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In the land of the free, protect the free press
A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM CNG COMMUNITY NEWSGROUP / NYC COMMUNITY MEDIA … The necessity of a trusted free press to the health of American democracy has been undisputed since the founding of our republic — until now. In recent weeks, the journalists of our free press have been slandered as “Enemies of the People” read more here »
BY ANDREW BERMAN | Last week the City Council, following the lead of local City Councilmember Carlina Rivera, approved Mayor de Blasio’s large commercial upzoning for a piece of city-owned land on 14th St. for construction of a 21-story “Tech Hub.” Even though Councilmember Rivera promised that she would not support such a deal without read more here »
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Rivera betrayed us To The Editor: Re “A tale of two ‘Techs’” (news article, Aug. 9): As president of Friends of Petrosino Square, a neighborhood partner of the preservationist Historic Districts Council, and someone who started life in a walk-up tenement on the Lower East Side, in the Second Council District, I find Carlina Rivera’s read more here »
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BY GABE HERMAN | Page One of The Villager on Aug. 27, 1987, featured two photos of Keith Haring, with “a helping hand from Parks Commissioner Henry Stern,” as Haring worked Aug. 20 on a new mural at the Carmine St. outdoor swimming pool. The caption read, in part, “The 29-year-old artist’s work celebrates swimming read more here »
Continue reading …Hard to stomach this To The Editor: Da Marcella, until very recently at 142 W. Houston St., was a local restaurant with a relaxed environment and delicious food at very reasonable prices. It was an immediate success after it opened in 2014 — and we thought it would be here for a long time read more here »
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BY SHARON WOOLUMS | “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” Winston Churchill said at the Cold War’s outset in 1948 (paraphrasing writer George Santayana). Now, with our city in crisis, New York City’s leading small business advocate, Sung Soo Kim — the author of the Small Business Jobs Survival read more here »
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BY CLAYTON PATTERSON | Aug. 6, 1988, started hot, as New York City was struggling with a multiday record heat wave. Elsa, Duke, our beautiful pit bull, and I were driving in our pickle-green ’79 Plymouth Fury, a car we purchased for $25 at a New York Police Department sale. We were visiting a bar read more here »
Continue reading …N.Y.U. encircling the park To The Editor: Re “N.Y.U. buys 7-story residential building on Wash. Sq. Park” (news article, July 26): Many years ago — I repeat, many years ago — N.Y.U. stated at a public meeting that they wanted to have Washington Square Park as part of their campus. According to your article’s list read more here »
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New Yorkers are asking our elected officials to come up big on two key issues affecting people’s safety and their neighborhoods’ physical integrity. Unfortunately, in each case, our leaders, so far, are failing us. We’re talking about preserving speed cameras outside of schools and the need to add neighborhood protections around the planned “Tech Hub” read more here »
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BY HARRY PINCUS | Did I just miss something? Has there just been, within the daily gyre of bad news swirling around our “favorite president” a death notice posted for the New York Daily News? What a coincidence it is, that our president, who regards the free press as an enemy of the people, should read more here »
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