The 48^th annual Pride March yesterday passed through Greenwich Village, electrifying our streets with vibrant color, pulsating music, performance, and costume.

The first March was held in 1970 and has since become an annual civil rights demonstration. Over the years, its purpose has broadened to include recognition of the fight against AIDS and to remember those we have lost to illness, violence and neglect.

Greenwich Village’s favorite street festival, Positively 8^th Street, returned on June 9 for the first of three summer Saturdays celebrating the creative and musical heritage of West 8^th Street and Greenwich Village.

Congratulations to Chloe Vichot, founder of Ancolie on West 8^th Street, who was last night awarded the 2018 Norman Buchbinder award, at the Village Alliance Annual Meeting.