Brewer & GVSHP Demand Pier 40 Area Limits
By Brian J. Pape Manhattan Borough President (MBP) Gale Brewer spoke at the City Planning Commission’s public hearing for 550 Washington (a.k.a. St. John’s Terminal […]
Pier 55 Update: Architectural Challenges of Diller’s Island
By Brian J. Pape With a reported $113 million contribution to the Hudson River Park Trust (HRPT, a joint New York State and local government […]
One Designer, Two Egos
By George Capsis Oh, wow! There in the September 15th issue of the Times is an enormous half-page color rendering of a 15-story “theme edifice” […]
Pier 40—St. John’s Terminal Project Must Proceed!
By Arthur Z. Schwartz I am going to keep this simple. On August 24th, the City Planning Commission had before it a proposal, conditionally recommended […]
TESTIMONY OF THE GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION
11 Jane Street Certificate of Appropriateness Application Greenwich Village Historic District June 21, 2016 Good afternoon Commissioners. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation feels […]
The Houses at 18 and 20 Christopher Street
By Justin Matthews The houses at 18 and 20 Christopher Street, built in 1827, are typical in style (and in size for the medium density […]
Dr. Stein Hoff to Row Across the Atlantic Ocean Solo
By Stan Fine Dr. Hoff will row from Battery Park, New York City to the Isles of Scilly, England, in commemoration of daring seamen […]
Some Lost Jazz Clubs of the Village
By Clive I. Morrick Nightclubs, piano bars, cabarets, jazz clubs—call them what you will. The Village, east and west, has known many over the years. […]
Meat Market’s Architecture
Michele Herman’s Talking Point (The Villager February 25) is incisive in presenting changes over the decades of the Meat Market’s architecture, but puzzling nevertheless. The […]
Pruitt-Igoe, a Lesson in City Planning Gone Wrong
By Eric Uhlfelder Pruitt-Igoe, the housing project pictured last month on the front page of WestView as it was being demolished, didn’t fail only due […]
The Isaacs-Hendricks House
By Justin Matthews The Isaacs-Hendricks House at 77 Bedford Street, built in 1799, is the oldest house in the West Village, and one of the […]
History of D’Agostino’s
By Caroline Benveniste On the awning of its store on Greenwich Street between Bethune and W. 12th, D’Agostino’s boasts that it has been “Family Owned […]
Traces of History: From Greenwich Village to Saugerties, New York
I have been living in Greenwich Village since 1971 on the fourth floor of a five floor walk-up tenement built by Alexander Mactier in 1851; […]
Sturdy Birds
By Keith Michael Spring migration is flying by (i.e. that semi-annual avian marathon when millions of miniature collections of feathers and muscles and bones and […]
Two for Jane
By Barry Benepe Major changes are coming to the five blocks of Jane Street. On February 12, building applications were filed to rebuild two existing […]
St. Vincent’s Park
WHAT’S IN A NAME: There is an ongoing discussion about what to name the “Triangle” park on Greenwich Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets. When […]
Revisiting My Times Letter
By Maggie Berkvist When The New York Times ran my Letter to the Editor on March 4th, WestView News publisher George Capsis suggested that, since […]