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Loyola’s ‘Lion’ closes out H.S. hoops career with another title

March 14, 2013 No Comment

BY DANIEL JEAN-LUBIN | Loyola School’s girls’ varsity basketball team recently captured their fourth straight New York City Athletic League basketball title. Leading them was team MVP senior Adriana Ilnicki. Ilnicki, 17, who was born and raised in the East Village, has suited up for Loyola School’s basketball teams all four of her years there. [...]

Evan Forsch, Week of March 13, 2013

March 14, 2013 No Comment

Defending their homes on E. 13th St.; Homeless on A

March 14, 2013 4 Comments

It was an early summer morning in 1996, and hundreds of police were getting ready to flood onto E. 13th St. between Avenues A and B, above, to evict squatters from several tenements. “We were welded into a building on the north side of 13th St.,” Clayton Patterson recalled of this photo’s vantage point. “Bratton [...]

How to get rid of the fungus among us from the hurricane

March 14, 2013 3 Comments

BY HEATHER DUBIN | Mold removal might top your spring cleaning to-do list if your home or business was flooded by Hurricane Sandy. With warmer temperatures on the horizon, Graffiti Community Ministries, a Baptist church on E. Seventh St., held a mold-awareness and cleanup seminar on Monday night March 4. Put together by the CUNY [...]

Violets bounced at home in first round by Jersey City

March 7, 2013 No Comment

BY DANIEL JEAN-LUBIN | New York University’s men’s basketball team saw their season come to an end at home in a 74-66 loss to neighbors from across the Hudson, New Jersey City University, in the quarterfinals of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Metro Championship Tournament on Wed., Feb. 27. Entering the game, the [...]

Ira Blutreich, Week of March 7, 2013

March 7, 2013 No Comment

Is the sequester a “Titanic” or a “Chicken Little” event?

Seniors step up as N.Y.U. beats Brandeis, 59-57, in seesaw battle

February 28, 2013 No Comment

BY DANIEL JEAN-LUBIN | On a day meant to honor the team’s graduating seniors, New York University’s men’s basketball team survived a late surge to defeat Brandeis University 59-57 on Saturday afternoon, in the final game of the University Athletic Association regular season. The N.Y.U. Violets’ starting five seniors combined to produce a final big [...]

Evan Forsch

February 28, 2013 No Comment

Pink Pony had a great ride, but couldn’t buck changes

February 21, 2013 1 Comment

BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | It’s one thing to be anti-gentrification and against the corporate development that is destroying the fabric of the community and plowing under the elements that make a neighborhood, and another thing to be engaged in helping to save what is left of the community. If we don’t support our local family- and [...]