The Hudson River Park Trust (the “Trust,” or “HRPT”), the State-City agency that built and runs the Park, urgently needs about $200 million for “capital maintenance” – repairing and rebuilding major elements of the Park. New York City and New York State are supposed to pay to build the park, and in addition to the
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BUILDING A HOSPITAL – SHORT CUT TO A PARK
I have just had one of the best conversations I have ever had with a politician and that politician is Dick Gottfried, the youngest every elected member of the New York State Assembly (only 23 when he started in Albany). I called him as we were fighting to close the July issue in which he
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Rudin Big On Construction Contamination
An emergency Community Board meeting was held on June 25th at Housing Works to address the environmental impact of the Rudin development of the St. Vincent’s Hospital campus on District 2. The meeting on Monday evening was attended by several hundred extremely animated and concerned parents and residents of District 2. The attendance was much
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Sports Groups Pay $150,000 For Pier 40 Solution
Call for 600 luxury apartments and hotel On May 1, WestView News hit the vestibules of the West Village with our big cover article suggesting NYU be offered Pier 40 in return for building a hospital. A day later I received an e-mail from attorney and Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Hudson River
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Bike share in Paris and Washington DC
I observed bike share in both Paris and Washington DC and interviewed one user in each city. One, not a typical rider, used it in Paris because cabs were not easily available. The other in Washington used it regularly to commute home from the train station. Neither city appropriated pedestrian sidewalk space for bike storage
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Deciphering Sipher. Getting to know the author of The Wedding Beat: A Novel
“Let go of your illusions and don’t confuse them with dreams,” novelist Devan Sipher recently told a New School writing class in the Village. His favorite quote inspired him to achieve his dream of publishing a novel and his funny fictional debut The Wedding Beat just hit the stores. Sipher tapped into his experience as
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Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Launches Historic Plaque Program
In May, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP), working in partnership with the Two Boots Foundation, launched the first historic plaque program for Greenwich Village, the East Village and NoHo. The program will commemorate sites of special significance due to their architecture, events, historic figures who lived, worked or gatheredthere or notable institutions.
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A SOLUTION THAT MEETS ALL NEEDS
NYU asked for space on Pier 40 – let them have it if they return a hospital. During a tedious seven hour hospital stretch while my wife, Andromache, waited for and then received cataract surgery, I was electrified to read a Wall Street Journal article “Struggling Trust Seeks Funds for Hudson Shore”. It reported that
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“It Doesn’t Have To Be Bloody, You Know”: A History Lesson for the 99 Percent
When I was growing up in Fargo, North Dakota, I recall asking my mother why the slogan “Buy Dakota Maid Flour” was written at the bottom of my report card. When she started talking about the Nonpartisan League, I stopped listening because I knew it had something to do with politics, a topic that bored
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Now or Never to Stop NYU Expansion Plan
Proposal poses major threat to Greenwich Village and city
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Your Life My Profit
Hours 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.
