The Villager

Editorial

Whitney comes home
Any way one looks at it, Tuesday’s groundbreaking for the new Whitney Museum of American Art is a monumental story — especially so for the communities in Downtown Manhattan.

Scoopy's Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Police Blotter

Scene

Evan Forsch

OBITUARY

Dorothy Harris, V.R.D.C. leader

CLASS NOTES

C.E.C. election is critical for rezoning decisions

NOTEBOOK

Flesh and blood: Memories of a darker Meat Market

Clayton's Page

Squatters made their mark with graffiti, banners, art

IN PICTURES

Got-aaah daaaance! Thousands hoof it down Broadway

It’s the end of the world as we know it…or maybe not

Serving West and East Village, Chelsea, SoHo, Hudson Square, NoHo, Little Italy, Chinatown and the Lower East Side

The Whitney returns to its roots
with Downtown groundbreaking
By Lincoln Anderson
Under a de rigueur white tent, from whose roof hung hundreds of turquoise-colored shovels suspended by clear filaments, the Whitney Museum of American Art broke ground Tuesday on its future home on Gansevoort St. in the Meatpacking District.

C.A.S. to sell two Sullivan buildings to condo developer

Art and science

City Planning gets an earful on N.Y.U. superblocks plan
By Albert Amateau
The Department of City Planning last week heard testimony from 45 people and received 50 pages of comments from Community Board 2 on the proposed environmental review of New York University’s plan to redevelop its two South Village superblocks over the next 19 years.

Report: N.Y.U. and New School fuel Village economy
By Albert Amateau
N.Y.U. and The New School employ 10,350 people and generate an annual payroll of $611 million.

‘Big 3’ send off Class of ’11

They’re not giving up their smokes in Washington Sq.

Greenwich House plans to acquire Caring Community

Baseball bats, safety and smart phones on the field

ARTS

Ernie Kovacs still amuses, influences, amazes
BY TRAV S.D.
DVDs, panel praise the TV trailblazer.

Just Do Art!

New Federal Theatre: Life before, and after, 40
BY JERRY TALLMER
May 22 gala honors Poitier, Dee, others.

Love, War, Business

Husband and wife tap into raw ‘Nerve’

Focus on Union Square

Farmers set down roots at city’s primo Greenmarket

‘Mission accomplished’ on park, BID broadens focus

New hotels are checking in

Heard in the Square

Statues, rallies, vendors and 200 years of history

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Volume 81, Number 1 | June 2 - June 8, 2011

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