Support some of our favorite West Village shops and designers. Curated by Karilyn Prisco Fireplace 409 409 Bleecker St Keith Kelly “Hand Pants” Unisex, double knee work pant fireplace409.com IG @fireplace409 mûre+grand 277 Bleecker St “New York Colorful Canvas Tote” Machine washable, leather handle mureandgrand.com IG @mureandgrand Ramati “Raffia Moccasin” Hand knotted
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Style on the Street: Fashion Fun +1
Follow us on Instagram @styleonthestreet_WestViewNews Submit your favorite neighborhood fashion looks for a chance to be featured. Photos by Dusty Berke and Karilyn Prisco.
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LGBTQ+ Monthly Q&A
By Research Foundation to Cure AIDS President Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. Follow us on Instagram @OpinionatedQ, @westviewnews & @RFTcureaids OpinionatedQ: “How should NYC welcome LGBTQ+ refugees from Afghanistan?” Gay Nathanael Holley Creative he/him I’m going to be very serious in this response because human life is at stake. America should do whatever it takes to
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Joan’s Shanghai
By Joan Klyhn Joan’s Shanghai is a memoir of a childhood in Shanghai in the ‘30’s and ’40s of the 20th century. I am primarily writing it for myself, extending it to my friends, and now to the many people who have shown themselves fascinated with this period in the past. The Imperial Seal: Joan’s
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Lifetalk with Roberta Russell: Trump No Trump?
By Roberta Russell I recently asked my former Greenwich Village tenant-friend and Trump-authority, Michael Wolff, why there are so many Trump supporters and zealots. Amazingly, even after the year in the White House he spent writing the groundbreaking Fire and Fury (2018), followed by Siege (2019) and most recently, Landslide (2021), the third in a
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Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
SIDEWALK DINING…As most people in the neighborhood are already aware, in recent weeks an unfortunate community conflict has been brewing—between the locals who want the sidewalk restaurant scene to become a permanent social neighborhood fixture, and the rest who want it totally closed down … too noisy, etc. Frankly would hope they can all sit
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IN AND OUT
When Village residents received the August issue of WestView News, the first article screamed out at them “Open Restaurants: Assault on Quality of Life”. The Open Restaurants program, which was launched early in the pandemic on an emergency basis is currently undergoing reviews to determine whether it will become a permanent program, and if so,
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Notes From Away: Hedge Trimming
By Tom Lamia In one of my early columns for WestView News, I critiqued the practice of using talking points as crib notes in political speech. The essence of the critique was that distilling communications to their supposed essence was an injustice to both communication and truth in messaging. I now have a new bone
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GREENWICH VILLAGE LEGENDS: Lorraine Hansberry
Lesbian African American Playwright and Civil Rights Activist Who Died Too Young By Bruce Poli 337 Bleecker St. feels like the epicenter of the West Village…and fittingly; it is the building in which the great playwright Lorraine Hansberry had her first apartment (above what is now a hat shop), from 1953-1960. She then bought the
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Barry, Barry Sad
By Keith Michael The beginning of August was a bad time for rare birds in New York City. Early Friday morning August 6th, Barry, the charismatic Central Park Barred Owl, fatefully collided with a park maintenance vehicle, and a few days later, on Tuesday, August 10th, a visiting young Wood Stork, which had been inspiring
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LETTERS
Open Restaurants I’m reading the August Issue of WestView and am really upset by the headlines: Open Restaurants: An Assault on Quality of Life, and Paris or Shanty Town? If either of these articles present a thoughtful view of a complex issue, it would be irrelevant. The headlines are so loaded with purpose. That purpose
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Mia Says
Mia Says: One step does more to complete a journey than the most detailed map. Photo by Dusty Berke.
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Catch and Release: Chapter 8 | 8th Street Wine Cellar
Photo and story by Karen Rempel Dear readers, if you missed Chapter 7, you can read it here. I’m taking you back to a dating story from 2015, when I was in my first flush of being madly in love with New York City. Thanks to everyone who wrote to George and asked him to
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Karen’s Quirky Style
By Karen Rempel Summer is here and it’s time to put on your coolest whites and head for the mountains, forests, lakes, and beaches. If you can’t get away, the Jefferson Market Garden has never looked more lush. Stop in for a refreshing dose of oxygen, perambulate to view the rainbow flowers tucked into every
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Lifetalk with Roberta Russell The Future of Humanity and Psychedelics
By Roberta Russell Humanity is racing toward a future of mass extinctions, escalating heath-crises, climate-induced disruptions to society, human overpopulation and over consumption. E.O. Wilson, an entomologist and author of The Social Conquest of Earth and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, talks about the adaptive concept of euosociality. This state is defined by cooperative brood
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LGBTQ+ Monthly Q&A
By Research Foundation to Cure AIDS President Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. Follow us on Instagram @OpinionatedQ, @westviewnews & @RFTcureaids OpinionatedQ: “Give Us a Tip; How Can You Be Romantic When It’s 98F Degrees Out? Lesbian Shannon Whittington CEO Whittington Consulting she/her Take an ice bath together! Add some champagne and rose petals. https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonwhittington/ Bisexual
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Joan’s Shanghai
By Joan Klyhn Joan’s Shanghai is a memoir of a childhood in Shanghai in the ‘30’s and ’40s of the 20th century. I am primarily writing it for myself, extending it to my friends, and now to the many people who have shown themselves fascinated with this period in the past. The Mink Coat: Joan’s
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A View From the Kitchen
By Isa Covo To paraphrase the Bard, this is the Summer of our Discontent. The way things are going, it may extend into the fall, and even the winter. Last winter the situation was dangerous, and we all expected things to resolve themselves by early summer, as most of the adult population would be vaccinated
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IN AND OUT
This month we continued to see an accelerating pace of openings, and only a few closings. According to some of the owners, lower rents allowed them to open in this area, something that would have been impossible before the pandemic. In May, The New York Times quoted a broker from Douglas Elliman Commercial who said
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Over There
By Keith Michael This is my tenth August article for WestView, and the first one written from out of the West Village. The end of the “Millie Years” has made it possible again for David and I to travel together, away from NYC, for longer than a weekend (someone always stayed with Millie while we
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Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
Come Saturday morning… with all its special pleasures: Be they a family outing… Relaxing in the square… A special visitor at the bank… Or nature’s bounty at the market… Enjoy! All photos by Maggie Berkvist.
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GREENWICH VILLAGE LEGENDS
Edward Albee, the Cherry Lane Theatre, and the Origins of the Modern Play By Bruce Poli Greenwich Village is world-renowned as an origin of American cultural and political arts and ideas. We represent this in our WestView News publication, an eclectic feature-driven content and design community newspaper that holds our attention from the first page
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LETTERS
My Day Playing on the West 4th St. Basketball Court Dear Westview News Editor, I was happy to read about the West 4th Street basketball court in the July issue. The editor of WestView News told me many years ago about the history of those courts. They were put there by local politician Carmine DeSapio
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Style on the Street: Smile bright in summertime whites
Follow us on Instagram @styleonthestreet_WestViewNews Submit your favorite neighborhood fashion looks for a chance to be featured. AUSTEN TAMMY CHELS & BREEZY MARICELIS GABI EMORY J. MUESER VERONICA Photos by Dusty Berke and Karilyn Prisco.
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Local Finds. Local Love.
Support some of our favorite West Village shops and designers. Curated by Karilyn Prisco BUCK MASON 329 Bleecker St “Island Short” Baltic/Natural Tiki Print buckmason.com REISS 309-313 Bleecker St “Joe” Linen blend playsuit green reiss.com GORJANA 298 West 4th St “Blair Gem Bracelet” Natural agate & green stone gorjana.com PINK OLIVE
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Catch and Release: Chapter 7 | Harvard on the F Train
By Karen Rempel George has given up on marrying me off. He realized his well-meant words of advice were falling into a black hole, where they disappeared into the galaxy. His final words to me were, “You’re on your own, kid.” I’ll miss his meddling. But the stories continue. Thanks to everyone who stuck with
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Karen’s Quirky Style
By Karen Rempel Keith was an awfully good sport about being comedic fodder for my Catch and Release foray into fiction. When I saw this exquisite jacket from Engineered by Andrea T, I immediately flashed on Keith Richards—he would totally wear this jacket! So I decided to design this month’s quirky style as a tribute
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Joan’s Shanghai
By Joan Klyhn Joan’s Shanghai is a memoir of a childhood in Shanghai in the ‘30’s and ’40s of the 20th century. I am primarily writing it for myself, extending it to my friends, and now to the many people who have shown themselves fascinated with this period in the past. The Slave Xiao
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A View From the Kitchen
By Isa Covo We stayed indoors for months, looking out of the window, wishing for escape, for travel. Now the doors are cracking open slightly, and I have started to think of destinations. I would like to go to England and have a proper afternoon tea. But in the meantime, I made cream scones, which
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IN AND OUT
There were lots of openings this month, and many more still to come. One trend we’ve observed is Brooklyn spots coming to Manhattan, perhaps because of attractive rent deals. We continue to see restaurants that we thought were gone for good re-opening, sometimes in the same spot, and sometimes nearby. While there are always neighbors
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Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
Whether the weather be fine Or whether the weather be not Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot We’ll weather the weather whatever the weather Whether we like it or not! WHATEVER THE WEATHER All photos by Maggie Berkvist.
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GREENWICH VILLAGE LEGENDS
Robert Allen Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan Eternal Legend of the Village By Bruce Poli Yes, it’s him again…at 80. And it’s always about him…and us: Einstein disguised as Robin Hood with his memories in a trunk passed this way an hour ago with his friend a jealous monk He looked so immaculately frightful as
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Then&Now: Pier 54, 55, and Little Island
By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Then: The Pier 54 gate header has the faint lettering CUNARD WHITE STAR, dating back to the pier’s heyday when this was part of a row of grand buildings embellished with pink granite facades that totally blocked the waterfront docks from the city. In testament to the prominence of
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Notes from Away: New Life
By Tom Lamia It is late spring in Maine, a season that for most of the state opens the planting and nurturing process for home gardeners and is preceded by the mud season (early spring). Mud season is not a highly productive time. The spring thaw produces mud that seduces those long imprisoned by cold
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LETTERS
Central Park Traffic Threats Last year, Transportation Alternatives teamed up with Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver to wave bye-bye to the very last motor vehicle on the Central Park Carriage Drive and open up the drive to its original purpose, an exclusive road for horse drawn carriages, later joined by thousands of pedestrians and bicyclists. Now
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Style on the Street: These Boots Are Made For Walkin’
Photos by Dusty Berke and Karilyn Prisco. Follow us on Instagram @styleonthestreet_WestViewNews Submit your favorite neighborhood fashion looks for a chance to be featured.
