Book depicts Dylanologists surrounding music icon

... defends Mr. Dylan in the name of "artistic appropriation." And there's also Mitch Blank, who lives in Greenwich Village and curates the Blank Archives - "thousands of pieces of tape and paper having to do with Dylan, the counterculture, the Village ...

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See Jane Be Co-opted

ane Jacobs, the mousy, white-haired street fighter of Greenwich Village in the sixties, is famous for the wrong things: battling the overweening policies of urban renewal and defeating Robert Moses's proposal for a highway across lower Manhattan. ...

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A hip-hop tour of New York's Harlem

Ginny Dougary and teenage sons take a guided tour of Harlem and the Bronx to find the roots of hip-hop So there I am with my solid crew, two teenage sons and me in Kangol berets, dripping in bling, on loan from our hosts Grandmaster Caz and Reggie Reg, the grandaddies of hip-hop, manoeuvring our way through Harlem and the Bronx in a tour bus ... (more)

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Activism is the new normal when it comes to opening, closing or...

Crain's New York reports: One hospital tried to close a campus and got hauled into court by disapproving locals.

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Community groups: 'Hands off my hospital'

One hospital tried to close a campus and got hauled into court by disapproving locals.

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Report: NYC Anti-Gay Attacks Up 26% in 2013

... attacks made headlines last year, including the murders of Mark Carson, a gay man who was killed in Greenwich Village in May, Islan Nettles, a transgender woman killed in Harlem in August and Ever Orozco, who was killed in September after his ...

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Publishers Ditch Swanky Offices for Savings and Subsidies

... 60 Fifth Ave. New 499 Washington Blvd. in Jersey City After nearly 50 years, Forbes is leaving its iconic Greenwich Village building and heading across the Hudson to Jersey City. Newsweek Old 1775 Broadway New 7 Hanover Square Newsweek became one of ...

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