Tag: Greenwich Village
With north Brooklyn rents soon set to surpass those in many Manhattan neighborhoods and more city tenants making the move back over the East River, one can’t help but wonder what will become of those fabled bohemian districts long laid waste by chain falafel and finance bros. The last decade alone saw the shutter of […]
If the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation gets its way, the Stonewall Inn and Julius’, two longstanding icons of gay culture in New York City, will become official NYC landmarks. As DNAinfo points out, it’s already unlikely that the buildings would ever be torn down, as they’re part of a historic district, but the group would like […]
This week’s best crime blotter celebrities are Kareen Walcott, Amanda Roman and Tais Bomani, three women who went on a porn shopping spree after stealing a debit card over the weekend. Before they were apprehended in the West 3rd Street McDonald’s, the three women, ages 35, 19, and 22, respectively, purchased $360 worth of goods at […]
In the first major victory for the whiners in their ongoing, inexplicable battle against bike share, a group of West Village residents have convinced the Department of Transportation to move a docking station that was originally positioned in front of their co-op building. DOT workers moved the station from the southeast corner of Barrow and […]
Jeff Slatnick, the luthier and business owner behind Greenwich Village’s iconic Music Inn, wanted something he couldn’t find in any of the international string instruments he stocks in his shop, so he decided to make his own. What he came up with was the electric zarod, an instrument that sounds to the untrained ear like […]
