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Scene, Week of July 24, 2014

Perhaps having drifted up on a “sea of love,” a piano was beached in the sand under the Brooklyn Bridge’s Manhattan side.

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Evan Forsch, Week of July 24, 2014

July 24, 2014 No Comment

Hillary is “talking the talk” of a 99%-er.

To take or not to take pills, that is the question

July 24, 2014 1 Comment

BY MARIANNE GOLDSCHELDIER | My mother was a pill hound. In wartime Prague, during the Second World War, while I was growing up — a very painful time — she always had codeine at hand, presumably to handle menstrual pain. She had no idea that one of the side effects of codeine is constipation. read more here »

Letters, Week of July 24, 2014

July 24, 2014 No Comment

Plaque is poetic justice To The Editor: Re “Where poet Frank O’Hara was prolific, a new plaque” (news article, July 3): This is great. Frank O’Hara busted it open and made poetry fun. The East Village is right to claim him as somewhat of a native son. Tony Towle is widely considered to be O’Hara’s read more here »

Team reunites to capture crown that eluded them

July 17, 2014 No Comment

The final at bat in the first game of the 2010 District 23 Little League World Series qualifier saw Greenwich Village lose to Peter Stuyvesant. A feeling of disbelief hung over the kids and their coaches. Just the week before, the Village team — Andrew Ehrenberg, Eli Kimbell, Max Schneider, Jack Miller, Nick White, Julian read more here »

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 »

It’s not over for U.S. soccer

July 10, 2014 1 Comment

BY SERGEI KLEBNIKOV | While watching England lose to Uruguay — an early result that ended England’s World Cup hopes — a frustrated fan at a pub just north of the East Village made a bet that the U.S. would win the World Cup before England would again. Although it sounds like a long stretch, read more here »