DEBORAH GLICK MUST GO!
After Pier 40 Air Rights Debacle and Lies . As the Pier 40 air rights drama unfolds, there will be many fingers pointed. The saga […]
THE NIGGER IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Jim Collier is a straight talking man so when a few months ago he wanted to use the word “nigger” in an article to shock us […]
The Headline Offends Me
I am certain this phrase has been said openly and boldly in living rooms and private clubs, on golf courses, in bars, and during production […]
WRITING FICTION WITH FORENSIC TOOLS
On 9-11, forensic dentist, Dr. Stanley Woods-Frankel got a call from the police to help identify the mutilated and burned bodies at Ground Zero. Brutal […]
WASHINGTON SQUARE CONSERVING BEAUTY
Why does Washington Square Park need a conservancy? How does the park benefit? Or the rest of us for that matter? I met one sunny […]
WASHINGTON SQUARE RIBBON CUTTING
READY, SET, CUT: “It looks better than ever,” was the verdict of Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver, speaking at the June 10th ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating […]
Suddenly Poor and Homeless at 70
How terribly strange to be 70, the song goes. Even stranger, to be 70, and homeless. Truth be known, most of us are hanging by […]
Oral History at the Jefferson Market Library
More than 100 longtime community members recently shared their stories as part of The Jefferson Market Library’s Greenwich Village Oral History Project. This project has […]
Needles to the Sky
At one time (over 100 years ago), any building taller than the walk-up height of seven stories might have been called a skyscraper. Since the […]
TEICH TOYS & BOOKS
573 Hudson Street (near 11th Street) http://www.teichdesign.com Interview with owner Allison McGowan: This spacious store which opened on June 7 is family owned. (Teich– pronounced […]
Walk About New York
In a Greenwich Village guidebook written in the 1880’s, the author decried the row of ugly new brownstone townhouses on Charles and Perry and the […]
West Village Original: Three Lives & Company
This month West Village Originals is doing something different: focusing on a long-time neighborhood business instead of a particular resident. Of course, the venerable bookstore […]
Don’t Get Me Started
It’s summer. I wrote this right before the Summer Solstice but now that you’re holding WestView in your hands, yes, summer has officially commenced. (Just […]
THEATER THREADS
“The Village Bike” – at the Lucille Lortel Theatre It has been called The Lucille Lortel Theatre for a long time, yet in my head […]
New to eat on the west side of Hudson Street
Some less typical eateries have sprung up in the last few months on the west side of Hudson. They are not completely new, in that […]
DOWN THE SHORE EVERYTHING’S ALL RIGHT
After the particularly cold, long and dismal winter, into the chilly spring weather of 2014, summer is here at last and it is time to […]
DO NOT GO GENTLY DYLAN THOMAS
Remember my poetry not the White Horse nights . If you live long enough you become a witness to some small bits of history and […]
William Pedersen, a Profile of the Man and Architecture
My love for architecture started in college while I was studying fashion, when I looked at structures such as angles and curves as a form […]