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West Village Restaurants

Dine in style and enjoy scrumptious Italian fare in the best West Village restaurants When most tourists think of the best place for Italian food in New York City, they usually conjure up images of the quaint streets of Little Italy. However, there’s another NYC neighborhood that should be on all Italian food lovers’ radar – […]

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The First Gay Pride March

I’ve long been ambivalent about the Gay Pride March.  In three decades in NYC, I’ve never marched and seldom gone to watch.  I believed it was less about pride than pageant – swaggering leather queens, in-your-face drag queens, and, of course, the exhibitionist A-gays, bumping and grinding for the adoration of fellow Adonises.  I didn’t […]

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Greenwich Village: A Walking Tour

Greenwich Village is one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in New York. Not to mention most historic: On a snowy night in 1917, a ragtag band of artists, poets, and actors occupied the top of Washington Arch to declare the “Free and Independent Republic of Greenwich Village!” That attempt to “secede,” of course, speaks to the […]

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