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Lady Furies leave it all on the field in playoffs

July 17, 2014 No Comment

The L.E.S. Lady Furies’ Cinderella season ended Monday as they were knocked out of the running for the Little League World Series by the Rockville Center All-Stars. On Saturday, the age-10-and-under softball team lost badly to the Staten Island All-Stars. But they rebounded against Floral Park on Sunday, winning, 14-10, keeping hope alive, albeit briefly, read more here »

Evan Forsch, Week of July 17, 2014

July 17, 2014 No Comment

On hunger and homelessness in the land of plenty

July 17, 2014 No Comment

BY LYNN PACIFICO | Owning a dog widened my social circles considerably. For instance, I would never have met Jimmy, of “Man in a Van” fame. Jimmy lives with his two dogs in a van parked in the West Village. A hoarder without a home, he drags his treasures back to accumulate in, under read more here »

Letters, Week of July 17, 2014

July 17, 2014 2 Comments

Fight has only begun To The Editor: Re “Li wins a third term to lead C.B. 3, beats Marlow by 31 to 15” (news article, June 26): Thirty-one to 15 sounds like a big loss. It really wasn’t. Several months ago, a group of us, members of Community Board 3, got together because we were read more here »

Tenants battle Kushner over homes and garden amid a renovation hell

July 17, 2014 No Comment

BY ZACH WILLIAMS | A backyard garden on E. Second St. between Avenues A and B doesn’t look like a place that would be the center of conflict, but it was there that a landlord-tenant dispute quickly escalated in April. A new building manager announced on April 8 that repairs to a retaining wall required the demolition of read more here »

Kicking it in various ways

July 17, 2014 No Comment

The Friday before Monday’s Bastille Day saw petanque players, cancan dancers and guillotine “victims” all kicking it, in one way or another, at Tribeca’s Cercle Rouge, on Broadway at N. Moore St.

Scoopy’s, Week of July 17, 2014

July 17, 2014 No Comment

Ouch! We constantly hear about cutting and slashing in Albany, though it usually involves the budget. But state Senator Brad Hoylman, above, recently had a frightening accident where he severely cut his ring finger and pinkie. Hoylman told us it happened several weeks ago when he was up at the state Legislature and was gripping read more here »

V.I.D. is ‘riding the Zephyr’; Backs upstart versus Cuomo

July 17, 2014 2 Comments

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | After previously voting “no endorsement” in the Democratic primary for governor, the Village Independent Democrats last Thursday reconsidered their position, ultimately throwing their support behind political newcomer Zephyr Teachout. Teachout, a Fordham law professor, entered the Democratic primary in June after losing the Working Families Party endorsement to Governor Andrew Cuomo read more here »

From troubled homes to Village’s sidewalks: Crusty life on the street

July 17, 2014 6 Comments

BY CLARISSA-JAN LIM | Peyson and Plasm roam the streets, their sole belongings in backpacks hiked up on their shoulders. They occasionally stop by “bum feeds” or dig through dumpsters for food. They clandestinely drink alcohol from brown bags on the street or in parks with fellow “crust punks,” at times in the company of read more here »

Stuy Town groper has struck twice, still at large

July 17, 2014 No Comment

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Police are seeking the public’s help in locating and identifying an individual wanted in connection with two early-morning, forcible-touching incidents at Stuyvesant Town. According to police, on Sun., May 18, at about 2:52 a.m., the male suspect grabbed a 24-year-old female victim’s buttocks inside the hallway of her apartment building in read more here »