Greenwich Village Roundup: August 2014

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Happy 65th birthday Richard Gere

... thing he's done in recent years was to annoy neighbours by building a meditation hut on top of his Greenwich Village home. He became interested in Buddhism in his early 20s and says his faith is the most important thing in his life. Born in ...

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Saturday, August 30, 2014

Gilbert: Artist finds strength, purpose after hate crime

... soap opera actor and classical musician and composer Keith Pruitt, were holding hands one night in Greenwich Village and were attacked. “He was hit upside the head with a golf club and it fractured his skull and he lost the hearing on his ...

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Friday, August 29, 2014

William Garfield Greaves Documentarian - " Filmmaker - " Teacher October 8, 1926 a " August 25, 2014

William Greaves, one of the most respected independents in the film and television world has passed away.

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Goodbye To All That: West Village Home of Jazz Club Arthur's Tavern Asks $6.25M

The Greenwich Village building that's been home to jazz club Arthur's Tavern since 1937 has appeared on the market for $6.25 million, signaling the end of the historic establishment.

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Rufus Wainwright's career concerns

... as Gore Vidal would say.'' On May 17th, 2012, Rufus Wainwright recorded a private concert in an historic Greenwich Village church. On March 3rd, Wainwright's inspired performance, which was... Robbie Williams has announced plans to release a new ...

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Melissa Rivers says mom Joan 'resting comfortably' at hospital

... account that Rivers was in stable condition. Rivers's peers in the 1960s comedy club scene of New York's Greenwich Village included Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Woody Allen and George Carlin, but she said she never felt like she was part of their ...

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Arthur's Tavern

... reads: "The possibilities are wide open to create a dream owner's duplex apartment in the heart of the Greenwich Village with your own private patio and rooftop terrace, plus generate income from the prime commercial space/retail on the ground ...

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Comedian Joan Rivers 'resting comfortably' at hosp...

Joan Rivers

UPDATE 4-Comedian Joan Rivers 'resting comfortably' at hospital

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Comedian Joan Rivers, 81, rushed to New York hospital

... daughter, Melissa Rivers, declined to comment. Rivers' peers in the 1960s comedy club scene of New York's Greenwich Village included Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Woody Allen and George Carlin, but she said she never felt like she was part of their ...

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Flashback: Joan Rivers Performs on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' in 1967

... is now reporting that she's been upgraded to stable. The comedian's career dates all the way back to the Greenwich Village coffee house scene of the early 1960s, where she regularly worked alongside Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby and many other ...

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Joan Rivers rushed to hospital

UPDATE 3-Comedian Joan Rivers, 81, rushed to New York hospital

Joan Rivers rushed to New York hospital

... a pioneer for women in stand-up comedy. Rivers' peers in the 1960s comedy club scene of New York's Greenwich Village included Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Woody Allen and George Carlin, but she said she never felt like she was part of their clique. In ...

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Joan Rivers rushed to hospital after heart attack

Joan Rivers 'Critical' in New York Hospital: Reports

Joan Rivers rushed to NY hospital

Airbnb Landlord Fined

John W. Templeman pleaded guilty Monday in East Hampton Town Justice Court to six charges stemming from allegedly rolling over a house he owns in Montauk for excessive short-term rentals.

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Joan Rivers 'stopped breathing' during surgery in New York, reports

Neighborhood nuggets around NYC

So, you've successfully moved in, made a few friends, and purchased your first MetroCard.

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Comedian Joan Rivers, 81, rushed to New York hospital: report

Andre 3000: 'Hendrix Role Saved Me From Deep Depression'

... City Of... Manny Roth, club owner and New York legend, has died at age 94. He was the owner of the Greenwich Village establishment CafA Wha?, heavily... Andre Benjamin, better known by his Outkast pseudonym, Andre 3000, bleeds cool in the new ...

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Friends' Central Perk is coming to New York

... from the show Its location at 199 Lafayette Street in Manhattan's Soho neighborhood isn't far from the Greenwich Village location of the fictional cafe on the long-running series. The shop's business hours are Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-8 p.m., and ...

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Hudson Square coming alive with new condos

"Five years ago, we got our first pharmacy," says Ellen Baer, the president of Hudson Square BID, about new happenings in the neighborhood that sits on SoHo's western end.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

NYSE rings bell for pediatric cancer awareness

The Loccisano family says their beloved Frankie heard the bell all the way up in heaven.

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US marshals in NYC shootout; suspect wounded

The federal government is protecting 20 types of colorful coral by putting them on the list of threatened species, partly because of climate change.

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US marshals in NYC shootout; suspect wounded

An armed fugitive wanted for nearly two decades on drug charges in the South was wounded during a shootout with deputy U.S. marshals who tracked him down in New York City, federal authorities said Wednesday.

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Is fro-yo no longer cool? Three recently-opened New York frozen...

The sun finally comes out for Burning Man: Revelers dry off after rain delays opening of wild desert festival 'We MISS Charity': Friends and teachers of fraudster, 34, who pretended to be a 15-year-old high school student say they want her to come back 'Please release my child': Mother of US journalist paraded by ISIS executioner makes desperate TV ... (more)

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Rediscovering Junkie John, Tim Dawe and Penrod after 40 years

I used to have an open reel tape of song I recorded off some New York FM station in 1970 or so.

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Digital currency ATM in Greenwich Village

The first ATM for BitCoin users in New York City is up and running in a store in Greenwich Village.

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New York City in the movies

STUFF happens in New York City. Also, stuff happens to New York City, like that one time in the summer of 1984 when a giant marshmallow wrought havoc up and down Midtown Manhattan.

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Band of brothers grew strong from busking roots

... grown up listening to folk and blues singers like Mississippi John Hurt to be walking the same streets in Greenwich Village and taking in the surroundings, even allowing for changes that occurred in the ensuing 40 years, that their heroes had ...

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Review: Bleecker St.'s Old Tbilisi Has the Silk Road on Lockdown

... restaurant shuttered, changed its name from Tbilisi (the Georgia capital) to Old Tbilisi, and set down in Greenwich Village in a region of student honkytonks and small Indian restaurants.

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Airbnb Landlord in Montauk Fined $7,500

UCSD grad dies after falling off NYC roof

Police say a woman has died after falling off a Manhattan roof during a party. The New York Times says that 23-year-old Cindy Yeh of Brooklyn was an intern at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Zagat survey: Peter Luger has best burger in NYC

The burger from Peter Luger's came in No. 1 in a Zagat survey of Best Burgers in New York City.

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Museum intern dies after falling off NYC roof

Police say she slipped while dancing early Sunday and fell four stories onto the street in Greenwich Village.

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Museum intern dies after falling off NYC roof

The New York Times says that 23-year-old Cindy Yeh of Brooklyn was an intern at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Museum intern dies after falling off NYC roof

The New York Times says that 23-year-old Cindy Yeh of Brooklyn was an intern at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Monday, August 25, 2014

MTA: Subway went wrong way

Back on August 11, an A train operator drove an express train uptown on a downtown track.

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Wire: San Diego's Sriracha Festival; Batali's NYC Food Tours

Tickets are now on sale for San Diego's first-ever food festival dedicated to Sriracha , scheduled for Saturday, September 20 .

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Chloe Sevigny Exits Greenwich Village

A couple of fun media strands to note in Marlow Stern 's solid Daily Beast Q&A with actress Chloe Sevigny , whose Amazon series The Cosmopolitans debuts August 28. Shortly after departing SoHo restaurant Balthazar, where she had sat down last week for lunch with the reporter, Sevigny was snapped and her outfit turned into a Daily Mail summer item .

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NYC woman in critical condition after fall from roof

A 23-year old woman is in critical condition after falling from the roof of an apartment building in Greenwich Village.

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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Jean Redpath

JEAN Redpath, who has died at the age of 77, was arguably Scotland's greatest ever ambassador for traditional songs.

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Dr. Abdul Awan and his tiny space in Greenwich Village.

For the past 20 years, a merchant named Bala has run a business in a triangular space in Greenwich Village barely bigger than a bed sheet.

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Friday, August 22, 2014

NYer of the Week: Leo Schaff Helps Seniors Appreciate Depth of Shakespeare's Work

The latest New Yorker of the Week could be touring as an actor of a William Shakespeare company, but after discovering his passion for teaching older adults years ago, he brings the Globe Theater to a group of seniors in Greenwich Village.

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On-Demand Beauty Apps Bring Blow-Outs and Smoky Eyes Home

... bar near her home after the gym in the morning and before heading to the office. Now she returns to her Greenwich Village duplex, ditches the gym bag and gets a blowout from Glamsquad for just $10 more. "If I can have someone blow out my hair while ...

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What Happened in New York This Week: 9 Stories You Need to Read

... said they took the dog from James "Jimmy" Tarangelo, a homeless man who's been living out of a van in Greenwich Village for several years, based on concerns about the pet's health. Tarangelo had just raised $1,000 to treat his dog's tumor before ...

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Scottish folk music legend Jean Redpath dies

... show, A Prairie Home Companion. After taking medieval studies at Edinburgh University, she arrived in Greenwich Village in New York in 1961, then at the centre of a folk revival. After a rave review in the New York Times, she was offered recording ...

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

List of Suspects in Cop Car Poop-Smearing Pretty Much EndlessSomeone put feces on NYPD door handles.

Someone put feces on the door handles of NYPD cruisers in Greenwich Village, DNAinfo reports , and it might have been the group of homeless people who slept nearby until they were told to scram.

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Love Is Strange

... keep him focused, look on the bright side. We see all that in their behavior as they try to hail a cab in Greenwich Village to get to their own wedding. The behavior between these two actors immediately lets us know who these guys are, and who they ...

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Returning students will see some new faces on campus

... 2, along with two cats. They traveled nearly 960 miles from Alexandria, Va. Lietzan, 46, was born in Greenwich Village in New York. She studied history at the University of North Carolina, graduating in 1990 before receiving her master's degree in ...

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

It's Chinatown: Neighborhood Sees Yet Another Harbinger of Gentrification

Today, the New York State Tenant Protection Unit served a subpoena on Marolda Properties, investigating allegations that the landlord had harassed tenants in an attempt to make them leave their rent-regulated Chinatown apartments.

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John Lithgow, Alfred Molina shine as gay couple in - Love Is Strange'

... comic chops to keep things from getting too grim. In a single exquisitely written scene set in a Greenwich Village bar, you get a vivid sense of George and Ben's entire lives together - if not the lives of an entire generation of gay New Yorkers, ...

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New York City Bucket List 2014

For those who have a bucket list , or are thinking about one, New York City is a place where you can check off many great experiences and add some new adventures.

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Monday, August 18, 2014

The 5 Major Problems With Living Large That No One Talks About

... pristine. In the September issue of Lonny magazine, we're got a sneak peek inside the couple's amazing Greenwich Village apartment, and we have to say, it's our new favorite space. When she wanted to add a Hollywood touch to her West Village, New ...

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Alec Baldwin: Neighbor arrested this time, not meAlec Baldwin:...

... one in trouble. The volatile actor tells The New York Times that normally when police are called to his Greenwich Village building, "you could likely guess it's about one particular person." But on Tuesday, Baldwin says, his assistant and cleaning ...

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Names and Faces

In this June 21, 2014 file photo, Alec Baldwin attends the Hamptons SummerDocs Series opening night screening of "Life Itself" at Guild Hall in East Hampton in New York.

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Alec Baldwin:Neighbor arrested this time, not me

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Heather Graham Exits Neil LaBute Play To Helm Her Film 'Half Magic'

EXCLUSIVE: I hear that just three days after a press meet-and-greet for Neil LaBute 's new play The Money Shot , Heather Graham is parting ways with the company to focus on her film, Half Magic .

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Alec Baldwin's neighbor arrested for frying pan attack

12 New York City Easter Eggs You'd Otherwise Blink and Miss

... thinnest house in all of New York. The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission identified this historic Greenwich Village home as New York's narrowest townhouse, according to The Wall Street Journal . A plaque on the three-story home notes that ...

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Why a city's most famous landmarks aren't the ones worth visiting?

... Greenwich Village. This is a large residential neighbourhood located on the West side of Lower Manhattan. Greenwich Village or just 'the Village' was known as an artist 'haven' in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Opposite to the busy centre of the ...

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Alec Baldwin: Neighbor arrested this time, not me

... actor tells The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/1sLEjUI) that normally when police are called to his Greenwich Village building, "you could likely guess it's about one particular person." But on Tuesday, Baldwin says, his assistant and cleaning woman ...

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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Newsmakers: Police piece together Lego theft

... one in trouble. The volatile actor told The New York Times that normally when police are called to his Greenwich Village building, "you could likely guess it's about one particular person." But on Tuesday, Baldwin said, his assistant and cleaning ...

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Alec Baldwin: Neighbor arrested this time, not me

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Alec Baldwin: Neighbor arrested this time, not me

... actor tells The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/1sLEjUI ) that normally when police are called to his Greenwich Village building, "you could likely guess it's about one particular person." But on Tuesday, Baldwin says, his assistant and cleaning ...

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Bassist Steve Boone writes about life with The Lovin' Spoonful

Provided by Steve Boone The original Lovin' Spoonful consisted of Joe Butler , John Sebastian, Zal Yanofsky and Steve Boone.

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Alec Baldwin: Neighbor arrested this time, not me

... actor tells The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/1sLEjUI) that normally when police are called to his Greenwich Village building, "you could likely guess it's about one particular person." But on Tuesday, Baldwin says, his assistant and cleaning ...

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Alec Baldwin: Neighbor arrested this time, not me

In this June 21, 2014 file photo, Alec Baldwin attends the Hamptons SummerDocs Series opening night screening of "Life Itself" at Guild Hall in East Hampton in New York.

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Alec Baldwin: Neighbor arrested this time, not me

... actor tells The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/1sLEjUI ) that normally when police are called to his Greenwich Village building, "you could likely guess it's about one particular person." But on Tuesday, Baldwin says, his assistant and cleaning ...

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Alec Baldwin: Neighbor arrested this time, not me

... actor tells The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/1sLEjUI ) that normally when police are called to his Greenwich Village building, "you could likely guess it's about one particular person." But on Tuesday, Baldwin says, his assistant and cleaning ...

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Alec Baldwin: Neighbor arrested this time, not me

... actor tells The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/1sLEjUI) that normally when police are called to his Greenwich Village building, "you could likely guess it's about one particular person." But on Tuesday, Baldwin says, his assistant and cleaning ...

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Alec Baldwin: Neighbor arrested this time, not me

... actor tells The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/1sLEjUI ) that normally when police are called to his Greenwich Village building, "you could likely guess it's about one particular person." But on Tuesday, Baldwin says, his assistant and cleaning ...

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Alec Baldwin: Neighbor arrested this time, not me

... actor tells The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/1sLEjUI ) that normally when police are called to his Greenwich Village building, "you could likely guess it's about one particular person." But on Tuesday, Baldwin says, his assistant and cleaning ...

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... actor tells The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/1sLEjUI) that normally when police are called to his Greenwich Village building, "you could likely guess it's about one particular person." But on Tuesday, Baldwin says, his assistant and cleaning ...

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Movie Review: Marriage comes at a cost in 'Love is Strange'

Despite the travails and tragedy in "Love is Strange," you'll have to look a long time to find a film that's a better endorsement of long-term relationships.

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Alec Baldwin: Neighbor arrested this time, not me

De Blasio, unchain the city now

During the Bloomberg years, New York City lost a staggering number of small businesses, many of them long-lived cultural touchstones, including CBGB's, Bleecker Bob's, Bill's Gay Nineties, the Stage Deli, McHale's bar, Lenox Lounge, restaurant Gino, Carmine's at the Seaport, Coliseum Books and the list goes on.

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Friday, August 15, 2014

The enduring wonder of 'The Wizard of Oz': Opinion

As I walked near Greenwich Village one recent summer night, I was serenaded by hundreds of strangers reminding me that I wasn't in Kansas anymore.

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Boulder City Hospital Foundation names featured artist for Art in the Park

... League on 57th Street. She started showing off her paintings at the Salmagundi Club, New York City; Greenwich Village Art Show, New York City; and the Ardavin Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA. While in New York, should would paint in Central Park and walk ...

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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Subway Inn, old-time NYC dive bar, facing eviction

Patricia Salinas, far left, and her husband Marcello Salinas, second from left, pose with their sons Christen, center, and Steven behind the bar at the family owned Subway Inn Bar on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014 in New York.

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Subway Inn, old time NYC dive bar, facing eviction

The owners of the Subway Inn, a dive bar that for almost eight decades has served the likes of neighborhood workers -- and, legend has it, even Marilyn Monroe -- pleaded Thursday for city officials and the public to support their efforts to avoid eviction by a real estate development firm.

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Subway Inn, old-time NYC dive bar, facing eviction

The owners of the Subway Inn, a dive bar that for almost eight decades has served the likes of neighborhood workers - and, legend has it, even Marilyn Monroe - pleaded Thursday for city officials and the public to support their efforts to avoid eviction by a real estate development firm.

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Subway Inn, old-time NYC dive bar, facing eviction

Murray's Cheese was founded in 1940 by Murray Greenberg in Greenwich Village, New York.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. A nationally recognized cheese shop is opening in a Fort Wayne Kroger Marketplace.

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New York: All About That Basil: Go On a Basil Cocktail Crawl at These NYC Hotels

It's no secret that we love drinking in hotels here at HotelChatter. In fact, hotels might be our favorite "local."

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Escape City Chaos by Dining in These Backyard Gardens

... of restaurants all over the city. Baker & Co. owner Markus Dorfmann said the little garden area of his Greenwich Village restaurant, which seats 20 people comfortably, is in constant demand. Some outdoor spaces, like Baker & Co.'s, are heated as the ...

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Post Remodel, Is 99-Year-Old Caffe Dante Still Worth the Visit?

The coffee shop hang, a quintessential European custom, is a dying fad in this country.

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Legends lost

... made the most of in a life and career that sound like the stuff of fiction: a theater usher at 18, Miss Greenwich Village that same year, on the cover of Harper's Bazaar in 1943. Then it was on to Hollywood, where she was starring with Bogart ...

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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Can Restaurants Be Saved?

... the landlord so he doesn't oust the place in favor of a more profitable chain outlet? Last week, the Greenwich Village Historic Preservation Commission hosted a forum at Judson Memorial Church across from Washington Square Park to ask, and attempt ...

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Movie legend Lauren Bacall has died after suffering a stroke at her home in Manhattan, New York.

The 89-year-old star of classic films The Mirror Has Two Faces, How to Marry a Millionaire and Key Largo was married to two other big screen greats, Humphrey Bogart and Jason Robards, and she famously romanced Frank Sinatra.

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Remembering Lauren Bacall - On And Off Screen

Actress Lauren Bacall, who died on August 13 at 89, was an early presence in my life.

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LANCELOT Plays The Gym at Judson, Now thru 8/29

... of arts presentations at Judson Memorial Church, a worshiping community that has been a force in Greenwich Village for over 120 years not only in the arts but in social reform, freedom of expression, and advocating for the marginalized. From the ...

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

City Of Seattle Breaks Ground On Jimi Hendrix Memorial Park

Local artists lure a crowd at Wine Kitchena s a Basket Housea

... Davis, Nicole Belanus, Julia Kasdor and husband-wife duo Receiver, the show was an homage to the Greenwich Village exhibitions in New York a half-century ago, said Payson Tremayne, one-half of Receiver and the organizer of the gig. Tremayne ...

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Caught on camera: Horrific moment yob knocks out elderly man in unprovoked attack

... desperate to find the attacker - who they describe as a 'sicko' - after the attack which took place in Greenwich Village at around 5.30pm on Monday. Neil Dalton's parents and brother paid tribute to the 22-year-old, who was killed with Aidan Brunger ...

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August 13th In NYC History

Within two months, he is on the covers of Time and Newsweek magazines. 1992... Filmmaker Woody Allen sues Mia Farrow for custody of their three children.

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Monday, August 11, 2014

How Isaac Mizrahi combined three apartments to create vast 4,000-square-foot New York home

How Isaac Mizrahi combined three apartments to create one vast 4,000-square-foot New York home - and it's surprisingly understated Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi is known for splashy clothing and an even splashier personality, but his home in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood is much more understated.

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Ralph Lee's Mettawee River Theatre Company to Present the Dancing Fox, 9/5-14

... the college campus and featured giant puppets and masked creatures. That same year he organized the first Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, which he directed through 1985. For his work on the Parade, Lee received a 1975 Village Voice OBIE Award, a ...

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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Airbnb's threat to affordable housing

We live in one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Yet the number of housing units New Yorkers can afford is shrinking while rents are skyrocketing and wages are flat, making New York City ever more expensive for the average New Yorker.

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Thursday, August 7, 2014

West Village Book Shop Steals the Show in 'Obvious Child'

... laugh." This isn't UNBB's first form of recognition either. The shop earned a 2014 Village Award from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation in June. Owners Jim and Indiana Drougas were presented with a plaque that reads, ...

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NYC wallet thief busted by victim's mobile banking app

... him in a subway station in July. According to police, the 25-year-old woman was eating at a Wendy's in Greenwich Village just before 4 p.m. on July 17, when Cory White grabbed her wallet from the condiments counter where she had left it ...

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Hanger Hate Is Real -- Here's How To Cure It

Douglas Elliman snags Bond New York sales, rentals directors

Douglas Elliman hired a new sales director for its Greenwich Village office and a new sales manager at its office in Rockefeller Center.

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Inside the real Greenwich Village apartment that inspired a Rear Windowa

... Hitchcock's idea. According to a 1954 Paramount Pictures press book, the director personally scouted Greenwich Village locations and "dispatched four photographers to that colorful section of New York with instructions to shoot the Village from all ...

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Take a staycation in Manhattan

... wanderings should be the African Memorial Burial Ground, Union Square shops, the Merchant's House Museum, Greenwich Village eateries, and the High Line. Lower Manhattan is home to historic and beautiful architecture so be sure to look up as you walk ...

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DA: Drug tests negative in Times Square crash

... ses, but accidents are rare. On June 18, a woman was struck by a City Sights double-decker tourist bus in Greenwich Village and was seriously injured.

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DA: Drug tests negative in Times Square crash

... ses, but accidents are rare. On June 18, a woman was struck by a City Sights double-decker tourist bus in Greenwich Village and was seriously injured.

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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Drug probe after bus driver's Times Square...New York (Ap) - The driver of a...

... but accidents are rare. On June 18, a woman was struck by a City Sights double-decker tourist bus in Greenwich Village and was seriously injured. Check out this article on Colorado Springs Gazette: http://gaze ...

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How many of us are there?

... mitzvahs. What happened to the good old days when a gay guy could move to the Castro in San Francisco, Greenwich Village or Chelsea in New York, or Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. and enjoy life without family pressure to get married and have ...

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'The Dog,' movie review

Documentary looks at John Wojtowicz, the wildly real life behind Sidney Lumet's 'Dog Day Afternoon,' as portrayed by Al Pacino If you love New York movies, you have to love "Dog Day Afternoon."

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Daily Beast

Journalist and author Tim Teeman just did an interview with me over at The Daily Beast.

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5 Tips for Finding an Apartment in New York City

Finding an apartment in New York City can be a nightmare, but it's a little less frightening if you're prepared.

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Bob Dylan in 1964: Photography exhibit in South Haven gives unique glimpse at legendary musician

Douglas R. Gilbert steered through a small town in New York when his passenger, a 23-year-old Bob Dylan, shouted, "Stop the car! Stop the car!" Gilbert, a relatively green 21-year-old photographer from Michigan, obliged as the curly-haired musician ran to a newspaper stand on the side of the road.

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Kathi roll now at the heart of a Manhattan court fight

Hire a good contractor and, based on what you have seen of other houses, draw up a rough sketch of what you want and give it to the contractor... The last time when the WTO talks failed in 2008, India and China were jointly held responsible for the outcome.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

And The Beat Goes On: Mapping the Beat Generation's Artsy, Historic New York Haunts

... building where Allen Ginsburg lived. There are 123 points , with most centered around New York-especially Greenwich Village and Columbia University-but some of their travels and travails took these artsy guys to France and California.

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GayFest! Comes to Philadelphia, Now thru 8/23

... Patrick . The 50th Anniversary production of America's first gay play, with laughs galore as Jay, a 1964 Greenwich Village queen, gets a surprise visit from sexy, straight (or is he?) Frank. Some Are People by Kathleen Warnock, a Philadelphia ...

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Monday, August 4, 2014

Robert Halmi Sr., TV producer, dies at 90

Nobody ever accused Robert Halmi Sr. of thinking small. With more than 200 TV miniseries and films to his credit, Halmi produced sagas that were as outsize and dramatic as his own life.

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New West's Pride fest raises the bar

... 8 at 9 p.m. It honours the New York gay community that rioted after police raided The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in 1969, sparking the gay liberation movement. For a full list of events go to newwestpride.ca or see the wrap in this edition ...

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Cherry Lane to Open 90th Season with Lisa Ramirez's to the Bone, Running 9/9-10/4

The legendary Cherry Lane Theatre - which this year will celebrate its 90th anniversary as one of the nation's most revered institutions for its commitment to producing new works for the stage - will begin its 90th season with the world-premiere of Lisa Ramirez 's play TO THE BONE directed by Lisa Peters on , set to commence previews September 9 ... (more)

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EXCLUSIVE: An extract from the new biography of Olympian John Curry

In early 1976, John Curry was one of the most famous men on the planet. He was 27, stunningly handsome, and in fifty extraordinary days, he'd won the European, World and Olympic men's figure skating titles.

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Sunday, August 3, 2014

Thousands participate in NYC Triathlon

... great talent, Roth had superstars like Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan perform at his Greenwich Village cafe before they were famous. A very important figure of the 1960's New York Bohemian scene has died. Cafe Wha owner Manny Roth ...

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Boy lost in NYC calls it 'greatest day of my life'

Review of 'The Goldfinch' by Donna Tartt - Richly Deserving of The Pulitzer Prize for Ficiton

... and neglect, and of seemingly endless peregrinations When his father dies unexpectedly, he returns to the Greenwich Village furniture store that had served as his second home after the bombing. Pippa, a fellow victim of the bombing, had become the ...

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New Yorkers support Israel through unique 'Art Vigil'

Though Greenwich Village was once home to artists and writers, these days, it is largely populated by bankers and lawyers and wealthy New York University students.

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Here's How The Late Manny Roth Helped Create The Face Of Modern Music

Manny Roth, club owner and New York legend, has died at age 94. He was the owner of the Greenwich Village establishment Cafe Wha?, heavily frequented by the likes of Bob Dylan, Jimmy Hendrix , Bruce Springsteen and many others back in the 60s.

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Manny Roth, 94, impresario of Cafe Wha?, is dead

"Just got here from the West," the gangly 19-year-old told Manny Roth, owner of the New York nightclub "Cafe Wha?" "Name's Bob Dylan.

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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Manny Roth's club launched Dylan, others

"Just got here from the West," the gangly 19-year-old told Manny Roth, owner of the New York nightclub "Cafe Wha?" "Name's Bob Dylan.

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Owner of Cafe Wha dies

Known for discovering great talent, Roth had superstars like Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan perform at his Greenwich Village cafe before they were famous.

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Manny Roth, colorful owner of New York's Cafe Wha? club, dies at 94

... uncle of Van Halen singer David Lee Roth, was a good man to know during a special place and time - when Greenwich Village was a magnet for upcoming artists and bohemians. On a given night, you might see Woody Allen doing standup or take in ...

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Manhattan Mirage

... long, impressive avenues, numerical cross-streets marking off sections like Chelsea and SoHo, Tribeca and Greenwich Village and Harlem. There were even crooked little paved-over lanes with names like Pine and Cedar and MacDougal and Malden Lane, ...

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Manny Roth, owner of New York's iconic Cafe Wha?, dies at 94

... Ojai, California. He was the uncle of Van Halen singer David Lee Roth. Roth was a central figure in the Greenwich Village scene in the early 1960s, as his plain basement room on Macdougal Street became the home of countless great performers, notes ...

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Jessie J flashes a hint of toned tum as she steps out wearing...

... across submerged UCLA campus 'The threat is gone': Mom of boy molested by fugitive killed in daytime Greenwich Village shootout reveals her relief as hero cop shot three times is named Girlfriend called cops on child molester who was killed after ...

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James Baldwin

Baldwin's essays, such as the collection Notes of a Native Son , explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial , sexual , and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America , and their inevitable if unnameable tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.

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Friday, August 1, 2014

Central Park underwear run

Two-hundred triathletes ran a skimpy 1.7-mile loop in their underwear to flesh out the opening festivities of New York City Triathlon weekend.

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Manny Roth, founder of Caf Wha?, dead at 94

Manny Roth, a colorful club owner in Greenwich Village whose Cafe Wha? and its basement level stage was a rite of passage in the 1960s for Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen and many others, has died.

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'Get on Up' and James Brown's Harlem legacy

"Get on Up" is in theaters now. The film chronicles the career of James Brown, who had a special connection to Harlem and New York.

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Chris Brown dumped by Karrueche Tran

... they were swimming in the Pilchuck River about 30 miles northeast of Seattle. Manny Roth, founder of the Greenwich Village club Cafe Wha?, has died. Roth, who gave early breaks to such future superstars as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Bruce ...

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Ex-banker sentenced in NY insider trading case

What Happened in New York This Week: 9 Stories You Need to Read

... origins of the ship's wood, linking the boat to Colonial-era Philadelphia. DNAinfo was on the scene of a Greenwich Village shootout between law enforcement officers and an accused child molester on the run from California. Charles Mozdir, 32, was ...

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Massive emergency drill in New York City

The New York City Department of Health will be conducting a massive emergency preparedness drill at 30 facilities across the city on Friday.

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