Greenwich Village News

Broadway has long been the heart and soul of New York's commercial theater, but from the late 1950s on, any hardcore New Yorker in love with the stage - and the notion that theater was not just for those who could afford to buy a ticket - knew that the destination of choice, if only in summer, was the New York Shakespeare Festival .

Two legendary outposts - Chanterelle , which put TriBeCa on the map, and Caf des Artistes , one of the city's more romantic and enduring destinations - closed.

Here's to Art D'Lugoff, the great Village music impresario, the round and bearded political and artistic enthusiast, whose eclectic tastes educated more than one generation, and who died yesterday at 85.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain suggested that now-President Barack Obama was merely a celebrity.

NYC: Varick Street jail for detained immigrants run by Alaska Native Corporation bills ICE $227.68 for each prisoner Immigrant Jail Tests U.S. View of Legal Access By NINA BERNSTEIN Published: November 1, 2009- NY Times A startling petition arrived at the New York City Bar Association in October 2008, signed by 100 men, all locked up without ...

There is nothing inherently wrong with movie and TV stars being big draws on Broadway, necessitating current top ticket prices of 140 bucks or so, along with seats in the mezzanine that are so narrow they make you feel morbidly obese.

For Henry , Tom and Fred Elghanayan, a property breakup was smooth, relatively speaking.

The crown of the Statue of Liberty reopened in July after being closed since shortly after the Sept.

John Kenley is honored by Carol Channing and the rest of the touring cast of "Hello, Dolly!" on the stage of PlayhouseSquare's Palace Theatre in 1995.

One of travel's greatest pleasures is wandering in food shops frequented by locals--whether it's a supermarket, a cheese shop, or a spice merchant.

JonSanders, a loyal MR reader, asks: I read "Discover Your Inner Economist" and I want a little more help with the Manhattan dining tips you covered.

Madge dropped her trainer, Tracy Anderson, amid claims of money woes and a dubious rsum.

Beginning Monday, Uncle Sam's New York Tours, a New York City tour guide organization, will give a special Halloween Greenwich Village Ghost Tour through the West Village.

More than a music venue and beyond an art space, NYC's Le Poisson Rouge is a self-proclaimed 'creative asylum,' and its historic address is an inviting refuge from Bleecker Street's rowdy, pub-crawling NYU crowd.

Uma Thurman navigates the busy world of a Manhattan mom in 'Motherhood,' opening Friday.

NEW YORK, NY, October 21, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Harlem, get ready for Tonnie's Minis.

Actor Daniel Radcliffe arrives for the premiere of the film "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" in New York July 9, 2009.

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The Big Apple is transforming itself into a bike-friendly city, so pedal your way down Broadway where the riding is easy Broadway has a bike lane.

Anthony Flint is the director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think-tank on land and development issues located in Cambridge, Mass., and was a reporter at The Boston Globe for 16 years.