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Decades after a riot at a Greenwich Village bar sparked a movement for equal rights, gay New Yorkers celebrated their gains at Sunday's gay pride parade and lamented the state has not legalized same-sex marriage.
Thousands of revelers dressed as everything from goblins to pizza slices turned out for Greenwich Village's Halloween parade, reveling in a tradition equal parts spookiness and spoof.
A volunteer police officer shot dead by a gunman on a rampage in Greenwich Village last year will have his first novel published posthumously this spring.
Rapper Remy Ma is being sued for $20 million by the woman she is suspected of shooting in a dispute over money. Makeda Barnes-Joseph was shot twice in the abdomen on July 14, after leaving a party in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.
A gunman wearing a fake beard and carrying 100 rounds of ammunition fatally shot a pizzeria employee and two unarmed volunteer police officers in Greenwich Village before other officers shot him to death, the mayor said Thursday.
The parent company of KFC and Taco Bell — still smarting from last year's E. coli scare — has been forced back into damage-control mode after television cameras caught rats scampering around a restaurant floor.
They bombarded 911 with calls, crowded the sidewalks in front of evacuated buildings and tuned to the news for word of what was happening. The question on the minds of many New Yorkers on Monday morning was: "What's that smell?"
Molly the cat is finally free. After two weeks stuck behind a brick wall in a 19th century building, the bashful 11-month-old feline was rescued from her plight Friday night by a volunteer who found her wedged in a crawl space between bricks and a piece of sheet metal.
Rescuers used drills, miniature cameras, cat food and even a 1-pound raw fish in a desperate effort Wednesday to entice an 11-month old cat named Molly from behind the basement wall of a Greenwich Village delicatessen where she has been trapped for 12 days.
To Get to Sotomayor's Core, Start in New YorkA daughter of the Bronx, Sonia Sotomayor claims the Brooklyn Bridge as her power-walking trail, the specialty shops of Greenwich Village as her grocery store, and the United States Court House as the setting for her annual Christmas party, where judges and janitors spill into the …
Frank Rich, NYT: remember Stonewall, NYC, 1969; "Time for Obama to defend gay rights"Quote: "the most prevalent theory is that Obama, surrounded by Clinton White House alumni with painful memories, doesn't want to risk gay issues upending his presidency, as they did his predecessor's in 1993".
Son, Old Times Aren't Forgotten They say Greenwich Village has been lost to students and tourists, but look closer. There is still a wonderful afternoon to be found for the workingman and his son in the very center of the Village, in and around Eighth Street.
Helen Levitt, No-Nonsense New YorkerHelen Levitt's photographs from the 1940s of children on New York streets, perhaps the most revealing and tender studies of play ever recorded, offer few clues about the formidable person who took them.
New School Faculty Votes No Confidence in KerreyA part of me feels a perverse glee any time faculty knock out an awful administrator with a no confidence vote. Woohoo!
Suze Rotolo, Girl From the East Country (O.K., Queens) "Everything occurs again, just differently," she said. "There will always be creative people who feel that they're different and create a community of some kind.
At 60, He Learned to Sing So He Could Learn to Talk Few people over the age of 10 would list "Happy Birthday" among their favorite songs. But Harvey Alter, now 62, has a special fondness for it. It helped teach him how to talk.
TV reporter fights off muggersA popular TV reporter fought off three men who tried to mug him in Greenwich Village Monday night shortly after he covered the Democratic debate, cops said.
2007: Let's Eat, Not Fuss: New York City Restaurant ReviewsAS 2007 drew to a close and I ricocheted around the city to sample the latest crop of restaurants, I was struck by how seldom I found myself in stylish showpieces beseeching rapt attention, how often I visited humbler, more peculiar haunts. That's where the buzz was.
Award-Winning Former NBC Producer Dies After Apparent FallNEW YORK -- A former NBC News senior producer whose work earned him several awards has died after being found badly injured in a Greenwich Village street.
... Never, Ever Again. Never. Not Ever! "NEW YORK — The city health department was trying to figure out Sunday why a KFC-Taco Bell restaurant had passed an inspection the day before video footage caught a dozen rats scampering across its floors." AP
Karen Dalton, It Hurts Me TooKaren Dalton (1938 – 1993) was an American folk singer and banjo player associated with the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene, particularly with Fred Neil and the Holy Modal Rounders as well as Bob Dylan.
Ten to save: Endangered NYC Monuments & Buildings - AM New YorkThe soaring real estate market has placed significant parts of New York's urban heritage at risk.
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