“Just Show Up”
By Jacqueline Taylor Basker “Just show up” was the final plea of the Reverend Chloe Breyer at “Building Bridges,” a Christian-Muslim Interfaith Dialogue held on […]
The Self-Deception of Wealth
By George Capsis On that glorious morning, when we savored the first Trump defeat, I read what could be—THE court order that might, at last, […]
PeopleWay Traffic Solution—Move
Some time ago, we published a photo of Charles Street taken in the 1930s where there was only one car parked—just one. Now, we have […]
Architecture, Language, and Gesture at Jefferson Market Library
By Mark John Smith As many of you may know, this year marks the 50th anniversary of Jefferson Market Library (JMU). For the last half-century, […]
Navigating the PeopleWay
By Paul Steely White With a 15-month suspension of L Train service between Brooklyn and Manhattan and along 14th Street coming in 2019, the City […]
Historic Landmark Preservation in 2017: Out of Date at 50?
By Brian J. Pape, AIA New York City at the Forefront How is the maturing Historic Landmark Preservation Movement, which led the cause before the […]
West Village Houses: The Real Story Behind “Jane Jacobs Homes”
By Brian J. Pape, AIA When activists like Jane Jacobs and Rachele Wall first conceived the West Village Houses in the early 1960s, they envisioned […]
Automat
Dear Editors: Being Boston-born and DC-domiciled, I must admit surprise at being reminded of an early childhood memory by a New York community newspaper! While […]
PeopleWay
This letter forms part of a dialogue involving the future of 14th Street in relation to the L Train shutdown planned for at least 18 […]
Briefly Noted: Court Date Set for Save Gansevoort Lawsuit
Readers of WestView News are by now aware that the neighborhood group, Save Gansevoort, has been working for more than a year to challenge a […]
Fourteenth Street Closed to Traffic? Bad Idea.
By Arthur Z. Schwartz Hundreds of residents from 12th to 15th Streets showed up at a “workshop” held by Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and […]
Landmarks Preservation Commission Approves Six-Story Super-Luxe Condo for Jane Street Garage Site
By Robert Widmann What would Jane Jacobs say? Maybe, “Ugh!” In the late afternoon hours of February 14th, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted unanimously […]
Village Development Controversies Heat Up
By Brian J. Pape, AIA This past month, several Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) decisions have neighbors upset. What drove the LPC to make these choices? […]
WestView Anticipates Diller Island Flaw
By George Capsis In February of 2015, WestView’s Architecture Editor, Brian J. Pape, signaled the arbitrary complexity and prohibitive cost of casting 300 reinforced concrete […]
PeopleWay Only Moves the Problem
Dear Editors: I read an article by Paul Steely White in the January 2017 issue of WestView about 14th Street, which promoted closing the street […]
Stonewall Visitor Center Proposal Offer
By Brian J. Pape At a recent Design Justice charrette held at the Center for Architecture, participants offered a challenge for the National Parks Service’s […]