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May 2, 2012
May Day Recap: Highlights from Voice Reports (UPDATE)
Good (late) morning! A lot of the Voice staff is still recovering from a long day of May 1 coverage, but we wanted to bring you a brief recap of what went down from when we stopped liveblogging until now. Enjoy!
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May 2, 2012
May Day Aftermath: Credit Police Working Ridiculous Hours For Uneventful Day of Protests
Aside from pushing and shoving and a relatively paltry 50 arrests, the May Day protests yesterday were largely peaceful. The credit for that should go to the police officers assigned yesterday to the protests throughout lower Manhattan. The cops held it together even though many of them had to work ... More >>
Film
April 18, 2012
What To See at the Tribeca Film Festival
Aside from pushing and shoving and a relatively paltry 50 arrests, the May Day protests yesterday were largely peaceful. The credit for that should go to the police officers assigned yesterday to the protests throughout lower Manhattan. The cops held it together even though many of them had to work ... More >>
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April 10, 2012
Serial Groping In New York City Is Sooo In Right Now
For the second time in as many days, police are asking the public's help in tracking down a serial groper responsible for at least four unwanted gropings -- and the suspect doesn't appear to be the same man responsible for a recent collection of gropings in Queens. In other words, there currently ar ... More >>
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March 22, 2012
Occupy Wall Street Offers Shitty Response To Feces-Dumping Allegations
When we contacted Occupy Wall Street yesterday to ask about allegations that the group is responsible for dumping two giant buckets of feces and urine at two lower Manhattan locations, we thought we'd get some sort of spirited response either denying or embracing the allegations.We were wrong -- ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2012
Fences Are Still Up -- What's Going On At Chase Manhattan Plaza?
In January we told you about the fight over Chase Manhattan Plaza, an architectural landmark and one of the few open spaces in Lower Manhattan, which has been completely fenced off for six months. Back in January, there wasn't any obvious reason for closing off the plaza, a popular lunch spot and h ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2012
The New York Of The Future? Say Hello to 'LoLo'
And another hundred people just got off of the train? Try another two hundred thousand. An article printed in the Sunday New York Times -- which poses in its headline the daunting question: "How Many People Can Manhattan Hold?" -- explains that the Department of City Planning's Population Division e ... More >>
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February 15, 2012
Record Number of Tourists Visited Lower Manhattan Last Year
Lower Manhattan saw nearly 9.8 million tourists visit last year, a record number for an area revitalized by development and the World Trade Center site. Many of those were drawn here by the newly-opened September 11 Memorial, which has already attracted more than 1 million visitors in the four mon ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
Port Authority Plans on Military-Grade Security for the World Trade Center Site
Wikimedia CommonsAfter an audit found that the Port Authority was nearly $2 billion overbudget, the New York Post went digging and discovered that the PA has elaborate, high-tech security plans for protecting the redesigned World Trade Center site. Maybe that's where all the money is going! ... More >>
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January 13, 2012
City Looks to Sell Three Lower Manhattan Properties; Scott Stringer Says He Has the Power To Stop It
As part of his State of the City speech yesterday, Mayor Mike Bloomberg -- in a discussion about revenue -- said the city plans to sell three Lower Manhattan properties. It was just a few sentences, but it gave Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer a chance today to remind us all that his posit ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
The Hot New Downtown Trend Is Babies
Once upon a time, hip, taste-making Manhattanites in the know would trek to Brooklyn to propagate the species with relatively more space and sometimes even backyards in which to park their Maclarens. But a surprising trend has been uncovered by DNAinfo, which reports that birth rates in Lower Manhat ... More >>
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December 13, 2011
Financial District May Get a 'Tasteful' Nightly Light Show
The Victoria Harbour Light Show.When we think back upon the last few months in the Financial District, one thing we do not think is "Lower Manhattan should have a light show!" Nonetheless, that's what the Economic Development Corporation is after, a lighting initiative that would "transform t ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Food Trucks: Soon in Battery Park City
Wallyg / FlickrLunchtime just got a little more excitingLower Manhattan might be home to a large population of office workers, but lunch options still remain somewhat scarce. But all that's about to change: As DNAInfo reports, a rotating group of five trucks per day will soon be rolling outs ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
New York City Gets Adorable New Scaffolding
What is the true blight of New York City? The awful, industrial scaffolding that crops up to hide the beauty of attractive things and make ugly things uglier, usually when you least expect it, truly ruining any photo op you might be planning on having. Just a fact of life in a city, and something we ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Occupy Wall Street National Day of Action: Live Updates From Downtown Manhattan
Nick PintoThe NYSE, which protestors did not stop from opening todayGood afternoon, and welcome to the evening edition of the Village Voice liveblog of Occupy Wall Street's Day of Action. Today, November 17, marks the two month anniversary since Occupy Wall Street began in Zuccotti Park. Pro ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Protesters Spread Over Lower Manhattan in March for Oakland
C.S. MuncyProtesters march in Lower Manhattan in solidarity with Occupy Oakland.A familiar story: protesters from Occupy Wall Street marched last night. This time the march, announced to us via text message earlier in the afternoon, was to be in solidarity with Occupy Oakland. Occupy Oakland ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Gains Traction With Neighbors as CB1 Passes Resolution
Zoe SchlangerMusicians at Zuccotti Park. Last week, sub-committees of Lower Manhattan's Community Board 1 drafted a resolution in hopes of easing tensions with their new neighbors, Occupy Wall Street. Last night, the full board passed the resolution by a large majority. Held at a public sch ... More >>
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October 14, 2011
The New York State Young Democrats May Be Kind of Tone-Deaf
Keep the change.For the past four weeks, we've been bringing you news of the Occupy Wall Street protests roiling Lower Manhattan, as the self-identified 99 percent transform their tales of struggle and deprivation into demands for systemic change. Maybe it's just because we have those voices ... More >>
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October 10, 2011
Skywriting Freaking People Out Yesterday Was Just Art
Yesterday, an unseasonably lovely day, at some point around 4 in the afternoon, people suddenly started noticing messages in the sky in Lower Manhattan -- things like, "Lost Our Lease," "Last Chance," and "Now Open." The moderately terrifying messages -- last chance for WHAT, exactly? -- were attrib ... More >>
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September 27, 2011
As "Occupy Wall Street" Continues, I Have Other Protest Ideas
Bravo to the "Occupy Wall Street" protestors who've been camped out in lower Manhattan, screaming about how Financial District greed destroyed the economy. While we're at it, let's also rail against...
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September 26, 2011
Ray Kelly: the NYPD Could Take Down an Aircraft if Necessary
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly appeared on 60 Minutes last night to talk about New York City's counterterrorism unit, created after 9/11, which now numbers 35,000 uniformed police officers and 15,000 civilian employees. The interview with Scott Pelley includes a look at the NYPD's $3 billion joi ... More >>
Music
September 14, 2011
Adrian Sherwood and Wild Flag Show The Kids How It's Done
Masters of the game
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September 9, 2011
The 9/11 Eulogies
Grace Giardina"If you're the mayor's speechwriter, what's your job" after the Towers fall? You're going to start thinking about "how do you find something redemptive out of this attack? How do you try and encapsulate those emotions?"
Voice Choices
August 24, 2011
Hand in Hand: Remembering 9/11
Grace Giardina"If you're the mayor's speechwriter, what's your job" after the Towers fall? You're going to start thinking about "how do you find something redemptive out of this attack? How do you try and encapsulate those emotions?"
Blogs
August 11, 2011
Is This New York City's Most Obnoxious Cabbie?
Speaking of crazy cab rides, what do you get when you put a possibly intoxicated, or maybe just very cheerful, singing cabbie with a so-called exotic dancer and her 6-month-long boyfriend-person, who are travelers to the big city? You get this rather awkward situation, recorded and put on YouTube fo ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
The Bowery Diner Goes Online, and Neon
Although the Williamsburg location of Motorino passed into the great beyond last week, Mathieu Palombino's Bowery Diner is showing unmistakable signs of life. In addition to the neon sign Bowery Boogie noticed hanging on its facade, the restaurant now has a website. There's not much to it ex ... More >>
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August 4, 2011
NYPD Moves 200 Officers Out Of Higher Crime Areas To Staff World Trade Center; Nabes Screwed Again
The 206 police officers transferred last week to the new World Trade Center Command are coming largely from higher crime precincts outside of tourist-heavy, monied southern Manhattan, documents show. Just three cops are coming from the lower Manhattan's 1st Precinct, which includes the trade ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
Today in Ice Cream: Smorgasburg, the Big Gay Ice Cream Shop, and il Laboratorio del Gelato
Rebecca MarxThis being National Ice Cream Month, it seems appropriate that scarcely a day passes without some dairy-related news to report. And today's a bi-borough triple-header.
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July 10, 2011
Gansevoort Hotel Pool Dirtier Than NYC Public Pools
The swimming pool copy on the Gansevoort Hotel's website reads: "This urban oasis is the perfect place for daytime sunning, a snack from 'Plunge' Bar and Lounge, or a quiet conversation in our landscaped garden." It's also the perfect place for picking up some coliform bacteria, which indicates f ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 29, 2011
WHEATS, TRAPPISTS, AND FRITES
The Belgian beer renaissance is here
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June 25, 2011
New Yorkers Celebrate Passage of Gay Marriage Bill; Did You Know Another Bill Was Passed Yesterday?
via TPM Crowds gather outside the Stonewall Inn.We're proud to be New Yorkers today after the state senate passed same-sex marriage last night! And so are the crowds who flooded the West Village to celebrate; revelers gathered outside the Stonewall Inn last night to mark the historic moment. Talk ... More >>
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May 2, 2011
The dell'anima Folks Will Open Ellabess in the Nolitan Hotel
The Nolitan HotelNow with seasonal American dining.The dell'anima family is set to expand with a new restaurant in the Nolitan, the latest luxury hotel to muscle its way into Lower Manhattan.
Blogs
April 27, 2011
NYPD Ticket Fixing Scandal: Third Prosecutor Added to Handle Expected Mass of Disciplinary Cases
The NYPD has transferred a third civilian attorney to its department advocate's office to handle disciplinary cases arising from the ticket fixing scandal -- which could envelope anywhere from 40 to 500 officers and union delegates, depending on various reports. In previous weeks, two lawye ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2011
MTA's New Trash Can Slogan Will Completely Eliminate Garbage
People who complain about trash on the subway are like vacationers who whine about the heat in Florida. Nonetheless, the MTA is trying to do something about all that subterranean rubbish. "Hauling reeking, rat-filled garbage" through the cars late at night didn't work, so they've put their th ... More >>
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March 18, 2011
Our 10 Best SoHo Eats
Sarah DiGregorioStuff your belly with these clam bellies from Ed's Lobster BarSoHo might automatically come to mind as a place filled with throngs of slow-moving tourists and not populated with tasty treats, but the neighborhood spanning from Houston to Canal Streets and Lafayette to Sixth Av ... More >>
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March 16, 2011
Ask the Critics: Where Can I Take Visiting Parents to Lunch?
Need a meal everyone will enjoy?Joe N. Asks: I want to take my parents out for lunch somewhere that's nice in Lower Manhattan. Can you recommend somewhere that isn't too expensive but that they'll enjoy? Dear Joe: Lower Manhattan used to be a culinary wasteland, but in recent years it's bec ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2011
One of Our 'Ten Worst Tenants' Has Seizure While Being Sentenced
Julienne Sialeu -- named in this week's cover story as one of the city's Ten Worst Tenants -- was convicted yesterday of making false statements after a one-day bench trial in District Court in Lower Manhattan. The judge, Denise Cote, did not actually finish delivering the verdict against her ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2011
Remembering the Food at Food
Speaking of venerable Manhattan food establishments that inspire nostalgia, the Soho Memory Project has a great remembrance of Food, the pioneering cooperative restaurant opened by eight Soho artists in 1971.
Blogs
March 8, 2011
An Oyster Bar and Restaurants Are Coming to Pier A
Pier A, seen a few years ago.Although the Freedom Tower won't be getting a Windows on the World redux, its surrounding neighborhood will be getting a new oyster bar.
Blogs
February 28, 2011
City Has Not Planned for People to Actually Visit the 9/11 Memorial
Rendering of Memorial, via It's been almost 10 years since the World Trade Center attacks, and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum will finally open this fall. Which is great, except that now there's this looming problem of people (or, let's call them "tourists") wanting to, you kno ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Abortion Billboard in SoHo Calls Out African Americans During Black History Month
Life Always, an anti-abortion group, revealed a giant new billboard today at Sixth Avenue and Watts Street in the New York City neighborhood of SoHo, featuring a picture of a young black girl and text that reads, "The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb." Underneath is ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2011
"Ground Zero Mosque" Loses New Imam Already
The so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" is once again without an imam, as Sheik Abdallah Adhami, who took over only weeks ago as the leader of Park51, the Islamic community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan, announced he would not be sticking around. Just last month, the site's developer Sharif ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2011
SeamlessWeb's Free Coffee Days Return
Julius Schorzman/WikimediaTastes even better when it's freeThere might be no such thing as a free lunch, but there is free coffee. Tomorrow is February 1, which means it's the start of SeamlessWeb's annual promotion, Free Coffee Days, when the company will give away 250,000 cups of joe.
Blogs
December 22, 2010
2010: The Year In Music Photos
The year in music, circa 2010, started at the Cake Shop, with a shred-down to the New Year courtesy of Siren Festival MVP-to-be Marissa Paternoster and her band Screaming Females. After a tour through the NYE fetes of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, that night ended amidst a marathon sh ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2010
MTA Trying to Win You Over With Their Adorable Vintage Subway Cars Again
Most of the year you can get away with hating the MTA outright, for the lack of service, service disruptions, ever-increasing fares, or just 'cause you can. But at holiday time they pull out the big guns, and suddenly you can't help but feeling ever so slightly warmer-and-maybe-even-fuzzy abo ... More >>
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November 1, 2010
Donald Sacks Closes After 22 Years in the World Financial Center
Donald, Sacked.Donald Sacks, the first restaurant to open in the World Financial Center, has closed. The Broadsheet Daily reports that the restaurant, which opened in Lower Manhattan in 1983 and moved to the WFC in 1988, shut its doors this weekend. Cause of death seems to be the landlord: ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 24, 2009
NEVER FORGET
Light a candle on World AIDS Day
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February 13, 2007
While Schumer Slept
For five years, New York's senior senator said nothing about the toxic cloud that hung over his own constituents.
News
November 21, 2006
Death by Dust
The frightening link between the 9-11 toxic cloud and cancer
Dining
November 21, 2006
Wurst in Show
New German pork-and-beer joint in Bay Ridge delivers a winner schnitzel
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