Caffè Vivaldi Closes
By Caroline Benveniste When Ishrat Ansari posted the news on Caffè Vivaldi’s website that the café/restaurant/performance and community space would be closing on June 23rd, […]
Have You Seen My New Perambulator?
By Gordon T Hughes Jr. The other morning, I was sipping a cup of coffee at my favorite haunt, Panino Mucho Gusto Cafe, when a […]
Junzi Kitchen
By Caroline Benveniste On July 16th or thereabouts, Junzi Kitchen, a Chinese fast-casual restaurant will open at 170 Bleecker Street. This will be the restaurant’s […]
The Proust Center Opens at Jefferson Market Library
By Sharon Girard “For a long time I used to go to bed early.” Thus begins the 4,000 plus page masterpiece In Search of Lost […]
Horses that Heal: The Extraordinary Impacts of Therapeutic Riding
By Anastasia Kaliabakos Everyone has heard of American Pharoah and Justify; however, does anyone know about Sugar, Tito, or Duncan? When most people think of […]
Then & Now: Milkwagon and Old Houses, 8-10 Grove Street
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Abbott’s streetscapes often included horse-drawn wagons, relics of an earlier age. In this Grove Street photograph, taken the same […]
Village Hard-won School to Open
By Lucy Stone As the New York City public school academic year winds down and students eagerly await summer vacation, there is one middle school […]
A Criminal Fine Is Not A Grant
I think it is very important that we spotlight the instinctive double-think attitude of our politicians. The Federal government has indicted the management of the […]
Sunday in the Park
By Keith Michael Even though it’s still a few days before the official start of summer, it’s already swelteringly hot. And for some reason, rather […]
Hospital is NOT a For-Profit—Has Duty
By Penny Mintz The Community Coalition to Save Beth Israel (CCSBI) faces an uphill battle, to say the least. People tell me, “There’s no way […]
Neighbors
By Roberta Curley My neighbors start crawling around 5 a.m.— both possess two feet equivalent to four noisemakers totaling eight ballbreakers (with shoes) intergalactic attack-drones […]
Spill the Tea: (Verb) to Engage in Gossip
By Stanley Wlodyka Within a minute or two of sitting down on the bench in front of Tea & Sympathy, Nicky Perry sweet-talks a miniature […]
She Was Always Ready to Sing
By Jess Berk I still can’t believe she’s gone. For most of my life my entire world has been about engaging in various battles with, […]
Ruth Berk, Village Cabaret Singer and Owner, Dies at 94
By Arthur Z. Schwartz Ruth Berk, who would have turned 95 in August, passed the morning of June 8 at Beth Israel Hospital. The cause […]
Mayhem in Little Tijuana
On Sunday, June 24th, after the 49th Annual Gay Pride Parade in the Village at midnight, at the corner of 6th Avenue and West 4th […]
Correction
A reader residing in West Village Houses pointed out a phrase in the last paragraph of June 2018 article “West Village Houses Rally for Preservation” […]
Advocates Stop Mitchell Donian’s Eviction
Mitchell Donian, 87 years old, called George Capsis on May 30, extremely upset. After living at 204-210 West 10th Street for 60 years, his landlord, […]
9/11
Dear Editors, Thank you WestView News for having the fortitude to publish the article about the 9-11 report and the facts about the case! The […]