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A Bronx-based nonprofit called C/I wants to make sure that every student has access to computer science education -- especially those who are deemed "at risk."
As part of its "Creative for a Cause" initiative, C/I teamed up with the online marketpl...
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Jeanette at a Carnival, Brooklyn, New York, 1978
Mary Ellen Mark, the documentary photographer best known in New York for her street scenes and portraits of the disenfranchised, died on Monday in Manhattan. She was 75.
Mark photographed her subje...
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Cop-watch group the Police Reform Organizing Project is releasing a report today that describes the effects of what it calls "quota-driven broken windows policing" on communities of color in New York City. Compiled through interviews in courthouses, ...
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Apartments on Essex Street between Canal and Hester streets
Update: 5:17 p.m.
Mayor Bill de Blasio tried to instill a sense of urgency today in Albany, telling reporters (and indirectly, Governor Andrew Cuomo) that "this is a moment where we need ...
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The proposed license plate
If you oppose abortion rights -- and do most of your politicking with the back end of your car -- a ruling from a federal appeals court is about to ruin your day.A years-long effort to get the New York State Department o...
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders officially kicked off his presidential campaign on Tuesday night at a rally in Burlington complete with a zydeco band called Mango Jam and free Ben & Jerry's ice cream.
Sanders is a welcome addition to the list of Dem...
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Faith 'n Stuff: The Magazine for Kids
Date: September/October 1994
Publisher: Guideposts
The Cover Promises: The Protestant youth of America, photographed at the last possible moment before the obesity crisis kicked in.
Representative Quotes:
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A page from "Healthy Salons for All," a pamphlet released in conjunction with Adhikaar
For the workers of New York City's 2,000 nail salons, the recent New York Times expos on salon workers' lack of labor rights -- and the subsequent calls for re...
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An intersection near the present-day Stapleton Houses, where members of the Wu-Tang Clan grew up, shown here in 1931
There are probably dozens of productive, no-nonsense, and thoroughly grown-up ways to use OldNYC, the New York Public Library's ne...
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Eataly is alerting customers who shopped at the upscale Italian market between January and April that their credit card information may have been compromised as a result of a security breach.
According to a notice posted on the Eataly website, custo...
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"I thought a lot of these people that did this were either drug addicts or homeless," he says. "But I was wrong." Simmons says he likes the job because "nobody tells me what to do, nobody tells me when I get paid." He's also a talented pianist. "Some...
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In this episode of the Voice Film Club podcast, LA Weekly's Amy Nicholson shares her story of Judd Apatow hate-following her on Twitter for a single day, but only after she and the Village Voice's Alan Scherstuhl discuss Tomorrowland, which is often ...
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The following story has been updated to include a statement from the Manhattan district attorney's office.
Documents from the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. show that a program used since 2010 to justify aggressive prosecution...
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Someone might be go-going to prison.
Before we rush to judgment, who among us hasn't run a secret strip club in violation of national security rules and knowingly employed undocumented workers and threatened people with a government-issued firearm...
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It was disallowed anyway, of course, but there's the rub. Shaw's consummately skillful non-goal gave us the perfect lens for discerning what nonsense the NHL's rules regarding scoring are as currently codified/construed. As things stand now, for a go...
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Relocated: your poor, tired ass. Believe it or not, Penn Station just got even more uncomfortable!
Commuting by train is one of life's great joys, someone said never, but there are little perks that help ease the burden: A cup of hot coffee helps...
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Schumer as she appears in "12 Angry Men" and C.K. in an FX promotional photo for Louie.
During "Compliments," a first-season sketch on Inside Amy Schumer, a group of female friends respond to every bit of praise with a verbal self-maiming: "I trie...
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The final episode of Mad Men was upbeat -- if you enjoy the death of the counterculture. On this special episode of the Voice Film Club podcast, Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and editorial fellow Lara Zarum, along with Voice TV critic Ink...
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If you came of age in the Nineties and early Aughts, you're probably a boring adult now (possibly one with access to more than $9 and your emergency gas card). Luckily the good people of New York Craigslist are here to help you pay out the teeth for ...
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Daveed Diggs of Hamilton
F-bombs dropped aplenty during acceptance speeches in the ballroom Monday at Webster Hall, as the Village Voice and the downtown theater community celebrated the always colorful Obie awards for Off-Broadway excellence.Hami...
