By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. Why do we say “I’m HIV-positive” or “I’m POZ,” but not “I’m gonorrhea-positive,” or more affectionately, I’m GONO-POZ?” Since this issue of my monthly column about the twists and turns on the path to finding a cure for AIDS comes out weeks before Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d write about some
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JANE LOWRY (1937 – 2019)
Jane Lowry, an actress whose 30-year career began at New York City’s legendary Caffe Cino and went on to include Broadway, film, television, and repertory theater, died November 15 after a brief illness. She was 82 years old. Although Ms. Lowry made her Broadway debut early on, the bulk of her career and her most
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Jerry Herman(1931-2019)
By Robert Heide In the mid-1950’s I was attending prep school—the Carteret School for Boys in West Orange, New Jersey—which was set on a hilltop with a spectacular view of Manhattan. There I met Todd Newberry, the son of the man who owned the J. J. Newberry dime store chain. Another student chum of mine
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James Fitzgerald — 1948-2019
West Village Resident and Top New York Editor By Robert Heide and John Gilman We first met Jim Fitzgerald in the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel in 1983 through our book agent Lois de LaHaba. Previous to this, the first book we had written was entitled Dime-Store Dream Parade—Popular Culture 1925-1955 an illustrated coffee table
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Culinary Arts and Community Service at Manhattan School For Career Development (751M)
By the 751M PTA Manhattan School for Career Development (751M), or MSCD, is a multi-site District 75 school that serves over 200 students throughout Manhattan. Its main site is its high school, or “Academy” program, located in the East Village. Its “Prep,” or middle school, which opened in September 2018 in the West Village, is
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Exciting Upcoming Community Events from the West 13th Street Alliance
By the West 13th Street Alliance Thank you, neighborhood residents and WestView readers, from the board of directors of the West 13th Street Alliance. Your frequent attendance and lively participation in the Alliance’s Community Events in 2019 humbles and pleases us that we are serving you and inspires us to plan even more! But first,
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Writing Through Icons: Franz Kafka & Jean Seberg
Authors Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson converse about writing through the personas of Franz Kafka and Jean Seberg in their books Kafka At Rudolf Steiner’s and Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg By Amy Geduldig To engage in conversation and explore some aspect of the vast world of literature brings readers together in the
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Westbeth Resident’s New Award-Winning Film to Screen at The National WWII Museum
On February 3, 2020, the National WWll Museum in New Orleans, will present a screening of the short film, Minor Accident of War, written and narrated by 95-year-old WWll veteran Edward Field and based on his wartime experience as a navigator. Field, who lives in Westbeth, was a First lieutenant in the 8th Air Force.
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Karen’s Quirky Style
By Karen Rempel | Fashion Editor With spring still a distant wisp of hope, bright colors can help us bridge the gap in the dead of winter. What a great opportunity to wear this delicious electric-toned dress by Andrea Thurlow of Engineered by Andrea T. Notched cap sleeves and slim pencil skirt bring a hint
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Style on the Street: Love at First Sight
It would be hard not to fall in love with any of these dapper gentlemen. All photos by Dusty Berke.
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The Universal Dance Association Dance Team National Championship
The Universal Dance Association Dance Team National Championship is the most prestigious college dance team championship in the country. The championship is held at the Walt Disney World® Resort in Orlando, Florida during the month of January. Villanova University sophomore and member of the Villanova dance team, Sophia Capsis is pictured leading her team through
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Then&Now: Palazzo Chupi at 360 West 11th Street
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP THEN: In the 19th century, Greenwich village became an established ‘suburb’ of the growing Manhattan metropolis, and a ca. 1852 map shows West 11th Street (then Hammond Street) built up with many buildings on small lots, although it also shows a group of buildings labeled “Iron Works” at what
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Dollars and Sense in NYC
By Brian J Pape, AIA Back in 2014, Jonathan Miller started to observe a U.S. housing market pattern of wildly overpriced luxury housing listings that rarely sold; he dubbed it “aspirational pricing.” Much has been publicized about the rush to develop high-end apartments in the heady days after the Great Recession broke, producing the tallest
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Notes From Away: Truth Teller
By Tom Lamia In last month’s column, I spoke of political dirty tricks. Typically a “dirty trick” in political campaign combat involves secretive skullduggery designed to be untraceable to the candidate or his or her campaign. No credit for the trick is claimed and deniability is built into the planning. It was such a dirty
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Flyover
By Keith Michael A snowball whizzes across the street. That’s about the time one has to snap an identification onto a bird flying high above even the modest scale of our West Village buildings. Let me get this out of the way right at the beginning. Does one need to name a bird by species
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Christina Courtin & The Knights at Joe’s Pub
By Hannah Reimann Singer-songwriter Christina Courtin and The Knights, an adventurous musical ensemble of classically trained instrumentalists, played their Joe’s Pub debut on Mozart’s 264th birthday, January 27, 2020. Four of the Knights fittingly dedicated the first movement of Mozart’s Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285 to the composer as a prelude to a
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Classical Music Concerts in the Village
Concerts for Seniors, Students & Everyone By Gordon Gilbert The Strathmere Ensemble St. John’s in the Village Saturday, January 18, 2020 What a pleasant surprise to learn about the abundance of music being presented each month at St. John’s in the Village! This January, there are about two dozen events scheduled in the church itself
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Everything You Need to Know About Japanese Woodworking
By Robert Kroll You can always tell when you’re in the presence of a Japanese woodworker: They usually have ten fingers. They have ten toes. (This woodworker has nine toes, but that’s another story.) But their hands and feet show the inevitable effects of their efforts to turn wood into comfortable furniture: cuts, scrapes, abrasions,
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Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
THOUGHTS IN PASSING as the New Year/Decade arrived: Did she see the end was coming? How come some places are permanent family favorites? While, down the block, others keep folding? Is it because everybody shops online? PLUS Some Jolly Surprises Like the full moon over Greenwich Street And the June-in-January picnic The visitor from long
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Senator Sherrod Brown Comes to the Village
Through his new book, Brown urges progressive nationwide reforms By Eric Uhlfelder At the funeral of New York Senator Robert Kennedy in June of 1968 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, his brother Ted tearfully struggled to recall his slain brother as a man “who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to
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A View from the Kitchen
By Isa Covo The second month of 2020 is the shortest month of the year and the month of love. Valentine’s Day usually falls halfway through the month, but as this year is a leap year it is slightly askew. No matter, this is the time to strengthen our existing romantic relationships or glow with
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IN AND OUT
January was once again a relatively quiet month. Greenwich Avenue, though, is heating up, with two openings practically across the street from each other. Two other restaurants openings we’d been watching for a while now look like they won’t happen. Open The Banty Rooster 24 Greenwich Avenue between Charles and West 10th Streets I received
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Measuring Success with Web Analytics
By Robert Johannesson A newspaper posts articles online, a clothing designer markets through Google, and a political candidate runs a web-based campaign. How do they measure the effectiveness of their effort? The web’s democratization of publishing capacity has led to an unprecedented amount of content. As a result, cutting through the noise by knowing and
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Viruses and Cancer
By Mark M. Green (Abstracted from “A Scientist’s View of Almost Everything,” by Mark M. Green, 2019) Cancer patients in the 1800s were observed, too often to be chance, to be relieved of their cancerous tumors when they were ill with respiratory problems. When viruses were discovered later in that century, it was hypothesized that
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Reverse Deportation of Jean: Here’s How
By Donna Schaper Ever Feel like you can’t do anything good? You can. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. Send this article to Virginia from the Village you Love. Jean Montrevil was deported, abruptly, picked up outside his home, while heading to work on January 16, 2018. He had been detained before, ten years
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Five steps to a healthy heart
Lenox Health Greenwich Village: EXPERT CARDIOLOGY INSIGHTS Five steps to a healthy heart Service Line: CARDIOLOGY Thought Leader: Alexander Gorodnitskiy, MD What can you do to keep your heart healthy? Prevention is key. Eat healthy fats, not trans fats. Trans fats clog your arteries by raising bad cholesterol levels and lowering good ones. Cutting these
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Let’s Get Real About Aging
By Gail Evans I met with 85-year-old George Held in his West Village apartment to interview him about aging. Held taught in the English Department of Queens College for 35 years and was a Fulbright lecturer in Czechoslovakia under Soviet rule He is also a prolific poet, editor, translator, essayist and book reviewer. His poems
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Charlie Caruso’s Quips
The woman always decides. The first letter of the New York Times logo looks like Trump in profile. A fool and his Honey are soon parted. The JFK murder in Dallas was much more shocking than Pearl Harbor because it involved someone we knew or thought we knew. Only strangers died at Pearl Harbor. A
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Assisted Living: Not Just for the Wealthy
By Alec Pruchnicki, MD Most people who have been to assisted living facilities (ALFs) are greeted with the sight of an overwhelmingly white, somewhat wealthy population of elderly people, mostly women. Since ALF rents are usually more expensive than living in the community, due to the level of additional services they provide, a higher than
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Uno, the One Who Stole Our Hearts
By Leslie Adatto Remember Uno, the irresistible 15-inch tall beagle with long, floppy ears and the jaunty gait, who took the Westminster dog show by storm in 2008? He howled at the judge and charmed the massive Madison Square Garden crowd, before being crowned the country’s top dog and winning Best in Show. Uno continued
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What is Integral Yoga?
By Chandra/Jo Sgammato Are you a New Yorker or even a yoga practitioner with that question? When you pass the Integral Yoga Institute, which has been at 227 West 13th Street for almost 50 years, do you ever wonder? What exactly IS Integral Yoga? Integral Yoga is a complete system to transform your life. Yes,
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The W Hotel Sign: A Hazard to Humans and Fish
By J. Taylor Basker In 2005 the Applied Development Company and Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide began construction on a new W Hotel in Hoboken, along the city’s southern waterfront on the Hudson River facing Manhattan. Designed by the architectural firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, it was only the fourth hotel in the country
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No to Wall, Yes to Bridge
By Barry Benepe In a gracious retreat from a misguided proposal to build a 20-foot high concrete wall enclosing a parking garage over the railway tracks against the High Line alongside the Western Yards below 33rd Street, Related Companies has returned to their earlier proposal to grade the lawn down to the edge of the
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Back-Tracking at Hudson Yards
By Brian J. Pape, AIA Stephen Ross, founder and chairman of The Related Companies, has been doing some back-tracking lately at Related’s Hudson Yards, the largest new development in the United States and the city since the Rockefeller Center development in Midtown during the Great Depression. After Community Board 4 got a preliminary presentation recently
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A Remarkable Man
By Gordon Hughes A remarkable West Village native passed away on December 25th, Christmas afternoon. He had just wished his granddaughter a Merry Christmas, sat back on his bed, and peacefully slipped away in his apartment on Bleecker Street. Not a bad way to go after an amazing life. I know about this because he
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Still Moments
Photography Exhibit By Gayle Kirschenbaum “Give me a plane, train or bus ticket, or a set of wheels and I promise I will come back with photos and stories that will warm your heart.” Never leaving home without her IPhone, intrepid Emmy award winning Netflix filmmaker and TEDx speaker, Gayle Kirschenbaum, can’t stop herself. Her insatiable curiosity
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Mount Sinai’s Plan Comes Up for State Review
By Penny Mintz Mount Sinai is in the final stages of its application to the State Department of Heath for authorization to replace Beth Israel with a 70-bed facility, and move the vast majority of the medical treatments and tests that were once available downtown to “centers of excellence” far uptown. On Thursday, January 23,
