriers along Lower Manhattan’s edge is a good idea.” These fences would consist of 6-foot-tall stanchions permanently installed along the west side of read more here »
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BY SAM SPOKONY | One of Downtown’s hottest craft beer purveyors is hoping to liven up the mix by adding wine to both its menu and its drink-friendly educational programming. A year after recovering from the impact of Hurricane Sandy flooding that submerged parts of the East Village, the owners of ABC Beer Co. — read more here »
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BY SAM SPOKONY | Two people were killed in recent weeks after being hit by motor vehicles in the Downtown area, police said. On the afternoon of Nov. 22, a Harlem man, Cheikh Mbaye, was crossing Canal St. near Greene St., when he was struck by a westbound Ford Econoline van. The impact threw Mbaye, 23, read more here »
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BY GERARD FLYNN | Within the last few weeks, small business owners along E. Fourth St. and First Ave. have been getting news in the mail that is making quite a few concerned and some outright fearful. Storefront lessees have been learning from their landlord, the Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association, a low-income housing organization, read more here »
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