Mayor Bill de Blasio came to Chinatown this morning to discuss controversial plans for a high-rise jail with local elected officials and about a dozen local stakeholders. But some of those who weren’t invited, like Chinatown resident Karlin Chan, were left out in the cold.
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There’s a U-Haul parked outside Uncle Sam’s Army Navy Outfitters store on 8th Street, because the thrift store closed yesterday after 20 years in Greenwich Village.
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New Yorkers come together for the holidays, and the pomeranians and chihuahuas among us are no different, except that their parents can keep the magic of Christmas alive for their entire lives, because they’ll never know that Santa doesn’t exist.
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Williamsburg has more millennials than any other neighborhood in a major US city, and a new meditation and wellness center is joining a growing number of services catering to the burgeoning #strollermafia there.
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Andy Warhol once called New York the best place in the world, and Warhol was the patron saint of the alternative East Village culture that today’s NYU students both mourn and gradually cannibalize. Head to the Whitney Museum of American Art next week to pay homage to the artist who pioneered loving stuff ironically, from selfies and celebs to fake news.
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On your way to the polls, grab a leftist polemic or a dystopic novel from the guerrilla mini-libraries that started popping up in old newspaper boxes around Manhattan yesterday.
“Books are weapons in the war of ideas,” a sticker on the newsrack-turned-mini-library on the corner of Reade Street and Centre Street reads, paraphrasing a Franklin D. Roosevelt quote. “Arm yourself.”
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While cable news pundits are busy predicting outcomes for Tuesday’s midterms, New York socialists have already set the schedule for a Marxism conference for this weekend; they plan to discuss the same topics no matter who wins on Election Day.
The conference– Saturday from 11am to 8pm at the New School, 66 W. 12th St— is for “hundreds of socialists and activists from NYC and the broader Mid-Atlantic region to dig into the theory, history and practice,” the event page reads.
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“18 & Stormy” by Richard Prince.
