From One Slumlord to Another
Apr 26Two weeks ago, we reported on this foreclosure protest by New School students. While their singing protests stopped part of the sales, the investors on scene still managed to snap up a few a couple of »
Two weeks ago, we reported on this foreclosure protest by New School students. While their singing protests stopped part of the sales, the investors on scene still managed to snap up a few a couple of »
Grace Lee Boggs, the 96-year-old political activist from Detroit, will be speaking at the New School tonight. The Voice had the chance to interview Boggs on Friday and will be posting our interview ne »
www.lakesidelounge.comwww.lakesidelounge.comThe East Village must be getting used to all these closings by now. First, it was Mars Bars on East First Street; then Banjo Jim's on East Ninth Street »
Poster for next week's "Week of Action" Well, looks like that grumpy Chinese restaurant we profiled has been saved from being sold! Yesterday, singing protestors struck Brooklyn Supreme Court with a »
Legacy RussellThis past summer we wrote about Legacy Russell, an artist embarking on a year-long project that in its different phases (called "rites") explores the nature of memory in the East Village »
via Not enough celebration for you with Passover and Easter falling on the same weekend? Well, today is also International Pillow Fight Day , and a celebration is happening now in Washington Square Pa »
The nightly showdown in Union Square.The Battle for Union Square continues. The branch of Occupy Wall Street protesters who have colonized Union Square for the past three weeks continue their nightly »
Sam LevinNew School professor Teresa Ghilarducci and City Comptroller John Liu at the New School today.City Comptroller John Liu, staying focused on official business and not his ongoing campaign fin »
Sam LevinCity Comptroller John Liu at the New School this morning. In unsurprising news, City Comptroller John Liu doesn't feel like chatting much about his ongoing campaign finance controversy. Af »
Occupy's new outpost in Union Square.When the NYPD again forcefully evicted Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park more than a week ago, many of those who weren't arrested marched north, leading »
viaFollowing last week's Occupy Wall Street action that brought the movement back into the streets and the news, protesters marched against police brutality from Zuccotti Park to Union Square t »
Steven ThrasherFollowing Wednesday's "Million Hoodie March" for Trayvon Martin -- the Florida 17-year-old who was killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in February -- one New York church is »
NYPDIf you know these creeps, call the cops.For today's installment of Let's Catch These Creeps, we bring you the East Village slashers, who police say "slashed" two people on 14th Street last week.T »
At about 6 p.m. American Justice -- a blonde, vapid socialite as performed by Kanene Holder -- will be having her coming out as a debutante at the Astor Place Cube. American Justice's appearanc »
Boozers and bars are just ruining the East Village, neighborhood residents claim. So the NYPD Ninth Precinct, which patrols the area, will deploy eight to 10 additional cops in the next month »