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Playhouse hysterics
There’s no question New York University has done a great deal to reshape forever Downtown’s spatial landscape and that it has, in many instances, done so in a detrimental manner.
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It’s time to put the brakes on rogue bicycle riding
By Jack Brown
Residents are increasingly concerned about the epidemic of scofflaw cycling plaguing the city’s streets and sidewalks. The prevailing anarchy creates an ongoing sense of jeopardy for many that deprives us of peace of mind and jacks up the stress level in an already high-stress environment.
Pope forgives Jews — and Putin apologizes for pact
By Jerry Tallmer
For sheer shocking irony, nothing much can beat the opening sentence of “The Man in the Glass Booth,” a novel by the actor Robert Shaw (subsequently made by him into a play).
Bugs in my bed and in my mind; E. 5th metamorphosis
By Marianne Landré Goldscheider
In Central Park the other day I was talking with an acquaintance about my recent visit to Vermont. The conversation shifted to an article on bedbugs that appeared in The New York Times real estate section on Sun., Aug. 23.
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Ira Blutreich
Mixed Use
Villager photo by Jefferson Siegel
Twisted sisters? Janis, Britney (and Che in middle)
Guerrilla art on a building wall on Broome St. by the Bowery made a connection — via Che Guevara — between boozing crooners Janis Joplin and Britney Spears.
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Villager photo by Jefferson Seigel
Margaret Chin got kisses from husband Alan Tung, left, and son Kevin Tung on election night.
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‘We showed them!’ Chin topples Gerson; Quinn fends off Kurland
By Villager staff
In a historic upset, Margaret Chin defeated two-term Councilmember Alan Gerson in the Democratic primary Tuesday night making her the odds-on favorite to become the first Asian-American to represent Chinatown.
Commercial rent regulation bill is stuck in limbo
By Patrick Hedlund
When a real-estate developer acquired a block-long residential complex on Ninth Ave. in Chelsea in 2007, he wasted no time in outlining plans to clear out the longtime mom-and-pop businesses on the ground floor in favor of high-end retail.
‘Tearing down the wall’ along Chelsea’s waterfront
By Patrick Hedlund
Despite opening to the public back in April, Pier 64 celebrated its official coming-out party on Thurs., Aug. 20, with a cadre of local advocates and elected officials on hand to fete the new waterfront mall that spent more than two decades in the making.
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Villager Arts & Lifestyles
 “A Short Wake” not here for long
By Jerry Tallmer
The two brothers, Teddy and Jimmy, have not seen or talked to one another for 33 years.
Jimmy went out to California and became a hotshot lawyer. Teddy, four years older, remained in New York City where they were born and hustled his way into his 40s as a fast-talking thief and gambler.
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