Barbara Huff Obit
World traveling children’s book editor, author, poet and QEII frequent-voyager, Barbara Huff, died peacefully on April 21. Huff grew up in Westwood, a suburb of […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
In or out of Greenwich Village, August is either the dog days of summer or the time to vacation with a good book or feel […]
Oldest Building in West Village May Disappear, or Vanishing Village Virtues
This month, Suri Bieler, the owner of 121 Charles Street, has put this beloved property on the market for a jaw-dropping $20,000,000.This anachronistic dollhouse looks […]
VID Endorses
On Thursday July 10th the Village Independent Democrats (VID) held their monthly meeting at St. John’s Church on Christopher Street. The meeting started with reports […]
New Medical Portal Opens
The Lenox Hill Healthplex, the only free standing emergency room in Manhattan, has opened in the former O’Toole building of St. Vincent’s Hospital on 7th […]
WestView Letter August 2014: Hi George,
Hi George, I was glad to get my copy of WestView today. I’m very grateful. One note: Zephyr Teachout, candidate for Governor whom I heard […]
Human Expiration Date
Medical science is great at keeping us alive. Nursing homes are full of people that do no more than take their meds, eat, excrete and […]
West Village Morning
10 am Wednesday morning, late June. Nice day and no work, a day off in the middle of the week…just fantastic. I exit the Morton […]
WestView Letter August 2014: Dear Editors,
Dear Editors, One hopes that the new Lenox Hill Healthplex on West 12th Street will bring better treatment to the health of our neighbors than […]
WestView Letter August 2014: Dear Editors,
Dear Editors, Brian Pape’s Needles in the Sky (West View News July 2014) was a refreshing exposure to a new phenomenon in Manhattan which I […]
That Word
Dear George Capsis, James Lincoln Collier’s piece shocked precisely because he used the word in one of the few contexts where using it matters: To […]
WestView Letter August 2014: Letter to the editor or in brief
Letter to the editor or in brief Dear Editor, All of the hoopla over the July issue headline, “Nigger in the Whitehouse” unfortunately detracted from […]
The CSA Gives a Secret Reception
ATTENTION: If you are a paid-up member of the Charles Street Block Association or would like to join it, there is an August reception at […]
CRIME AND REDEMPTION
For you, one of my very few really meticulous readers, you will of course remember from the last issue the theft of a double impatient […]
Block Melange
More than forty years ago the city invited building owners to buy and install trees and as a very proud new owner, I planted the […]
How to Buy a Hospital
This morning before I could read it in the Times I heard on WNYC that NYU Langone was getting a billion dollars to build a […]
“They were just out for publicity”
Global news floats on a rolling Internet sea and twice WestView made 100,000 hits- once last August when I supposedly slapped a State Senator for […]
WestView Letter August 2014: Hi George:
Hi George: I was reading the News & I noticed the box asking for news & complaints. Casa La Femme (140 Charles St.) has been […]