Show opens MAY 25- JUNE 4 (Every evening at 8pm, except closed May 31) By Dan Bianchi When I had first moved into the downtown theatre environment as a working artist, 45 years ago, New York City was quite a different place. Not only was it the murder capital of the world with its sirens
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A Billionaire Bully Slumlord
By Deborah Privitello This is the twisted Kafkaesque story of power and greed that has been visited upon our family by our billionaire landlord, Francis Greenburger / Time Equities. It has turned our lives upside down! I’m a widow and my children are victims, hostages of criminal harassment spanning 20 years that violates The Tenant
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Village Diary: Brother Ben’s Address
By Pago Habitans * I was sitting in Washington Square one evening when a string of skateboarders whizzed by. They were mostly young people, but at the tail end was an unlikely older figure doing his best to keep up with the pack. It was, of course, my elusive friend Brother Ben. He recognized me,
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Style on the Street—Check Mate
Follow us on Instagram @styleonthestreet_WestViewNews Submit your favorite neighborhood fashion looks for a chance to be featured. TATIANA* GABI KATE CHRIS EMILY ISABEL Photos by Kari Prisco *Photo by Ed Quinn
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…and Action!
By Kieran Loughney Walking on West 12th Street about this time last spring, I was astonished to see a subway entrance at Greenwich Street that did not exist the day before. The ad for a 1960s Volkswagen on it further disoriented me until I looked between the iron railings, and saw no steps leading underground,
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A 16 Year Old’s Perspective on Modern and Classic Films: How Have Movies Changed?
By Luke McGuire “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Is this Marlon Brando’s fearsome mafia boss, sitting in a dark, smoke-filled room outside the scene of his daughter’s wedding? No, it’s me, a 16 year old kid on Halloween at my high school, dressed up as the legendary crime Don from one
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Kids Corner- A Review of Harmony: A New Musical
By Alden Roosevelt, age 12 I recently was viewing Harmony: A New Musical, a new show at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, and I was delighted! The set was wonderful, as they were able to make so many different locations out of only a few objects, like a piano,
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The Fun Days of Greenwich Village of Yesteryear
By Robert Heide I arrived in Greenwich Village in the early Fifties in the midst of when the area was regarded as the place where the true bohemian lifestyle was the order of the day. My father moved me into my apartment on Christopher Street just across from St. John’s Church my Village community headquarters
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Losing Cornelia
By Robin Hirsch I’m losing my oldest child. Cornelia. She’s 41. She’s unlikely to make it to 42. I have two children by my present marriage. 30 and 27. Cornelia is from an earlier relationship. She really had three parents. In 1977 three of us, all artists, stumbled across a dilapidated storefront on a tiny
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Tibetan Art Exhibit
Mystery of Life June 7 – 21, 2022 Here Now Space Rabkar Wangchuk, solo show Michela Martello, guest artist Curated by Paola Vanzo By Hannah Reimann The work of Korean Nam June Paik, Chinese Ai Weiwei and Japanese Yayoi Kusama emerged and broke ground over decades, both commercially and as trends. These days, contemporary Asian
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Lifetalk With Roberta Russell: Basking in the Sunshine of Love
By Roberta Russell I am always on the lookout for others who want to join me in the ongoing endeavor of embracing the rigors of arriving and staying at the right weight and enjoying a healthy lifestyle. It is easy to find people who want to lose weight, but very hard to find those who
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A Walk in the Park
By Keith Michael It’s Tuesday evening after work and the temperature has passed that imprecise degree which brings out the throngs to indulge in the warmth of the sunset. Accompanied by a lively band of Crows cawing overhead, I too have marched to Hudson River Park for the same reason and to see what birds
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The Right Pick
By Teddy Capsis and Gabriela Beavers Welcome to The Right Pick, your guide to confronting the city’s most overwhelming predicament: “Where should we go to eat?” This monthly column will feature a variety of date spots that you won’t want to miss, so keep an eye out for what’s to come. With the explosion of
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A View from the Kitchen
By Isa Covo As the year started, we were hopeful it would be a better one than the two that preceded it. There were still many mourning the deaths of relatives and friends, and there were still COVID patients, but thanks to the vaccines, and the government mandates regarding masks and obligatory vaccination for most
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IN AND OUT
Not Closing! Last month we reported that Florence Prime Meat Market (5 Jones Street between West 4th and Bleecker Streets) had plans to close. As soon as the April issue of WestView News came out, we were bombarded with angry phone calls telling us that we had gotten it wrong. So this month, we are
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Kakushi Ari Kata Sanmai Hozo Joint
By Robert Kroll Hanging art in a small apartment, with few walls that don’t have doors and windows can be a problem. What if your furniture, your dining table, buffet or cupboards were created so that art could be displayed from them? That was the task I set myself to in my Dumbo design studio.
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Then&Now: NYU’s Main Building Washington Square
By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Then: The University of the City of New York was incorporated in 1831 as a nondenominational modern university, supported by private donations. The University Building, shown above, was constructed in 1832-35 as the first and only original building for the campus, at the entire Washington Square East blockfront between
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LOCAL STREETSCAPES: 95 Morton Block
By Brian J Pape, AIA Built for manufacturing and warehousing ca.1911, this building dominates the full block of Washington Street, and sports a roof terrace with unobstructed Hudson River views for now. 95 Morton Street is the main lobby address for the office uses in this 220,000 SF, fully leased building. Capital Real Estate Ltd.
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Woodstock
By Jeff Hodges On August 14th, 1969, we threw some camping gear into a van emblazoned with a big white peace sign and set out for Bethel, NY. We were 18 years old, we had our tickets to the Woodstock Music Festival, and we were ready for three days of peace and music. We got
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Notes from Away—A Golden Opportunity
By Tom Lamia Oh the fighting that is going on in the trenches of party politics as the midterm elections approach. Both the House and the Senate are on the tipping point of losing (or gaining) a majority of members who would join together to deny the minority a voice in running the country. Whether
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LATE BREAKING NEWS…
As we were going to press, WestView News learned of one of the most egregious abuses of tenant rights we have ever heard—displaced tenant Deborah Privitello facing off against billionaire landlord Francis Greenburger/Time Equities. Her family’s home is the last rent-stabilized unit in one of Greenburger’s buildings, and it’s been decimated from flooding, a leaking
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Matronalia to Mother’s Day:
The Impact of Women and Mothers on Society and Culture By Anastasia Kaliabakos Lance Conrad once said, “I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” How true that is! To celebrate my wonderful mom, along with all the mothers who will also be celebrated this Mother’s Day (May 8th, 2022), I thought it would be
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Buggy Whips vs Batteries
By Gordon Hughes I was having lunch the other day in the Village with two friends, good friends, for whom I have great respect. They were both of the firm conviction that battery power would never replace fossil fuel energy for automobiles, farm equipment or household electrical needs etc. They sincerely believe there is no
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I Swim, Therefore I Am
By Vicki Polon Who would believe a $15.99 piece of plastic could change your life? At 73, I was already taking statins when my cardiologist, the exuberant and very wise Dr. Klein, said I needed more cardio in my life. Do you work out, he asked? “Well, I swim every day in summer when my
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A Yogic Guide to Dying:
Virtual Workshops from Integral Yoga on the Ultimate Letting Go By Chandra/Jo Sgammato No one likes to think about their own death or the death of a loved one. Yet dying is an inevitable part of life. For more than a half century Integral Yoga has taught us to live, and now the yogis are
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John Rockefeller Joins Non-Profit to Cure AIDS
By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. On April 22, 2022, epidemiologist John Rockefeller was announced as the latest director to join the board of Research Foundation to Cure AIDS (RFTCA). Originating from a Nobel-Prize winning laboratory at The Rockefeller University, RFTCA’s core Chromovert® Technology can increase the efficiency of stem cell strategies to cure HIV infection and
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A Doctor’s Advice on Staying Injury-Free this Spring
By Peter D. McCann, MD Springtime is finally here, and it feels a lot different this year. For the first time in three years, the transition out of winter feels joyous and hopeful, as life begins to resemble the normal for which we had been waiting so long. There are more opportunities to travel, gather
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Livable Streets lV: Our Streets, Our Rooms
By Barry Benepe In previous Livable Streets articles I stressed the comfort and convenience of walking and relaxing in safe, comfortable, and convenient landscaped streets. In this article I address how we can experience our streets as extensions of our interior rooms. Just as our apartments and rooms are defined by their ceilings, floors, walls,
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Opening the New Rooftop Park at Pier 57
By Brian J Pape, AIA The roof of Pier 57 is New York City’s largest public rooftop park, and is now open to the general public daily from 7am – 10pm all year. Brad Hoylman joined Governor Hochul, Mayor Adams, Congressman Nadler and Council Member Bottcher in mid-April at the ribbon-cutting. Featuring nearly two acres
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Publisher with Commitment
Our esteemed publisher, George Capsis, was recently the focus of a feature in the Greek newspaper, The National Herald. Many thanks to the publishers for allowing us to reprint the article. Read on for great insight into George’s heritage. By Penelope Karageorge Actress Sarah Jessica Parker has tagged her neighbor, George Capsis, 94, the “king
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Gifts and Bliss to City Councilman Erik Bottcher in Celebration of Earth Day
By P Segal New York City fine-art photographer and multimedia artist, SuZen, brought gifts and bliss to newly-elected Eric Bottcher’s City Council office on Earth Day, April 22. Joined by the Westbeth Bliss Singers, SuZen and Erik hung a photograph from SuZen’s FOGSERIES and sang in celebration of Earth Day. At the Spirit of Spring
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Washington Square Park SOS Instagram Keeps Tabs on Police and Predators
By Sophia Astor For most people who use Instagram, the perfect place to take selfies or post photos of the city’s golden youth sporting alternative fashions is in front of the iconic landmarks in Washington Square Park. For the owner of the @washingtonsquareparksos Instagram account, it’s a tool for monitoring police activity and to warn
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The Board Meeting at St. Vincent’s
By Roger Paradiso “This was a well-thought-out plan,” said Tom Shanahan, a lawyer for a group of former St. Vincent doctors and nurses suing St. Vincent’s. “They wanted out and had to justify it to the state. They were running it into the ground.” DA Cy Vance’s team is looking into whether vendors double-billed for
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LOCAL STREETSCAPES: St. Luke’s School
By Brian J Pape, AIA Are you thinking that you just read about the St. Luke’s school completing their expansion work, and now we’re seeing more construction work? You are right. In 2020, St. Luke’s School did complete their classroom expansion, adding a couple of floors above the existing two-floor structure, which in the photo,
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Greenwich Village Little League’s 2022 Opening Day
By Anthony Paradiso The Major League Baseball (MLB) season is in full swing and so is the Greenwich Village Little League’s spring season! Last year only “mini opening days” were held according to GVLL President Peter Marino but this season has been more like the way it was before the pandemic. The opening day ceremony
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The Village Has a New Supermarket!
By George Capsis Despite the turmoil in the wake of the pandemic to retail businesses, an innovative new supermarket has opened just opposite the outdoor Farmer’s Market that assembles at Abingdon Square every Saturday. The location may look familiar—it’s where Mrs. Green’s operated for a short while before closing down in 2016. The first words
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Bullied by Smart Meters
Technology We Can Do Without By Les Jamieson Have you ever wondered how technologies most of us would never dream up get foisted upon the public? You know, things like digital measuring devices called “smart” meters used by Con Edison. After all, those round analog devices usually found somewhere in the basement that are electro-mechanical
