West View Tours St. Vincent’s Replacement
The critical component in any emergency situation is time. For the people of any community, the time to diagnosis and treatment is the key to […]
Jason Sheftell Honored
The late Jason Sheftell, real estate writer for the Daily News and formerly the editor of WestView News, has twice been honored in recent months. […]
Long Island College Hospital Update
After a long struggle to save LICH (Long Island College Hospital), which was about to close, a developer has won the bid to take it […]
What Gynaecologists Won’t Tell Women: A Call for National Outcry
For many years, hysterectomies have been presented by gynaecologists as the ideal, routine, easy, and problem-free solution to women’s health issues. That is far from […]
New Community Middle School – Not Yet
Between birth and death, the most dramatic transformation of the lifespan is puberty: boys become men, girls become women, students anticipate university education or quitting […]
Union City or Jackson Heights?
A Sipress cartoon in the current issue of The New Yorker(April 28) features a happy tourist wearing an “I ª NY” t-shirt. She turns to […]
Any way You Slice It
As I said, the court awarded me $30,000 and I can’t think of anything I want to buy with it. I mean, I have all […]
Bred to Work
In the April 2014 WestView issue, our own Barry Benepe came out to keep the horse drawn carriages in Central Park. Then bang, in April […]
It is My Turn to Steal
Former Comptroller, John Liu, cited his withholding $42 million on the City Time contract, which is called the greatest fraud in City history with the […]
WestView Letter May 2014: Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor Certain species eat the male after copulation, which indicates how women may feel about men in general. This is an almost […]
M8 Weekend Service Only a Test
Buses “kneel” because eighty-year-olds can’t step up and eighty-year-Olds take the bus because they can’t walk down and then up the subway steps. However, for […]
Success for Desert
“I am going to review Quarter restaurant tonight. Want to join Alvin and me?” asked WestView’s food writer, David Porat. Facing, once again, frozen Trader […]
THE POWER OF THE “PRESSE”
House guest Isabelle Pilate Drufin, the proprietress of Deux Pierre, once on Bleecker and Charles Streets, was chatting in French and easing her brother Christian […]
Running For Office as Recreation
If, last month, you had been on line to receive free Passover food at a Coney Island Jewish charity you might be surprised to look […]
WestView Letter May 2014: Sen. Schumer’s Plan to Save St. Vincent’s
Sen. Schumer’s Plan to Save St. Vincent’s Letter to the Editor: Zero. But the Senator had no problem helping to steer 180 Million dollars in […]
Jefferson Market Library
As the Branch Manager of The Jefferson Market Library for over 10 years and Greenwich Village resident for the last 20, I realize how lucky […]
Then & Now: The Kickoff on King Street
Fifty years ago this fall, four Italian-American kids were photographed playing football on the streets of the South Village for the New York World Telegram […]
Why is My Child Not Learning? (Part Two)
In our previous article, we focused on your child’s view of the learning problem. Hopefully, we established a non-threatening, positive child-centered approach which can set […]