By Christina Raccuia What do we need to be happy? Although specific requirements for happiness are based on the individual, there are certain primal needs we all have as humans. Having a home gives us a sense of stability and safety—a primal and important need in order to be happy. It is a place to
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Caruso’s Quips
By Charles Caruso Pay close attention to what people say in anger. It’s the way they really feel. Should you shout, “God bless you!” when someone in the next apartment sneezes? Santa Claus is God in a red suit. Better too hot than lukewarm. Men write most of the love songs. Women are too practical
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REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Jim Fouratt’s November 2017 After you VOTE on November 8th (Yes, 4 Hillary), and if you live in District 66, you can write in my name for State Assembly as a statement against Deborah Glick and machine politics) you will have a deluge of quality films to draw you away from your living room and
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Science from Away: Political Science Applied to Terrorism
By Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) Does political science deserve to be called a science? When I was in high school and later in college in the 1950s, there was a required course we called “polysci” and the science engineering types thought it was great because we didn’t have to memorize a lot of facts or
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IN AND OUT
-By Caroline benveniste Saikai (24 Greenwich Avenue), the somewhat expensive Izakaya that we reported on in our “Restaurant Row” article, is now serving a very reasonably-priced $8 lunch of rice and noodle bowls. Gansevoort Market (353 West 14th Street) is almost entirely populated, although not all the stands have opened yet. You can’t get tacos
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Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
ANYTHING FOR THE RIGHT ANGLE: Passing this scene on Charles Street, one could only marvel at the photographer’s ingenuity, seriousness of purpose—and excellent physical condition! “IT TAKES TWO”, as the serious tango dancers at the mellow sunset sessions on Pier 45 demonstrate every Sunday and Wednesday. And, should no partner come forward, there’s
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A Flicker Flew In
By Keith Michael This morning, Millie and I are out for her appraisal-of-the-neighborhood amble around the block. In her corgi-ish way, I imagine Millie reveling in the crisp October sunrise painting the cobblestones. Looking up, a Flicker flies into the honey locust tree at the end of the block. Barely having seen it, I knew
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Joy’s Senior Seasonal Nutrition Buy of the Month
By Joy Pape As vegetables and fruits come into season, they offer seniors the tastiest and most nutritional buys for their money. October’s harvest is plentiful. It includes some of my favorites such as: green beans, brussels sprouts, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, corn, tomatoes, kale, and of course pumpkin. Fruits in season are apples and raspberries;
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Face the Fear and It Will Disappear (Part Two)
By Christina Winholt Raccuia Last month, we explored the nature of anxiety, panic, and the symptoms associated with those conditions. In this segment, we look at techniques which can help to facilitate recovery. Practice diaphragmatic breathing and relaxation skills. To practice, lie on your back, with one hand on your chest and one hand on
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Greenwich House to Honor Two Cultural Dynamos at Arts Celebration; David Amram to Perform
By Joe Salas Greenwich House will honor American composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist, and author, David Amram, and ceramicist and Jefferson Market Garden Adopt-a-Pot Founder, Marianne Yoors, at its annual Arts Benefit, November 3rd at the Rosenthal Pavilion at NYU’s Kimmel Center (60 Washington Square South). The evening will be hosted by Carey Lowell, an actress best
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Caruso’s Quips —By Charles Caruso
Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. Americans don’t know their own history, a great advantage for our rulers. Your jokes tell where your heart is broken. Thinking leads to drinking. Reading doesn’t make you smart. It just gives you more things to be dumb about. Spring is a promise summer doesn’t keep. New
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
October 2016 This year, the 54th edition of the New York Film Festival (NYFF) arrives. New leadership under Kent Jones is firmly in place. Keeping true to one of its core missions, it will provide a survey of the world's top film festivals, bringing to NYC cinephiles the best of the best. The NYFF seems
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Maggie B’s Photo of the Month
HE’S FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES, luring a stream of delighted youngsters of all ages in Washington Square Park to try their luck at catching the ‘pretty bubbles in the air.’ Photo and text by Maggie Berkvist.
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Epidemiology— We are the Canary
By Mark Green (sceincefromaway.com) Hoosick Falls is a lovely town in upstate New York near the Vermont border and famous as the home of a remarkable painter: Grandma Moses. Recently, it became famous again, for the discovery that a chemical associated with the production of non-stick cookware, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), is at a dangerously high
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IN AND OUT
This month saw many openings and a few closings. Jeans Unlimited (492 Avenue of the Americas) is NOT closing after all and there is still no sign of Brooklyn Fare (The Archive, 666 Greenwich Street), which was originally supposed to open in March or April and then according to the Villager, had a firm opening
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Are You Mocking Me?
By Keith Michael “Are corgis naturally fat?” Millie and I squint into the late-afternoon September sun at our inquisitor—nonplussed. Well, Millie is actually sitting and looking up with a smile as though the question was: “Would you like a treat?” There you have it. Corgis seem to inspire repartee on the street, and, quite frankly,
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Groups Find a New Way to Leave a Mark in Greenwich Village
By Joe Salas For generations, people have been flocking to Greenwich Village’s winding Federalist streets to leave their own mark on the storied neighborhood. Today, the Village is bursting at the edges with landmarks, big and small, young and old, from obscure oddities like Hess’s Triangle, to bars and clubs that started social movements and
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Caruso’s Quips —By Charles Caruso
Everyone knows but no one cares. A sneer is a sign of a broken heart. Getting to work on time makes the day so long. The penalty for disloyalty is loneliness. Balloons make people happy but no one knows why. Summertime and the living is queasy. If a man and a woman are smiling and
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Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls at the Jefferson Market Library
By Matt Whitman By September 1966, the U.S. involvement in Vietnam had escalated to over 200,000 soldiers. Bob Dylan had “gone electric” at Newport more than a year earlier and was nowhere to be found in Greenwich Village. “Acid” had not yet been made illegal and had gained popularity a few thousand miles away on
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Night Shift
By Keith Michael The stratospheric twittering of Chimney Swifts scribbles through the air, several octaves above the clicks, whirrs, and drones of summer air conditioners working full throttle. Sticking out like porcupine quills, tufts of Millie’s fur occasionally waft off, tumble-weeding behind her down the sidewalk—she is in full summer corgi-shedding mode. And she HATES
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Seniors Feeling Great!
By Joy Pape There’s been a lot of talk about seniors in WestView News. This is great news! In preparing for this column, I asked myself, who are seniors? Today, many people say age is just a number. Having been a health care provider for m-a-n-y years, I agree…to a point. I’ll go with the
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The Diversity of Contemporary Ceramics is Celebrated at Greenwich House Pottery’s Ceramics Now
By Nikki Shaner-Bradford Long before gaining its contemporary status as a medium for art and personal expression, pottery was considered an artisanal skill. This is how the legacy of Greenwich House Pottery (Pottery), an ancillary of Greenwich House, was founded. In 1909, the Settlement House expanded its immigrant assistance programs with the addition of pottery
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Performance Treadmill (Part Three)
By Christina Winholt Raccuia What are you putting off till you have a better body, or a better job? What beliefs have you constructed around having a better body? How can you begin to challenge those? Shame about who we are or how we look, creates the false self to hide behind that helps protect our
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Science From Away: What are scientists doing?
By Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) There are scientific journals and there are scientific journals. The latter are really only two, Science and Nature that are widely read; publishing in such a journal gives the scientist enormous prestige among his or her fellows, which can translate to coveted benefits. This happened to me once in my
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REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Jim Fouratt’s AUGUST 2016 Ah, August! Time to take a break either in the city or at home—relax, catch up, see a movie or two, and read THAT book. Well, I am all involved in running in the Democratic Primary for State Assembly (vote Sept. 13th!). But we have some very strong movies we would
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30 Ways to Decrease Gun Deaths in America
By Emil William Chynn, MD, MBA Let me start by establishing my credibility to both sides of the debate. As a teenager, I was a Junior Member of the NRA. This was an extension of my positive introduction to guns in the Boy Scouts, where I earned the Rifle Merit Badge on my way to
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Science from Away: Some Interesting Stuff
By Mark M Green (sciencefromaway.com) The Kepler Space Telescope has added a new planet with life supporting temperatures to the two thousand three hundred and twenty-five planets already known. The new one is 2.4 times the size of earth and only 600 light years away from earth. Not likely a neighbor we’ll be in touch
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IN AND OUT
This month saw more upscale shops with French names coming to the Bleecker Street area. On 8th Street, an opening and closing cancel each other out. Asian restaurants in the neighborhood are on the upswing, and the beloved Gansevoort Market has returned. Photos by Maggie Berkvist. Recently Opened Il Conte, 310 West 14th Street: Replacing
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Corrupting the City at Jefferson Market Library
By Matt Whitman Although the arguments exist, we find it difficult not to acknowledge an inextricable link—a continuum of mutual influence—between our self and our environment. Living in a city like New York, is no less one such example of this inevitable almost dialectic opposition of forces that exist between who we are as individuals
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Performance Treadmill (Part Two)
By Christina Winholt Raccuia It takes courage to face our fears and ourselves. But you have to notice what you are telling yourself that drives you to the default of hiding. Many of us have painful memories that have caused us to want to numb out or withdraw. Maybe someone told you that you were
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The Common Touch
By Keith Michael If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch… From If, Rudyard Kipling Probably my favorite story to tell about birds in New York (and there are so many to choose from) is about a 19th century Bronx pharmacist, Eugene Schieffelin, then chairman
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Caruso’s Quips
By Charles Caruso You have your run and then you’re done. j We only recognize our happiest years when they’re past. j You’re old when the delivery man gets to your place before you do. j The elections are free but the politicians are expensive. j A girl who is chased a lot doesn’t stay
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A Chef’s Restaurant—Günter Seeger
By David Porat Günter Seeger is new on Hudson Street with a very distinguished and somewhat mysterious façade. Its storefront piqued my curiosity on my way to High Street on Hudson, one of my current favorite places in the neighborhood. I entered the restaurant at about 6 pm on a Saturday before any guests arrived,
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Greenwich Village’s LGBT History Around Every Corner
By Joe Salas It is no wonder why the Stonewall Inn was the location for a memorial vigil for those massacred at Pulse in Orlando. While discussions continue in what could be up to a three-year process to determine the extent of the proposed Stonewall Inn National Monument, the location has already been deemed worthy
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Jim Fouratt’s JULY 2016 It’s impossible to not speak of how popular culture, and in particular the role film and television play in building consciousness, pushes a candidate like Donald Trump forward. Making a television personality popular based on his ability to say “You’re Fired” into a person who may hold the future of the
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Science from Away: Transgender, the Facts
By Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) Very few of us are free from some degree of discomfort in the presence of those who occupy the world in a manner different from ourselves. It’s not unreasonable to see that understanding the “other” is a path to greater acceptance and alleviation of that discomfort. Lately there has
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Me, Me, Me
By Keith Michael “The song is called ‘Ways and Means’ but that’s only what it’s called, you know!” “Well, what is the song, then?” said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered. “I was coming to that,” the Knight said. —Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll “Do, Re, ME ME ME, Fa, So, La,
