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  • What's Coming at the HealthPlex

    What’s Coming at the HealthPlex

    administration 05/01/2014     Featured

    When the stand alone emergency center known as the Lenox Hill Healthplex, in the renovated O’Toole building of St. Vincent’s Hospital, opens at the end of June, what will be there and how will it serve the community? The overall plan has been described previously (WestView News, April 2014), but in order to get more

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  • Brunch at the Brevoort:

    Brunch at the Brevoort:

    administration 05/01/2014     Featured

    Sinclair Lewis in the Village When Sinclair Lewis accepted his Nobel Prize in 1930, the first American novelist to receive the honor, he disparaged his early writing for the literary magazine at Yale,then a college boy fresh from Sauk Center, Minnesota, as all about troubadours and jesters, “reeking with a banal romanticism.” That description of

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  • John F. Twomey 1948- 2014

    John F. Twomey 1948- 2014

    administration 05/01/2014     Featured

    John F.Twomey, a 44 year resident of Greenwich Village passed away on March 27th after a brief illness. John was born in Salem MA and upon graduation from Brandeis University, came to New York to pursue a career in theatre. He was also an accomplished singer and pianist. Aside from his beloved Greenwich Village, John

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  • What if Nobody Taught us Failure

    What if Nobody Taught us Failure

    administration 04/01/2014     Featured

    Eighty years ago, I stood over my toy block building on the floor of the Kindergarten class of PS 192 in the south wing of the sprawling Hebrew Orphan Asylum at 137th Street waiting for Miss Tweety who, as I expected, ohh-ed and ahh-ed at the product of my imagination and placed a yellow slip

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  • The Mayor vs. The Horses

    The Mayor vs. The Horses

    administration 04/01/2014     Featured

    Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to ban the 68 horse and carriages from Central Park where they have been carrying paying passengers since 1858. He is doing this at the behest of New York Class (NY CLASS), founded by developer Steve Nislick, former CEO of Edison Properties. Edison once obtained former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s support

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  • Learning from the Corporate World

    Learning from the Corporate World

    administration 04/01/2014     Featured

    As the new head of CECP, I am blessed to lead a non-profit organization founded by legendary actor (and salad dressing maker) Paul Newman and several New York business executives 15 years ago with the belief what “Corporate America can (and should) be a force for good in society.” Since then, CECP has now grown

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  • A City Vanishes

    A City Vanishes

    administration 03/01/2014     Featured

    Can de Blasio return it? “Huge tax breaks up to half a billion dollars a year were being given to developers to build luxury buildings,” argues the authors of Vanishing City in a 55-minute documentary screened by Community Board 2. It was followed by a panel who supported the premise that the Bloomberg administration overly

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  • A Kaleidoscope of the 1970s

    A Kaleidoscope of the 1970s

    administration 03/01/2014     Featured

    By 1969, we were wondering what the decade of the l970s would bring. As it turned out, the Seventies was a time of changes and again as in the Sixties, all of it seemed to be happening at a breakneck speed. In the early part of the decade, there was a continuum of the Sixties,

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  • ‘THE VILLAGE GATE’ REDUX

    ‘THE VILLAGE GATE’ REDUX

    administration 03/01/2014     Featured

    On February 16th,a crowd of music groupies from ‘the good old days’ gathered at Le Poisson Rouge(formerly the Village Gate) on Bleecker Street,to hear a new composition by one of their favorites, David Amram, and to enjoy what felt very much like a family reunion. After describing how he came to write his new Greenwich

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  • Trading Tradition for Cash

    Trading Tradition for Cash

    administration 02/01/2014     Featured

    “A 15-story apartment house behind St. Luke’s!” I repeated, stunned at the thought of the nice clerical caretakers of our historic 1821 church exhibiting Rudin-like greed. How could they do it? As the church development officer, John Donnelly, revealed the plan to exchange the vow of poverty for renting luxury apartments to Wall Street winners,

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  • Presidents Day 2014

    Presidents Day 2014

    administration 02/01/2014     Featured

    Late February 1860. Nearly two weeks before, Abraham Lincoln had turned 51 years old. He had been thinking back to the time of George Washington and the United States Constitution. On Saturday, February 25, 1860, Lincoln was staying at Astor House, at Vesey and Barclay Streets. He reckoned as how he had never worked harder

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  • Testing in Schools: Villagers and Experts Compare Notes

    Testing in Schools: Villagers and Experts Compare Notes

    administration 02/01/2014     Featured

    What exactly are the “stakes” behind high stakes testingin city schools that has caused such anuproar? In the Bloomberg era, the stakes werequite high,where tests could determine if a student repeats a grade, a teacher is fired, or a school closed.The Parent Action Committee (PAC) at PS 3 in the West Village, long known for

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  • Even Billionaires Need a Hospital

    Even Billionaires Need a Hospital

    administration 01/01/2014     Featured

    “George–too bad we couldn’t get Perelman to put his money where it’s needed. America–the land where the rich get richer and big get bigger…love his comment about St. Vincent’s.” I received this email from Dr. David Kaufman who, after 30 years at St. Vincent’s and an unsuccessful battle to save it, retired to Portola Valley

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  • Raise Your Hand to Step into the Classroom

    Raise Your Hand to Step into the Classroom

    administration 01/01/2014     Featured

    In New York City, a host of organizations offers parents, community members, college students, and even teenagers the chance to be surrogate teachers and real mentors to public school students. Most of these programs provide unpaid volunteer positions, but some even offer hard cash. If you have not spent time inside a classroom working side-by-side

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  • Sing In the New Year

    Sing In the New Year

    administration 01/01/2014     Featured

    This article marks three years of writing for WestView. Thank you, George. 2013 was a good year for birding in the West Village, and, indeed, was a memorable birding year in general. Millie looks up at me from the sidewalk (which as a corgi she has no choice because she’s so short) as though she

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  • Curtain Up On New Rite Aid

    Curtain Up On New Rite Aid

    administration 12/01/2013     Featured

    “Where shall we walk today?” was my daily question to Maggie who, after lung surgery, couldn’t walk more than a block or two, and one of our frequent targets was the Rite Aid on Hudson and Charles Streets. When we made it to the door, I would grab a shopping cart as a walker (no

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  • De Blasio Looks Beyond Charter Schools with New Education Policies

    De Blasio Looks Beyond Charter Schools with New Education Policies

    administration 12/01/2013     Featured

    Bill de Blasio’s stance on charter schools may feel like a bitter pill to swallow for charter advocates,after Bloomberg championed charters for the last 12 yearsas a key remedy for fixing an ailing school system. In de Blasio’s view, however, charter schools are only a small ingredient inhis formula of education policiesthatportend a major shift

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  • Dear Santa, Please Bring Me a Dreidel

    Dear Santa, Please Bring Me a Dreidel

    administration 12/01/2013     Featured

    When I was the10-year-old child of itinerant bohemian parents in the West Village, being Jewish to me was Kathe Kollewitz lithographs of thin women and hungry babies in your living room; Pete Seeger records on your hi-fi: If I had a Hammer, This Land is Your Land, There Once Was a Union Maid (who never

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  • We Can’t Afford to Keep Everybody Alive

    We Can’t Afford to Keep Everybody Alive

    administration 11/01/2013     Featured

    One of the best ways for a newspaper to make money is to give a conference. Everybody from the Times on down does it. However, perhaps one of the most profitable are those given by Crain’s Health Pulse, a publication aimed at the business of medicine. I attended one in Brooklyn and it was packed;

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  • An Indian Gives Thanks

    An Indian Gives Thanks

    administration 11/01/2013     Featured

    Who would have predicted the results of September’s primary election in the doldrums of last summer, when a shape-shifting of Bloomberg into Quinn was all but inevitable?The outcome would have been a double shock if we had known about it then. Not only was it a win for Bill deBlasio but a transcendent moment in

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  • Mrs. Green’s

    Mrs. Green’s

    administration 11/01/2013     Featured

    COMING SOON? The rumor is true; Mrs. Green’s Natural Market, the Westchester chain specializing in natural foods, plans to open a branch, their first in New York city, in the space at 99 Bank, on the corner of Hudson; it was vacated two months ago by Duane Reade. Company headquarters has confirmed that a lease

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  • When To Ask A Politician For A Favour

    When To Ask A Politician For A Favour

    administration 10/01/2013     Featured

    “George, hey George, Bill de Blasio here. I just wanted to offer my condolences. I heard the very sad news and just feel bad for you and want to let you to know I am thinking of you and admire you and admire your spirit and just hope you are hanging in and if I

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  • Our Own Garrison Keillor

    Our Own Garrison Keillor

    administration 10/01/2013     Featured

    If you go to Abingdon Square Green Market on Saturdays, you’ve probably visited the Muddy Farm booth on the east side of the square. The produce at Muddy Farm is stunning, plainly organic, and consciously locavore. You may already know that you usually have to arriveearly before the eggs sell out—and no wonder—they’re the most

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  • The New School breaks New Ground

    The New School breaks New Ground

    administration 10/01/2013     Featured

    CORRECTION:   In the WVN October issue, the front page article “When To Ask a Politician For a Favor” included a photo caption incorrectly stating that the West Village needed 1,000 new elementary schools seats, when, as reported by WVN Education Editor Sara Hendrickson in her October article (also on the front page), the projected shortage is for 1,000 elementary school

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  • When To Slap A Politician

    When To Slap A Politician

    administration 09/01/2013     Featured

    At last you can read my version of the “slapping.” I was on every news channel and in all the papers (even the Greek ones) and made all the news blogs; even today, a week later, WNYC is still talking about it – “The campaign week started with a slap.” However, the slap really started

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  • Uptown Girl Moves Downtown

    Uptown Girl Moves Downtown

    administration 09/01/2013     Featured

    Greenwich House Music School Welcomes its New Director Meet Rachel Black, Greenwich House’s newly appointed Music School Director,a native of Mississippi and a classically trained actor and MFA graduate of the American Conservatory Theater. Before taking the helm of Greenwich House’s 108 year old Music School in June, Ms. Black was the General Manager of

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  • Parent Coordinators: Key Players in Our Schools

    Parent Coordinators: Key Players in Our Schools

    administration 09/01/2013     Featured

    When principals and teachers usher in their students on the first day of school September 9th, parent coordinators will be a magnet for parents, that go-to person who can answer almost any question, get almost anything done, and listen with almost unlimited patience. Along with serving as the connective tissue between parents and schools comes

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  • The West Side Story: Hudson Yards

    The West Side Story: Hudson Yards

    administration 08/01/2013     Featured

    How often does an urban city have the opportunity to build a city within a city? If it’s lucky, once. New York City has achieved this twice, with the development of the Hudson Yards. We may all remember the first time involving the luscious 96 acres of Battery Park City, which started with a landfill

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  • Food Show: Fancy, Fulfilling, Filling

    Food Show: Fancy, Fulfilling, Filling

    administration 08/01/2013     Featured

    “Life’s a banquet,” famously roared Auntie Mame, a West Village avatar by way of the woman who inspired her, the man who created her. Paraphrasing the words that followed, there were no poor suckers starving to death at the recent record-breaking 2013 Summer Fancy Food Show (SFFS) at Javits. The Specialty Food Association’s (SFA) massive

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  • Novogratz Medical Center

    administration 08/01/2013     Featured

    The TV camera caught the look of sudden concern on the face of Christine Quinn as one of her 18- year-old campaign workers collapsed in the heat. Quinn called 911 and waited and waited. Furious, she called Ray Kelly, yet still, nobody arrived, prompting a knowledgeable Brooklynite to call the local Jewish ambulance service Hatzolah

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  • Mayoral Candidates Tackle Tough Questions on Education

    Mayoral Candidates Tackle Tough Questions on Education

    administration 07/01/2013     Featured

    An enlightening mayoral forum on education was held on June 14th at Murry Bergtraum High School near City Hall, co-sponsored by Class Size Matters, NYC Kids PAC, and other parent organizations. Six candidates participated, including Democratic front-runners Bill de Blasio, John Liu, and Bill Thompson. Notably absent were Christine Quinn and Anthony Weiner, and none

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  • Playground for Geniuses: Bell Labs in the 1930s

    Playground for Geniuses: Bell Labs in the 1930s

    administration 07/01/2013     Featured

    For the better part of the 20th century, the block bordered by West, Washington, Bank, and Bethune Streets was the site of Bell Telephone Laboratories, the world’s largest and most profitable privately owned company, ever. Much of its success can be attributed to the policy of Bell’s research department to hire brilliant scientists and engineers,

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  • Witkoff, Just Another Villager

    Witkoff, Just Another Villager

    administration 07/01/2013     Featured

    As a developer, Steve Witkoff spoke before the Charles Street Association guests in the elegant 150 Charles showroom. He smilingly confessed that he was indeed a “Villager,” living here after law school, frequenting the Bagel Shop on West 4th Street and now will be returning as a tenant to what may be the most elegant

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  • “You Don’t Need A Hospital”(Stephen Berger, the Berger Commission)

    “You Don’t Need A Hospital” (Stephen Berger, the Berger Commission)

    administration 06/01/2013     Featured

    “You’ll never get a hospital,” declared Michael J. Dowling in his Limerick accent,receiving a roar of rage from a packed West Village audience at PS 41. This was after North Shore LIJ and Rudin were successful in the bankruptcy court over the 11 buildings of St. Vincent’s for a mere $230 million in April, 2011.

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  • 45 Bleecker Street Theatre BecomesThe Lynn Redgrave Theatre

    45 Bleecker Street Theatre Becomes The Lynn Redgrave Theatre

    administration 06/01/2013     Featured

    During the opening night curtain call for Culture Project’s current production ofShaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto, Allan Buchman, Founder & Artistic Director of The Culture Project, announced that their main stage theater, currently known as 45 Bleecker Street, would be renamed the Lynn Redgrave Theatre. A naming ceremony and commemorative gala will

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  • Outcry in DowntownSchool SpotlightsCommunity Organizing

    Outcry in Downtown School Spotlights Community Organizing

    administration 06/01/2013     Featured

    Only months after protracted zoning battles had finally set boundaries for the new Foundling School (PS 340) at Sixth Avenue and 17th Street, the school finds itself yet again in a cross-fire. The Foundling School,so named since it will be located on the first six floors of the Foundling Hospital once construction is completed, is

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  • Somebody Out There Helped

    Somebody Out There Helped

    administration 05/01/2013     Featured

    Death of a son prompts $1 million grant for new hospital It was as if somebody were out there making things happen. I received a call on a Sunday from Steve Witkoff whom I had met briefly, maybe four years ago. He quickly began to tell me of the drug overdose death of his son.

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  • So many bike racks placed in front of 175 West 13th Street

    So many bike racks placed in front of 175 West 13th Street

    administration 05/01/2013     Featured

    Dear Editor, The photo accompanying this article says it all! What mastermind in the City administration arranged to have so many bike racks placed in the street in front of the entrance to 175 West 13th Street, a busy apartment building? These racks block the ingress and egress to the building and thus, apparently violate

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