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Groundhog predicts six more weeks of Downtown theater

FRIGID returns to Horse Trade, as Vampire Cowboys move on up BY TRAV S.D.  |  It seems the groundhog left…

‘Bond Street’ singers in right place, another time

Valentine’s concert delivers music of love, very old school style BY SCOTT STIFFLER   |  The four charismatic harmonizers who…

A letter to my pal Sidney Giants

Mr. Sidney Zion Somewhere out there February 6, 2012 Dear old Sidney: It was on the instant yesterday evening, February 5, 2012, when Tom Brady’s zero-seconds-to-go Hail Mary pass fell harmlessly to the turf in Indianapolis that my eyes suddenly welled with tears. Four years…

There’s Varvatos and RIFF, but CB’s isn’t coming back

Steven Tyler performing at RIFF 313, with RIFF designer Charles Andrew (without hat) on guitar.…

A tale of two Manhattan Islands

BY ERIC FERRARA  |  A footnote in James Fenimore Cooper’s 1821 Revolutionary War-inspired novel “The…

This is our Jane Jacobs moment: Stop the N.Y.U. plan!

BY DEBORAH GLICK  |  A new year brings with it the opportunity to reflect on what has been both positive and negative about the prior year, and to make decisions about how to approach the coming months. Many of these new year’s resolutions fade almost…

Raising state’s minimum wage is a matter of dignity

BY SHELDON SILVER  |  In Lower Manhattan, where the cost of living is very high,…

Déjà Newt: Silver-slick one speaks with forked tongue

By JERRY TALLMER  |  One evening when I was in senior year in high school…

N.Y.U. promised an elementary school — back in 1960!

BY CAROL GREITZER  |  Villagers should feel absolutely no reticence in asserting their opposition to…

How sweet it is! How sweet it is!

A gigantic parade and party for the victorious Giants The Giants motored up the Canyon of Heroes Tuesday — just like they drove through the competition on their way to their Super Bowl championship. Above, from left, sharing a float amid the falling ticker tape…

Party on! Lunar fete continues with Dragon Parade

At Sunday’s Dragon Parade, the propitious color of red was everywhere. Part of the Lunar…

Ray’s 79th Birthday

Enter the Dragon: Chinatown launches lunar festival

With lettuce-chomping lions, clapping cymbals, a controlled detonation of firecrackers in Sara Roosevelt Park and…

Anthony DeGiglio, WWII medic, maritime exec and man of faith

BY ALBERT AMATEAU  |  Anthony DeGiglio, a lifelong Village resident and devoted volunteer at St. Joseph’s Church and at St. Vincent’s Hospital, died Tues., Jan. 28, in a Bronx hospice at age 86. He was diagnosed with cancer in November, said his nephew John Mirvish,…

Tom Hall, 66, artist and manager of Woodward Gallery

BY ALBERT AMATEAU  |  Tom Hall, the manager of the Woodward Gallery on the Lower…

Gisela von Eicken, jewelry designer

BY ALBERT AMATEAU  |  Gisela von Eicken, a prominent jewelry designer and sculptor who lived…

Mary Spink, affordable housing advocate, C.B. 3 member

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON  |  Mary Spink, who rose from a checkered past to become a…

Solar-powered schools could lead rooftop revolution

BY SCOTT M. STRINGER  |  At a time when middle-class families are working harder than ever to make ends meet, New York City could be taking bold and innovative steps to create thousands of new green-collar jobs, generate clean energy and cut our monthly utility…

Me and the soccer guys

BY MICHELE HERMAN | We used to have a friendly Irish next-door neighbor. One day…