THE MOSAIC TRAIL…: Mosaics are hot right now — from the new sign at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, on Avenue C, to the new mosaic murals at the East Village’s Sirovich Senior Center, on E. 12th St. As usual, Jim Power, the East Village’s “Mosaic Man,” is working away on a bevy of [...]

FROM THE 6 TO THE 2: College-age community board member Dodge Landesman recently switched from Community Board 6 to Community Board 2, thanks to his recent relocation from Gramercy to the Village. “I moved in with my brother on Charles St. in early July, so I am officially a C.B. 2 resident. Very excited to [...]

WASN’T USED SO URGENTLY: North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System closed its urgent-care center at 121 W. 20th St. on Fri., June 13, after just 16 months of operation because it was “clearly underused and unnecessary,” a spokesperson for the medical group said. The center, which operated at night and on weekends in a 4,000-square-foot [...]

WAKE-UP CALL: Writers, artists and faculty members opposing the N.Y.U. 2031 mega-development plan have joined together to contribute to a new “collection of pieces in protest” titled, “While We Were Sleeping: NYU and the Destruction of New York.” Among the contributors are the likes of David Amram, Roberta Brandes Gratz, E.L. Doctorow, Jules Feiffer, Mindy [...]

Edwardian movement: Arthur Schwartz reports that Cate Edwards has joined the team at Advocates for Justice, his new progressive law firm. Schwartz, the Village’s Democratic state committeeman, said he also expects Sharon Eubanks will be joining the firm. Eubanks was the lead attorney in the U.S. tobacco litigation that won billions of dollars from the [...]

PEA SOUP P.U.! It’s time to change the Washington Square Park fountain water! It was green and soupy looking when we went by on Monday. Obviously, it wasn’t because it was St. Patrick’s Day. It was algae. The water jets spurting up from the fountain even had a distinctly green tinge. According to a frequent [...]

Crusties, j’accuse! After an assault in Washington Square Park Sunday evening left a man bloodied and dazed, rumors quickly started swirling that the crusties were connected. Yes, the very same crusties who recently defaced the portico of St. Mark’s Church, one source told us. Well, as it turns out, it was a dispute between two [...]

GARDEN STRUGGLE: Ralph Swain, a nephew of the late Hideo Sasaki, designer of the Sasaki Garden in the courtyard of Washington Square Village, is flying in to New York to testify at Friday’s City Council hearing on N.Y.U. 2031. Washington Square Village tenants desperately fighting the university’s plan to raze the garden and erect “Boomerang [...]

PARK IS A NO-GO: It’s great that Phase 3 of the Washington Square Park renovation is finally moving ahead. There’s one, umm, uncomfortable issue, though — it looks like that for the next year, the landmark Greenwich Village park, which is visited by thousands of tourists from around the world, won’t have any public restrooms. [...]

[media-credit name="Photo by Nick Brooks" align="alignleft" width="300"][/media-credit]SECURITY WAS INSTRUMENTAL: On Monday, Secret Service agents did a walk-through of Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s Greenwich Village home in preparation for President Obama and the first lady’s visit on Thursday for a fundraiser for his re-election campaign. Furniture was also removed from the place, including a [...]