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ago”: Caroline Haskins, “Fashy Posturing and Rich-Kid Juvenilia? That’s Praxis (Magazine),” Hell Gate, April 9, 2024, https://hellgatenyc.com/praxis-magazine-party-review-east-village. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “halo-shaped wearables”: Haskins, “Fashy Posturing and Rich-Kid Juvenilia?” GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT the “trad wife
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economy if it is to truly lift all boats. 2. Neutrality Rules—Bans on Business Discrimination McSorley’s Old Ale House in New York’s East Village has been a popular place for a long time and has not changed its decor since 1910. In the 1960s its slogan was “Good Ale
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.” I looked around. It was New Year’s Eve, 1999, and we had ended up at a party thrown by a painter friend in the East Village of Manhattan. A small affair, good fun, but the libations weren’t flowing with quite the fecundity one associates with the festivity in question, and
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Stein, store catalogs and Dr. Seuss, paleontology and pornography. Like many book dealers before them, sidewalk sellers appreciated the company. Constellations of tables in the East Village, the Upper West Side, and Midtown invited readers who could browse many a shop with many a specialty. Nobody called them bookstores. They were stands
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and visible symbols of nuisance, blight, and danger. A few residents maintained that they made the city safer. “You won’t get mugged here,” one East Villager promised, pointing to the vendors. In the West Village, a fifty-one-year-old said he preferred to park near the tables: “No one’s
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promise to make the city more livable, cracking down on small-time crime: squeegee men, people jumping subway turnstiles, and noncompliant sidewalk vendors. In the East Village, a lieutenant reported that removing law-breaking peddlers was “a top priority.” Any vendor within twenty feet of a building entrance or who did not
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, and ran errands for some bookseller friends of hers. Then she decided to set up a sidewalk bookstore of her own. She settled in the East Village on Avenue A near St. Marks Place. She wouldn’t say how she found the spot: “I believe in the mythology of things.” She bonded
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: Local Law No. 33 (1982); and Local Law No. 45 (1993). GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Any vendor within: Marvine Howe, “Disappearing in the East Village: Sidewalk Peddlers,” NYT, July 10, 1994. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT As the Washington: “NYU: Sidewalk Booksellers Want to Be Left Alone,” New York
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in New York City. The museum commissioned Atelier Bow-Wow, a Japanese architectural firm, to design a temporary shelter in an empty lot in the East Village, then invited a team of collaborators from around the world to use it as a base for our experiments. The museum’s curators hoped that
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was a fantastic opportunity: there are few better places to explore extreme urbanity than Manhattan. The lab’s neighborhood, which straddled the boundary between the East Village and the Lower East Side, is a mashup of tenement-style walk-ups and newer mid-rise condo towers bisected by furious traffic arteries and
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