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Photo on 2nd Avenue by Derek Berg]
How the Liz Christy Garden on East Houston came to be (
WNYC)
A member of one of Israel’s richest families is among the largest investors in the companies owned by Jared Kushner, whose real-estate empire includes 40-plus buildings in the East Village (
Bloomberg)
"Despite a concerted and ongoing campaign, the fact remains that, in New York, few motorists involved in fatal crashes with pedestrians or cyclists are ever charged with even minor traffic infractions." (
The Village Voice)
The effort to protect Chinatown (
City Limits)
"Rivington Act" bill shot down (
DNAinfo)
The 67-year-old Hotel 17 on Stuyvesant Square closes for now; city says it's an illegal SRO (
Town & Village)
A review of Little Tong on 1st Avenue and 11th Street (
Grub Street ...
previously)
Recap of the rezoning rally on Broadway from Saturday afternoon (
GVSHP ...
NY City Lens)
A crowdfunding campaign is underway to help legally blind street photographer
Flo Fox with health-care expenses (
GoFundMe)
Seward Park Liquors is losing its home of 40 years on Grand Street (
The Lo-Down)
Another boozy brawl at the DL (
BoweryBoogie)
About "Tard Core: There Are No Safe Words," the new residency at Joe's Pub that, among other things, pokes fun at hyper-gentrification (
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
The tragic end of a songwriter on the Bowery in the 1860s (
Ephemeral New York)
...and the Uber-Lyft battle continues...
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Avenue A the other day]