Two Small Giants: Haile Selassie and Volodymyr Zelensky
By Gordon Hughes For those of you who read my column regularly you will find this column very atypical. We are going through an extremely […]
City Councilman Erik Bottcher Delivers Essential Supplies with Innovative Nonprofit, ShelterShare
City Councilman Erik Bottcher joined ShelterShare founder, Anthony Valencia, for a delivery of donated supplies to New Alternatives, a nonprofit provider helping unhoused New Yorkers […]
Explosions and Ukraine
Abstracted from A Scientists View of Almost Everything by Mark M Green Tension is a good word to describe what explosions are all about. Tense […]
A Ring as Weapon: How Vladimir Putin Thinks
By Bruce Poli Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, has won more Super Bowls than any owner in NFL history. By 2005 […]
Business as Usual
By Siggy Raible It is the morning of the first day of spring in 2022. The sun is pouring through the windows of my cozy […]
An Unsung Hero of the West Village: How a Ukrainian Doctor Is Helping Her Homeland
By Anastasia Kaliabakos On Thursday February 24, 2022, the world watched a largely anticipated Russian invasion of Ukraine take place—the largest military conflict to occur […]
Notes From Away: It’s a Long Way To Tipperary
By Tom Lamia As I settle in to compose something short, meaningful and topical each month, a historical reference often intrudes on my thoughts. Last […]
Working on the Permanent Open Restaurant Program
By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP The development of Outdoor Dining in New York City continues to evolve. The Open Restaurants website of the city […]
Mom & Pops Suffer Loss of St. Vincent’s
By Kathryn Adisman In the aftermath of the hospital closing, I made the rounds of local mom & pops to inquire about the impact on […]
Pharmacists Protest Governor Hochul’s Neglect of Patients in NYS Budget
By John Kaliabakos Pharmacist, Village Apothecary On March 18, 2022 more than 100 of New York’s independent pharmacists and their patients protested outside of Governor […]
Washington Square Musician Plans Protest Concert to Keep Live Music in the Park
By Sophia Astor It’s a story as old as rock and roll: a boy learns to play guitar, achieves some success, runs afoul of the […]
A Complicated Assignment
By Frank Quinn At the February NYPD Community Council meeting, Captain Stephen Spataro of the 6th precinct announced that a new detail of officers would […]
How Do We Get a Full Service Hospital?
By Brian J Pape, AIA, LEED-AP About a decade ago, NYC saw major shake-ups in the medical care field. Of course, that’s when we saw […]
World’s Third AIDS Patient Cured
What Does it Mean for a Global Cure? By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. Within the research community, the Holy Grail to cure AIDS had been to […]
LETTERS
Washington Square Park Skateboarders Cry Foul as Police Begin Crackdown Dear Editors: Having read Sophia Astor’s piece, “Washington Square Park Skateboarders Cry Foul as Police […]
The Lost Hospital: Was It Greed That Killed Saint Vincent’s?
By Roger Paradiso I found a 2016 article in the WestView News archives by Dr. M. Zakir Sabry who used to work at St. Vincent’s. […]
A Personal and Broader Case For a Hospital in Greenwich Village
That I find myself asking to rebuild a hospital in Greenwich Village presumptive is easy to understand if you know that a single hospital room […]