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May 1, 2012

Borough President Stringer Approves Revised NYU Expansion Plan City Planning and City Council Next To Review Massive Scheme

Executive Director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation On April 11, Borough President Scott Stringer issued his recommendation for the “conditional approval” of NYU’s massive […]

May 1, 2012

A More Cooper Union

When I was 18 years old, I moved to the East Village for college. From my dorm room, I had view of the Empire State […]

May 1, 2012

RICK, MITT OR NEWT

What with one thing and another, the Republicans are in for some difficulty in this election year, and they certainly didn’t have to add to […]

May 1, 2012

Campaign Finance Reform in Post-Citizens United Era

by Evan Palenschat In his State of the Union address in 2010, President Obama rebuked the Supreme Court for reversing “a century of law . […]

May 1, 2012

What Do Teachers Need? R-E-S-P-E-C-T!

How did we get to a place in this country where our teaching force of than three million professionals (elementary and high school) is being […]

May 1, 2012

NYU PROFESSORS NEW YORK TIMES PLEA – NOT IN MY BACKYARD

On Wednesday April 25, three NYU professors had an op-ed piece published in the New York Times that catalogued the reasons against the 30-year expansion […]

May 1, 2012

Then and Now. 72 Fifth Avenue

A gleamingly restored building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 13th Street now educates young minds, but in the early 20th century it was […]

May 1, 2012

Science from Away: Sex, stress, alcohol

There are many different kinds of amino acids, all of them very small molecules, which can link together to form chains of varying lengths. If […]

May 1, 2012

SARCOMA: THE FORGOTTEN CANCER

I had never heard of sarcoma until 2002 when my son, Adam, called from California and told me and my wife that he had a […]

May 1, 2012

Birds Do It

Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. Let’s do it. Let’s fall in love. Cole Porter “I canoodle. You canoodle. He, […]

May 1, 2012

Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies That Matter May 2012

ACT UP Documentaries: How to Survive a PLAGUE (second look) and UNITED IN ANGER: the History of ACT UP + WE WERE HERE Commemorating the […]

May 1, 2012

MISADVENTURES IN POETRY—Art Gatti

May Day And the Burning Hearts of Poet-Patriots Phil Ochs showed me where poetry, song, imagination and conscience converged. In an age when America was […]

May 1, 2012

Jazz Global Connections

Drop into the famed Village Vanguard Jazz Club on Seventh Avenue and you’ll usually spot a group of Japanese tourists sound asleep in the corner. […]

May 1, 2012

HK & NYC- It is a Small World After All!

Sitting here, in a modern hotel on the otherside of the world, twelve hours time difference, day is night and night day – yet the […]

May 1, 2012

West Village Original: Nancy Weber

This month’s West Village Original is journalist and author Nancy Weber. Known primarily for her non-fiction work “The Life Swap,” her twenty-some other books include […]

May 1, 2012

The Fine Cut SnackBar

After taste buds, knife skills are a chef’s most precious possession. Here’s a spring dish to hone your blade on: Japanese cucumber salad. It’s crunchy, […]

February 20, 2012

Rudin Wins Major Condo Plan Victory

On January 23rd, the City Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve a proposal by Rudin Management Company Inc. to rezone the shuttered St. Vincent’s Hospital […]

February 20, 2012

NYC: The Greatest Grid, or the Greatest Mistake?

One of the great current exhibitions in the city is of the city. It is taking place at the Museum of the City of New […]

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