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‘Keep on keepin’ on,’ writes Seeger
Pete Seeger sent a postcard, above, to say he enjoyed the recent article by Sarah Ferguson on the New York City Community Garden Coalition’s candidates forum at The Cooper Union. The folk icon, 94, stole the show with his appearance — and a classic photo of him plucking his long-neck banjo, by Tequila Minsky, ran [...]
Sounds like 8th is getting great! To The Editor: Re “8th St. walks away from shoes toward something new” (notebook, by Elissa Stein, May 16): If hearts could smile, mine would. As an ex-sole proprietor of a small stationery and gift store that survived 28 years (25 terrific years, three not so much), this is [...]
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Seven anti-gay attacks in 16 days. One a shocking close-range shooting of Mark Carson in the face, resulting in the 32-year-old man’s death. The West Village, the East Village, Madison Square Garden, Union Square and Soho. The city’s elected leadership laudably stepped up to condemn the hatred, support the victims and mourn Carson. Mayor Bloomberg and [...]
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V TALKING POINT: BY DAVID GRUBER and COREY JOHNSON | Let’s start with the obvious: We support the bike-share program. Our respective community boards wrote resolutions that said just that. There was outreach, but it was not done well and there wasn’t enough of it. Most residents did not know about the details of the [...]
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BY ELISSA STEIN | The windows of Barnes & Noble are covered with Kraft paper. The longstanding hat shop across the way recently closed. Shuttered storefronts dot the west end of the block. Looking east, from the corner of Sixth Ave., Eighth St. appears to have been overtaken by scaffolding and “For Rent” signs. The [...]
Continue reading …Dance of the bike-share protest To The Editor: Re “Bike-share backlash” (editorial, May 2): I didn’t even know there was any public art going on in Petrosino Square before two bike racks got put there. But now that the racks are there, strangely, there still is room for this woman to do her 10 days [...]
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The wait continues for solutions to Lower Manhattan’s perennial school wait lists. In a sense, the problem is unavoidable, given the city until now has decided not to make accurate population projections Downtown. There’s no sense continuing to beat up the Department of Education when there are real, immediate decisions that the city could make [...]
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BY CHARLES KOMANOFF | I didn’t get to speak at the Community Board 2 meeting last Thursday night to discuss bike-share — I stayed outside too long kibitzing on W. 11th St., so my speaker card landed at the bottom of the stack. Here’s what I would have said: I live in Community Board 1, [...]
Continue reading …Schwartz absent on key issues To The Editor: Re “J’Accuse! McCarthyism, Village Politics and Pier 40” (talking point, by Arthur Schwartz, April 25): Arthur Schwartz is hardly the first person to misuse the term McCarthyism. Just because the Village Independent Democrats endorsed Jonathan Geballe for Democratic district leader rather than Arthur, he has chosen to [...]
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Street fair season is back — and with it, the perennial issues surrounding this very public, and much-debated, feature of city life. Community Board 2, which includes Greenwich Village, annually has among the most street fairs in the city — and receives the most street fair applications. These events, when small and locally based — [...]
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