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  • Dear Editor

    Web Admin 10/04/2019     Letters

    Dear Editor, There are no schedules posted for both the 14A or the #20 buses at Hudson & Bank Sts. up to 14th St. (possibly beyond). We’ve been asked to use the A lest it be cancelled. This certainly makes using either bus very difficult and inconvenient!! I would appreciate your looking into this and

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  • Transportation Alternative?

    Web Admin 10/04/2019     Letters, Neighborhood

    Dear editors: 6,000 pedestrians are killed each year in America by motor vehicles, not including other vehicle deaths or injuries. Although most of the deaths are on rural/suburban roads, when it happens in our city, we want to protect our pedestrians. We are dealing with issues over limited urban street and sidewalk space, and the

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  • Mia Says

    Web Admin 09/02/2019     Letters, Monthly Columns, Photos

    Mia Says: The better you listen to a complaint the better you can answer it. Photo by Dusty Berke.

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  • Correction

    Web Admin 09/02/2019     Letters

    I’m sure you’re aware of it by now but you were a full four (4) years off when you mentioned Lincoln’s assassination in “1861.” It was, of course, April 1865, at the start of Lincoln’s 2nd term. Sorry about poor Hamlin, too! Marc Wallace   Yes, of course, you are right and I apologize to

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  • New Monthly Series in WestView

    Web Admin 09/02/2019     Letters

    Dear Editors, A few years ago I received an email from a reader in response to an article I was researching for this paper. “I happened to see your request in WestView about work at the West Street location of Bell Labs during the Second World War,” he wrote. “Fortunately for you, I was a

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  • Friendly Ideas for Hudson River Park

    Web Admin 09/02/2019     Letters

    Dear editors: The August article (Why) Build a Full-Size Field on Gansevoort Park? about the excellent public presentation July 24 of Hudson River Park’s plans for the Gansevoort Peninsula, noted that several key issues are yet unresolved. Since it may be several more weeks before we hear of the next stage of planning, I offer

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  • Bike Lanes

    Web Admin 09/02/2019     Letters

    Interesting stuff in the August issue of WestView News. The letter from Bill Pullano on the bike lanes on 12th and 13th Streets was especially well informed and balanced. We need him as a writer for WestView. The simplistic DOT/MTA view on bus speeds instead of total trip duration and comfort ignores what travelers must

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  • Shakespeare and Company

    Web Admin 09/02/2019     Letters

    I love Caroline Benveniste’s column. This is a question for her. What ever happened to the Shakespeare and Company bookstore that was supposed to open at 450 Sixth Avenue, in the old Jefferson Market space? —Christine Tralongo   Christine, Thanks for writing to us. I was also wondering what had happened. I just called the

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  • Praise for WestView Contributors

    Web Admin 09/02/2019     Letters

    Re: August WestView News: Keith Michael is always amazing and he outdid even himself with the August article on the tern—the information, the photography, the prose!  Also enjoyed new contributor Annunziata Gianzaro on olive oil; hope for more from her. Keep it up all. —Barbara Chacour

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  • We Need Another Jane Jacobs!

    Web Admin 08/06/2019     Letters

    Dear Mr. Capsis, I am a new subscriber to WestView News and I look forward to  receiving my monthly issue each month.  However, I must disagree with your page one article, “We Need Robert Moses.” If Mr. Moses had had his way, lower Manhattan would be paved over and vehicles would be streaming through Washington

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  • Emergency Vehicle Pollution

    Web Admin 08/06/2019     Letters

    George, I believe you have a doctor in the house that occasionally writes for you. May I suggest a look at the Northwell Emergency Hospital? With emergency vehicles spewing pollution 24×7 on West 12th Street between 7th and Greenwich Avenues, the hospital has created a terribly polluted zone…made more dangerous since this block feeds people

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  • Keep the Bike Lanes

    Web Admin 08/06/2019     Letters

    The issues on 14th Street are complex, but misinformation, or at least a heavily one-sided drumbeat from a pro-car, pro-parking crowd continues. One assumption is that motorists, who would have otherwise used 14th Street to cross town, have no other alternative than to use the adjacent side streets such as 12th or 13th. That assumption

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  • Praise from Terrence McNally

    Web Admin 08/06/2019     Letters

    To the editor, I received a very positive email from Terrence McNally about my article ‘A Banner Year for Terrence McNally’ in the July, 2019 edition of WestView News and felt I should share it with WestView’s readers. As ever my hat goes off to Terrence—a great writer and friend. Having known Terrence for many, many years, I

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  • Melville’s 200th Birthday

    Web Admin 08/06/2019     Letters

    Dear Editor, There is an article about Herman Melville in the July-August 2019 issue of Smithsonian Magazine. Among other things, William T. Vollmann reminds readers that August 1st, 2019 will be the 200th birthday of the complicated, brilliant, bedeviled author of, among other classics, Moby Dick.  I suggest reading it online. Melville the writer is so associated

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  • 14A Bus

    Web Admin 07/12/2019     Letters

    Dear Mr. Capsis, We in the West Village are trying to keep the Abingdon Square 14A loop. The MTA wants to cut service, which for many is a lifeline. Also, sometimes the M11 stops at 23rd Street instead of completing the run to Abingdon Square. Both of these buses are infrequent at best. I am

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  • NYT Editorial Shock

    Web Admin 07/12/2019     Letters

    Dear editors: I was shocked to see the New York Times editorial “Hudson River Park Needs Help” June 7, with a comparison of the Hudson River Park Trust proposals for office development on Pier 40 with the Westway superhighway plan of more than 20 years ago. Saying office development is ‘not that bad’ compared with

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  • Not on My Wall

    Web Admin 07/12/2019     Letters

    At 10pm on March 5th, Webster Stone, who lives at Charles Street and West 4th Street, kept hearing a loud buzz. “I couldn’t place it, I couldn’t figure out what it was, and it irritated me.” Getting up from his couch, Stone checked to see if it was the washing machine or the dishwasher, and

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  • Pier 40

    Web Admin 07/12/2019     Letters

    Dear WestView, I really appreciated the articles in your June edition by Bruce Trigg and Bunny Gabel regarding the Pier 40 development plans. I understand the call from the author to write to local representatives. However, I am an Australian living in the West Village and do not have the right to vote, so my

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  • Praise for WestView

    Web Admin 07/12/2019     Letters

    Dear Mr. George Capsis, Thank you for daring to go where the controlled main media will not dare to tread. Your newspaper is fabulous. I don’t know where to start with the praise. I came upon your newspaper when I went down to the 6th Street Community Center. I am an upper west sider. Your

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  • George Capsis, Local Hero

    Web Admin 07/12/2019     Letters

    Hi George, Hope you are doing well and still giving ‘em hell. Loved the Trigg, MD article about Pier 40. St. Vincent’s screw job all over again. And the usual brilliant planning to have the meeting just after Memorial Day. Surprised they didn’t do it on the Friday before, but of course that would have

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  • Open Letter to Corey Johnson to Save the 14A Bus Line Route

    Web Admin 06/06/2019     Letters, Neighborhood

    Dear Corey, Sort of ironic that my earlier Open Letter to you from WestView News was to plead for more bus shelters for riders waiting for the 14A—and now we’ve learned there’s a plan to do away with our vital little spur altogether—to replace it, apparently, with one that runs way out on the fringe of

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  • Charles Street Association Annual Planting

    Web Admin 06/06/2019     Letters, Neighborhood

    Dear neighbors and members of the Charles Street Association, Thank you for coming out this past Saturday. You made our annual planting a great success.  This year all our tree-beds were planted and all are looking fantastic.  However, in order to keep them alive, they will need lots of water throughout the hot summer months.

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  • White Horse

    Web Admin 06/05/2019     Letters

    To Charlie McKenna, Re: Your letter to the Editor dated April 2019 We agree with you completely. Usually, it is Steve Croman raising the rent so high that the clubs and pubs and restaurants could no longer remain in business. In this case it was the owners of the White Horse Tavern who chose to

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  • Food Scrap Collection

    Web Admin 06/05/2019     Letters, Neighborhood

    Dear Editor: The food scrap collection article in the April issue of WestView had an immediate impact on local recycling efforts. Literally upon the day of publication, both online and in print, Saturday Union Square and Abingdon Square Greenmarket workers reported  people coming to their sites to mention and/or leave a copy of WestView’s April

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  • Pier 40 Public Forum

    Web Admin 06/05/2019     Letters, Neighborhood, Politics

    I’m speaking for Friends of the Earth, an environmental group with a 45 year history of work to stop over-development in the Hudson River from Battery Park City North to West 59th Street, New York water and land now controlled by Hudson River Park Trust authority (HRPT). The authority controls 60 acres of NY land

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  • Litigation Over 14th Street Changes and SBS Bus Changes Coming Soon

    Web Admin 06/05/2019     Letters, Neighborhood

    As WestView goes to press, two lawsuits are about to be filed by my office addressed to the efforts of DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg to needlessly reshape our community. At first, she used the proposed L Train shutdown as an excuse. Now she wants to champion “fast bus service on the M14D and the M14A.”

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  • Save the Bus Stop!

    Web Admin 06/05/2019     Letters, Neighborhood

    Hi George: I’ve just sent off the following letter to elected officials and others regarding the M14A service: What is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s purpose with regard to Bus Transportation? Is it to get the riding public from one convenient location to another or is it to move the buses from one location to another

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  • Bookbook Closing

    Web Admin 05/03/2019     Letters

    Bookbook at 266 Bleecker Street will be closing its doors this May. We have been doing this for 35 years and it’s time for a road trip. In 1984, we opened our first bookstore, Biography Bookshop at 400 Bleecker Street on the corner of Bleecker and 11th Streets in what was, then, a historic West

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  • Dylan Thomas

    Web Admin 05/03/2019     Letters

    In the front-page article about the sale of the building where the White Horse Tavern is, reference is made to Dylan Thomas and his having “his last drinks there and later died at St. Vincent’s.” He may well have had his last drink in New York there, but not his last drink. The truth of

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  • Croman/WhiteHorse

    Web Admin 05/03/2019     Letters

    While it is easy to “Rage, Rage Against Croman,” (April 2019) and all the other horrible landlords and haughty millionaires who are buying up our beloved neighborhood and changing its very character, we have to acknowledge that these people are not Viking raiders who swoop down on unsuspecting property owners and take over their buildings

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  • Judson Church History

    Web Admin 05/03/2019     Letters

    Dear George, Roger Paradiso’s article about Judson Church (April 2019 issue) tells a lot, but has huge holes in it. He doesn’t mention the protean gifts of Rev. Al Carmines, who Rev. Howard Moody (also not mentioned) hired to start a theater in the church. Rev. Carmines brought in large numbers of people who got

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  • Bike Lanes

    Web Admin 05/03/2019     Letters

    Dear WestView: It is disheartening to read opinions from bike advocates (Dear Bike Lane Complainers/14th Street, WestView News April 2019) who preach from their moral high ground. Car ownership is “indulgent/gas-guzzling,” etc. “The Village was never meant for private car ownership…” Really? So let me understand this. People who pay taxes, permits, registrations, fees, etc.,

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  • Lenox Hill Hospital Revitalization Plan

    Web Admin 05/03/2019     Letters

    The following letter comes from a doctor and very carefully avoids the fact that the Lenox Hill Hospital expansion is on the east side in the 80’s. As a West Village newspaper we have been campaigning for more medical facilities in the West Village, like a Cath Lab. —Editors To the Editor: I write this

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  • The Forum on Lenox Health Greenwich Village Facility

    Web Admin 05/03/2019     Art & Architecture, Letters

    On April 29, the CB2 (Community Board for Manhattan District 2) and Susanna Aaron, Chair of the Social Services Committee, organized a special forum: Five years after the opening of Manhattan’s first stand-alone emergency room, how is our community engaging with Northwell’s Lenox Health Greenwich Village facility? There was a full house in the classroom

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  • Israel-Palestine

    Web Admin 05/03/2019     Art & Architecture, Arts and Culture, Letters

    Dear editors: Hate has no place here. An article on Israel-Palestine in the April issue is a political diatribe one expects from the alt-right or alt-left media, not WestView News. I get the writer’s blog almost daily, and know that is her prejudice, and I might feel sorry for whatever happened to turn her to

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  • Mia Says: Sense and compliment the virtues in others to discover your own.

    Web Admin 05/03/2019     Letters, Monthly Columns, Photos

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  • An Open Letter to Corey Johnson

    Web Admin 04/02/2019     Briefly Noted, Letters

    Corey, greetings Great news to know you’re going to be ‘getting us moving’ so to speak! And as long as you’re looking at future plans, may I put in a word on behalf of the ‘senior riders’: Do you think we could get the bus shelters back? For instance, there used to be one here

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  • Spring Gardening

    Web Admin 04/02/2019     Briefly Noted, Letters

    This morning I met with my old pal Susan Sipos, of Distinctive Gardens, to inspect our co-op’s backyard garden. She comes to visit us about this time every year. We walk through several levels of the backyard and inspect the damages that have been caused by the ravages of winter. We are lucky to have

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