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PROGRESS REPORT: Community’s role is key in shaping major projects

April 20, 2017 1 Comment

BY JAMIE ROGERS | In the last year, the neighborhoods that make up Community District 3 — the Lower East Side, Chinatown and the East Village — have been affected by one thing in common: development. In 2017 Manhattan, that barely seems like news. Development continues to surge — tearing down, digging into, building up read more here »

Legal marijuana is facing its first yuuge fight

March 9, 2017 2 Comments

BY PAUL DeRIENZO | Marijuana, called cannabis by some and pot, weed or grass by most, is in danger yet again in the United States. Beauregard Jefferson Sessions III, the newly confirmed U.S. attorney general, is crusading against cannabis and using his bully pulpit to oppose the popular will expressed by voters in more than read more here »

The thin blue line…will be serving roast beef

December 1, 2016 No Comment

Get in the spirit of the holiday season and get a great-tasting meal at the Annual Sixth Precinct Roast Beef Dinner fundraiser for the Caring Community. It all happens on Tues., Dec. 6, rom 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., at Our Lady of Pompeii Senior Center, Father Demo Hall, 25 Carmine St. Admission is $13 read more here »

Now first son-in-law, Kushner launches P.R. volunteer campaign

November 23, 2016 3 Comments

BY JOAQUIN COTLER | It’s the beginning of a new chapter for Jared Kushner, one of the closest advisers to President-elect Donald Trump. The rookie political operative, whose fortune lies in his Kushner Properties real estate portfolio, will be shifting his focus to the White House, where his father-in-law plans to live part time starting read more here »

‘Father of LEED’ hopes to help spark LES Park building’s return to use

November 23, 2016 No Comment

BY DENNIS LYNCH | Lower East Siders are organizing another push to open a city-owned building on Stanton St. in Sara D. Roosevelt Park to the public. A coalition of local stakeholders want the Parks and Recreation Department to make good on a promise it made almost 20 years ago to reopen the former recreation read more here »

Dancing with the stars: Students have a ball(room)

November 23, 2016 1 Comment

BY BOB KRASNER | Ballroom dance is not easy to learn and it’s not easy to teach, so one has to admire both students and teachers of the art. When one walks into the weekly class at the Cooke Center Academy, at 60 MacDougal St., and sees teenagers with special needs dancing the Viennese waltz read more here »

Yuuge wins for legal and medical marijuana at the polls

November 23, 2016 1 Comment

BY PAUL DeRIENZO | Referendums in a half-dozen states crisscrossing the United States legalized or provided medical marijuana exceptions to criminal law for millions on Election Day. Four new states legalized it; California passed Proposition 64 legalizing pot for adult use, joining Massachusetts, Nevada and Maine. Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Alaska and the District of Columbia read more here »

‘We want to get it right,’ hospital honchos say; Pols want more info

November 10, 2016 1 Comment

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Dr. Jeremy Boal, the new president of the Mount Sinai Downtown health network, and Susan Somerville, Beth Israel Hospital’s president for the last three years, recently teamed up to lead a community informational meeting on the Beth Israel rebuilding plans. A concerned crowd of more than 100 locals, including area politicians, read more here »

Richard Kopperdahl, 83, wrote in the Voice about his gritty life

September 8, 2016 1 Comment

BY BETH SOPKO | Richard Kopperdahl died Aug. 21 at the age of 83 after a long battle with cancer. The cause of death was congestive heart failure. Richard was born in Seattle, Washington, but spent his childhood and formative years in San Francisco. He worked for more than 20 years at the Village Voice read more here »