The Paper Trail

A look at what's making headlines in community newspapers in the (212):

The New York Blade recaps the year in queer.

Chelsea Now leads with a victory for preservationists: Close to two years after steel girders started going up on a Chelsea row house, igniting a local crusade to stop construction, the city Department of Buildings on Wednesday revoked a permit to build a penthouse at 339 W. 29th St. -— the location of a former Underground Railroad stop and home to Quaker abolitionists Abigail Hopper Gibbons and James Gibbons.

Gay City News reports on the bias attack on an Ecuadorean man that spurred hundreds to protest: Leading city elected officials joined hundreds in decrying the fatal assault on Jose O. Sucuzhanay, during which the assailants used anti-gay and anti-Latino slurs.

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