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A building in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan. (Shutterstock / Victoria Lipov)
WEST VILLAGE, NY It was a year that started relatively normal familiar topics like community board meetings, Washington Square park activities, and questions over why the city hadn t gotten any snow yet.
This strange phenomenon called the coronavirus was not yet at the forefront of West Villagers minds.
But that would soon change.
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A once-in-a-century pandemic, a reckoning over race and policing, massive economic disruptions, and a contentious presidential race all made 2020 a year residents of Lower Manhattan and the world won t soon forget.
As 2021 begins, the West Village Patch is taking a look back at the neighborhood s top stories of 2020:
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Neither woman could bear to watch the video of George Floyd’s final moments, his neck pinned under a Minneapolis police officer’s knee.
But as their city grieved, Leesa Kelly and Kenda Zellner-Smith found much-needed comfort in the messages of anguish and hope that appeared on boarded-up windows as residents turned miles of plywood into canvases. Now, they’re working to save those murals before they vanish.
“These walls speak,” said Ms. Zellner-Smith, who said she was too numb to cry after Mr. Floyd’s killing. “They’re the expressions of communities. We want these feelings, hopes, calls to action to live on.”
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