NYC Retiree Alert
By J. Taylor Basker & Jesse Kasowitz While you were enjoying the summer on the beach, sunning, swimming, or boating, the city unions sank the […]
Little Italy has almost no public green space.
@Adrian_Benepe tweeted: Little Italy has almost no public green space. Mostly it has asphalt yards. Why would the City destroy a beloved green space that […]
The Double-Cross Continues at Elizabeth Street Gardens
By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP The bureaucracy moves slowly, even when it’s moving in the wrong direction. Green space, once developed with buildings, changes […]
Review of “Walk on the Wild Side: The Folk Scene, Before and After Bob Dylan”
By Anthony Paradiso On Saturday, September 18th, I went on a walking tour organized by the “Village Trip Festival.” The tour took me on a […]
Sigmund Freud and the Birth of Public Relations
By Bruce Poli Edward L. Bernays Sigmund Freud, “Uncle Sigi” to Bernays In the early 1940s my mother had lunch with Edward L. Bernays, nephew […]
When No Place Is Home
By Kieran Loughney While on an errand one sweltering summer day, I observed a woman covered in thick layers of soiled and tattered clothing crouched […]
Here’s to the Ladies
By Keith Michael Inexplicably to me, most self-identifying birders are men, and there’s a tendency for those men to focus their binoculars and cameras on […]
Superhero XIII: The Hazards and Happinesses of the Short Sublet
By Robert Kroll Those of you, and I mean both of you, who regularly follow this series of columns on the meaning and essence of […]
Restoration of the Last of Three Sister Hotels
By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP The last of the three remaining historic seaman’s hotels along the Hudson River shoreline is slated for restoration, […]
Possible Roadmap to Block a Cure for AIDS
By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. According to the group US Inventor, large companies can use the Patent Trial Appeals Group (PTAB) process to challenge innovations that […]
Notes From Away: Sentinel of Democracy
By Tom Lamia On January 6 of this year, during the course of the chaos taking place below, one can only think that the saddest […]
Village Activist Doris Diether Dies at 92
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP My dear friend Doris Diether passed away peacefully at home Thursday morning, September 16th. Doris was a person who […]
Leave the Attitude, Take the Cannoli
By Alec Pruchnicki, MD Twenty-eight years ago, when I moved down to Greenwich Village from Arthur Avenue in The Bronx, I wanted to find an […]
Sliwa for Mayor: NYC’s Guardian Angel?
By Anastasia Kaliabakos As a native New Yorker born in 2002, I have been witness to the leadership of two mayors: Michael Bloomberg and Bill […]
An Angry Reader Spawns a Solution
By George Capsis We don’t get too many angry letters to the editor but we sure got one from Laurence Edelman, who was outraged at […]
LETTERS
New York City is Not Paris Dear WV News, I’ve been following WestView’s coverage of the outdoor-dining conflict and I’ve been somewhat amused by the […]
Mia Says
Mia Says: The path to wisdom is to edit and re-edit our thoughts. Photo by Dusty Berke.