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  Watch Taylor Mead & Harold Hunter in Tompkins Square Park [VIDEO]

  Inspired by the recent flight of Taylor Mead in the face of alleged landlord harassment, we fell down a rabbit hole of past performances on YouTube. One of our favorites is “Man Under Wire,” the 2005 [...]

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  Kushner Companies Introduces Itself to the Community; Tensions Ensue

  Kushner Companies introduced itself to the community last night. It didn't go over so well.

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  ‘Straight Outta Tompkins’ Films Around the Neighborhood

  For the last three weeks, an indie flick called Straight Outta Tompkins has been filming around the East Village and Lower East Side. A reader sends in the above on-location shot of production near Tompkins Square [...]

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  ‘Hit-and-Run’ Sidelines Neighborhood Fixture Biker Bill

  Clayton Patterson brings word today that Alphabet City fixture Biker Bill is presently laid up in a Staten Island hospital.

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  Recap: Walter Robinson’s ‘Indulgences’ at Dorian Grey Gallery

  Robinson very clearly shares many visual elements with his New York Pop-Art predecessor/contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

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  When ‘Die Hard with a Vengeance’ Took Over Tompkins Square Park

  Die Hard with a Vengeance. It’s the quintessential action movie – fast-talking New York detective John McClane battles German bank robbers on the city streets. You know, everyday type shit. Anyway, [...]

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  Blackout from an East Village Rooftop [PHOTOS]

  Not sure if he’d even be there at the time, we paid a visit to an old friend in the post-Sandy, apocalyptic East Village last Tuesday evening. Door buzzer didn’t work, obviously, so we resorted to the [...]

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  Viva Loisaida: Walking the Lower East Side of 1978 [Video]

  Take ten minutes from your day and watch this awesome vintage video.