Lynne Stewart Freed!
January 1, 2014: On New Year’s Eve day, a federal judge in Manhattan, Judge Koetl, ordered a compassionate release for Lynne F. Stewart, the former […]
Thoughts on a Ten Year Anniversary of WestView News
Listening to WNYC on January 31, I heard how this guy invented a watch which takes the statistically predicted time of your death and counts […]
Interfaith Medical Center, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, will stay open for another month, at least
WestView News has learned that Interfaith Medical Center, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, will stay open for another month, at least. On December 23, a judge ruled that […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Top Films of 2013 It has been a very good year to see quality, challenging, and entertaining movies in a variety of distribution platforms including […]
Whooshing Lou Reed into the Night
On December 16 2013 under a full moon, in about 30 degrees wind, at 6:30 PM, about 250 people were already waiting in line at […]
What Some of Your Neighbors Think of WestView – Sarah Jessica Parker
There was a moment, a day in a year, long ago and unrecalled, when my acquaintance with WestView News blossomed into a relationship. The house […]
Busy VID Monthly Meeting
Approximately 40-50 members of the Village Independent Democrats (VID) met on Thursday, December 12 in St. John’s Church on Christopher Street. There were brief reports […]
Conyers Builds Single Payer Support
On Friday December 6, Representative John Conyers (Michigan) came to New York City to build a support for HR 676, his bill to establish a […]
Westview Over Ten Years: Healthcare Over Ten Years
Over the last ten years, there have been numerous technical advances in medicine that have improved healthcare and quality of life. These are usually well […]
My Village, My Self
One beautiful spring morning in 2002, as I meandered along Charles Street towards the Hudson, I had the uncanny sensation that a map of my […]
Out Shout
A Column of Political Commentary By Arthur Z. Schwartz A City Ready To Heal,Hudson River Park Air Rights, Hope for Public School Parents, Peace offering […]
NYU Graduate Student Organizing Committee wants a union
NYU has been in the news regarding labor.Inside Higher Ed of December 12 reports: “Earlier this week, members of the GSOC (Graduate Student Organizing Committee) […]
NY Mag reports opposition to NYU expansion
The New York Magazine of December 13th reports that there is extensive opposition to the plan developed by NYU to turn Greenwich Village into a […]