Volume 77 / Number 48 – April 30 – May 6, 2008
West and East Village, Chelsea, Soho, Noho, Little Italy, Chinatown and Lower East Side, Since Celebrating 75 years:
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Villager photo by Clayton Patterson
The front window of The Villager when it was located on E. Fourth St. between Second and Third Aves. in the late 1980s.
‘Happy anniversary! Thank you, The Villager, for your contribution to encouraging creative culture with your commitment to arts coverage.’
Karen Finley,
performance artist,right
‘The Villager is very important to our community as the most widely read community newspaper in our area. It is where we get our news and tell our news. We depend on The Villager to cover important meetings — both to let people know about the meetings and to know the results. Media exposure is often necessary to hold people and government accountable, and I believe that The Villager’s coverage has made a difference to our community. If we no longer had The Villager, we would need to hire a town crier.’ Susan Stetzer,
District manager, Community Board 3
‘Living in the Village has always meant being unothodox, fighting the powers that be. A good part of the reason we are able to maintain a community full of organized rebellion, is publication of The Villager. Tom Paine published ‘Common Sense’ to get out the news of the rabble-rousers, and we in the Village have The Villager.’ Arthur Schwartz,
State Democratic committeeman, Pier 40 Working Group chairperson
‘I’ve always been interested in local neighborhood issues and I depend on The Villager to find out what’s happening block by block in the Village. I’ve read it for 30 years. When your other local newspaper is The New York Times it’s important to have a community newspaper that goes into detail about local issues, and The Villager always does that. If I don’t find The Villager in my mailbox by Thursday, I panic. I still read it the old-fashioned way by getting my fingers dirty with printer’s ink.’ Tom Duane,
State Senator
‘The glue that binds communities is, as much as anything, the sharing of common stories and news and ideas; this exchange — social, personal, topical, intellectual — is an indispensible part of community life. For 75 years, The Villager has admirably fulfilled this role for the Greenwich Village community, and done so with integrity, public spiritedness and a manifest and undeniable affection for this neighborhood and its people. On behalf of one long-standing Village institution to another, I would like to offer the congratulations, good wishes and thanks of the N.Y.U. community to The Villager for listening so carefully to hear the Village’s stories and telling them to all with such a clear and resolute voice.’ John Sexton,
President, New York University
‘For years I’ve sent stories to The Villager. There’s a lot of competition between The Villager and The Times for stories. You pitch the stories to several sources and you never know who’s going to pick it up. There were a lot of Downtown papers — Downtown, Manhattan Mirror, East Village Eye, East Village Other, even Newsday — really what we have left, the one that kept going, is The Villager. What people don’t understand is the power and the potential of The Villager. The developers, the top guys, have to be reading it. Gregg Singer, Julian Schnabel and the president of N.Y.U. have to read it. The Villager is a good community paper and it’s a serious community paper — a serious New York paper, not just community.’ Clayton Patterson,
Lower East Side documentarian, gallery owner
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