Scoopy, March 21, 2013
Maloney for ‘Ms. Mayor’: Saying Christine Quinn will be “the first woman mayor of the greatest city in the world,” Congressmember Carolyn Maloney proudly endorsed the City Council speaker Monday at the...
View ArticleScoopy’s Notebook, March 28, 2013
THIS TIME, IT’S NOT ABOUT FRIENDS: Arthur Schwartz has announced he’s running for male Democratic district leader for Greenwich Village, the West Village and South Chelsea, a position he held from 1995...
View ArticleScoopy’s, Week of April 4, 2013
ACTION AT LAST AT OLD P.S. 64? East Village journo Sarah Ferguson called Monday to tell us she had just walked by the former CHARAS/El Bohio (the old P.S. 64), at 605 E. Ninth St. near Avenue B and...
View ArticleScoopy’s Notebook, April 11, 2013
DARK RIDERS: After our bike was stolen on Avenue B a few months ago, we were psyched to finally recently get some new (used) wheels on craigslist and get back rolling on the bike paths. But as we hit...
View ArticleScoopy’s, Week of April 18, 2013
‘JUNCTION,’ IT’S A GAS, GAS, GAS: Oh, sure, everyone’s talking about the Tribeca Film Festival. But let’s not forget about the Soho International Film Festival, at which “Junction” just took home the...
View ArticleScoopy’s, April 25, 2013
CONSERVANCY’S COMING: As you can read in this week’s issue, in an exclusive talking point from Bill Castro, the Parks Department Manhattan borough commissioner, plans are moving rapidly ahead to create...
View ArticleScoopy’s, May 2, 2013
MEADOWS BUCKS THE PRESSURE: City Council District 3 candidate Alexander Meadows recently told us that he has been asked, in strong terms, to drop out of the race for Christine Quinn’s Chelsea/Village...
View ArticleScoopy’s, Week of May 9, 2013
MEET THE NEW PARK CHIEF: Sarah Neilson, above, the new administrator of Washington Square Park and director of the planned Washington Square conservancy, if it can actually be called that (see...
View ArticleScoopy’s, Week of May 15, 2013
SWEENEY’S ANTI-BIKE-SHARE JIHAD: The New York Times, catching up to the bike-share backlash story, bit on a quote we reported in our article in last week’s issue on the Community Board 2 “bike-share...
View ArticleScoopy’s, Week of May 23, 2013
DIETHER BACK WITH A BLAST — SLAMS WITKOFF, BATALI: Longtime Community Board 2 member Doris Diether finally returned home to Waverly Place last Thursday after rehabbing her broken hip and broken...
View ArticleScoopy’s, Week of May 30, 2013
PUSHING PETROSINO BIKE BOYCOTT: It’s now clear that (somehow, not surprisingly) the epicenter of the bike-share backlash is centered in Soho’s tiny Petrosino Square. After discovering the location of...
View ArticleScoopy’s, June 6, 2013
MORUS GIVES YOU MORE: Bill di Paola, right, who with Laurie Mittelmann co-directs the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, proudly displayed MORUS’s CHARAS pop-up exhibit last Friday. The new Avenue C...
View ArticleScoopy’s, Week of June 13, 2013
V.R.D.C. VOTES ARE IN: The president of the Village Reform Democratic Club, Maria Passannante Derr, gave us the results of the club’s recent endorsement votes. Mayor: no endorsement. Public advocate:...
View ArticleScoopy’s, Week of June 20, 2013
RACER XXX? As we were walking up West St. recently we noticed a new race car-themed graffiti mural on the building at the corner of Clarkson St. where a “gentlemen’s club” is planned. We thought we...
View ArticleScoopy’s, Week of June 27, 2013
NEW FRIENDS FUNDRAISING CHIEF: We hear from A.J. Pietrantone, the former executive director of the Friends of Hudson River Park, that his replacement at Friends is Gregory Boroff. Boroff’s most recent...
View ArticleScoopy, Week of July 4, 2013
CLOSES THE DEAL: Congratulations to Colin Gregory, The Villager’s retail ad manager, and Barbara Isaacs, who got married in Stowe, Vermont, on June 14. Isaacs is a retired schoolteacher and financial...
View ArticleScoopy’s, Week of July 11, 2013
What’s their beef with Pino? After the recent loss of Joe’s Dairy on Sullivan St., we soon heard reports that Pino Prime Meats right across the street also faced a threat. We stopped in at the renowned...
View ArticleScoopy’s, Week of July 18, 2013
Lions and supporters — and REBNY? With fighting lion dancers and about 175 of her supporters in attendance, Jenifer Rajkumar officially opened her new campaign office in the heart of Chinatown on...
View ArticleScoopy, Week of July 25, 2013
Sext and the city: Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner was on Washington Square South on Monday, outside the Caring Community, for a press conference at which he pitched his “Keys to the City” —...
View ArticleScoopy, Week of August 1, 2013
OUR SAVIOR, JESUS CATS??? The East Village’s Progress Republican Club is collecting signatures to get John Catsimatidis on the Liberal line in the mayoral general election. On Sat., Aug. 3, starting at...
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