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 [...]

On Saturday, step dancers cut a…board in Washington Square Park.

  In a “radical move,” at the end of end of last year, Liz Mestres, left, stepped down as executive director of the Brecht Forum after 18 years. Mestres, along with the late Arthur Felberbaum, Mary Boger, right, Susan Boger, Carol Goldman, Bill Henning, Lisa Maya Knauer, Eli Messinger, Luis Prado and Juliet Ucelli, founded [...]

Photo by Jefferson Siegel On Saturday, Time’s Up! held a “dance bike ride” to raise awareness of women’s, gay and transgender rights. In the season’s spirit, Easter eggs were passed out to participants before the ride. The eggs contained condoms and organizers called them “love bombs” after the seed bombs that garden activists throw into [...]

Tahmina Islam and her son, Dawood, 2, were among a group of three Bengali families from Jamaica Heights who rallied outside Judson Church in the Village last Friday afternoon, calling on the government to release the families’ fathers. All three men are being held awaiting deportation. The children were born in America and thus are [...]

Last week on Greenwich St. in Tribeca, a pigeon seemed to be contemplating the progress of One World Trade Center, a.k.a. The Freedom Tower.

  Around 4:30 p.m. Sunday acrid smoke drifted from New Jersey over the Hudson River’s whitecaps. The cause was a three-alarm fire in Hoboken. A propane tank had exploded on a deck, engulfing one building, filling many others with smoke and affecting nine families.

Ed Koch paid a visit to the Sixth Street Community Center in June 2005 to take a look at “Viva Loisaida,” Marlis Momber’s exhibit of her photographs of the Lower East Side from the 1960s and ’70s. Momber invited Hizzoner to sign one of the photos that showed him and activists in 1987 at a [...]

Wrapped in plastic, a huge wreath was ready to be recycled on Varick St. near Franklin St. last week.