Fake Mona Lisa Selling for $25K in Greenwich Village

At the Louvre in Paris, you can't get closer than a few feet from the roped-off Mona Lisa in all her bulletproof-glass glory-and that's after you've fought off the elbows of the selfie-snapping crowd and waited, appropriately, for your own brief rotation up front. In Greenwich Village, however, New Yorkers can now go ahead and sip a cappuccino right beneath the famed portrait.

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Scorsese's latest is documentary on magazine

As the New York Review of Books approached its 50th anniversary in 2013, editor Robert Silvers and his staff wondered if words were enough to honor one of the world's signature literary publications. "Should we do anything at all, rumble along in our usual way, or should we make an occasion out of it?" the 87-year-old Silvers recalled during a recent interview at the Review's offices in Greenwich Village, bookcases unavoidably nearby.

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Photo Flash: New Shots from Sleepy Hollow the Musical at Players Theatre

As long autumn shadows cast their spell across Greenwich Village, the days grow shorter and the nights grow restless and long, enticing the Headless Horseman to realize his lonely, faithful quest. Sleepy Hollow, an original musical by Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell , which began previews on September 20th at The Players Theatre in New York City's Greenwich Village, reveals a haunting deeper than the woods of the hollow.

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Joy Behar Goes Solo; Next Stop Greenwich Village

Me, My Mouth And I , Joy Behar 's one-woman tour through the life and times of Joy Behar, will begin previews November 6 at the historic, intimate Cherry Lane Theatre in the New York City's West Village. It's slated to open November 23 and run through December 21. The Brooklyn-bred comedienne, who recently concluded hosting duties on ABC's The View after 17 years, spent her salad nights in New York comedy clubs including Caroline's and Catch A Rising Star.

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Il Mulino's Grand Expansion Plans Include Uptown, LA, and Many More Steakhouses

The clubby Italian restaurant has been on an expansion tear in recent years, and has no intentions of stopping now. In the last two years, Il Mulino New York has grown from a small, clubby restaurant in Greenwich Village to a brand that spans the city, with outposts ranging from a social beehive on East 60th Street, to a more casual Flatiron trattoria , and, most recently, an Italian steakhouse in Soho, which opened in June.

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1981 was indeed 'A Most Violent Year' in New York City

In 1981, there were more reported robberies in New York City than in any year in its history. There were over 2,100 murders that year including such infamous crimes as the mob-related Shamrock Bar murders in Queens.

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Read Like a Feminist: 10 Books to Look For

... clarity of her days and threatening her well-defended solitude." "Spanning the years from Sanger's heady Greenwich Village days in the early twentieth century to trial tests in Puerto Rico in the 1950s to the cusp of the sexual revolution in the ...

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