After the Storm

Why I Am Running for Village District Leader For the first 24 years of my adult (post 18) life, I eschewed electoral politics. I loved […]

Hudson River Park Readying For A Better Future

Readers of Westview News know that 2012 was a momentous year for Hudson River Park. Aside from grappling with the effects from Hurricane Sandy, Hudson […]

Amour

This is my first written film review. I have just seen Amour, twice, more appropriately titled A Mort, which may be the greatest film I […]

You’re never alone

Every morning, I take a taxi to work. I feel guilty about this, believe me, but I know I’m not the only one wrestling with […]

Durst And Sports Dads in Titanic Competition

I was late for the meeting called by attorney Arthur Schwartz, Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Hudson River Park Trust (HRPT), held in […]

How I Will Remember Koch

I first saw Ed Koch in person in 1965 when he was running against Carmine DeSapio for District Leader. I realized that with only a […]

Creating Whose Job?

Lee Lorenz has, as usual, got it right in his cartoon in the November issue of WestView. The cartoon shows what used to be called […]

From a From-away: Kropki, in what is now Belarus – 1911

He came in the middle of the night. We had been up anyhow. It didn’t take a great deal of thinking to know that what […]

Greenwich Village Chef Lends A Hand For Neighbor Settlement House

Anita Lo Serves As Top Chef Among Village Peers As restaurants prepare to transition their winter menus to spring, chefs in the Greenwich Village area […]

The Hornblower

In the 1980s, I was captain of a cruise boat in New York harbor. So, it was with great interest that I went aboard the […]

Random Thoughts from the Front Lines

As some of you may have heard, I have finally left NYC for the outdoor beauty and peace of California. George Capsis, our indomitable, near […]