By Tom Lamia In order to keep up with events here in Maine I read one of the major statewide newspapers, The Portland Press Herald, where I find a full range of news affecting residents of the state. I also read my local weekly, The Lincoln County News, in which the character and exploits of
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LETTER
VID Statement on Vaccination Requirements Several neighborhood businesses have window signs which thwart public health measures to contain the pandemic. They contend that the regulations infringe upon civil liberties and equate mask and vaccination requirements with biases. No one in a free society has the right to endanger others. These businesses are contributing to the
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Style on the Street: The Many Layers of Fall
JAY ALEKSANDRA AHMED JULS JULIANA KATELYN JOSE & DOMENIC LESLEY 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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Maggie B’s Quick Click
LIVE! Opening night on October 14 at the SIGN OF THE TIMES Exhibit by Westbeth’s resident artists, now running Wednesday-Sunday, 1-6 p.m., until November 13th. Photo by Maggie Berkvist.
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A View from the Kitchen
By Isa Covo November is here. The festive season is here, and there are signs that this year there is hope for celebration. Indeed, the restaurants are open and doing good business, so are the cinemas, but with some restrictions, and now many theaters are open and almost all sold out. On the streets of
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IN AND OUT
This month we saw a large number of openings, many of them on formerly deserted Bleecker Street. And the momentum continues, with many stores planning a late fall or winter opening, with increased activity on Greenwich Avenue. We also noticed that wine bars serving natural wines are taking over the Village, so raise a glass
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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. Incident at Stone Lodge
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Lifetalk with Roberta Russell: Emergency Room Debacle in the Age of Lies
By Roberta Russell On Friday, October 1st, I pushed my blue metal shopping cart in front of me, carrying 250 dollars-worth of carefully boxed, fake greenery, bought to cover a prison-like chain linked fence, recently installed by my landlord to enclose my expansive penthouse terrace. The fake vine looked tacky and did not restore the
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LETTERS
Thanks for the Memory… Good Morning Dad, 45 years ago on this date, you took me to Yankee Stadium to see the Yankees play the Reds in the 1976 World Series. Thank you, it is a fond memory. —Doric Homelessness Dear Editor, In the article, “When No Place Is Home” in the October issue,
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Style on the Street: Keeping it Classic
ELAYNA VERA SAMIYA ANNIKA GRACE LAUREN ELENA MEGAN 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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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. Jai Alai: the world’s
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Lifetalk with Roberta Russell: Online Dating in Your Seventies and Older
By Roberta Russell Of those who have lovers, long-term marriages, and other trusting bonds, half will ultimately be abandoned—by chance or by intention. One partner either dies first (usually), or leaves the other. As the growing population ages, friends and family perish and depart. Life is a veil of tears. The Covid quarantine also separates
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A View from the Kitchen
By Isa Covo I sit here, a bit perplexed by what has been happening recently in the country and abroad, so I made a list. It is probably incomplete, so perhaps you can help. There was: Afghanistan The diplomatic situation with our ally France The Recount The opposition to the For the People Act The
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Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
TO AUTUMN Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel
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IN AND OUT
While Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the Key to NYC vaccination mandate for indoor dining, entertainment and fitness would start on August 17th, enforcement did not begin until September 13th. Most Village restaurants are now asking for proof of vaccination, but Pasticceria Rocco at 243 Bleecker Street posted a defiant sign in their window
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GREENWICH VILLAGE LEGENDS: Tim McDarrah: Village Romantic, Writer, Editor, and Tour Guide
By Bruce Poli There are few people in Greenwich Village who actually embody its character. Promote it. Expand it and share the real Village history that tour guides and tourists love to stereotype with fiction (Marsha P. Johnson threw the first brick, Dylan Thomas died at the White Horse Tavern). There was no fake news,
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Here’s to the Ladies
By Keith Michael Inexplicably to me, most self-identifying birders are men, and there’s a tendency for those men to focus their binoculars and cameras on the flashier male birds. For the 2021 Audubon Photography Awards, a Female Bird Prize was added as a new category to help spread the love to the ladies. Birds, and
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LETTERS
New York City is Not Paris Dear WV News, I’ve been following WestView’s coverage of the outdoor-dining conflict and I’ve been somewhat amused by the evocation of Paris as something the Village should emulate. But I’ve actually been doing it from Paris, where I recently moved after having been a West Villager for four decades.
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Mia Says
Mia Says: The path to wisdom is to edit and re-edit our thoughts. Photo by Dusty Berke.
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Local Finds. Local Love.
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
