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No idea how we came across this footage. It's described as: "Loretta on East 10th Street Rooftop. Summer of 1990. Remembering the d...

Photographer Ali Smith worked the day shift at Sophie's in the early '90s. During that time, she captured all the regulars who help...

Ah, back before the condos...American Apparel...the Bench. (Uh, OK. We didn't live here then. Still! It still looked a lot like this whe...

The art of smiling had a short post that was in reaction to the news of Sophie's as reported by Jeremiah's Vanishing New York . Mar...

Our favorite New York-related blog, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York , had an excellent post Jan. 2 on Sophie's. He spoke with owner Bo...

Local independent businesses in the East Village have had a challenging time making a living in recent years. Here's a group trying to h...

OK, this has nothing to do with Sophie's necessarily, but stories like this are occurring all-too-often as the East Village continues to...

Well, we didn't have much hope of the Cedar Tavern on University returning after it closed for "renovations" or whatever back ...

Since we learned about the possible sale of Sophie's and Mona's, we've been trolling around the blogosphere finding what's b...

From an e-mail to friends from a Sophie's regular on Dec. 20: It goes without saying that that item from today's Page Six was badde...

Gawker picked up the Sophie's/Mona's sale item from Page Six. After Hours Editor Joshua David Stein posted the following: end of an...

So there have been other fine neighborhoody/divey bars sold that retained some of the original charm...Like the Shark Bar on Spring Street....

Jeremiah's Vanishing New York is an excellent blog that takes "a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct...

As seen in Page Six in the New York Post yesterday: December 20, 2007 -- IT may be the final nail in the shared coffin of East Village ...

[ Photo illustration by Derek Berg ] Earlier tonight, St. Francis recreated the scene of Christ's birth in a special ritual and Mass ...