Reflections on the Breathless Pace of Technology
By Josef Eisinger© To estimate the likelihood of extraterrestrial life developing on planets that orbit stars other than our sun, one must review the history […]
Thank You, WestView
Dear George, I am so sorry to learn of the death of your cousin John. It looks like pioneers run in your family. What you […]
An Historic Moment
By Cynthia Chaffee & Mary Ann Miller On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 60 Centre Street, an historic consent decree was reached between the New […]
Replacing the ‘MF’ Word
By E.N.J. Carter Sundays on the corner of Christopher Street and Greenwich Avenue were a spectacle most churchgoers tried to ignore in the early 1970s. […]
The Next Concert Could Be Yours
In my now 90 years, I found myself doing something I have never done before—sponsoring a classical music concert. It was easier than I thought. […]
Readers’ Clicks
Today, nobody leaves the apartment without his/her cell phone. So, when you see something attention-grabbing, snap a shot and send it to WestView with a […]
Corey Johnson Could Be Chuck Schumer!
Oh wow! The Times keeps calling Corey Johnson, the new Speaker of the City Council, the second-most powerful man in City government. I asked Erik […]
A City Law to Save Newspapers
By George Capsis OH WOW! I got a notice that a Queens City Councilman, Rory Lancman, was coming to the Village for a public meeting […]
No Wonder WNYC is a Nonprofit
By George Capsis Oh my, there is nothing so heart-rending as discovering that an old friend has been deceiving you for years and is not […]
We Need Our Own Andrew Carnegie
By George Capsis On December 23rd, WestView gave another concert, our second at St. Veronica. Despite the rain, you came and again in great numbers […]
Memory As a Bureaucratic Tool
When Corey Johnson was first running for City Council, he came to 69 Charles Street and asked if WestView would support him. I explained that […]
What Do You Want Corey to Do?
By George Capsis What does it mean for the readers of WestView that 35-year-old Corey Johnson will, on January 4th, become the Speaker of the New […]
Holy Cross’ Teddy Capsis Honored by All-Patriot League
Holy Cross’ Teddy Capsis Honored by All-Patriot LeagueOn November 21, 2017, the College of the Holy Cross and the Patriot League reported that junior defensive […]
Caruso’s Quips
By Charles Caruso A woman who calls a man ‘darling’ is invariably a phony. ___ We start as Hamlet and end as Polonius. ___ From […]
Recalling the Good/Bad Old Days
Dear Editors: Reading the beautiful, young Catherine Revland’s creepy experience with the repulsive Gene P. was another reminder of those good/bad old days of ‘dirty […]
Victimized by the Sixth Precinct
Dear Editors: Now I’ve seen it all. After being falsely arrested, threatened, cursed, and spat upon, I was finally ‘EDP’d’ to Bellevue. This is particularly […]
In & Out
On November 30th, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the threshold on the Commercial Rent Tax (CRT) would be raised from $250,000 to $500,000 starting […]
West Village: A Food Desert?
By Barry Benepe Writing in the September 2017 issue of WestView, Robert Widmann bemoans the loss of food markets in the West Village. (See the […]