Last month, we invited readers to express themselves and support the fight for a new Village hospital by writing a Secret Message Poem using the 15 letters in this sentence: “We Need a Hospital!” Here are our four favorite entries... Whither Now? Whatever next? I ask - Emergency room gone - No logic or reason - Even now it makes me cross. Everyone: stay healthy! Deflect disease! And broken bones! Have no accidents Or only if you’re on the east Side of town - Perhaps ...
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Proposal poses major threat to Greenwich Village and city At the beginning of 2012, NYU filed its application for a series of city approvals to allow its massive, 20-year expansion plan to go forward. The plan was more than five years in the making, during which time NYU met with community groups (including GVSHP) under the guise of seeking feedback. The plan NYU has now filed, however, ne...
Read moreNYC Planning Commission approves Rudin St. Vincent's Condo Plan It happened in a flash. In a move that took only minutes according to those present, the politically appointed members of the New York City Planning Commission brushed aside the needs and concerns of Greenwich Village residents and the entire Lower West Side on Monday, January 23, and voted unanimously to approve Rudin Management’s application to convert our cherished, now closed and abandoned St. Vincent’s Hospital into 4...
Read moreI was late—very late—in cabbing over to the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott on January 11 to catch some of the Crain’s breakfast conference on the financial Gotterdammerung of Brooklyn’s hospitals. As I approached the conference’s doors the Crain’s young lady chastised me on my tardiness and—bang—the room was filled to capacity, packed with 600 coat-and-tie members of the business end of the hospital business, and hospitals are indeed a very big business. New York State spends...
Read moreHours before West View’s press time the Times ran an article announcing the winner of the design competition for an AIDS memorial for the 1700- square-foot triangle in front of St. Vincent’s 15 stories Coleman building now a garage oxygen tank storage room and a hidden loading platform for deceased patients. It is a simple an elegant solution – a stand of closely planted birch trees reflected on three sides by mirrored walls. What I found surprising was that in the very few mo...
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On January 23rd, the City Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve a proposal by Rudin Management Company Inc. to rezone the shuttered St. Vincent’s Hospital East Campus to allow condo development of that site. This follows a recommendation by Borough President Scott Stringer in November to approve the rezoning, with minor modifications.
One of the great current exhibitions in the city is of the city. It is taking place at the Museum of the City of New York on Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street. The museum has become a vital place to experience exciting exhibits on relevant themes connected to our urban history.
“Welcome to your living room” could be the unofficial motto of The Vagabond Café, a newly opened coffee shop on Cornelia Street that provides any freely roaming spirits a place to call their own.
This month, WestView welcomes jazz musician and new contributor Andrew Collier, who will cover the jazz scene in the West Village, home of the greatest concentration of jazz clubs in the world. Each month, Collier will write about issues jazz fans care about and spotlight players, bands, clubs and upcoming West Village gigs.
All right, all right, I know this is not a corner of the newspaper. Try thinking outside the box.
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is column from the Sundance Film Festival. Robert Redford in his opening remarks made clear that the Festival and Sundance Institute remain committed to independent filmmaking and to directors who continue to buck all odds.
Dear George,
I don’t think I’m a good assignment editor when it comes to selecting topics for this column, and I’ll tell you why. Sometimes I’m O.K. when the stream is flowing and I can just step into it. But sometimes I can’t, like now.
Remember the third-grade teacher who sparked your interest in reading? Or the eighth-grade teacher who made American History come alive?
To The Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement
By Charlayne Hunter-Gault
New York Times /Flash Point, January 2012
Reading Level: Ages 12-18
I distinctly remember the smell, musty and vibrant, as I found myself escaping the brutal cold of a February Friday night 20 years ago by browsing tables and stacks of books lined up neatly throughout the auditorium of PS 3 on Hudson Street.
Yesterday upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away…
—“Antigonish,” William Hughes Mearns
The idea that objects exist in the universe which cannot be seen but which greatly influence objects around them was proposed long before the 20th century. But this idea had to wait for credibility until after 1915, when Einstein completed his theory of general relativity, which connected gravity to a warp in spacetime, a concept difficult for many to understand including myself.
A popular attraction in the West Village has long been the building unofficially dubbed “Narrowest House In New York City” at 75½ Bedford Street.
The Obamas were having dinner in the White House: sparkling silver, gleaming napery, the pleasant clink of glassware and forks on plates. It was, for once, a family dinner, with no senators from Georgia or Mississippi telling Sambo jokes, no French diplomats sneering at the tuna-noodle casserole and canned peas.
Last month, we invited readers to express themselves and support the fight for a new Village hospital by writing a Secret Message Poem using the 15 letters in this sentence: “We Need a Hospital!” Here are our four favorite entries…
