Two candidates for City Council in the Third District (West Council, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen) recently won dueling union endorsements. On Feb. 26, Yetta Kurland won the unanimous support of the executive board of the New York Metro Area Postal Union — the largest local in the American Postal Workers Union. “Yetta Kurland is the kind [...]

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON  |  Shaking things up in the campaign for the City Council’s Third District, a third candidate is entering the race. Alexander Meadows, a member of Community Board 2 for the past three years who lives in the far West Village, said he will be holding a press conference to announce his candidacy [...]

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON  |  John Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner of the Gristedes supermarket chain, announced his entrance into the race for mayor of New York City last week, running as a Republican. A main platform of Catsimatidis’s campaign is to bring the World’s Fair back to New York City — to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, where [...]

Exiting Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Ave. Monday after Ed Koch’s funeral, Governor Andrew Cuomo and former President Bill Clinton shared a look. Of course, Cuomo and Hillary Clinton are potential presidential candidates in 2016. Bill Clinton spoke at Koch’s funeral, at one point, riffing on Koch’s trademark line — “How’m I doin’?” — by saying [...]

Vicious Village assault A Jersey City man was hospitalized on the early morning of Sun., Aug. 19, after three men stabbed him in the West Village for no apparent reason. The victim, 48, who is black, had just gotten out of a taxi on Seventh Ave. South, between Charles and W. 10th Sts., at around 2 [...]