The West Side Story: Hudson Yards
How often does an urban city have the opportunity to build a city within a city? If it’s lucky, once. New York City has achieved […]
Food Show: Fancy, Fulfilling, Filling
“Life’s a banquet,” famously roared Auntie Mame, a West Village avatar by way of the woman who inspired her, the man who created her. Paraphrasing […]
Novogratz Medical Center
The TV camera caught the look of sudden concern on the face of Christine Quinn as one of her 18- year-old campaign workers collapsed in […]
Weekend M8 Revived
On July 22 in a Crain’s Business online bulletin reporting on an MTA listing of city train and bus services to be reinstated, was a […]
New Guy On The Block
For fans of PizzetteriaBrunetti in Westhampton, it should come as good news thatJason Brunetti is hard at workon a Hudson Street branch. Currently transforming the […]
Single City State Voice To Stop Hospital Closings
“You will never get a hospital,” declared Michael J. Dowling, CEO of North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital, before a packed auditorium at PS 41. […]
East vs. West, One More Imbalance
The imbalance in hospitals and hospital beds between the East and West sides of Manhattan has been well documented in WestView News. However, alongside is […]
Activists take protest to save hospitals to governor’s office
Several hundred hospital employees, members of two healthcare unions, and healthcare activists rallied outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Manhattan office on July 8 to demand a […]
Power Shift Ahead for Our New Community Education Council?
A new slate of parents just elected tothe Community Education Council for District 2 (CECD2) will make for a balanced crop of rookie and veteran […]
Bell Labs: The War Years
Walter Brattain was sitting in his Village apartment on a quiet Sunday afternoon, listening to the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Toscanini, when the broadcast […]
Citi Bikes: Docking Against The Clock
In late May, the Citi Bikes launched in the West Village, and docking stations sprung up everywhere, full of shiny blue bikes looking like credit […]
33 MacDougal Alley, the Lost Studio of Isamu Noguchi
MacDougal Alley is one of those hidden enclaves of Greenwich Village that many passersby may not notice, but if they do they are treated to […]
Cottage Baseball
Precisely how and why I became keen on sports I cannot say. My family had little interest. My mother had essayed a little tennis when […]
West Village Original: Keith Michael
This month’s West Village Original is Keith Michael, the author of WestView’s bird column. Born in Pennsylvania, Michael moved to New York in 1979. He […]
Nice Catch
Even before I clipped on Millie’s leash to venture out into the still-sweltering August afternoon, I knew that my usual tallying of this summer’s baby-boomer […]
THE CRADLE WILL ROCK – “Encore’s! – Off Center”
Writing a review of The Cradle Will Rock, after the show played the scheduled three performances, allows for the opportunity to give a shout to […]
This is Your Cigarette
Written and Directed by Scott Langer (he also appears as principal protagonist; James) July 11, Marilyn Monroe Theater: Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute Mr. […]
What Will Coney Island Be?
During the final days of our now-shuttered Sixth Avenue Food Emporium, frequent spontaneous conversations took place between usually solitary shoppers with concerns such as, “where […]