Glick was their pick: Last week, The Villager reported quite a bit on the Assembly and State Committee primary elections in Lower Manhattan’s 65th Assembly District. They were competitive elections, and the race for former Speaker Sheldon Silver’s seat was an exciting one! We didn’t want to forget about the race in the largely West read more here »

(Black) green day: Tobi Bergman, the chairperson of Community Board 2, told us that he got a call from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development this week, alerting him that the agency would be issuing a request for proposals, or R.F.P., on Wed., Sept. 14, for an affordable housing project on the beloved Elizabeth read more here »

Pier pressure: The lawsuit against the Pier55 project resumed last Tuesday in Appellate Division court, on E. 25th St., and the decision came down just two days later, as the court upheld the State Supreme Court’s prior ruling against the challenge. Barry Diller, who with his wife, Diane von Furstenberg, has pledged to donate $113 read more here »

Getting down to business: Members of the Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce recently toured the Sixth Police Precinct’s stationhouse on W. 10th St. and also the adjoining Bomb Squad headquarters on Charles St. The Bomb Squad’s super-sniffing dog was happy to say hi to the local business leaders, as were members of the precinct’s detectives read more here »

Trending at Village View: Lamar Odom, the former pro basketball player and onetime “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” reality TV star, has been spotted hanging around Village View the past three weeks. Hey, at 6 feet 10 inches, he’s hard to miss! According to a source, Odom, 36, has been dating a resident of the read more here »

‘O’Neill’s the real deal’: Great confidence is being expressed in James O’Neill, Bill Bratton’s successor as commissioner of the New York Police Department — and local Councilmember Corey Johnson is no exception. “Chief O’Neill is an exemplary officer and he’s going to be an outstanding commissioner,” Johnson told us. “He’s community-oriented, responsive, thoughtful and incredible read more here »

The wrath of Khan…and ‘Crazy Don’: Just like just about everyone else, it seems, Assemblymember Deborah Glick is shocked at Donald Trump’s escalating feud with Khizr Khan and his family. Khan, of course, spoke at the Democratic National Convention, as his wife, Ghazala, stood silently by his side, about their hero son, Army Captain Humayan read more here »

In the Know: Punk bands thrashed while the audience crowd-surfed at Tompkins Square Park on Saturday to help raise funds for Dr. Know, the Bad Brains guitarist. The Dr., real name Gary Miller, is miraculously recovering from a severe heart attack and organ failure that he suffered last November. He had only been given a read more here »

Don’t make him angry: Oops…too late! The Incredible Hulk — a.k.a. nuclear physicist Bruce Banner after an adrenaline rush — was in Tompkins Square Park last Saturday. Why?… Why not? Political palaver: In the primary race for the 65th Assembly District, Paul Newell announced last week that Councilmember Rosie Mendez has endorsed him in his read more here »