BY PAUL SCHINDLER | One day after the Trump administration and the U.S. Senate’s G.O.P. leadership failed to dismantle President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, up to 500 activists descended on Senate offices demanding that Republicans work on “providing healthcare rather than taking it away.” That’s how Eric Sawyer, the vice president of public affairs read more here »

BY SHARON WOOLUMS | Independent-minded candidates for political office joined the Small Business Congress — an advocacy group founded by the leading authority on small business in New York City, Sung Soo Kim — at a recent City Hall steps press conference to call attention to the worsening crisis facing our small businesses. And they read more here »

BY COLIN MIXSON | Call it a Silver lining? A federal appeals court overturned former Assemblyman Shelly Silver’s conviction for a corruption scheme that netted the onetime power broker nearly $4 million in kickbacks. The decision handed down on July 13 vacates the 12-year-long imprisonment Sheldon’s faced since his sentencing last year. But Lower Manhattan’s once-powerful read more here »

BY BOB KRASNER | Angel Eyedealism has lived most of her adult life in the East Village. Currently, she resides in a typical tenement walk-up: It’s not the most spacious apartment, or the fanciest — less than 500 square feet, with the bathtub in the kitchen and a steam pipe that rises up straight through read more here »

BY SCOTT R. AXELROD | Webster Hall, the renowned, longstanding East Village club and concert venue, will close Aug. 9, as the landmarked building will soon be flying the corporate ownership flag of Barclays / AEG / Bowery Presents. And while the place will be rebranded and its interior renovated — exactly how is still read more here »