Exhibition highlights 50-year-old NYC Landmarks Law

... Coney Island's Parachute Jump, the Alice Austen House in Staten Island and historic districts in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn Heights. The exhibition traces the trajectory of the preservation movement in New York City, from the end of the 19th ...

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Exhibition highlights 50-year-old NYC Landmarks Law

... Coney Island's Parachute Jump, the Alice Austen House in Staten Island and historic districts in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn Heights. The exhibition traces the trajectory of the preservation movement in New York City, from the end of the 19th ...

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Jeffrey Kroessler: Historic preservation saved New York City

Mayor Robert Wagner put off the decision as long as he could, but finally, on April 19, 1964, he signed the law creating the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The stated intent was to protect historic and architectural monuments, but almost at once preservation proved a tonic for many more of the city's ills.

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What's new in NYC this spring

Spring is all about new beginnings, and New York is celebrating the warm, sunny season in style this year, on the stiletto heels of one heck of a winter. Here's a peek at what's blossoming this spring from museums to baseball to cocktails.

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Editorial: Protect the past and future

Imagine a New York City without SoHo. Without Grand Central Terminal. Without Greenwich Village, or Rockefeller Center, or the Empire State Building.

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St. Norbert president unlocks life of celebrated writer

... about such people and places as McSorley's Old Ale House , Staten Island oystermen and Joe Gould - the Greenwich Village Bohemian who claimed he was creating a nine-million word "Oral History." The truth at the heart of what may be Mitchell's most ...

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Jessica Biel, Patricia Arquette and Vincent Piazza Explore the Lure of Violence in New Tribeca Films

There's a world of difference between a yoga instructor from Los Angeles and a mob-obsessed ex-con from New York - but in the hands of actors Jessica Biel and Vincent Piazza and in the films "Bleeding Heart" and "The Wannabe," both flirt with the lure of violence in films that had their world premieres on the first two days of the Tribeca Film Festival. Mind you, the films and the two characters don't really have that much in common: one character lives her life shunning violence before she's tempted to change her mind, while the other wants nothing more than to be a gun-toting godfather.

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Jessica Biel, Patricia Arquette and Vincent Piazza Explore the...

There's a world of difference between a yoga instructor from Los Angeles and a mob-obsessed ex-con from New York - but in the hands of actors Jessica Biel and Vincent Piazza and in the films "Bleeding Heart" and "The Wannabe," both flirt with the lure of violence in films that had their world premieres on the first two days of the Tribeca Film Festival. Mind you, the films and the two characters don't really have that much in common: one character lives her life shunning violence before she's tempted to change her mind, while the other wants nothing more than to be a gun-toting godfather.

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New York has lost none of its star quality

AS United Airlines prepare to start flights from Newcastle to New York, Business Editor Andy Richardson samples the Big Apple. Ever since I was entranced by the great New York films of the 1970s - Klute, The French Connection, The Godfather, Annie Hall, Marathon Man, Taxi Driver - NYC had been on my wish list of cities to visit.

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New York has lost none of its star quality

Passengers flying with United Airlines from the North-East will be able to make 300 onward connections from Newark/New York, 100 of them non-stop. AS United Airlines prepare to start flights from Newcastle to New York, Business Editor Andy Richardson samples the Big Apple.

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Sarah Silverman Apologizes for Story About Gender Gap Disparity

... that" In an interview with ABC News on Thursday, Martin - who now owns the Broadway Comedy Club and Greenwich Village Comedy Club, both in New York - described his reaction when he heard Silverman's comments. Silverman is now calling the whole thing ...

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Exhibition highlights 50-year-old NYC Landmarks Law

... Coney Island's Parachute Jump, the Alice Austen House in Staten Island and historic districts in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn Heights. The exhibition traces the trajectory of the preservation movement in New York City, from the end of the 19th ...

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Empty Threats: Alec Baldwin Sure Is Taking a Long Time to Leave New York

... in. Which reminds us: wasn't Alec Baldwin supposed leave New York City ? Didn't he put one of his fancy Greenwich Village apartments on the market already? What's the holdup on that? Struggling Alec Baldwin Was Inconvenienced By Last Night's Living ...

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Exhibition highlights 50-year-old New York City Landmarks Law

... Coney Island's Parachute Jump, the Alice Austen House in Staten Island and historic districts in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn Heights. The exhibition traces the trajectory of the preservation movement in New York City, from the end of the 19th ...

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Exhibition highlights 50-year-old NYC Landmarks Law

... Coney Island's Parachute Jump, the Alice Austen House in Staten Island and historic districts in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn Heights. The exhibition traces the trajectory of the preservation movement in New York City, from the end of the 19th ...

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Exhibition highlights 50-year-old NYC Landmarks Law

... Coney Island's Parachute Jump, the Alice Austen House in Staten Island and historic districts in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn Heights. The exhibition traces the trajectory of the preservation movement in New York City, from the end of the 19th ...

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Exhibition highlights 50-year-old NYC Landmarks Law

... Coney Island's Parachute Jump, the Alice Austen House in Staten Island and historic districts in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn Heights. The exhibition traces the trajectory of the preservation movement in New York City, from the end of the 19th ...

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NYC Landmarks Law turns 50; exhibition highlights how it re-shaped the face of the city

... Coney Island's Parachute Jump, the Alice Austen House in Staten Island and historic districts in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn Heights. The exhibition traces the trajectory of the preservation movement in New York City, from the end of the 19th ...

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Exhibition highlights 50-year-old NYC Landmarks Law

... Coney Island's Parachute Jump, the Alice Austen House in Staten Island and historic districts in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn Heights. The exhibition traces the trajectory of the preservation movement in New York City, from the end of the 19th ...

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The Bitter End will host Sim Shalom's Jazz High Holiday Services:...

Love you and the Sim Shalom community all year long! Now go pay that find band! from a Sim Shalom regular and donor from Vancouver. The Sim Shalom Online Synagogue will celebrate the High Holidays with a series of sacred and jazz-inflected services at The Bitter End - the iconic music and entertainment venue in Greenwich Village.

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Exhibition highlights 50-year-old NYC Landmarks Law

... Coney Island's Parachute Jump, the Alice Austen House in Staten Island and historic districts in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn Heights. The exhibition traces the trajectory of the preservation movement in New York City, from the end of the 19th ...

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... Coney Island's Parachute Jump, the Alice Austen House in Staten Island and historic districts in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn Heights. The exhibition traces the trajectory of the preservation movement in New York City, from the end of the 19th ...

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Jenny McCarthy sees a dim 'View' of the future

... in probably five months together," McCarthy said of their visit to Strip House Next Door, a steakhouse in Greenwich Village that has launched a "Strip Tease" late-night menu. "Donnie has been coming to Strip House since he's been in New York the ...

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After 55 years, folksinger Tom Paxton ready to get off the road

... American music are profound. As an idealistic young Army veteran out of Oklahoma, Paxton surfaced in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, a place and time we now look at as an incubator of the American folk movement. Unlike many of the other ...

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Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal At Tribeca Luncheon: NYC Funding, Film ...

Tribeca Film Festival founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal as well as Tribeca Enterprises Exec VP Paula Weinstein held a press luncheon today to kick off the 14th annual event and addressed the changing indie filmmaking landscape, as well as how TFF has evolved. When the festival first launched it was in effort to revitalize the downtown section of Manhattan impacted by the 9/11 attacks.

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How Does Jack Daniel's Whiskey Hold Up as a Burger Condiment?

... Jack Daniel's and whiskey burger sauces. It's 12:00 am and I am walking in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village with a friend on one of those stinky sticky wet July evenings that I sort of love and hate at the same time. The "love" part ...

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More Memories Coming From Patti Smith

... prism of cafs and haunts she has visited and worked in." It's divided into 18 "stations," starting from a Greenwich Village cafe in New York to spots all around the world, including the years she spent out of the spotlight, living quietly in ...

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The artist's second book is due out on October 6th

... prism of cafs and haunts she has visited and worked in." It's divided into 18 "stations," starting from a Greenwich Village cafe in New York to spots all around the world, including the years she spent out of the spotlight, living quietly in ...

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Creative Time Hosts Protest for Tania Bruguera in Times Square

Today from 12 PM to 2 PM Creative Time will spearhead a performance and protest in solidarity with Cuban artist Tania Bruguera - and other artists who are facing criminal charges stemming from creative expression - by restaging Bruguera's participatory work Tatlin's Whisper #6 in the Duffy Square section of Times Square in New York. The restaged performance will be titled #YoTambienExijo: A Restaging of Tatlin's Whisper #6 .

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How Green Could New York Be?

... development could become one of New York's exports. On a morning walk from his Tribeca apartment to his Greenwich Village studio, Sorkin gestured to a young tree on a previously treeless stretch of Hudson Street. Food, he said, is just one part of ...

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The New York EDITION, Opening May 2015

People are changing. New York is changing. Luxury is changing. With The New York EDITION , Ian Schrager and Marriott International respond to this changing landscape by introducing a new luxury for a new generation.

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The New York EDITION, Opening May 2015

People are changing. New York is changing. Luxury is changing. With The New York EDITION , Ian Schrager and Marriott International respond to this changing landscape by introducing a new luxury for a new generation.

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New York's Alright -- for One More Year

Adam Whites assumed people were coming to New York's Alright to see bands from Tokyo, or Barcelona, maybe - but not Brooklyn. "The first year, when I would ask people who traveled from the U.K. or the West Coast or the Midwest which bands they wanted to see - 'An international band?' - they would go, 'No, I want to see Crazy Spirit or Hank Wood and the Hammerheads!' or they really wanted to see Anasazi," Whites says of the annual punk and hardcore festival.

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Exclusive excerpt: 'Virtuous' by M.S. Force

... Fluff, by her side. Natalie isn't expecting her life to change completely during a routine stroll through Greenwich Village on a blustery January day. But when Fluff breaks loose and charges into a park, Natalie gives chase and crashes into her ...

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Exclusive excerpt: 'Virtuous' by M.S. Force

... Fluff, by her side. Natalie isn't expecting her life to change completely during a routine stroll through Greenwich Village on a blustery January day. But when Fluff breaks loose and charges into a park, Natalie gives chase and crashes into her ...

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Unitard's House of Tards Extends Again Through May 28

The acclaimed comedy trio Unitard -- the combined talents of Mike Albo , Nora Burns , and David Ilku -- has returned to New York City with their acclaimed show HOUSE OF TARDS, which has now announced another extension. HOUSE OF TARDS is currently performed on Thursday evenings at 8:00 pm at the Stonewall Inn -- now through May 28th .

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Joey Arias as Billie Holiday

... having a good time." Manhattan's downtown has changed, and though Arias lives in the same rent-controlled Greenwich Village apartment he acquired in 1981, he now runs into people like Susan

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Abingdon Presents Messina's a Room of My Own, Starring Mario Cantone

The Abingdon Theatre Company will present a reading of Charles Messina 's play A ROOM OF MY OWN, starring Mario Cantone on April 21, 2015. The comedy is based on Messina's life growing up in Greenwich Village in the late 1970s.

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Judith Malina, Founder of the Living Theatre, Dies at 88

Judith Malina, the co-founder, with her husband Julian Beck, of The Living Theatre, and a central figure in the New York avant garde theatre during its most vital time, in the 1960s and '70s, died on Friday in Englewood, N.J. She was 88. The Living Theatre was one of the first experimental theatre groups to crop up in New York in the years following World War II and was one of the most long-surviving. Most of the troupes and theatre spaces that challenged theatregoers alongside it - The Open Theatre, Theatre Genesis, Caffe Cino, Judson Poets Theatre - have long since ceased to exist.

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Seeking Pacino

Al Pacino knows the dangers of letting fame overwhelm you. 'You become this so-called movie star, and it's a different world,' the actor-director says.

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Cast, Menu, Special Events Set for the Fantasticks at Half Moon Theatre, 4/24-5/10

Half Moon Theatre opens its inaugural spring season at The Culinary Institute of America with the beloved classic, The Fantasticks, the world's longest-running musical that has entranced generations of audiences the world over. The Fantasticks will run from April 24-May 10 .

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Jaye Maynard in 'Bird Amongst the Blossom' Set for Etcetera Etcetera Restaurant, 4/28

... debut at NYC's United Solo Theater Festival on Theatre Row, has played The Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village and The Laurie Beechman Theater and Metropolitan Room here in NYC following its Los Angeles premiere Upstairs at Vitello's Red ...

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New York CIty Anarchist BookFair

The NYC Anarchist Book Fair will be returning to Judson Memorial Church on Sat., April 18, 2015-the same location where the annual event was first held nine years ago. The book fair will bring publishers, designers, writers, artists, musicians, and activists from all over North America to this historic location in Greenwich Village-the neighborhood that is one of the birthplaces of the anarchist movement in the US.

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Here's What Happens When Louis C.K. Hits NYC's Streets: Behind the Scenes of THR's Cover Shoot

When you photograph Louis C.K. on the streets of Greenwich Village, you're bound to get noticed. So as Meredith Jenks snapped the pictures accompanying this week's New York issue cover story , there were occasional interruptions.

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'305 Fitness' Brings Miami-Inspired Exercise To Greenwich Village

CBS 2 CBS 2 is part of CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corp. and one of the largest network-owned station groups in the country. Latest Videos Eye On New York Dining Deals Tony's Table Links [...] WCBS 880 WCBS Newsradio 880 is one of the tri-state's most trusted sources for news and information.

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Jackson Pollock's Lemon Pudding

... relationship or even a life - as it did for Jackson Pollock. When Lee Krasner moved into Pollock's rented Greenwich Village apartment in 1942, she decided it was time to learn to cook. Savvy and strategic by nature, Lee was aware of the importance ...

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Oxygen Premieres New Comedic Docuseries Funny Girls Tonight

... Smoove, Jay Pharoah , Anthony Anderson and Damon Wayans. She can often be seen at Broadway Comedy Club , Greenwich Village Comedy Club and Stand Up New York. Calise's style of comedy is painfully revealing and has been called "refreshingly honest." ...

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How to Help Your Adult Kids Buy a Home

Dan Mazzarini's mom, Clare, and dad, Dan, gave him money to help him buy his Greenwich Village co-op apartment. After college, Dan Mazzarini made a beeline for the Big Apple.

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Janis Ian, Tom Paxton to play Capitol Theatre April 13

... an industry - but one thing will never change. We don't sell music. We sell dreams." Tom Paxton headed to Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, just in time to join Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Joan Baez and other troubadours who took over coffeehouse ...

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'Supermodel' Singer Jill Sobule Remembers Nineties New York

... to shady gay clubs; in addition to working at Barney's, Sobule also picked up shifts at the Cubby Hole, a Greenwich Village lesbian watering hole now called Henrietta Hudson's. As we make our way there, Sobule admits this job wasn't a great fit for ...

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1950s New York Photos Remind Us It's Still The Greatest City On Earth

Never fear, because 1950s NYC is here. These swoon-worthy snapshots of vintage New York -- from the coasters of Coney Island to the crosswalks of Fifth Ave. -- remind us why we love the city so darn much.

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LHS Alumni Collaborate on a Comedy Show at Greenwich Village Comedy Club in NY

Beginning April 5, Livingston's David Suarez and his comedy group "New Comic All-Stars" will be hosting a weekly "Sunday Funday Spectacular" at Greenwich Village Comedy Club in New York City . With an ever-rotating roster of professional comics, Greenwich Village Comedy Club agreed to give Suarez a once-in-a-lifetime chance to showcase some of the city's newest and hottest talents right alongside some of comedy's most well-known names.

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Interesting Stuff - 4 April 2015

... DeGrasse Tyson? His answer will inspire you. It broke my heart last week to learn that "my" pharmacy in Greenwich Village where I shopped regularly from 1980 until I left in 2004 was closed in March because the rent was tripled by a new landlord ...

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it's a Shame...:

The Master Writer of the City : Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker by Thomas Kunkel In 1942 The New Yorker published Joseph Mitchell's profile of a homeless man in Greenwich Village named Joe Gould, whose claim to notice--the thing that separated him from other sad misfits--was "a formless, rather mysterious book" he was known to be writing called "An Oral History of Our Time," begun twenty-six years earlier and already, at nine million words, "eleven times as long as the Bible." Twenty-two years later, in 1964, the magazine published another piece by Mitchell called "Joe Gould's Secret" that ran in two parts, and that drew a rather less sympathetic and a good deal more interesting portrait of Gould.

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BOOKS: What to read this week

At the edges of every capital-letter milieu of '70s New York, there are fissures inhabited by characters with lives as dramatic and storied as an Andy Warhol or a Patti Smith. Enter Harriett, the pseudonymous heroine of Iris Owens's "After Claude."

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East Side, West Side: Vivian Gornick

In The Odd Woman and the City , to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in May, Vivian Gornick writes of the "shock of pleasure" she gets each evening as she gazes from her 16th-floor apartment in Greenwich Village at "the banks of lighted windows rising to the sky, crowding round me... [I] feel myself embraced." Today, however, a massive construction project embraces most of the sidewalk facing her building, and her conversation is punctuated by the pounding of jackhammers.

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Demoted cop who berated Uber driver: a I sincerely apologizea

The NYPD detective whose tirade against an Uber driver received more than three million hits on YouTube apologized Friday, saying he "let his emotions get the best of me" after the driver refused to hand over his license and registration. "I apologize.

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Finalists Announced for 2nd Annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the Charles H. Revson Foundation have announced the 10 finalists for the 2nd annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards, which celebrate the crucial role of local libraries in serving New York City's diverse communities. The Awards - unique in honoring individual branch libraries - recognize branches in New York City's three library systems: the Brooklyn Public Library; Queens Library; and the New York Public Library, which operates branches in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island.

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What Exactly Was Joseph Mitchell Doing All Those Years at 'The New Yorker'?

... September of 1964. Each day, week after week, year after year, Mitchell would head uptown from his tiny Greenwich Village apartment to his office at The New Yorker , where for three decades he had chronicled like no one else the astonishing carnival ...

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Pizza, a good American slice

... have made it their own and perfected the Italian specialty their way, with regional variations. Joe's in Greenwich Village has been dishing out the quintessential New York pizza since 1975, and tourists wanting a slice of New York are pointed their ...

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The Catholics of Metro NYC

There are many Catholics in the city area, but they have felt that the church has not addressed their concerns over the sex abuse scandals and the church and school closings and kept a cultural distance from the newer immigrants and younger generations. However, there are many signs that the church is returning to a more effective public outreach.

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How Gay Is the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

... wanting to learn more about the history woven into the fabric of the city, a bus tour or walking tours of Greenwich Village and the East Village. And for anyone with a penchant to go deeper, he plans on offering gay tours of the Met. "I just hadn't ...

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The Cats of Indie Filmmaking

... quite like the orange cat in the Coens ' portrait of artistic malaise against the backdrop of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene. The cat, or cats, that Davis ( Oscar Isaac ) temporarily adopts serve as a desperate manifestation of his ...

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Manhattan blast shows New Yorkers still wary of attack

... still isn't easy, with demolition work and traffic jams continuing. The blast happened in the East Greenwich Village neighbourhood of New York, an area long associated with poets and artists, thriving with cafes and shops. Ever since New York was ...

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Most of mob's big shots ate lead at last meals

... a vision of "syndicate" that foretold Charles (Lucky) Luciano. Nick, who controlled the East Harlem and Greenwich Village rackets, battled the notorious camorristas of Brooklyn don Peligrino Morano in the first of New York's Mafia wars. Hopeful of ...

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Three fresh ways to savour New York City

Ivan Ramen has seven soups on the menu. Ramen is fast food - only memories of Ivan Ramen run long.

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Frank D'Angelo's New Feature Film "No Deposit" to Premiere in New York

Greenwich Village at the Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th St., during an exclusive one week engagement. Stars of the movie including actors , a family man who falls from grace due to a series of downward spiraling events beyond his control.

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Joni Mitchell Hospitalized; Report Says Situation Appears 'Serious'

... half, Chuck Mitchell. In 1967, Joni Mitchell moved to New York City, where she was part of the legendary Greenwich Village folk scene. She began touring up and down the East Coast, and saw her songs such as "The Circle Game" and "Both Sides Now" ...

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TOWN Residential Analysis of the Manhattan Real Estate Market, Sheds...

"From median price points to median price per square foot, we continue to see numbers trend higher than 2014 - but at a slower and healthier rate," said Andrew Heiberger, founder and CEO of TOWN Residential. TOWN Residential, New York's leading luxury real estate services firm, has released The Aggregate - the firm's quarterly residential market report.

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